Acid Reflux: What are the Dietary Causes?
Certain food and products can potent acid reflux symptoms. Some food can cause and emphasize the acid reflux. When planning the diet you must take in consideration the following thing. You must avoid certain foods who are direct causes of acid reflux in your diet.
But there are some foods that have no or little impact on causing heart burn.
We can first start with advices of what food to avoid and another advice for changing of eating and drinking habits, in finding a way to switch on healthier life and diet habits.
- Fried fatty food, “junk food”, try to avoid food rich with fats, hidden calories, fry food, food called “junk food”, eliminate dressings, souses, pure oils. This food tends to spend more time in your stomach, because it slows down digestion, and for increasing the rate of the digestion more acid is need, and therefore acid production is stimulated. This food retention in the stomach increases the pressure, which make a pressure on the acid reflux. Secretion of the more acid makes this process to go round and round, and the problem is getting worse.
- Bad eating habits, eating too much or once a day. Try to take care and pay attention what you eat, look in your dish instead in the TV or computer monitor. Sit down on the table and eat slow, enjoying every bite. Eat 5 regular meals with raw fruits and vegetables. Having no time is no excuse.
- Large meals, eating large meals can decrease a digestion process too, try to eat 5 times a day, raw food, raw vegetables and fruits, cooked meal, home-made meal is an ideal solution.
- Eating under the stress or when you are nervous. Because under these conditions you don’t enjoy what you eat, you only “put” food in your mouth and stomach as well.
- Coffee, tea, drinks with caffeine. Although everybody think that this beverages can “lift you spirit for the day” try to avoid them on empty stomach, in the morning before the breakfast, and just before going to bed. This also applies for the alcohol.
- Intolerance to some food, you can be sensitive to some kind of food, tomatoes, citrus, pepper, potatoes, garlic and onions. Also some dressings and spices that contain vinegar can worsen the acid reflux situation.
- Chocolate contain theobromine that can cause heartburn also.
- Smoking, some hazard chemicals in cigarette can cause heartburn.
And one final advice is to drink plenty of water, min 2.5 litres of water every day. Water dilutes the stomach acid and lessens the acid reflux symptoms.
