Bloating: Short Term and Long Term Cures

January 23rd, 2010

If you are feeling bloated from eating too many heavy foods, late night partying or other indulgences, try these simple adjustments for the next few days. For a long term remedy for chronic bloating, do a body cleanse detox.

Decrease your salt intake. Salty foods will cause fluid retention and swollenness; those made with refined sugar drive spikes in blood sugar and, therefore, cravings. Alcohol and caffeine cause dehydration. For your body’s regenerative system to work, toxins must be flushed from your blood, cells and tissues. The typical suggestion of 8 glasses of water per day isn’t adequate to detoxify. In order to purge your body while likewise rejuvenating essential vitamins and minerals, we suggest a four-day regimen of fruit juices in the morning and vegetable juices in the afternoon in addition to your normal diet.

In the morning, before you eat or drink anything, make 1 cup hot water mixed with the juice of half a lemon, 1/16 teaspoon cayenne pepper and one tablespoon maple syrup. Lemons are full of bioflavonoids, which act as excellent detoxifiers. Cayenne pepper is an anti-inflammatory. Maple syrup supplies sweetness.

About one-half an hour after having your hot water and lemon, make a detoxifying smoothy of fruit and ground flax seeds. Good options are apples, peaches, berries, pineapple, kiwi, pears and oranges. Add a tablespoonful of ground seeds and half a teaspoon of fresh ginger. Do not add protein powder or yoghurt in your smoothy.

Eat a very small breakfast if you feel hungry. The best choices are yoghurt, a protein powder shake, oatmeal or eggs. For lunch have a small meat like fish or chicken and a large vegetable salad with a simple dressing made with olive oil and lemon.

A few hours after lunch make vegetable juices made with carrots, beets, celery, cucumber, parsley and spinach. If it’s accessible, wheat grass juice is a fantastic cleanser. At dinner, prepare a brothy soup with a conservative amount of meat or tofu, along with noodles or rice. Make the soup broth from real vegetables, not from a mix or can.

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