Part Four: Healthy Digestion and Weight Management

Part Four is dedicated to healthy eating. Galina maps out some simple steps to take to enhance health and digestion and improve weight management. The steps are easy and logical. They reflect common sense. But when put together one is able to create a system of daily nutrition that helps choosing the right foods, eating them properly and ensuring maximum absorption of the nutrients contained within them.

Seven rules of healthy digestion and weight management
  1. Chew properly.
  2. Eat naturally hard foods.
  3. Know when you are full.
  4. Eat for what you are about to do, not what you have done.
  5. Keep your meals simple, and don't mix too many different types of foods in one meal.
  6. Keep your meals mostly alkaline, by volume.
  7. Buy locally and buy in season.
Keep your meals mostly alkaline, by volume

Table seven said your special is too acidic, chef. They want something more alkaline.You would have heard of pH balance: 'p' stands for 'potential, and 'H' stands for hydrogen. Body pH measures the number of hydrogen ions in solution in body fluids.

Body pH is measured on the scale of 0 to 14. Anything less than 6.4 is considered to be acidic, anything over 6.4 is alkaline.

The human body is generally an alkaline environment. Blood maintains its pH at 7.3, saliva and urine should be around 6.4 if you eat and live healthily.

The one exception to the 'alkaline equals healthy' law is the digestive system, especially the stomach and the intestines that have to fight undesirable bacteria and micro-organisms. This is probably one of the reasons why they are acidic, bug-zapping, environments. The stomach pH can be as low as 2, and that of the intestines about 4 (out of 14).

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