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How to get good digestive health How to get good digestive health.  Why would we want good digestive health? If your goal is to feel fantastic and to get your body in the best shape of its life, then having a healthy digestive system is the starting point. You cannot lose weight, get a flat tummy, get clear skin or have a body full of real energy if your digestive system is out of whack. So it is important that we take the right steps to ensure we have a healthy digestive system. Here are the top 5 things to do to get your digestive system healthy. 1. Eat less Keep you meals smaller and eat more often. The more you pack into your body in one go, the harder it has to work to digest all that food. So smaller meals more often will allow your body to break down the food. Too much food is too hard to digest, too many foods make life confusing and if your body is struggling to break foods down, then it will get tired and run down. Keep meals smaller, and eat foods that are full of nutrients to fuel your body. 2. Hydration It is important to keep your body hydrated. 200,000 cell reactions take place in your body every second and they are all 100% dependant on hydration. So if you are dehydrated your body will slow down and get lethargic and tired. When your body is dehydrated it holds onto water and slows down its digestive processes. So if you aren't digesting all that food you are eating, the only place that food will go is storage in your body for fuel later (fat). Keeping hydrated also allows your body to get the right mineral and electrolyte balance for proper digestion. Keep your food as clean and natural as possible. That means loads of vegetables, proteins, good quality fats, nuts and some fruit. We want to avoid any foods that makes digestion a problem. So avoid all processed foods, toxins, chemicals, store bought products packed full of ingedients you don't understand. Keep your food simple, and make it exciting with your own sauces and dressings. Get creative and get cooking. Teach yourself to enjoy cooking, because this is one of the best things you can do to help yourself get in the best shape of your life. When you know what you are eating, and what ingredients are going into your body, there is no questioning or guessing. Your body has a much better time and will be able to function optimally and full of life. Probiotics help to break foods down properly and for your body to learn to use fat as fuel as it is designed to do. We need the right balance of good and bad bacteria in our bodies. There are so many things that can affect that balance, one dose of antibiotics can take 2 years for your body to restore the good bacteria. So with all the stresses from your environment, work, chemicals, antibiotics, contraceptive pills, wrong food choices and constant exposure to toxins, you can see how easily it would be for that balance to be affected. When we don't have the right bacteria in our digestive system it can lead to weight gain, acid reflux, chronic sickness, disease, auto-immune disorders, hormonal imbalances, sinus infections, depression. Your gut is directly linked to your brain, so not only does your food affect your energy, it also affects your moods and emotions and that little devil cravings. So on your journey to get in the best shape of your life and get your body burning fat as fuel and you full of energy, getting the friendly bacteria back winning the game is crucial. There are many products out there, so do your homework. Getting good quality fats into your diet is important. Fat is involved in all the hormonal processes that take place in your body. So if you are depriving your body of fats, then your hormones, emotions and cravings will be be affected. Fat does not turn into fat on your body. Insulin and its response to the wrong foods, especially carbohydrates and sugars, is what causes you to get fat. So if you don't eat fat and you eat a diet full of processed carbohydrates and sugar, guess what will happen...your body will crave more crap, and your hormones and emotions will be all over the show. Your body will store away all those carbs as storage aka body fat. So instead of avoiding fat, why not start avoiding all that stoggy, processed, sugary food that does make you fat, and start eating clean natural food that your body can digest and helps your body burn body fat. By including fats into your diet you also stabilize your blood sugar levels, stay fuller for longer and because your body is getting its fat from the food that you eat, it will soon become a fat burning machine. This sums up how to get good digestive health. The best thing you can do for your body is to look after it, listen to it and fuel it with food that is real. When you begin to listen to what food works and what doesn't, then you will start to get in the best shape of your life. 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