The benefits of reflexology can be greatly realized if we also maintain a proper diet and exercise. If we break up deposits at one end to remove poisons, and shove poisons in the other end, then we are defeating the purpose. Active exercise increases the amount of blood in the skeletal muscles, thereby increasing the supply of blood to the stomach. Give your stomach a chance to digest the food you have eaten, and don't exercise too soon after a meal. Secretions of gastric juices, or fluids, is inhibited and digestion is delayed by anger, fear, worry, hatred, and many other emotional factors.
Starches require alkaline conditions for their digestion.
Proteins require an acid treatment for their digestion. So by combining these in a meal, the acid interferes with the alkaline and neither food is able to be digested. With starches, fermentation takes place and with protein, decomposition takes place. Then come the symptoms of ptomaine poisoning. Drinking fluids with meals tends to dilute the gastric juices which are important in the digestion of food.