There is a direct correlation between the process of consumption-digestion -elimination of food and your overall health & longevity. Food that is digested properly reaches your body cells & tissues to nourish them. So, you should take the digestion process & the habits related to it, seriously!

How To Improve Your Digestion Naturally:

Read on below for a few tips and natural ways on what can be done for aiding the digestive processes of your body.

1. Balanced Diet For Good Digestion:

Take a balanced diet which caters to the nutritional need of your body. Your diet should contain well proportioned portions of carbohydrates, fats, proteins, minerals, vitamins & Roughage.

Include both soluble & Insoluble fibers in your diet. The insoluble fibers help in increasing the bulk of feces while the soluble fibers help in soaking up water by the fecal material so that it becomes soft. You can get fibre by eating fresh fruits & Vegetables, nuts, dry fruits, Whole grains & Legumes. If your bowel habits are regular, you are much likely not to ever suffer from problems such as diverticulitis, piles, irritable bowel syndrome etc.

Limit your intake of fats as fats are difficult to digest and slow down the whole digestive process in general. So, while consuming some amount of fat is essential as it acts as a lubricant for your digestive tract, you can make it easy in your system by pairing fatty foods with high fiber foods.

2. Time To Eat Your Food Well:

You must have heard that breakfast should be the heaviest meal, lunch moderately heavy and dinner should be the lightest. Also try having meals, around the same time, each day.

Consume maximum carbohydrates during day time so that they have plenty of time to be digested by your body & also give you ample energy to carry out your day to day activities. You can take proteins in lunch time. Avoid meat and protein rich foods at night as they take time to digest. Your dinner should comprise of food that gives you a boost of minerals like:fresh fruit and vegetable salad, veggies cooked in minimal oil or a bowl of soup. You can take milk as a mid morning or mid evening snack.