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Top 3 Causes of Stomach Bloating
Millions of people suffer from the uncomfortable and sometimes downright painful stomach bloating problems. For most people there are some common denominators that cause frequent stomach bloating problems. Here are the top 3 causes.
- Eating foods your body has an intolerance for, such as gluten in flour products or lactose intolerance in dairy products.
- Eating wrong food combinations. I will explain this in another post.
- Digestion problems due to candida overgrowth. More people have this than know it.
I will briefly explain on what I’ve outlined above.
Most people with digestive issues like stomach bloating don’t know that they are having problems digesting certain foods. The foods causing many people these issues are wheat and dairy. Many people have a missing enzyme that helps digest the lactose sugars in dairy or the wheat gluten in wheat. The best thing to do if you suspect these may be causing some issues for you is to cut one of the out of your diet for a few days to see what happens.
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To understand why wrong food combinations may cause bloating, you need to realize that all foods do not digest at the same rate. In other words, foods such as fruits digest much faster than, let’s say rice or beans. If you throw fruits into your stomach with foods that take a lot longer to digest, you may experience some stomach bloating or digestive issues.
Candida overgrowth affects millions of people without their realizing that it’s the root cause of their digestive issues.
Here’s an in depth review and explanation of stomach bloating and other digestive problems.
Stomach Bloating - Not comfortable
Stomach Ulcers Cured With Cabbage Remedy
Cabbage is one of the most healing vegetables you can eat. It’s a very alkaline and soothes the stomach especially if you use cabbage juice.
Who knows how this folk remedy got started but it’s been a well known remedy for all types of stomach complaints since way back. Cabbage juice (white or green) has been known to improve stomach ulcers and also other metabolic and digestive disturbances.
Taking one quart in divided doses, patients in one study, had a total healing of their ulcer in 10 days.
The duodenal ulcers of patients fed cabbage also healed in one-third the usual time. In a double blind study of 45 inmates at San Quentin Prison in California, 93 percent of the ulcers in prisoners taking cabbage juice concentrate in capsules – the equivalent of a fresh quart of cabbage juice every day – were healed after three weeks. Only 32 percent of the ulcers healed in those taking a dummy capsule. How could cabbage work? Seemingly by strengthening the stomach lining’s resistance to acid attacks.
I’d recommend you getting a juicer if you don’t have one and start juicing cabbage and potatoes and drink this daily if you suffer from an ulcer. It’s cheaper than going to the doctor and better for you than going on antibiotics, which the doctor will surely put you on. The antibiotics will upset your normal flora in your intestines and other problems can occur.
Do your own experimentation if you suffer from stomach ulcers or frequent burning sensation in your stomach. It can’t hurt and it just might do you a world of good!
Colon Cleansing For Stomach Bloating?
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Try not to eat food before going to bed. It’s really best not to eat anything after 6 or 7 pm in the evening. It just makes sense because your digestive system is winding down for the day. This is also a tip that will help you lose weight.
Alcohol must be avoided when cleansing. Also try not to drink too much coffee. Herbal teas help clears the body of toxins so are a good substitute. Eating a breakfast with plenty of fiber in the morning with a cup of herbal tea helps the cleansing process. Here’s a delicious muffin recipe that has fiber and other things that helps sweep gunk out of your colon:
Organic Zucchini or Carrot Nut Muffins
Makes 12 muffins
1 cup of gluten free flour (get this from vitacost.com very cheap)
½ cup flax seed meal (get flaxseed and grind them in a small coffee grinder)
½ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon backing powder
½ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/3 cup honey
½ cup brown sugar
2 eggs
¼ cup virgin coconut oil
1 cup grated zucchini or grated carrots
¼ teaspoon of vanilla
1 cup chopped walnuts
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix all dry ingredients together plus walnuts. In another bowl combine sugar, honey, eggs and beat. Add zucchini or carrots to liquids and mix. Add liquids to dry ingredients. Spoon into greased muffin pan. Bake approx 15-18 minutes until brown. Enjoy.
More Fiber Helps Cleanse The Digestive Track
Lactose Intolerance – One Cause of Stomach Bloating?
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Lactose is a sugar molecule composed of two sugar units, glucose and galactose. This sugar is commonly found in milk and should be broken down to simpler sugar units in order to be absorbed in the cell’s surface with the help of an enzyme called lactase. However, there are people who were unable to absorb lactose due to the absence of lactase enzyme. This enzyme is the one responsible to split up the lactose molecule to glucose and galactose sugars units.
The following reasons are mostly the cause of the absence of lactase in the GIT cells.
1. Disease. Celiac sprue is a condition that destroys lactase enzymes present in the intestinal lining when the immunologic reaction occurs due to undigested food allergy in the colon.
2. Gene mutation. This is a congenital disease where the gene responsible for producing lactase has mutated and can no longer produce lactase enzyme to help the digestion of lactose sugar.
3. Decrease amount of lactase. This happens during childhood and may continue to the adult stage. This condition is known as hypolactasia. Due to the absence of lactase in the stomach lining, this may lead to some conditions, such as nausea, intestinal cramps, diarrhea, gas pain and most especially stomach bloating.
Stomach Bloating Due to Lactose Intolerance?