A Bad Combo – High Fiber and Acid Reflux
Monday, March 22nd, 2010There is a little-known negative effect of a diet rich in fiber. Recommendation more on the amount of fiber to eat is in the range from 30 to 40 grams a day. And when you get older and more important because high-fiber diet helps remove excess cholesterol in the colon and help regulate bowel movements. Also, the fiber helps to remove toxins from the colon and food to ensure good bacteria.
What I do not talk to their fiber may bind with certain nutrients fiberand minerals and get connected with the faeces before they are absorbed into the bloodstream to arrive. This condition can occur when the stomach acid becomes weak. And the weaker they get, the higher values of pH – 3.5, 4, 5 and 6 – the more nutrients are lost to the formation of feces.
There are two situations in which your stomach acid becomes weak. Firstly, such as age, your ability to create and release HCl acid from the stomach wall. Secondly, at any age, if you have anymedicine used to reduce your stomach acid strength in an attempt to reduce damage to your acid reflux into the esophagus. Both of these factors in combination with a diet high in fiber, leads to a prison minerals Chimo or faeces.
Here's how you lose minerals. Phytate, a substance found in wheat, corn and seeds and fibers easily with nutrients and minerals. This complex of phytate, fiber and minerals – calcium, manganese, iron, copper, nickel, zinc or – are easilyabsorbed when your stomach acid is the natural pH of 1 – 3 If your stomach acid weakens and the pH rises to 4, 5, 6, 7 and even more complex becomes insoluble and non-absorbent. To make matters worse, if you do not have enough calcium and magnesium in this complex, bind other minerals and make them unsolvable.
There is another situation that can occur with weak stomach acid. The digestion of proteins is decreased, leaving more undigested protein to movecolon. And 'this protein is not digested and constipation, which can lead to cancer of the colon, especially if the protein is switched off by nitrite.
Here's how to avoid mineral deficiency. A diet rich in fiber, eating fruits and raw vegetables. If you are over 50 and perhaps 60 your stomach acid is in decline. Billing and pepsin HCl tablets can overcome this situation. But this acid tablets, which must be used in a special way, and use itwill be covered in another article.
If you have acid reflux avoid using acid as Neutralizer inches or Rolaids. Avoided, even with acid-blocking drugs like Prilosec. These drugs play with your acidity levels and make you more sensitive to loss of minerals. There are natural remedies that can help acid reflux away, and when working with a nutritionist, can help define an acid reflux diet that will stop safely.