| Sometime it's easy to lose touch with reality when it | | | | more new products enter the supermarket shelves |
| comes to "I'm hungry" time, but that just seems to | | | | each year. Many of these are supposed to make |
| be what's happening these days. Super size gives us | | | | meals tastier and easier to prepare. Many of these |
| a belly full and a lot more. It can be a recipe for | | | | also come with added acids to enhance flavor and |
| heartburn, but what to do? Turn to the antacids? | | | | extend shelf life. These acids just add to the |
| Most people do. Heartburn can come frequently with | | | | stomach problem. |
| generous meals. Maybe heartburn treatment should | | | | The quick solution to this problem is to add a |
| be dessert. Read on for a natural treatment. | | | | different food to your plate. You might call it a |
| If you want to treat your heartburn here are some | | | | natural heartburn remedy or just good diet, but |
| fast answers, they follow the same theme: | | | | foods rich in minerals are essential for neutralizing acid. |
| 1) Be conscious of those over size meals. The | | | | When I was a kid, I remember occasionally visiting an |
| recommended daily calorie intake is a meaningful | | | | aunt that always made us children eat all our |
| benchmark. By making a conscious effort to trim a | | | | vegetables before we could eat our meat. A bit |
| few calories off of each meal you will make progress | | | | strange, at the time, but now I see her point. Eat the |
| toward eliminating heartburn symptoms. | | | | necessary stuff first. |
| 2) Give your meal choices some thought. Smart | | | | Modern foods pose a problem, also. By themselves, |
| meals are balanced servings from the food pyramid - | | | | most prepared foods may not be so bad, but as a |
| not just a meal that tastes good. Dig through a few | | | | part of the overall diet it adds up to meals that are |
| cookbooks, it's possible to come up with a menu that | | | | designed for the taste buds more than anything else. |
| has both. | | | | This can have you reaching for the antacids pretty |
| 3) Try to share mealtime with someone like minded, | | | | quick. A better choice would be a salad of dark green |
| it will make meals much more pleasant, eating with | | | | vegetables. |
| someone who shares your intent to be healthier and | | | | For those occasions when heartburn flairs up, there |
| heartburn free. | | | | are remedies to choose from, some as convenient |
| The hardest way to improve your heartburn | | | | as commercial products. Here's a couple of quick, |
| condition is to make a change. Our fondness for | | | | heartburn natural remedies: drinking a glass of water |
| convenience is a big factor that leads us to grocery | | | | after a meal will dilute stomach acid, or even chewing |
| store shelves offering more and more prepared | | | | gum can generate enough saliva to correct an over |
| foods that are just that - convenience. A 100 or | | | | acidic stomach. |