The Root Cause of Overweight Conditions
When I first started studying nutrition and natural healing, the saying was, Death begins in the colon. Now, with more research it is more correctly said that death begins with bad digestion. In fact the cure of disease really begins with better nutrition and more efficient ways to combine those nutrients. Why?
First of all lets talk why proper foods and the right combinations make all the difference, especially when a person shows symptoms of disease.
The glands in the mouth that produce enzymes are the parotid, the submaxillary and the sublingual. Even if enzymes were not produced, the saliva in the mouth makes it possible to swallow food because of the lubrication
The process of digesting proteins takes several hours and will only be confused if sugars, fats and carbohydrates like breads are in the mix.
Carbohydrates begin digesting in the mouth, not so with proteins. Chewing proteins alerts nerves in the stomach to begin creating hydrochloric acid, imperative in the digestion of proteins. When HCL is at a low, something that happens to most people as they age, then the other component in digesting proteins, pepsinogen wont work properly. HCL stimulates pepsinogen to turn into pepsin.
This is because carbohydrates begin digesting in the mouth, not so with proteins. Chewing proteins alerts nerves in the stomach to begin creating hydrochloric acid, imperative in the digestion of proteins. When HCL is at a low, something that happens to most people as they age, then the other component in digesting proteins, pepsinogen wont work properly. HCL stimulates pepsinogen to turn into pepsin, so it is a crucial part of the digesting proteins process.
The small intestine is the major digestive organ in the body. It begins at the pyloric sphincter, a valve-like gate way leading from the stomach to the duodenum, the first section of the small intestine, and ends at the ileocecal valve. If foods have been combined correctly there will be less stress
Small bits of food at a time are digested in the duodenum, the first segment of the small intestine. The pyloric sphincter, the gatekeeper between the stomach and the small intestine only allows small amounts in at a time so that the digestive juices, enzymes produced by the pancreas and the liver have ample time to be produced, meet in the hepatopancreatic duct, and then travel to the duodenum through the hepatopancreatic ampulla.
Even if medicine suppresses the body response, let’s say acid reflux which is really an alert that something is wrong and needs the owners attention, the underlying cause is still there. The underlying cause is bad digestion.
The assimilating factor in the small intestine, which spans the many feet of the small intestine is aided by the finger-like projections called villi and micro-villi, is slowed immeasurably when the body gets bogged down with days old undigested waste. The body begins starving for nutrition and the aging process accelerates. Over many years, illness sets in and the body will most likely be overweight.
The assimilating factor in the small intestine, which spans the many feet of the small intestine aided by the finger-like projections called villi and micro-villi, is slowed immeasurably when the body gets bogged down with many days of old undigested waste.
Why is this process important to good health and the healing process? Once food begins to sit too long in any area of the GI tract it begins a process called putrefaction. This is the beginning of disease and the acid conditions in the body that cause headaches, body aches, constipation, really every other disease.
What to do? How do you turn around the trend of bad health? Eat mostly fruits and vegetables, use a juicer and eat food in combinations that ease the work load of the digestive system.
To Your Best Health, Ellen Valentine, NC
Ellen Valentine is a Wholistic Wellness Coach who combines nutritional counseling with transformational techniques. Eat well, eat smart, and live long. How you combine food makes all the difference. Eat well, eat smart, and live long.