Next Thursday people in the US will be celebrating
Thanksgiving.
It's a day to be with our loved ones and give thanks and
appreciation for all of our blessings in life.
And it's also a day to EAT.
It's great--I'm all for having a great meal in celebration.
The problem is, after they eat, many people feel like they
swallowed a boulder...and many more can't move. It's a
major effort just to go from the table to the couch where
they can fall asleep watching some football.
Does that sound familiar?
Let me tell you what's happening when you feel this way.
On Thanksgiving Day (and the other 364 days of the year)
most people unknowingly eat an endless variety of
foods...many of which don't compliment each other in the
stomach and cause their digestive enzymes to become
neutralized.
When this happens, digestion comes to a screeching halt.
But the stomach is very wise and knows something's up--so
it keeps secreting acid trying to kick-start digestion again.
But because the same blob of mis-matched foods is still in
the stomach, that acid becomes useless. And the food
continues to sit there, rotting and barely digesting.
This cycle can go on and on for 8-10 hours or more.
And after all that acid is secreted, the acid needs to go
somewhere...and that somewhere is usually UP. That's when
you reach for the Tums, Rolaids or whatever you take for
heartburn and acidy burps.
At this point of the day your eyelids are probably getting
heavy. Here's why:
Nothing the human body does demands more energy than
digestion. Not exercise. Not sex. Nothing.
So that's why you can barely keep your eyes open on the
couch after your Thanksgiving meal--your body is using
every ounce of energy it has trying to digest the blob of
badly combined food in your gut and has no energy left for
anything else.
Even doing the dishes seems like running a marathon.
And right about this time, as you're fighting sleep and
your stomach's STILL trying to digest your meal, that's
when the pie and coffee come out.
Or should I say MORE food to add to the rotting pile, with
some liquid acid to boot?
That's it--bring in the fire hoses because you're going to
need them to put out the 4-alarm fire in your chest.
Or perhaps your trouble will come out "further down" with
gas, constipation or diarrhea due to your poorly digested
food being pushed into the intestines.
Either way, your stomach and body doesn't stand a chance.
That is, unless you eat just a LITTLE differently on
Thanksgiving Day (and every other day, for that matter).
You see, Thanksgiving Day doesn't have to be painful.
It used to be agony for me. But not for the last 16 years.
The whole day CAN be enjoyed from now on.
When you eat the right combinations of foods together,
Thanksgiving Day can be comfortable and full of energy for
you.
You can enjoy a delicious meal (and dessert too!) and not
have to gulp antacids afterwards.
And don't worry--you won't feel like you're missing
anything, because you can still eat foods you LOVE. I'll
just teach you how to eat them and what right other foods
to eat them with so you stay pain-free and filled with
energy.
I even give you guidelines on how to eat desserts, along
with a bunch of recipes for my all-time favorites
(including sweet potato pie, carrot cake, pecan pie and
brownies). Mmmm.
Great Taste No Pain also has great side dish recipes that
you'll be proud to serve on Thanksgiving Day and all year
round.
May you and yours have a blessed, safe, happy and pain-
free Thanksgiving.
To your health,
Sherry Brescia
PS: Great Taste No Pain was better advice than Alan got
from his doctors:
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Dear Sherry,
I was recently diagnosed with Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
I decided to put those three words into a search engine to
get more information about the problem. The doctors tell
patients very little nowadays! Fortunately the search
engine came up with your website
- http://www.greattastenopain.com/great.asp and it was an
eye-opener.
I've been changing my diet as you recommended and the
result is my digestion is almost back to what it always
used to be before the IBS.
Why on earth don't the doctors give patients such simple
remedies which really work? You've given me better
information and advice than all the doctors I've seen.
