The following eating practices will help extract maximum energy from your food, decrease stress on your digestive tract, and in the process clear up many common digestion problems such as excess gas and indigestion:

• Eat less. Stuffing yourself strains your system’s ability to digest what you eat. Also, overeating drains energy. You may have noticed that after a large lunch or dinner, nothing is more appealing than a long nap. That’s because after meals your nervous system diverts blood to the stomach and intestines from other areas of your body, including your brain. As calorie intake per meal is increased, mental performance afterward drops sharply.
• Eat in a peaceful atmosphere. As Deepak Chopra writes in his best-selling book Perfect Health: “Your body is tremendously alert while you are eating. Your stomach cells are aware of the conversation at the dinner table, and if they hear harsh words, the stomach wlill know the distress.”
• Eat in a comfortable position. Consuming food while you are standing, walking, or driving leads to indigestion, because you’re not concentrating on eating.
• Eat only when you’re hungry. Sure, esting chocolate might feel good when you’re tense, but it’s a sure way to put on pounds and produce belching and intestinal gases.
• Avoid ice-cold or very hot food and drink. This will alter your stomach’s normal action . Moreover, repeated exposure can trigger cancer growth.
• Chew your food slowly and thoroughly. Digestion starts in the mouth, so get it off to a good start by turning you food to mush before you swallow it.
• Limit how much you drink with your food. drinking a lot of water or other beverages with yoy food dilutes the juices your stomach produces to digest your food.
• Bless your food.An “attitude of gratitude” when it comes to the food we eat helps us digest it better.
• Work within your natural cycles(rhythm) for taking in, breaking down, and eliminating food.These cycles are usually, as follows: 1. Roughly noon to 8p.m. Time for eating and digestion. Try to not eat anything after 8 p.m. If you can finish dinner by 6p.m., your body will be able to rest better at night. You will also sleep better, if you avoid meat, dairy products, and other proteins at dinner. 2. 8p.m. to 4 a.m. The time for complete absorption, digestion, when body using food for its own reparation and storing energy for the next day. 3. 4a.m. to noon. The eliminating wastes time. It’s best to eat something that’s easily digested for breakfast. Fresh fruit is the best choice. They are not only easy to digest, but also good sources of fiber, helping to keep your food tube clean and fresh.
• Most of the food we eat should be 70% water. Your body is 70 % water, and it’s make sense to eat food of same water content. Thus fruits and vegetables should be the main diet. Only 30% of what we eat should be concentrated, low-water foods like meat, bread, grains, and dairy products. Even though these foods provide essential nutrients, eating too much of them saps us of energy because they are much harder to digest. Substitution fruits and vegetables for high-fat foods +exercising regularly=slim down with ease!
• Avoid combining foods that confuse your stomach. Meat and potato, for example have different scenario of digestion. When they are swallowed together, your stomach produces two opposite chemicals, which neutralizing each other. This leaves undigested food far longer than necessary, consuming energy you could use for other purposes. Some other off-limits combos include fish and rice, chicken and noodles, eggs and toast, cheese and bread, and cereal and milk. (see Fit for Life, by H. and M.Diamond for complete explanation). The best food combinations are meat, potatoes, or pasta with vegetables and a salad, or a salad with cheese.
• Avoid eating a lot of protein at a time.Try to limit protein intake to one serving each day(about the size of a single chicken breast). Protein takes more total digestion time than any other food.