Re: heartburn - info & AD

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Heartburn/Acid

reflux occurs for several reasons:

1)

inadequate chewing

2)

chronic unintentional dehydration

3)

over-eating (without proper chewing)

4)

over-eating (with proper chewing!)

5)

improper food combining

6)

eating acid-forming foods without the buffering effect of other foods...like

drinking coffee on an empty stomach or alcohol or candy bars on an empty

stomach...or tomato sauce or pizza and beer, or pizza and soda without eating

anything else...and many other combinations too.

7)

eating late at night, and then going to bed: normally

the stomach should be empty of food before going to bed/sleep in a horizontal

position...

8)

and any combination of the above! (and no doubt a few others I am not thinking of right this

second)

There

are several great things about “Contain” http://tinyurl.com/h2al, which will help to

keep stomach contents down where they belong – in the stomach:

1. Ingredients are all food grade

ingredients.

2. Contain has digestive enzymes added to

help liquify the

food you just ate...(of course it would help if you chew and

use supplemental digestive enzymes regularly!)

3. The famous " alginate " portion

of Contain is derived from

sea algae, also known as sea vegetables, also known as

sea weeds. These

" alginates " contain a gelatinous substance

which forms a miniature " personal flotation

device " or " raft "

that floats upon the surface of our digesting (gurgle gurgle)

stomach contents, and serving as an effective barrier or

buffer;

this

gelatinous protective barrier raft is completely food grade

and

will prevent stomach contents from adversely affecting the

esophageal

valve.

Since

" Contain " is made up entirely of food grade materials, as the normal

course of stomach digestion proceeds, these gelatinous protective materials

will gradually but eventually be absorbed into the normal digesting contents of

the stomach. These materials will

not cause any harm to the duodenum as they leave the stomach. On the contrary,

they are ideal materials and will assist in the normal and healthy digestive

system process.

Unlike

so many pharmaceutical grade antacids in the marketplace today which,

essentially, shut off the production of stomach acid, which may have both short

term and long term adverse consequences...(pneumonia for instance) “Contain”

is food based, and helps to restore normal and natural functioning of the

stomach and entire gastrointestinal tract.

Carol

From:

<dianamagic2000@...>

any

natural remedies for heartburn?

thanks,

diana