BRAINS & BRAWN #4
"The Benefits of A Healthy Intestine"
If you're eating right now, it might be best to read this email after you finish eating. Intestines are not exactly scrumptious but play a vital role in our overall health. The truth is that like any other organ we cannot live without them.
What are intestines and what do they do?
Intestines come in two sizes; big (about 5 feet long) and small (about 20 feet long). Everyone has one of each. The role of the intestines is to absorb the good in the food we eat and filter out the stuff that our body doesn't need or can't use. The intestines absorb most of the water and nutrients that we consume.
The intestinal track is just like every other organ and body part where we have to take care of it. Eating more fiber will help clean out the wall of the intestines. Eating or drinking citrus fruits and chewing well, will also help with digestion.
If we chew our food more fine, then the more saliva is produced and the food breaks down to smaller pieces. The saliva helps break down the food particles and acts as a lubricant when the food goes down the esophagus. Chewing your food well helps the stomach break it down much easier. Eating a citrus fruit like an orange after or during a meal will also help break down the food before it gets to the intestines. This is because citrus fruit has a higher acid level.
The total travel of food starts in the mouth. It then gets passed on down to the stomach. It continues through the small intestine and then into the big intestine. And from here on it goes through... well, I think you know that part already...
Chewing well and adding citrus fruits as well as fiber rich foods to your diet are mainly for the purpose of breaking the food down finer and cleaning out the intestinal tract. This is so that it will be easier for your intestines to absorb the good (like the nutrients from the citrus fruit) from the food and move it on down the line.
So remember this: the more you break the food down at the beginning of its journey, the easier it is on the rest of your digestive system.
See you in 7 days!
What are intestines and what do they do?
Intestines come in two sizes; big (about 5 feet long) and small (about 20 feet long). Everyone has one of each. The role of the intestines is to absorb the good in the food we eat and filter out the stuff that our body doesn't need or can't use. The intestines absorb most of the water and nutrients that we consume.
The intestinal track is just like every other organ and body part where we have to take care of it. Eating more fiber will help clean out the wall of the intestines. Eating or drinking citrus fruits and chewing well, will also help with digestion.
If we chew our food more fine, then the more saliva is produced and the food breaks down to smaller pieces. The saliva helps break down the food particles and acts as a lubricant when the food goes down the esophagus. Chewing your food well helps the stomach break it down much easier. Eating a citrus fruit like an orange after or during a meal will also help break down the food before it gets to the intestines. This is because citrus fruit has a higher acid level.
The total travel of food starts in the mouth. It then gets passed on down to the stomach. It continues through the small intestine and then into the big intestine. And from here on it goes through... well, I think you know that part already...
Chewing well and adding citrus fruits as well as fiber rich foods to your diet are mainly for the purpose of breaking the food down finer and cleaning out the intestinal tract. This is so that it will be easier for your intestines to absorb the good (like the nutrients from the citrus fruit) from the food and move it on down the line.
So remember this: the more you break the food down at the beginning of its journey, the easier it is on the rest of your digestive system.
See you in 7 days!
Kindest,
Russ Nagamori
Russ Nagamori
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