The Root Cause of Overweight Conditions

By Ellen Valentine, CNC

When I first began my search for the best nutrition and most advantageous ways to heal naturally, the saying was, Death begins in the colon. Now, with more research it is more correctly said that death begins with bad digestion.

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.

The process of digesting proteins takes several hours and will only be confused if sugars, fats and carbohydrates like breads are in the mix. What that means is that people with poor digestion should never eat sandwiches.

So then, we can say digestion begins in the mouth; and actually, that process starts with what the nose smells. Think of what happens when you smell turkey cooking. Your mouth begins to salivate, right? Salivary amylase in the mouth begins the breakdown of carbohydrates. That process, with carbohydrates is completed in the small intestine.

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 time to be produced, meet in the hepatopancreatic duct and travel to the duodenum through the hepatopancreatic ampulla.

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.

When putrefied food stays in the system long enough, the body becomes overloaded with real debris. The immune system is overloaded trying to keep waste clean enough to store in the body.

Why is all of this 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.

Medicine may suppress the body response, which is really an alarm that something is wrong and needs the owners attention but the underlying cause is still there. The underlying cause is bad digestion.

Once putrefied food stays in the system long enough, the body becomes overloaded with real debris. The immune system is overloaded with trying to keep waste clean enough to store in the body.

Once this pattern is established, once illness sets in, what should you do? What are the next steps back to 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 - 33373

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