7 tips to help you beat bloat
If you suffer from bloating, you are not alone. Bloating, in most people, points to an underlying imbalance in your digestive tract that is easy to fix with a few changes in your diet and lifestyle. What Causes Bloating? Bloating is caused by excess gas that comes from the microorganisms that inhabit our digestive tract. Collectively, these microorganisms in the digestive tract are called the gut flora . The gut flora protect us from harmful microorganisms and help us digest food. It is sometimes this digesting of food that produces gas and bloating. When our body’s own process fails to completely digest a food, the gut flora eats the food components we didn’t digest and in turn it produces gas. When they produce too much gas, it causes bloating. Our busy lifestyles can also be part of the problem: rushing around, grabbing whatever quick food we can find, and washing it down with a soda is a recipe for digestive gas and bloating. Your Three-Step ...