Our digestive systems are certainly challenged this time of year. Those with impaired digestion must struggle with the desire to eat all the delicious holiday foods knowing the suffering that will follow. Even with a good digestive system, eating too much and too many different things at one meal can cause problems. A key nutrient that most everybody is lacking to some degree is enzymes. This is due to the over processing and refining of foods.
Our bodies manufacture some of its own enzymes and others are to be obtained by eating enzyme rich foods, mostly raw. Cooking foods over 118 degrees F destroys the enzyme content. Food growers and manufactures destroy the enzymes in our food by treating it with certain chemicals that retard spoilage in order to give it a longer shelf life. If they didn’t do this, the fruits and vegetables would be rotten before it hit the supermarket shelves. Pasteurization is another modern day necessary evil for extended shelf life that leaves our foods nutrient and enzyme depleted.
The first and step to improve digestion is to chew the food until it is completely smooth. This will require a little extra time for each bite will be...