Much as we all love eating here at Recipe4Living (and oh how we do), well admit that the culinary arts have their downsides. Collapsing souffls, burning kitchens, and course the looming threat of obesity all come to mind. But one in particular irks me the most: a little lifelong curse called heartburn.
Heartburn (known scientifically as the much cooler sounding pyrosis) is caused by stomach acidthat highly caustic stuff that breaks down all our foodentering the esophagus. This can happen for a lot of reasons, but the most common one by far is certain foods temporarily loosening the lower esophageal sphincter, which ordinarily keeps anything in the stomach from, well, coming back up. Despite its name, the burning pain you feelwhich may strike anywhere from your chest to your arms to your tonguedoesnt actually involve your heart, but as a lovely side effect many people misinterpret the pain as life-threatening and wind up at the hospital.
So whats to be done about this gastro-offender? Sufferers of chronic heartburn should look into medication and ask if they have a disorder called Acid Reflux, but those of us who only encounter heartburn occasionally can avoid it...
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