Diet Health and Acid Reflux

Your diet health is critical if you have acid reflux and don't want to experience all of the uncomfortable symptoms associated with the condition. Therefore, you need to educate yourself on what foods you should be eating.

Many doctors and other health experts will tell you that there isn't really any specific diet to help acid reflux sufferers and you really have to find out what you can and can't eat for yourself by trial and error.

That is such nonsense and doesn't solve anything. You don't have to experience more uncomfortable symptoms just to find out what you can't eat.

Diet Health and Fitness Never Fails

What you need to understand is that you didn't just happen to get acid reflux. Diseases don't just happen to people. They are caused by the way people think and the lifestyles they live.

Your reflux was probably caused by poor diet health and lack of fitness in your life. If you are sick of the uncomfortable symptoms of this condition you need to get honest with yourself and focus on making some positive changes. These changes include a strict diet change, exercising hard everyday for one hour, and making a commitment to feeling good and living a long healthy life.

The exercise is often the hardest thing for people who have lived a sedentary lifestyle to get the daily motivation for. So try to always do something that is fun for you. A lot of people think fitness has to be done with weights in a gym or pounding the pavement for five miles, but that is not true.

Just get out and move. Have fun, do whatever you want as long as you are getting significant exercise. Also, once you make it through the first two weeks of consistent exercise your body will want to exercise and you will enjoy it even more.

If your acid reflux is severe you may need the help of your doctor to help you make some of these lifestyle changes. But the good news is that these diet and health changes, once you make and work at them, will enable you to completely rid yourself of the condition.

The Diet

You need to switch your diet to one that is full of organic fruits and vegetables and nuts. I know you have probably heard this before and it may sound to simple to be true, but I assure you it works.

Have you ever really tried eating a healthy diet for a prolonged period of time? Probably not if you have acid reflux, so give it an honest try for six months and see if you have any problems anymore.

However, there are just a few foods in this group that you may want to avoid because they could spur symptoms. They are:

* Raw garlic
* Tomatoes
* Raw onions
* Fats and oils
* Peppermint
* Citrus fruits

Get real with yourself and understand that the days of eating processed food and going out to eat at restaurants all the time are over. You can still eat unhealthy sometimes if you want to. However, if you really want to feel better you need to mostly make healthy choices when it comes to your diet health.