Do you know what GERD is? Do you know what part of the body it affects? Are you on a special diet? If you have answered yes or no to any of these questions, read on.

When you are diagnosed with Gastro Esophageal Reflux Disease (GERD) your life immediately changes. The food you know and love is immediately removed from your palate. Your meals are now bland and definitely not awe inspiring.

GERD is a reflux from your stomach into your throat. It causes you to have indigestion if you eat the wrong food. It can also cause you to lose your voice in many instances.

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As you may know, not fueling up with the right nutrients can affect how well your body performs and how you feel overall. Healthy eating is a way of balancing the food you eat to keep your bakbody in great health. With healthy eating, you’ll have energy all day, get the vitamins and minerals you need, stay strong for activities you enjoy, and maintain a healthy weight.

Below, you’ll find tips designed to help you maintain better eating habits.

1. Don’t skip any meals
Eating 3 meals with snacks in between is the ideal way to maintain both energy and a healthy weight. When you skip meals and allow yourself to get hungry, you’re more than

likely to choose foods that aren’t very good for you.

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Calcium helps reduce constipation

Using calcium and magnesium in the right quantities can prevent or relieve constipation. They can support the health of your colon and keep you regular.

In your colon, calcium combines with excess bile and decaying fat to form a harmless insoluble soap, which is excreted with your stool. This helps to keep your colon clean.

Most Nutritionists recommend you take 1000 - 1500mg daily of Calcium. Because Calcium can cause constipation, it is necessary to take 500 1000 mg of magnesium at the same time you take Calcium.

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There is much debate over which kind of sports nutrition is best. However, there is no definitive answer. No two athletes are alike; they have different sports interests and different physiques. These things determine which type of diet is best.

So, if you are thinking of joining an endurance sports competition, the best sports nutrition for you is the nutritional table fit for an athlete that expects long hours of efficient physical activity and mental alertness even when tired.

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Here in Australia with a continuing long drought, talk of adding recycled water to water supplies or desalination plants one quickly realizes the importance of water.

The garden quickly dies without it, the lawn turns brown. Likewise as people without adequate water we die. When people talk about nutrition they talk about the eating leaner meat, green and yellow vegetables, but all this is pointless if you body is undergoing a drought.

Water makes approximately 70% plus of our body weight, and gets up to 90% in some cells. Quite frankly with a walking pools of water. Without it we quickly die. 3 days without water results in death. Too often we try

to fill our water intake with drinks such as coffee and tea which result in caffeine problems and addiction as well as speeding up our body systems only to crash them back down into fatigue requiring yet another caffeine hit. The other way people tend to take in water is drinking soft drinks. However with 14 teaspoons of sugar in each can that is a huge quantity of sugar. This can result in sugar spikes in your system and insulin intolerance and lead to long term health problems.

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