Not exact matches
Since we can't always carve out more
time in any given day, herbal wisdom offers us remedies that
increase our vitality by improving
digestion.
Lemon juice has been known to
increase our production of bile (which is necessary for
digestion) while controlling it at the same
time to ensure it doesn't cause any distress to the digestive tract and release in excess.
Once it was discovered that the human digestive system has a hard
time breaking down these oligosaccharides, and over 90 percent escape
digestion (in the stomach and small intestine) until they reach the colon where they benefit the probiotics, the race was on to produce
increasing amounts of inulin in particula for the «functional food» industry.
Higher fiber content and slower
digestion of these foods would augment satiety, and their
increased consumption would also displace other, more highly processed foods in the diet, providing plausible biologic mechanisms whereby persons who eat more fruits, nuts, vegetables, and whole grains would gain less weight over
time.
In a recent study, scientists manipulated lipase to boost its power three
times,
increasing fat
digestion from 15 percent to 45 percent.