10 Best Foods To Eat on Empty Stomach

When it comes to wellness through nutrition, it is important to mind how you start each, what you eat in the morning,  I mean the first foods that goes into your stomach determines how the entire day will go for you.   So be selective in your breakfast,  be cautious on what set of foods you start your day.  Some foods will make you sluggish throughout the day.  Remember that Water therapy should always be the first and you can make it warm as it may help lower blood pressure for those with high blood pressure:

Here are 10 best foods on Empty stomach:

1.  Lemon juice with honey and warm water: 

This liquid on empty stomach is not only Calming on you throughout the day but help settle several health issues such as:

- excess acidity
- excess body weight
- lowers blood pressure
- kills bacteria and other harmful microbs
- kills fungus
- treats Insomnia and
- kills deep rooted pains

2.  Fresh Pineapples

Fresh pineapples is another healthy food best in the morning on empty stomach, though acidic in taste, it's great when you start your day with fresh pineapples some of its benefits includes:

-  Burning unhealthy fats
-  hydrating your down to the cells
-  providing more nutrients and antioxidants with no fat
-  killing pains and inflammations
-  fibre to kick start your day
-   provides  alkaline environment to ward off microbes, and harmful bacteria etc

3. Cold pressed Olive oil

After your water therapy, another best food on empty stomach is cold pressed pressed olive oil.  This is particularly required if you are battling chronic Constipation.  It is usually my last resort and rarely fails.

Another best benefit of this oil on empty stomach is that it destroys yeast and fungal.  These cause a host of problems unknown to many.  If you can take a teaspoon of this oil on empty stomach.  You would have taken you heart healthy fat to kick start your day and avoid weakness of unknown origin.

4.  Fresh garlic soaked in Organic Honey

Another best good on empty stomach is fresh cloves of garlic soaked in honey. It will benefit you if you:

- Suffer frequent infections
- malaria and typhoid fever
- inflammations and pains
- yeast infections including vaginal infection, sore throat, earache, cold and cough
-  kills most drug resistant bacteria
-  heals ulcers and many more

5.  Cold Pressed Coconut oil

This another power but silent antibiotic best in empty stomach as it kills yeasts.  Other Benefits of this oil on empty stomach include:

- Burns stomach fat
- heals ulcers
- kills bacteria and other microbes
- heals sore throat and reduce inflammations
-  provides you with quality energy to kick start your day.
-  Boost metabolism

6.  Apples

Green apples is a great detox food which is best taken in the morning after water therapy especially when you need to detox your body od toxins or during chronic constipation, it is rich in fibre that helps deal with constipation.

7.  Cabbage juice with carrot 🥕 

Carrot and cabbage juice in the morning is particularly great for those experiencing stomach ulcers. However, this remedy is better for those without insulin resistance.   It can help  also heal ulcers. Tackle constipation and strengthen stomach walls and reduce cases of intestinal bleeding .

8.  White Garden Egg

I noticed lately that this particular fruit works well for prediabetics and diabetic, as it is low in calorie, rich in fibre and soft.  Most raw vegetables are good to start your day with but make sure it is soft.

9.  Fennel Tea

Fennel tea helps with stomach acid production, it helps prepare the stomach for digestion, tackles constipation and is a source of important nutrients like calcium and iron.

10.  Fermented papaya water

This drink is a great peobiobic addition to start your day especially those trying to heal of stomach  ulcers.   After water therapy, consuming this fermented drink loaded with antioxidants like vitamins A, C, E and probiotic cultures helps aid digestion and support digestion.  It also kills off some unhealthy gut bacteria which slows digestion and sometimes contributes to stomach ulcers

Apart from the above, there are several other foods that can help give you a good start especially when taken on empty stomach such as watermelon, lime with honey and warm water, ginger tea, pawpaw, apples, Bananas, kudin tea,  lemon grass tea, tumeric,  black seed tea and many others.  It is important to avoid excess of any of these as that may give another unpleasant result.

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Foods that Heals Stomach Ulcers, (continuation on ulcers 2)

In part two of this important subject  of  stomach ulcers, we are looking
at :
Symptoms of stomach ulcers
Complications and
Foods that Heals ulcers

1.  What are the symptoms of ulcers? Symptoms off ulcer may vary depending on the stage and location of the ulcer, how ever most common symptoms are:

1. Gassy feeling:  urge to burp most times

2.  Heart burn:  This is a burning sensation in the chest that can even mimic a heart attack. If it frequent regardless of you eat.  It may be a stomach ulcer.  Also, frequent burp or hiccup especially after eating

3.  Dark or black bowel movement, in some cases, blood in the stool.  If this occurs, there may be need to carry out tests to rule out other life threatening issues.

 4. Feeling of hunger:  Hunger  that is so uncontrollable sometimes accompanied by feeling of fainting or almost falling down due to lack strength to move any one inch further may be an obvious sign that a

wound has occurred or about to occur in the stomach.
5.  Vomiting
6.  Pain that radiates to the back
7. Difficulty in swallowing
8.  Pain that does not go even when you take medications, rather gets worse.Some 9.Weight lose, without known cause could be traced to ulcer.

Complications of Stomach Ulcer:

 Malnutrition: You can become deficient in vitamins and minerals due to low food intake. Immune deficiencies, bone weakness, and skin fragility can all result from malnutrition, but may not be noticeable at first. However, malnutrition is not common in today's world as a complication of peptic ulcers.

Perforation: An ulcer can eventually wear away at the lining of the stomach or small intestine, causing a perforation (hole), which can leak gastrointestinal fluid into the body. This is an emergency that requires urgent medical treatment.

Obstruction: An ulcer can become inflamed, blocking the passageway of digested food and causing severe dysfunction of the small intestine. Like perforation, this is a medical emergency, in all cases of suspected ulcer. It is best to get adequate knowledge on foods to avoid  foods to eat and other healthy lifestyles to enable ulcer Heal naturally.

Foods that heals ulcer:

Here are a few of the foods the helps ulcer Heal fast:
1.  Natural foods:  the summary of the foods to help ulcer Heal is anti inflammatory foods and alkaline diet, top on the list are :
Eggs - boiled
Bananas in moderation because it's heavy
Coconut oil,  and olive oil
Avocados
Carrots
Cabbage
Good yoghurt with probiotics
Iru. Ogiri and other fermented condiments
Fermented Millet pap
Cucumber
Cayenne pepper
Black eyed cowpea
All Green vegetables lightly cooked such Ugu, spinach, okro. Ewedu etc
Moringa leaves
Garlic
Ginger
Honey
Pawpaw

Dates

Sweet potatoes

Edible cassava

Black seeds

Sesame seeds 

Beef

Edible cassava root

Turkey meat

Chicken

Fatty fish

Red palm oil in moderation 

Tamarind

Older adults should occasionally chew about 2  cloves to reduce acidity in the body, include unriped plantain as part of your diet, to help prevent reoccurrence of stomach ulcers

Fermented Green papaya fruit

African oil bean seed, (ogbono)
Alkaline fruits including eggplant
All anti inflammatory  foods are beneficial for ulcers too.

Remember to try and include  all natural foods that are caffeine free because this list is not all there several other foods that are beneficial but ensure that its caffeine free and does not carry much preservatives and flavours.

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Reduce these 4 Foods if you think its blood Fat

 Introduction 

The word  blood fat is  actually used to describe when the blood is quite thick and if you can bring out a sample of your blood when the blood fat is said to be in there, you will notice it's unusually thick and dark and not easily flowing and so there is no way we can bring out this blood out in order to take out the fat.   It is actually the food we eat that contributed to the fat in the blood and it is again the food that will take that will reduce the fat in the blood or melt the fat and so what are some of the main food that contribute to blood fat I will mention a few of them and then some of the foods that we should consume regularly to reduce the fat in the blood occasionally in the next article. Pratically speaking, when I try to check my blood sugar especially when I am  feeling unwell each time,  I  often notice that the blood is thick,  that is actually what may have contributed to the feeling of being unwell, and so it's time to begin to include blood thinners in the diet to help to change the blood because if the blood continue to thicken it can lead to blocking of arteries like the heart valves and it can even lead to serious cases like stroke talking of blood fat.  So it is necessary for us to ensure especially older adult that we continue to  include blood thinners daily in our diet to reduce excessive thickening of our blood which gives room two infections and sometimes heart problems and even stroke.  In my view here are 4  top blood thickness that we should reduce as we get older,  most of them are also good sources of iron.

1.  Soyabeans:  

Soyabeans is a healthy food whether the powder or liquid form it's better for growing  children and sometimes the  adult needed to it in small amount to complete our nutrients especially when we suspect that we are not taking enough food to give us all the nutrients we need especially also for heart health too.  Soyabeans contains some phytonutrients  that supports heart health and it is also important to include it moderately and occasionally in the adult diet in order to support our heart to support our health generally especially blood sugar, but when we suspect fat in our blood we need to reduce blood thickness like soyabeans and take it out completely till it thins again,  because soyabeans will add more iron to the blood making it  sticker and that is a good environment for bacteria to thrive,  too much iron in the blood is not good for older adults some of us go as far as buying iron tablets and capsules, this is very very unhealthy for older adults.

2.  Leafy Greens:

This may come as a surprise to many people because there is so much positive talks about including leafy greens in our diet but when we know that most of the leafy greens are blood thickness and so when we suspect that our blood is too thick we should be very selective about the type  of  green vegetables we include in our diet. Some leaves like Ugu should be reduced.  We  should be very selective okra is a good vegetable and is more of calcium and ewedu is a good one too.  They are  better in calcium and other nutrients that may not thicken our blood as that of  most  leafy greens.

3.  Meat and Some type of fish

Meet should not be avoided completely but it's also a blood thinner.  Blood  thinners are good source of iron it's a good source of some other essential nutrients but when you suspect that your blood is quite thick it's important to reduce your meat consumption because it will bring in more iron into the blood and more iron will be more thickness in the blood and that will not help your effort to reduce blood fat or fat in the blood.  Some fish especially some common fishes we consume thickens our blood, fishes the popular shawa thickens blood too but fatty fish are better blood thinners but we hardly get such fishes around.

4.  Processed Foods

Processed foods whether they contain fat or not contribute to overall fat in the blood because of the chemicals and other preservatives added to these  foods when we consume them in large amount they contribute to overall fat in the blood and so if you suspect that  your blood is fat or there is fat in your blood it  may not necessarily mean that you are eating fatty meals but these type of processed foods can contribute to overall fat and thickness in the blood, as long as they do not contribute to the thinning of the blood reduce the meat until the blood thins  again.

Summary:

When we have high red blood cells,   white blood cells,  and platelets, the blood will obviously be fat and that is what I  describe as blood being too fat,  too loaded in another way to describe it and that is not good for older adults . Growing children can use it for growth and  other things but the older adults does not have any way to use some of these things  elements and so bacteria  thrive  on it and diseases also thrive,  that may not work well in our favour , it invites  diseases including stroke and blocking or  clogging of arteries.  so I will talk about it again or  do a reminder concerning blood thinners, talking of  common blood thinners that we need to start consuming if we suspect thickness in our blood  and this includes exercising moderately all these contribute to reducing the fat in our blood.  

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