Eating a proper breakfast can actually help in stopping Acid Reflux or Heartburn. What should you eat? Read this and find out.

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Acid reflux diet and breakfast is a dilemma for a number of reasons. With the frequency that
people have reflux problems through the night while they are sleeping, chances are they are
waking up with heartburn. And in that case, they are more likely to go eat antacids for breakfast,
than they are food that is going to make them feel worse.
However, breakfast is also the most important meal of the day. Breakfast helps stabilize your
blood sugar levels after sleeping, and provides energy to start the day. It has also been shown
that people who skip breakfast will eat more throughout the day. And what is one of the biggest
problems for acid reflux and heartburn - eating fewer and larger meals, as that is shown to cause
and/or make your problems worse. Deleting breakfast from your acid reflux diet is not a heartburn
remedy.
Acid Reflux And Life Style
Preventing acid reflux and heartburn is going to entail making lifestyle changes. You eat
breakfast, and then what happens? That overnight heartburn that you may have already had,
coupled with the food that you just ate for breakfast [you just couldn't resist 'wolfing' down that Egg
McMuffin while you were driving] get together and give you more reflux and worse heartburn.
Start your day with more energy, not hardly; you are starting your day in pain, and just want to go
turn around and go home. But instead, there goes another round of antacids to try to keep you
going.
How is that for breakfast and an acid reflux diet - acid reflux trigger foods 'washed' down with
antacids to get rid of the heartburn pain. Lunch and dinner tend to be easier meals for heartburn
sufferers. You have a wider range of food choices that are more appealing later in the day than
they are for breakfast. And you also aren't in such a rush, giving you more time to prepare a good
meal - and not having to eat it so fast, which of course is one of the heartburn don'ts.
Yes, acid reflux diet and breakfast is quite a problem, because so many of the breakfast food
choices cause heartburn. Your fried eggs, with toast and butter, and orange juice and coffee - or
that rush through the fast food restaurant, are of the worst foods that can be eaten. These can be
expected to cause heartburn, certainly negating the benefits that eating breakfast are supposed to
give you.
Breakfast Food Choices For Acid Reflux
So what are you going to do - you need to eat breakfast, but you aren't going to do so if it is only
going to make you feel worse. To begin with, how about getting up 15 minutes earlier so you

2. aren't in such a rush and fast food becomes your only breakfast alternative. And then, how about
if you quit brain washing yourself into thinking that you need caffeine to get going? I remember my
old routine, get up and skip breakfast except for 2-3 cups of coffee, have a diet coke at my desk,
and then eat Tums throughout the morning - I have chipped teeth from Tums.
There are many acid reflux diet food choices for breakfast that don't take much time to prepare,
and that can actually help to reduce reflux and heartburn instead of causing it. And you can adapt
to some changes in food choices that will help you even more - you really don't need to eat that
last piece of cold pizza for breakfast to keep it from going to waste J
Good food choices will include whole-grains, fruits and vegetables, and protein - just like any well
balance healthy meal. In fact, that is one of the major benefits of an acid reflux diet, besides
helping prevent or getting rid of heartburn, it is also a diet that promotes good health.
Whole grain breakfast food choices can be found in oatmeal, whole grain cereals, or whole grain
breads. These are important for your acid reflux diet. They have fiber which makes them easier
to digest, they don't require as much acid during digestion, and actually they break down during
digestion in a way that can absorb excess acid. Additionally, whole grains include the antioxidant
selenium, which has been shown to help protect the cell lining in the esophagus.
Fruits and vegetables are great for breakfast - what could be better than starting the day with an
apple, or eating some fruit on your whole grain cereal. Just remember to stay away from the citrus
fruits or juices, and especially no tomato juice as it is very highly acidic. Drink natural apple or
grape juice as something that helps reduce acid. And if you can eat pizza and drink coke for
breakfast, then you sure could get used to eating some broccoli - or how about some steamed
broccoli with some egg whites.
Protein is an important food choice. It makes you feel more full and thus can help prevent
overeating. And protein is the food source that helps build and repair muscles - this could include
strengthening the muscles associated with your esophagus. As in all acid reflux diets, make sure
that your proteins are low in fat content, because fat takes longer to digest and needs more acid to
do so, thus increasing the likelihood of reflux heart burn. This means skim milk instead of whole
milk, egg whites instead of the whole egg - and no more of that bacon or the fatty meats and fried
foods in those breakfast sandwiches.
Breakfast And Lifestyle Changes
My lifestyle has changed the last few years; I was gaining weight as I was getting older, and I had
heartburn that became acid reflux disease. Besides making some very big acid reflux diet
changes, it now includes going to the gym in the morning before starting work. So, breakfast is
very important to me after working out, but I also lose some extra time that I could have had for
eating.
I eat a banana on the way to the gym, which helps settle my stomach. And then for breakfast I
want a lot of protein, and to be sure that I have a relatively high protein to carbohydrate ratio; I
want energy and not a spike in my blood sugar level. I usually drink a vanilla protein powder
shake, and eat a cup of Greek yogurt [it is low-fat and has extra protein], and an apple - delicious.

3. I feel very good throughout the morning, and with no more coffee and diet coke to 'help' me
through - if I want something else to eat, I have another apple. Breakfast is very important to our
health, and you have lots of food choices that not only won't cause heartburn, but can actually
help control it. But like in the case of all acid reflux diet choices, there are tradeoffs and lifestyle
changes to be made to get rid of heartburn, and to get health benefits from what we eat -vs- eating
in a way that makes heartburn become worse, and lead to acid reflux disease.
Acid reflux diet changes can help get rid of your heartburn and acid reflux problems. To learn
some acid reflux diet tips, and see a number of recommended acid reflux diet books and guides,
come to http://www.acidrefluxdiettips.org/.
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