Always Sit Down to Eat Sitting down relaxes the digestive tract, helps focus your awareness on the process of eating and enhances enjoyment of your food. Even if you’re just having a snack of a few grapes or raisins, take the time to sit down at a table.

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Chopra Md, Deepak. Perfect Digestion: The Key to Balanced Living (Perfect Health Library) (Kindle Locations 534-535). Potter/TenSpeed/Harmony. Kindle Edition