A healthy digestive system begins with a good diet. Eat the right stuff and you improve digestion. Eat badly and you feel like a human garbage can.How you eat can affect the way you feel too.“If you don’t digest your food properly, your cells don’t get what they need to function optimally,” says Liz Lipski, PhD, a clinical dietitian and author of Digestive Wellness (McGraw-Hill).The gastrointestinal (GI) tract is also home to our most precious disease-fighting resource: the immune system.“Two-thirds of the immune system is in the digestive tract,” Lipski says. “There are more neurotransmitters in the GI than in the brain and more nerve endings than in the spine,” she adds.Here’s how to keep your digestive system working well.
