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Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Healthy Tidbits

Outsmart Indigestion

(Prevention Magazine)
As many as 80% of heartburn sufferers experience symptoms at night. Steal back a good night's sleep by fluffing up two pillows instead of one. In an Archives of Internal Medicine study, people who propped up their heads about 11 inches reduced their symptoms dramatically. Also, sleep on your left side and you'll cut your heartburn risk in half—that's because snoozing on your right side relaxes the muscle that keeps gastric acids in your stomach.

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