Urban life conditions people to eat fast food and drink sweet beverages. Those juices you’ve been drinking because you’ve thought they were healthy are 80% sugar. Fruits are supposed to be eaten in their original form because they are very high in sugar. Veggies, on the other hand, are the best ingredients for juices. However, the reality is the other way around.

Consequently, constipation, stomach ulcers, celiac diseases, irritable bowel syndromes, and hemorrhoids are common diseases among urban citizens. Here are ways to improve those conditions.

High-Fiber Diet

You should resist eating fast food and all of those over-the-counter healthy snacks. They are high in preservatives and artificial sugar. Fresh fruits are your best snacks. Therefore, you should allocate your time to prepare them before you go to work.

Eating fresh fruits can keep your blood sugar stable while feeding your body with other essential nutrients, like vitamins, minerals, and antioxidant. If you have enough free time, you should learn how to make fruit snacks by yourself. For example, A Side of Sweet is a site that dedicates to informing their readers with healthy appetizer recipes. One of their articles is entitled, “Healthy Fruit Snack,” and it teaches the reader to make jello snacks from fruits.

A Balanced Diet

With the hype of the keto diet, you should be careful if you have chosen to follow that fad. Keto promotes fatty food as the substitute to carbohydrate. However, not all people can adapt to a drastic change of diet.

Moreover, people who practice keto diet tends to consume little fiber. They forget that they should maintain their guts’ bacteria by eating veggies and fruits. As a result, they may feel a worsened irritable bowel syndrome and develop ulcers.

However, a proper keto diet has been proven to alleviate digestive disorders.

An Active Lifestyle

No matter what your diet is, if you spend most of your time sitting and slouching, you will not have a healthy body. Humans have adapted to be a bipedal mammal that can move more efficiently than the other animals. Sedentary behavior is not what we have evolved to practice.

You should take a break every three hours from sitting. Stretch your body a little by raising your arms. This movement is known to raise hormones and improve blood circulation. Also, you need to compensate your sedentary lifestyle by exercising during the weekend. If you have enough of an enclosed space, you should try hiking or freediving. Be adventurous with your life, and you shall also improve your gut’s health…