The Most Effective Ways To Prevent Heartburn

Eat Smaller Meals

An excellent tip for individuals who have chronic heartburn is to eat smaller meals. A stomach, when empty, has a volume of only about two and a half ounces. When an individual consumes food, the average adult stomach can stretch and expand to accommodate up to one full quart of food, which is the same volume as the quart size carton of milk or juice commonly seen in most grocery stores. Although the stomach is able to expand to accommodate such volume of food, this does not mean the sphincters on either end of it have the same amount of pressure on them as they do when there is no food in the stomach. The more food consumed, the higher the pressure on the esophageal sphincter becomes. If an individual who has chronic heartburn already has a weakened or compromised esophageal sphincter, the increased pressure of a more substantial meal can make heartburn more likely to occur. This mechanism can cause heartburn with the consumption of a large meal of any type of food, not just foods that trigger heartburn.

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