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It has been a traditional advice to most of the people with heartburn to avoid certain foods out of fear that they may aggravate their condition.  Few of them are Coffee? Too acidic. Hot sauce? Not at all. Never drink tea or coffee and never eat spicy on empty stomach. And it has been traditionally believed that these are the perfect advices for curing HeartBurn. But they are wrong? I am not saying this but research done for last 30 years has prooved it.

In a study published in May in The Archives of Internal Medicine, researches at the Stanford Medical School analyzed hundreds of studies on heartburn dating to the 1970’s. They found that cutting back on caffeine, citrus fruits and spicy foods did not eliminate heartburn symptoms. Esophageal sphincter, which acts something like a control valve, relaxes more than it should and allows fluids in the stomach to flow toward the mouth. While there is some evidence that tobacco and alcohol can reduce the pressure exerted by the esophageal sphincter, most foods traditionally thought to exacerbate heartburn do not seem to have this effect.
In the study published in May, only two changes in behavior appeared to reduce heartburn, neither of which have found their way into accepted wisdom on heartburn. The first was eating less, since extra weight increases pressure in the abdomen. And elevating the head of the bed can prevent stomach acid from surging into the esophagus while you sleep. As long as you monitor how much you eat, what you eat will have little to do with symptoms of heartburn, say researchers.

Thus it is well rightly said for HeartBurn “What you eat has nothing to do with heartburn, but how much you eat does”