TAMES BLOAT: Picturing peace

Grilled sausages, macaroni salad, ice cream… As yummy as all that is, we’ve all felt those postmeal moments when our bellies swell. The good news: Doctors at New Jersey’s Morristown Medical Center say you can cut symptoms by 82% in minutes just by stretching out and picturing your abdominal distress being gently washed away. Explains Joseph Brasco, M.D., co-author of Restoring Your Digestive Health, this visualization trick stimulates nerves that improve gastric motility, speed stomach emptying and encourage digestive enzyme release.