The esophagus empties into the stomach, a large, muscular chamber that mixes food up with digestive juices including the enzyme pepsin, which targets proteins, and lipase, which works on fats.

This is important: sleeping on your stomach on a mattress that doesn’t offer sufficient support can lead to increased back, neck, and shoulder pain. We’ve tested dozens of mattresses ...

Traveling can be an exciting adventure, but for many, like myself, it often comes with an unwelcome companion: stomach troubles. Despite drinking plenty of water and trying to eat right ...

Gas, indigestion, and stomach viruses are common causes of upper stomach pain. This symptom can also indicate appendicitis, bowel obstruction, or peptic ulcers in severe cases. The abdomen ...

The stomach muscles help to mix and break the food down by churning it around. The stomach is an important organ in the digestive system. After food has been chewed in the mouth and swallowed ...

Sound familiar? We’ve all been there—those feelings of being too full, tight or swollen in the stomach, sometimes accompanied ...

But, if you have excess weight around your midsection that doesn’t make you feel your best, you may prioritize the best stomach exercises to lose belly fat at home. Just know this: Contrary to ...

Rasmus Munk, the celebrated Danish chef, has such memorable eyes—they are a piercing blue, and often bloodshot—that when a waiter at Alchemist, his restaurant in Copenhagen, served me an ...

Whether you are experiencing nausea, diarrhea or recovering from the stomach flu, it can be difficult to know what to eat when you have an upset stomach. The BRAT diet was once a popular remedy ...