Health to office workers are very important, often people are lacking of excises, as programmers or developers, we sit in front of the computers for long hours, there are few reasons we could work without computers. As a result, I found myself have problem with my digestive system, in other words, the food I had could not be digested in a timely fashion. I should go to toilet more often than what I have now.
Have you ever had the similar problem like me? Did you get a good solution?
But don't get addicted to it. I take a teaspoon every now and then, when I suffer from acid indigestion. (Coffee + coffee + coffee is usually the cause.) If yours is a chronic problem, consider consulting a gastroenterologist.
I have similar symptoms and I find eating lighter meals helps tremendously. It's also good to get light exercise, like walking.
Yes, I've encountered the same problem some time ago. Now I'm just cooking all of my food myself, so I can hold on to proper diet. And also this makes me spend at least two hours a day more on my feet away from a computer.
Eat better food. Eat the right amount of it, at the right times. This isn't really something that can be answered, specifically, it's something you need to figure out yourself. When you eat X, how does it make you feel after 15 minutes? After an hour? After four hours? After a day? Keep answering those questions until you are only eating the foods that make you feel good at all of those points.
I'll give you a hint, and someone already posted it: water. Lots of it.
Also, don't lack exercise. You don't have to. There are lots of ways to stay active, even while you're working.
And don't work so much that you have to do these things while you work. There is lots of evidence that you are not being more productive by working these many more hours, and that kind of stress is far outside a healthy range, which can cause all manner of digestion problems.
In short, eat healthy food food, full of nutrients, which make you feel good for a significant period of time. Drink water. Do physical things. Work sane hours.
Oh, and sleep. Between seven and nine hours a day, every day, more or less around the same time each day.
Contrary to popular belief, programmers are in fact human beings :-) Thus, the classic advice for people to maintain a healthy digestion also applies to programmers.
Personally, I have found the following to help:
I had an irritated digestion even before I became a programmer. Now, doing the 5 things above, I find myself wondering where my digestion trouble went, and being happy that digestion problems don't drain my physical or mental resources any more.
But implementing these things isn't easy, "just like that". Requires some work and a little strength of will, but it really pays off.
Good luck with it!
Foods suggestion are good, and exercises more, but try to do that, for example try to go to work by bicycle, and do not take elevator (if there are less than or equal 5 floors) but walk the stairs, try to find ways to do exercises in your everyday routine, to keep your body safe. And by the way exercises will let your body release endorphines will make you feel better
Take a load of laxatives a bring your laptop with you on the can =D
Like everyone said Drink lots of water, though it is a myth
Also, i must say, the sure shot solution of your digestion problem is pranayam. You just have to invest 10 minutes daily, and you can see the result in one week.