Five habits are said to ease bloating: chewing slowly, skipping fried/spicy/heavy food, a 10-minute walk after eating, watching portion sizes, and taking deep breaths before meals.

noli's read

The post-meal walk is the best-proven item on the list: a randomized trial compared a 10-15 minute walk after each meal to a standard prokinetic medication, and the walk did at least as well — even better for epigastric bloating — with no drug or equipment needed. Eating slowly is documented for satiety and blood sugar rather than bloating itself, but the stated mechanism (swallowing less air) is physiologically consistent with what gastroenterologists report about aerophagia. Skipping greasy, fried food lines up with the clinical literature on bloating (fat slows gastric emptying), as does watching portions. The deep-breathing point is the weakest: the 'rest and digest' idea is plausible via the vagus nerve, but no study directly tests this effect on bloating — a reasonable extrapolation, not proof.

the sources

No named source held this one up — that absence is part of the verdict.