food combining is based on a theory that different food groups are digested optimally when eaten in the following combinations:
1. Do not combine carbs with highly acidic foods. This could be bread with citrus, like toast and orange juice for breakfast.
2. Do not combine protein with fat. This could be eggs and cheese with butter. Simply accomplished by not cooking an omelet in butter.
3. Do not combine protein with acidic fruit. This means not putting tomatoes on a hamburger or oranges as a side with your eggs.
4. Do not combine sugar and starch. This removes jam on a muffin or buttered toast
5. Do not combine protein with carbs. This will bring an end to those "meat and potato" dinners Americans are so fond of.
6. Limit yourself to one starch serving at any meal.
7. Limit yourself to one protein serving at any meal. This means skipping ham, sausage or cheese omelets.
8. Milk should not be combined with anything.
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Watch What You Eat
The older you get, the less hydrochloric acid your stomach is able to produce. The less acid you produce, the more poorly food is digested and the more health problems you end up with. Changes have to be made in the way you eat.
In order for your body to function properly, you need to eat right. Everyone's body is different, different life style, blood type, exercise levels and habits accumulated over time. One size does not fit all. General guidelines drilled into everyone about fiber and eating vegetables is good, but may not go far enough. What you eat has got to be used by your body to get any good from it. If you don't eat right, your digestive system will be compromised and will not be able to extract the necessary vitamins and minerals from what you eat so your body can use them. Worse yet, is waste accumulated in the bowel turning toxic, making it almost impossible for your immune system to do it's job. Combining the wrong foods makes it difficult for your digestive system to function at its best. When attempting to determine if any of the combinations will work for you or disagree with you, you first need to train yourself to notice what makes you feel better and what does not. It helps if you are not constantly experiencing indigestion to begin with. Changes in diet may take up to 2 weeks or more before
you notice the difference; some things you may notice right away. It takes between 20 to 30 hours for the food you eat to make its way through your body, (no more than 65 hours) and what you eat should not make you uncomfortable. If
you experience gas or bloating after eating, you obviously have made a mistake.
There are things you may already know that need to be avoided. Some people can't eat beef, dairy or pork, no matter what it is combined with or not combined with. It would be futile to try and mix those foods with anything, as that is counter productive. You may want to investigate eating for your blood type to do a quick narrowing down of the possible foods to avoid. You may notice when reading the list of foods to avoid, many that already give you trouble. Most of us are used to sitting down to a meal and eating a little of this and a little of that. Most times, if not always, the rules of food combining are being violated. If it does not bother you to do so, fine. Otherwise, you may consider eating all of one thing before starting on another. Usually it is best to start with the food with the highest water content and work your way down from there.
In order for your body to function properly, you need to eat right. Everyone's body is different, different life style, blood type, exercise levels and habits accumulated over time. One size does not fit all. General guidelines drilled into everyone about fiber and eating vegetables is good, but may not go far enough. What you eat has got to be used by your body to get any good from it. If you don't eat right, your digestive system will be compromised and will not be able to extract the necessary vitamins and minerals from what you eat so your body can use them. Worse yet, is waste accumulated in the bowel turning toxic, making it almost impossible for your immune system to do it's job. Combining the wrong foods makes it difficult for your digestive system to function at its best. When attempting to determine if any of the combinations will work for you or disagree with you, you first need to train yourself to notice what makes you feel better and what does not. It helps if you are not constantly experiencing indigestion to begin with. Changes in diet may take up to 2 weeks or more before
you notice the difference; some things you may notice right away. It takes between 20 to 30 hours for the food you eat to make its way through your body, (no more than 65 hours) and what you eat should not make you uncomfortable. If
you experience gas or bloating after eating, you obviously have made a mistake.
There are things you may already know that need to be avoided. Some people can't eat beef, dairy or pork, no matter what it is combined with or not combined with. It would be futile to try and mix those foods with anything, as that is counter productive. You may want to investigate eating for your blood type to do a quick narrowing down of the possible foods to avoid. You may notice when reading the list of foods to avoid, many that already give you trouble. Most of us are used to sitting down to a meal and eating a little of this and a little of that. Most times, if not always, the rules of food combining are being violated. If it does not bother you to do so, fine. Otherwise, you may consider eating all of one thing before starting on another. Usually it is best to start with the food with the highest water content and work your way down from there.
Basic Food Combining Guidelines
1.Do not combine protein foods like beef, lamb or pork with starchy foods like bread. Lighter protein foods like poultry, eggs or fish might be combined with less starchy foods like brown rice.
2.Do not combine protein with dairy. No ice cream desert after the steak dinner.
3.Do not combine raw fruit with starchy vegetables. You may have to wait one half hour between them. Fruit salads may be healthy, but the timing is off when eaten with a meal.
4.Do not have sweets of any kind with protein or right after a protein meal. Wait one half hour after dinner for desert.
5.Combine any protein foods with leafy or low-starch vegetables.
6.Combine starchy foods with leafy or low-starch vegetables.
7.Have milk and melons alone or experiment with milk to see if it works with grain foods like cereals.
Experiment to see if cheese works well with either fruit or vegetables, or try it with grain products or egg dishes. Papaya and pineapple, which contain abundant digestive enzymes, may combine well with any of the food groups, especially proteins.
Experiment to see how nuts or seeds and unrefined oils combine with any of the food groups. Depending on your digestive system, fruits may or may not be combined with seeds and nuts, grains, or milk products.
Source : Food Combining by Andang Gunawan
2.Do not combine protein with dairy. No ice cream desert after the steak dinner.
3.Do not combine raw fruit with starchy vegetables. You may have to wait one half hour between them. Fruit salads may be healthy, but the timing is off when eaten with a meal.
4.Do not have sweets of any kind with protein or right after a protein meal. Wait one half hour after dinner for desert.
5.Combine any protein foods with leafy or low-starch vegetables.
6.Combine starchy foods with leafy or low-starch vegetables.
7.Have milk and melons alone or experiment with milk to see if it works with grain foods like cereals.
Experiment to see if cheese works well with either fruit or vegetables, or try it with grain products or egg dishes. Papaya and pineapple, which contain abundant digestive enzymes, may combine well with any of the food groups, especially proteins.
Experiment to see how nuts or seeds and unrefined oils combine with any of the food groups. Depending on your digestive system, fruits may or may not be combined with seeds and nuts, grains, or milk products.
Source : Food Combining by Andang Gunawan
The Digestive System
If you want to be healthy, the first place to begin is the digestive system. If that don't work right, nothing else will. All the vitamins you take and anything good you might have gained by eating properly will be for nothing if your guts are sour, or you are walking around with a belly ache all the time. For that reason, an understanding of the digestive system is important.
The digestive process begins even before you take your first bite. There is a connection between the brain and the digestive system which engages when you thing of taking your lunch break, smell food and feel hunger. When you are hungry, relaxed and ready to eat, the connection between your brain and digestive system works better, allowing your digestive system to gear up for the task.
If you are unable to relax before you eat due to stress, anger or frustration, adrenaline will be released into your system, which causes blood flow to be diverted away from the gastrointestinal tract. If you eat a meal and your system has not prepared for the food, indigestion may result. Next comes the chewing. Food should be liquefied before swallowing. Why else do we have teeth made for pulverizing our food? Undigested food reaching the colon will trigger a state of toxicity. Eating properly is eating healthy, and the main goal is to rid our bodies of toxins and help our immune systems do their job as efficiently as possible. Chew your food good. Take your time, relax and enjoy yourself.
Another point that needs to be made is drinking liquids. When you drink a lot before during or after a meal, you will be diluting your digestive secretions and impairing nutrient absorption. Avoid drinking at least 30 minutes before you eat, and wait a couple hours after you are done eating to begin drinking again. How much do you eat at a time can also play a part in how well you are able to digest what you eat. Barry Sears writes his Zone Diet books never to eat more protein at one meal that will fit in the palm of your hand. All the other items on the plate should be proportionate. People who fill their plates so the piles of food are running into each other are most likely eating too much. (Either that or their plates are too small!) The digestive system can only handle so much at a time. You are able to produce enough acids, enzymes and bile secretions for a decent size meal, not some gargantuan feast.
When you ask your digestive system to work overtime, it will sap energy from the rest of the body, making you feel tired all the time. When that happens, you slow down, burn less calories through body movement, eventually causing weight gain. You just don't have any energy left for anything because the demands on your body by the digestive system has left you running a deficit. Breakdown of the whole system in almost guaranteed, leading to bowel and liver toxicity and can lead to obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes, elevated cholesterol levels, heart attack, stroke, cancers and numerous muscle-skeletal difficulties. Along the same lines, it is not advisable to do heavy work or exercise immediately before or right after eating, as it takes a lot of energy for the digestive system to do its work. You rob energy from Peter to pay Paul and leave stomach holding the bag. A short walk after eating however, is supposed to enhance digestive process.
I read someplace I can't remember where, the body needs to detoxify during the night. Eating before bed seems important to some to be able to get through the night without a low blood sugar dip waking them up, ruining an otherwise good nights sleep. Eating before bed robs the system of its rest, making it work while you sleep when it should be resting along with the rest of the body. This detoxification is said to continue well into the morning, making breakfast counterproductive. A tall order from someone who has to eat to keep their blood sugar up, but by resting the digestive system and eating properly, better use of the food you do eat will result in a healthier body. Your mileage may vary. I will not skip my breakfast, thank you. When you eat, food obviously, enters your stomach. Food you eat has to have some place to go when the stomach is done with it. If the pipes are full, where does it go? Hence, it is necessary to have a free flowing drainage system. More on this later.
Hydrochloric acid
According to the writer of the book "Eat right 4 your blood type" (Peter J. D'Adamo), people with different blood types produce different levels of hydrochloric acid. Type O people are better at digesting things like beef and other hard proteins, while type A and B blood type people are more suited to be vegetarians, taking in protein in the form of fish and fowl. People with O type blood may be quicker to get ulcers, while people with type A and B blood are more likely to develop stomach cancer, due to undigested red meat sitting in their stomach.
There is an enzymatic action on protein you have eaten by pepsin produced by the stomach along with hydrochloric acid which breaks down the protein into chains of amino acids. Pepsin is converted from pepsinogen by the acid secreted. No acid, no pepsin, just pepsinogen. Acid helps slightly in breaking down the protein, but pepsin is the actual enzyme doing the work. Hydrochloric acid acts to kill bacteria and parasites, something I'd consider desirable.
A deficiency of hydrochloric acid can be found in a large percentage of adults, particularly those over fifty years of age, some children with asthma, and pernicious anemia with the result of vitamin B-12 deficiency, a condition which can be inherited, or if you go with D'Adamo, its your blood type.Under the list of reasons for hypochlorhydria I found this jewel:Overeating may be another cause of low stomach acid. In order to make 1 liter of gastric juice, stomach cells have to expend 1,500 calories of energy and concentrate hydrogen ion four million times the amount found in arterial blood. Knowing this you can begin to appreciate how over stimulation and overwork (from overeating) may lead to depletion. Other reasons may be an autoimmune disease, a bacterial infection called helicobacter pylori, years of eating devitalized food, depriving stomach cells of nutrients required to produce hydrochloric acid and pepsin, excessive dietary fat and sugar, and weakened adrenal function and hypothyroidism. Then there is stress messing with hormonal mechanisms, and also a salt restricted diet may contribute to a acid insufficiency.
There are tests to see if you are a victim of hypochlorhydria. Physicians unaware of these tests diagnose the resulting ailments caused by insufficient stomach acid, which could easily been avoided if they discovered the cause in the first place. Symptoms of insufficient hydrochloric acid include:
1.Heartburn/indigestion
2.Gas and bloating
3.Upper abdominal fullness or heaviness
4.The feeling of food not moving along; "it just sits there"
5.Feeling hungrier after eating
6.Chronic constipation
7.Undigested food in stools
8.Coated tongue
9.Bad breath
Ailments associated with insufficient hydrochloric acid
1.Arthritis (osteoarthritis)
2.Muscle cramps
3.Fatigue
4.Multiple food allergies
5.Itchy anus
6.Dilated capillaries in the cheeks and nose (in nonalcholics)
7.Weak, peeling, and cracked fingernails
8.Adult acne
9.Iron deficiency anemia
10.Chronic intestinal parasites
11.Chronic intestinal candida overgrowth
12.Toxic colon
13.Osteoporosis
Although not necessarily a direct cause, low stomach acid is seen in numerous diseases
1.Addison's disease
2.Asthma
3.Chronic auto immune disorders
4.Celiac Disease
5.Diabetes mellitus
6.Eczema
7.Gall bladder disease
8.Graves' disease
9.hepatitis
10.Chronic hives
11.Lupus erythematosus
12.Myasthenia gravis
13.Osteoporosis
14.Pernicious anemia
15.Psoriasis
16.Rheumatoid arthritis
17.Rosacea
18.Hyper and Hypothyroidism
19.Vitiligo
(Source: "Heidelberg Gastric Analysis" for a textbook of natural medicine by
J.E. Pizzorno, MT Murray, S.A. Barrie (eds.), Bastyr University Publications,
1994
The digestive process begins even before you take your first bite. There is a connection between the brain and the digestive system which engages when you thing of taking your lunch break, smell food and feel hunger. When you are hungry, relaxed and ready to eat, the connection between your brain and digestive system works better, allowing your digestive system to gear up for the task.
If you are unable to relax before you eat due to stress, anger or frustration, adrenaline will be released into your system, which causes blood flow to be diverted away from the gastrointestinal tract. If you eat a meal and your system has not prepared for the food, indigestion may result. Next comes the chewing. Food should be liquefied before swallowing. Why else do we have teeth made for pulverizing our food? Undigested food reaching the colon will trigger a state of toxicity. Eating properly is eating healthy, and the main goal is to rid our bodies of toxins and help our immune systems do their job as efficiently as possible. Chew your food good. Take your time, relax and enjoy yourself.
Another point that needs to be made is drinking liquids. When you drink a lot before during or after a meal, you will be diluting your digestive secretions and impairing nutrient absorption. Avoid drinking at least 30 minutes before you eat, and wait a couple hours after you are done eating to begin drinking again. How much do you eat at a time can also play a part in how well you are able to digest what you eat. Barry Sears writes his Zone Diet books never to eat more protein at one meal that will fit in the palm of your hand. All the other items on the plate should be proportionate. People who fill their plates so the piles of food are running into each other are most likely eating too much. (Either that or their plates are too small!) The digestive system can only handle so much at a time. You are able to produce enough acids, enzymes and bile secretions for a decent size meal, not some gargantuan feast.
When you ask your digestive system to work overtime, it will sap energy from the rest of the body, making you feel tired all the time. When that happens, you slow down, burn less calories through body movement, eventually causing weight gain. You just don't have any energy left for anything because the demands on your body by the digestive system has left you running a deficit. Breakdown of the whole system in almost guaranteed, leading to bowel and liver toxicity and can lead to obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes, elevated cholesterol levels, heart attack, stroke, cancers and numerous muscle-skeletal difficulties. Along the same lines, it is not advisable to do heavy work or exercise immediately before or right after eating, as it takes a lot of energy for the digestive system to do its work. You rob energy from Peter to pay Paul and leave stomach holding the bag. A short walk after eating however, is supposed to enhance digestive process.
I read someplace I can't remember where, the body needs to detoxify during the night. Eating before bed seems important to some to be able to get through the night without a low blood sugar dip waking them up, ruining an otherwise good nights sleep. Eating before bed robs the system of its rest, making it work while you sleep when it should be resting along with the rest of the body. This detoxification is said to continue well into the morning, making breakfast counterproductive. A tall order from someone who has to eat to keep their blood sugar up, but by resting the digestive system and eating properly, better use of the food you do eat will result in a healthier body. Your mileage may vary. I will not skip my breakfast, thank you. When you eat, food obviously, enters your stomach. Food you eat has to have some place to go when the stomach is done with it. If the pipes are full, where does it go? Hence, it is necessary to have a free flowing drainage system. More on this later.
Hydrochloric acid
According to the writer of the book "Eat right 4 your blood type" (Peter J. D'Adamo), people with different blood types produce different levels of hydrochloric acid. Type O people are better at digesting things like beef and other hard proteins, while type A and B blood type people are more suited to be vegetarians, taking in protein in the form of fish and fowl. People with O type blood may be quicker to get ulcers, while people with type A and B blood are more likely to develop stomach cancer, due to undigested red meat sitting in their stomach.
There is an enzymatic action on protein you have eaten by pepsin produced by the stomach along with hydrochloric acid which breaks down the protein into chains of amino acids. Pepsin is converted from pepsinogen by the acid secreted. No acid, no pepsin, just pepsinogen. Acid helps slightly in breaking down the protein, but pepsin is the actual enzyme doing the work. Hydrochloric acid acts to kill bacteria and parasites, something I'd consider desirable.
A deficiency of hydrochloric acid can be found in a large percentage of adults, particularly those over fifty years of age, some children with asthma, and pernicious anemia with the result of vitamin B-12 deficiency, a condition which can be inherited, or if you go with D'Adamo, its your blood type.Under the list of reasons for hypochlorhydria I found this jewel:Overeating may be another cause of low stomach acid. In order to make 1 liter of gastric juice, stomach cells have to expend 1,500 calories of energy and concentrate hydrogen ion four million times the amount found in arterial blood. Knowing this you can begin to appreciate how over stimulation and overwork (from overeating) may lead to depletion. Other reasons may be an autoimmune disease, a bacterial infection called helicobacter pylori, years of eating devitalized food, depriving stomach cells of nutrients required to produce hydrochloric acid and pepsin, excessive dietary fat and sugar, and weakened adrenal function and hypothyroidism. Then there is stress messing with hormonal mechanisms, and also a salt restricted diet may contribute to a acid insufficiency.
There are tests to see if you are a victim of hypochlorhydria. Physicians unaware of these tests diagnose the resulting ailments caused by insufficient stomach acid, which could easily been avoided if they discovered the cause in the first place. Symptoms of insufficient hydrochloric acid include:
1.Heartburn/indigestion
2.Gas and bloating
3.Upper abdominal fullness or heaviness
4.The feeling of food not moving along; "it just sits there"
5.Feeling hungrier after eating
6.Chronic constipation
7.Undigested food in stools
8.Coated tongue
9.Bad breath
Ailments associated with insufficient hydrochloric acid
1.Arthritis (osteoarthritis)
2.Muscle cramps
3.Fatigue
4.Multiple food allergies
5.Itchy anus
6.Dilated capillaries in the cheeks and nose (in nonalcholics)
7.Weak, peeling, and cracked fingernails
8.Adult acne
9.Iron deficiency anemia
10.Chronic intestinal parasites
11.Chronic intestinal candida overgrowth
12.Toxic colon
13.Osteoporosis
Although not necessarily a direct cause, low stomach acid is seen in numerous diseases
1.Addison's disease
2.Asthma
3.Chronic auto immune disorders
4.Celiac Disease
5.Diabetes mellitus
6.Eczema
7.Gall bladder disease
8.Graves' disease
9.hepatitis
10.Chronic hives
11.Lupus erythematosus
12.Myasthenia gravis
13.Osteoporosis
14.Pernicious anemia
15.Psoriasis
16.Rheumatoid arthritis
17.Rosacea
18.Hyper and Hypothyroidism
19.Vitiligo
(Source: "Heidelberg Gastric Analysis" for a textbook of natural medicine by
J.E. Pizzorno, MT Murray, S.A. Barrie (eds.), Bastyr University Publications,
1994
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