This is not NEW news but its the most
Comprehensive writing I’ve found about what to
Eat with what. Food combining DOES work
Because I’ve been doing some of it this Spring; along
With yard work, and I’m losing inches and FAT!
This is not easy to do and by no means
Do I adhere to all of it each and every meal
But I make an honest stab at it and this
Article is going to help me combine foods
Better to make a healthier, happier tumME.
Food Combining
It is commonly believed that the human
Stomach should be able to digest any
Number of different foods at the same
Time. However, digestion is governed
By physiological chemistry. It is not
What we eat that is crucial to our health,
But what we digest and assimilate.
Digestive enzymes
Digestive enzymes are secreted in very
Specific amounts and at very specific
Times. Different food types require
Different digestive secretions.
Carbohydrate foods require
Carbohydrate-splitting enzymes,
Whereas protein foods require protein
Splitting enzymes, etc. It is the
Knowledge of the digestive process
That has led many health practitioners
To promote efficient food combing,
The rules of which are briefly explained below:
1.
Carbohydrate foods and acid foods
Should not be eaten at the same
Meal. Do not eat bread, rice or
Potatoes with lemons, limes,
Oranges, grapefruits, pineapples,
Tomatoes or other sour fruits.
This is because the enzyme, ptyalin,
Acts only in an alkaline medium;
It is destroyed even by a mild acid!
Fruit acids not only prevent
Carbohydrate digestion, but they
Also produce a fermentation.
Oxalic acid, for example, diluted
To one part in 10,000 completely
Arrests the action of ptyalin. And,
There is enough acetic acid in one
Teaspoon of wine vinegar to
Completely halt salivary digestion.
Dr Percy Howe of Harvard Medical
School states:
"Many people who cannot eat oranges
At a meal derive great benefit from
Eating them fifteen to thirty minutes
Before the meal". Herbert Sheldon,
Author of 'The science and fine art of
Food and nutrition' reports: " I have
Put hundreds of patients , who have
Told me that they could not eat oranges
Or grapefruit, upon a diet of these fruits
And they found that they could take them.
Such people are in the habit of taking
These foods with a breakfast of cereal,
With cream and sugar, egg on toast,
Stewed prunes and coffee, or some
Similar meal."
Tomatoes should also never be combined
With starchy food as the combination of
The various acids in the tomato, which
Are intensified on cooking, are very much
Opposed to the alkaline digestion of starches.
They may be eaten with leafy vegetables
And fat foods.
What all this tends to mean is that people
Who say they cannot eat oranges or
Grapefruit as it gives them gas, could be
Blaming the fruit, when the problem may
Lie with the escape of starches and the
Bodies release of pancreatic juice and
Intestinal enzymes to break them down.
In cases where there is hyperacidity of
The stomach there is great difficulty
Digesting starches. Fermentation and
Poisoning of the body occurs along
With much discomfort. This is because
The digestion of carbohydrates
(starches and sugars) and of protein is
So different, that when they are mixed
In the stomach they interfere with the
Digestion of each other. An acid
Process (gastric digestion) and an
Alkaline process (salivary digestion)
Can not be carried on at the same time
In an ideal way in the stomach.
Before long, they cannot proceed at all ,
As the rising acidity of the stomach
Soon completely stops carbohydrate
Digestion. The highest efficiency in
Digestion demands that we eat in such
a way as to offer the least hindrance
To the work of digestion.
2.
Do not eat a concentrated protein
And a concentrated carbohydrate
At the same meal. This means do
Not eat nuts, meat, eggs, cheese, or
Other protein foods at the same
Meal with bread, cereals, potatoes,
Sweet fruits. Cakes, etc. Candy and
Sugar greatly inhibit the secretion
Of gastric juice and markedly delay
Digestion and if consumed in large
Quantities can depress the
Stomach activity.
3.
Do not eat two concentrated proteins
At the same meal. Avoid nuts and meat,
Or eggs and meat, cheese and nuts,
Cheese and eggs, meat and milk, or
Eggs and milk or nuts at milk at the
Same meal. Milk, if taken at all, is
Best taken alone. The reason for
Avoiding eating these combinations
Is because each protein requires a
Specific character and strength of
Digestive juice to be secreted.
Eggs require different timing in
Stomach secretions than do either
meat or milk.
4.
Do not eat fats with proteins.
This means do not use cream,
butter, oil, etc with meat, eggs,
cheese, nuts, etc. Fat depresses
the action of the gastric glands
by delaying the development
of appetite juices and inhibiting
the pouring out of the proper
gastric juices for meats, nuts,
eggs or other protein. Fats may
lower the entire gastric tone
more than fifty per cent.
5.
Do not eat acid fruits with proteins.
This is to say, oranges, tomatoes
, lemons, pineapples, etc., should
not be eaten with meat, eggs,
cheese or nuts. Acid fruits seriously
hamper protein digestion and results
in putrefaction. Milk and orange juice,
while by no means an indigestible
combination, is far from a good
combination. Orange juice and eggs
form an even worse combination.
6.
Do not consume starch and sugars
together. Jellies, jams, fruit, butter,
sugar, honey, syrups, molasses, etc.,
on bread, cake, or at the same meal
with cereals, potatoes, etc., or sugar
with cereal, will produce fermentation.
The practice of eating starches that
have been disguised by sweets is also
a bad way to eat carbohydrates. If
sugar is taken into the mouth it quickly
fills with saliva but no ptyalin is
present which we know is essential
for starch digestion.
7.
Eat but one concentrated starch food
at a meal. This rule is more important
as a means of overeating than as a
means of avoiding a bad combination.
While overeating of starches may
lead to fermentation, there is no
certainty that the combination of
two starches will do so.
8.
Do not consume melons with any other
foods. Watermelon, muskmelon,
honeydew melon, cantaloupe and other
melons should always be eaten alone.
This is possibly due to the ease and s
peed in which melons decompose.
9.
Milk is best taken alone or let alone.
Milk is the natural food of the
mammalian young, each species
producing milk peculiarly and
precisely adapted to the needs of
its young. It is the rule that the
young take the milk alone, not in
combination with other foods.
Milk does not digest in the stomach,
but in the duodenum, hence in the
presence of milk the stomach does
not respond with its secretion.
The use of acid fruits with milk
does not cause any trouble and
apparently does not conflict
with its digestion.
*
A suggested combination of meals
is included in the following plan
of eating three meals a day :
Breakfast
Fruit. Any fruit in season may be used.
It is suggested that not more than
three fruits be used at a meal, as,
for example, grapes, well ripened
bananas and an apple. It is well to
have an acid fruit breakfast one
morning and a sweet breakfast the
next. In season breakfast may be
made of melons. In the winter
months, one or two dried fruits
such as figs, dates, raisins, prunes,
etc., may be substituted for the fresh fruit.
Lunch
A large raw vegetable salad of lettuce,
celery, and one or two other raw
vegetables plus avocado and alfalfa
sprouts or nut and seeds. As an
alternative, a vegetable salad
(omitting tomatoes), one cooked
green vegetable and a starch.
Dinner
A large raw vegetable salad
(if nuts or cottage cheese are
to be used as the protein,
tomatoes may be used in this salad),
two cooked non-starchy vegetable
and a protein.
*
Fat meats, sour apples, beans, peanuts,
peas, cereals, bread and jam, or hot cakes
and honey or syrup, are notoriously slow
in digestion and are frequent sources
of discomfort and putrescent poisoning.
If the body’s reserves are carefully hoarded
they will carry us well beyond the hundred
year mark with youthful enthusiasm and zest.
Their depletion is one of the most common
calamities of modern life. The alkaloids and
alcohols, with which gastro-intestinal
decomposition charges our bodies, rob us of
our reserves, greatly weaken our vital
resistance and sooner or later produce a
state of physiological collapse
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