Further Food-Combining Adventures
The basic premise of proper food combining is that when foods are combined correctly, the absorb properly during digestion and they digest efficiently. When foods are combined incorrectly, they can’t be absorbed during digestion. Weight gain is very often a result of improper eating rather than of too many calories.
Proper food combining is based on the chemistry of digestion - simple physiological formulas. For example when you combine starches with proteins (like meat with potatoes) they each conflict with the digestion of the other, causing digestion to slow, and even not properly to occur.
We are told about all of these new digestive disorders that now have names “IBS” “Acid Reflux.” I just don’t believe in them. My guess is that maybe 1% have the actual disorder as doctors are defining it. But I have known people personally and there are thousands on the web that have cured these “disorders” or “diseases” by changing their diets. For people who suffer from gas, indigestion, acid stomach, constipation, diarrhea, cramping, bad breath, proper food combining is one of these simple approaches that can cause huge transformations.
Today’s food combining lesson: don’t combine starches with proteins. They digest differently, each causing the other to digest more slowly and improperly. This contributes to afore mentioned problems like bloating, indigestion, weight gain, and many more problems.
Avoid combinations like meat and potatoes, chicken and rice. Eat veggies with your meats: lots of them. If you have steamed veggies, put them in a bowl (after cooking) and toss with a little extra virgin olive oil and good quality natural salt and pepper. If you eat sandwiches, stick to vegetable only sandwiches like avocado and sprouts, portabello mushroom with roasted peppers. Stuff like that.
For a complete chart of food combining dos and don’ts check out http://www.thewolfeclinic.com
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By GFYM on Mar 11, 2008 | Reply
The picture is from a danish campagne to make the danes eat more fruit and vegetables.
The slogan was “seks om dagen”, meaning six a day.
That six pieces fruit or 600 g vegetable.
The danish word for six, seks, sound just like sex, so the picture has a double meaning.
By Stefanie on Mar 11, 2008 | Reply
Thank you GFYM. We were wondering where is the photo from. I will link the photo to their website at http://www.6omdagen.dk/.
By the lone beader on Mar 11, 2008 | Reply
I hate being told how I should eat. But, I think I hate being told what to stumble even more. :/
By Stefanie on Mar 12, 2008 | Reply
Take it easy Lone Beader. No worries. You can eat whatever you want and even more, you can stumble whatever you would like to.There is no need for hate. That is for sure not healthy.
By Adam on Mar 12, 2008 | Reply
copulating vegetables. now i have seen it all.
By Pennie on Mar 14, 2008 | Reply
I was raised on each dinner to include meat, potatoes & veggie-always. When I started cooking for hub and myself, I cut out the potatoes most of the time, because I thought it was just too much food to eat. I eat very little meat and love olive oil with veggies or pasta. I just have hard time not adding fresh citrus juice along with the olive oil though. Maybe some fresh cut herbs would help me to cut back on the citrus.
By Stefanie on Mar 15, 2008 | Reply
Hi Pennie, Thank you for visiting.
I was raised the same way. When I was a kid, my favorite meal was my mom’s roast beef with mashed potatoes and gravy.
Well you raise some good points. It is difficult to say generally what is healthful and what is unhealthful. Some people really do seem to have an iron constitution. But for many of us, w notice a difference when we take care about what we eat. Some tangerine or grapefruit juice (fresh squeezed) all on its own might be fine. I hear that for 100% raw meals you have more freedom about food combining. Some practices might seem at first like giving something up, but if you feel a lot better, then it gives you a new perspective. For example I found out I was allergic to wheat and/or gluten. At first I thought the world was ending–no bread, no pasta. Now I don’t mind. I think I eat better in general and I feel so much better.
Kudos on finding your own way and thinking for yourself. The herbs sound like a great idea. They have all kinds of health benefits as well. I love rosemary.