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Do you combine foods for better digestion ?


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#1 picious

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Posted 23 January 2009 - 09:17 PM


Do you combine food types for better digestion and better health ? I know that healthy meal should contain fat,protein,carbohydrates and fiber but when following combining rules, fats and protein should not be mixed, protein and carbohydrates should not be mixed and so on..
Few food combining rules:


Food Combining Rules

Rule 1 - Change your paradigm about food and apply simplified guideline. Combine and consume food according to natural laws of food combining.
Rule 2 - Eat concentrated proteins such as meat, fish, eggs and cheese separately from concentrated starches such as bread, potatoes and rice.
Rule 3 - Eat only major type of protein at a single meal.
Rule 4 - Eat acids and starches at separate meals.
Rule 5 - Avoid combining concentrated proteins and acids at the same meal.
Rule 6 - Eat starches and sugars separately.
Rule 7 - Eat melons alone or leave them alone.
Rule 8 - Avoid sweet starchy desserts, as well as fruits, after large meals of protein or carbohydrates.
Rule 9 - Eliminate pasteurized and homogenized milk entirely from your diet.

Source: http://www.templekee...wellness_04.asp

When I opened reciep book, all I could see were healthy foods combined in the wrong way. Is food combining something that should be ignored or can food combining help with digestion and make you healthier ?

#2 shifter

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Posted 27 August 2014 - 02:17 AM

I know this is a bit thread is a bit of a blast from the past but I was just thinking about to ask the same thing and there aren't any answers here.

 

Also, does blending foods together throw the bad combining foods theory out the window?

 

If I eat a pretty big steak and dont chew well and then eat a banana at the end, does that banana sit on top for a few hours fermenting? Or does the stomach constantly turn and churn and move the banana out before the steak so not as big of a deal as made out. I dont think the stomach works as a 'first come first processed' deal....

 

If I was to blend that steak and banana together into a pulp, it stands to reason the time inside the stomach would be a lot shorter than chewing them, so wouldn't the use of a blender negate the idea of bad food combining? (not that I blend meat, just an example of how maybe a blender possibly negates the bad food combining rules)

 

I blend a lot of fruits/veggies/nuts/oats together. Given the consistency is the same it should move through the stomach all together in good time. But can it screw with digestive enzymes and make digestion more difficult or failure to digest some of the goodies in the food?

 

Some say the food combining is pseudoscience and some swear by it. I want to know if there is any good truth to it, some real examples of what could potentially be toxic to combine (I heard milk and fish is bad??) and if blending foods throw the rules out the window.

 

 

 

 



#3 Gerrans

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Posted 27 August 2014 - 09:33 AM

I think food combining diets are nonsense. However, it is common sense to eat a variety of food. A friend of mine ate a whole packet of TUC biscuits and then seemed surprised he got constipated (yes, we have great conversations). Traditionally, people used to eat a dinner of meat and veg, maybe followed by a fruit pudding. I am sure there is wisdom in that.

 

I read a piece of research that showed different types of food go through the system at different speeds. They can even "overtake". I also read that monkeys sometimes wrap a nut in a leaf to eat it. If monkeys can work this out, we should not need the authorities to regale us with "the divided plate".


Edited by Gerrans, 27 August 2014 - 09:36 AM.


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