Secrets of Food Combining: Eating for Life
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According to Ayurveda, Chinese medicine, and other alternative medicine, if you combine the wrong foods, your body will become acidic and unbalanced, and actually will secrete enzymes that cancel each other out. This causes bloating, gas, weight loss and fluctuations in energy levels. In can also lead to slowed or impaired digestion, causing food to ferment in the stomach or toxins to be released in the intestines.
Proper food combinations are based on the idea that there are foods groups that digest well with each other and others that don't. So what is food combining? What food is a protein and what food is a starch? Let’s take a look.
Food Combining Categories
- Lean proteins: lean fish, lean meats and poultry, low-fat dairy, protein powder
- Starches and starchy proteins: grains (including bread, pasta, etc), potatoes, sweet potatoes, beets, parsnips, carrots, pumpkin, winter squashes, beans, lentils, peas, tofu, tempeh
- Fats and fatty proteins: avocados, olives, nuts, seeds, oils, butter, cheese, yogurt, eggs, fatty fish, poultry, meat
- Greens and non-starchy vegetables: leafy greens, sprouts, celery, cucumber, cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, asparagus, radish, zucchini, onion, garlic, mushrooms, green beans, fresh corn
- Fruit: lemons, limes, grapefruit, oranges, tomatoes, strawberries, pineapples, apples, berries, pears, apricots, peaches, grapes, plums, cherries, mangoes, papayas, figs, bananas, dates, dried fruits, fruit juice, watermelon, cantaloupe, honeydew
- Sweeteners: sugars, syrups, malt syrups, honey
Proper Food Combinations
- Greens and non-starchy vegetables combine well with pretty much any type of food.
- Lean proteins combine best with greens and non-starchy vegetables.
- Starches and starchy proteins combine best with greens, non-starchy vegetables and fats.
- Fats and fatty proteins combine best with greens, non-starchy vegetables, starches.
- Fruits combine best with greens and should be eaten first as they exit the body most quickly.
- Sweeteners are best eaten on their own (i.e. in tea).
Exceptions
- Acidic fruits (citrus, tomatoes, strawberries, pineapples) combine well with fats or proteins.
- Melons should be eaten alone, since they digest faster than other fruits.
- Bananas can be eaten with starches due to their starchy content.
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Table of contents
Dr. Hay and Food Combining 15
Energetic with raw food combination 30
Conclusion 32
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Introduction
If ever there is one universal language, it would definitely be food. As the years go by, we try to understand and reconcile ourselves with the power of food over our lives. They could make us young or old, fat or slim, health or weak. Because of this, a lot of studies and discoveries were made on the topic of food.
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As well look at us in the mirror, most of us would almost immediately notice those lines in our faces. Suddenly we all wonder if we are too old or the environment around us is simply moving time so fast. We wonder what could be done.
When we got up and stepped on that scale, we are shocked to see that line hit past the average weight. We panic as we think that we are getting fat and would mean getting slow. Mentally we relate our weight to our heavy bodies and low energy. We almost immediately sign up for that gym class.
We are extremely conscious of what we look that we tend to forgot that sometimes the answer could be that simple. In our society today, we are bombarded with pollutions and fast food. These two have a tremendous effect on how we eat and look. Fast food centres offer unhealthy food that often times contribute a lot of problems.
Lots of studies and experiments are being done to answer our cry for help. We want a diet that is effective. A diet that could boost our energy levels, make us feel young, look young, affordable and sustainable.
One interesting and very realistic discovery is ―food combining‖. Correctly combining foods makes all the difference in the world to proper digestion, cholesterol and metabolism. Without complete digestion, the nutrients in even the most wholesome food cannot be fully extracted and assimilated by the body.
Before we could even say or open our mouth bout food combining, we must first be equipped with the basic knowledge about