How to Do Food Combining Properly

Proper food combining aids in digestion because different food groups require different digestive juices. When food groups requiring separate digestive juices are eaten together, the body is not able to properly digest them. Many common food combinations, such as meat and potatoes, are actually quite detrimental to proper digestion and overall health. Although you may have to retrain yourself and alter your eating habits, food combining and digestion are very important and will be worth the healthful benefits.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

1. Do not combine starches and proteins. Starches, such as rice, potatoes, and bread, require alkaline digestive juices while proteins such as, animal proteins, nuts, and fish require acid digestive juices. Eating these different food groups simultaneously cancels out their respective digestive juices. The body must expend large amounts of energy to finally digest these foods, leaving it with no energy to cleanse the bowels. This results in toxicity and sluggishness, so eat these food groups at separate meals. Although we’re used to eating dishes like meat and potatoes and fish and rice, they are not the healthy choice they have been touted to be. Instead, try eating a non starchy vegetable, like broccoli, with proteins.

2. Non starchy vegetables CAN be eaten with any food, except fruit.

3. Eat fruit on an empty stomach. Fruit should always be eaten alone, and should be primarily eaten in the morning. This food combining diet will help your digestion greatly.

4. Eat the most easily digested foods first. Raw fruits and vegetables are the most water rich, easily digested foods. Salads should therefore be eaten before the main course. Allow about a half hour between the salad and main course. This allows time for the body to fully digest the raw food, which is digested quickly and easily. First eat raw, fresh foods, then cooked vegetables, then animal proteins. This is the order of most easily digested to most difficultly digested foods.

[serenity-now]

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[skyedanzer]

on 6/28/2009 Great info!

[cjsroro]

on 6/3/2009 A well written article with lots of GREAT information. Thanks 5*