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Diet & LifestyleFood CombiningIt is commonly believed that the human stomach shouldbe able to digest any number of different foods at thesame time. However, digestion is governed byphysiological chemistry. It is not what we eat that iscrucial to our health, but what we digest and assimilate.

Digestive enzymesDigestive enzymes are secreted in very specific amountsand at very specific times. Different food types requiredifferent digestive secretions. Carbohydrate foodsrequire carbohydrate-splitting enzymes, whereas proteinfoods require protein splitting enzymes, etc. It is theknowledge of the digestive process that has led manyhealth practitioners to promote efficient food combing,the rules of which are briefly explained below:

1. Carbohydrate foods and acid foods should not beeaten at the same meal. Do not eat bread, rice orpotatoes with lemons, limes, oranges, grapefruits,pineapples, tomatoes or other sour fruits. This isbecause the enzyme, ptyalin, acts only in an alkalinemedium; it is destroyed even by a mild acid! Fruit acidsnot only prevent carbohydrate digestion, but they alsoproduce a fermentation. Oxalic acid, for example, dilutedto one part in 10,000 completely arrests the action ofptyalin. And, there is enough acetic acid in one teaspoonof wine vinegar to completely halt salivary digestion. DrPercy Howe of Harvard Medical School states:

"Many people who cannot eat oranges ata meal derive great benefit from eatingthem fifteen to thirty minutes before the

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meal". Herbert Sheldon, author of 'Thescience and fine art of food and nutrition'reports: " I have put hundreds of patients ,who have told me that they could not eatoranges or grapefruit, upon a diet of thesefruits and they found that they could takethem. Such people are in the habit oftaking these foods with a breakfast ofcereal, with cream and sugar, egg ontoast, stewed prunes and coffee, or somesimilar meal."

Tomatoes should also never be combined with starchyfood as the combination of the various acids in thetomato, which are intensified on cooking, are very muchopposed to the alkaline digestion of starches. They maybe eaten with leafy vegetables and fat foods.

What all this tends to mean is that people who say theycannot eat oranges or grapefruit as it gives them gas,could be blaming the fruit, when the problem may lie withthe escape of starches and the bodies release ofpancreatic juice and intestinal enzymes to break themdown.

In cases where there is hyperacidity of the stomachthere is great difficulty digesting starches. Fermentationand poisoning of the body occurs along with muchdiscomfort. This is because the digestion ofcarbohydrates (starches and sugars) and of protein isso different, that when they are mixed in the stomachthey interfere with the digestion of each other. An acidprocess (gastric digestion) and an alkaline process(salivary digestion) can not be carried on at the sametime in an ideal way in the stomach. Before long, theycannot proceed at all , as the rising acidity of thestomach soon completely stops carbohydrate digestion.The highest efficiency in digestion demands that we eatin such a way as to offer the least hindrance to the workof digestion.

2. Do not eat a concentrated protein and a concentratedcarbohydrate at the same meal. This means do not eatnuts, meat, eggs, cheese, or other protein foods at thesame meal with bread, cereals, potatoes, sweet fruits.Cakes, etc. Candy and sugar greatly inhibit the secretionof gastric juice and markedly delay digestion and ifconsumed in large quantities can depress the stomachactivity.

3. Do not eat two concentrated proteins at the samemeal. Avoid nuts and meat, or eggs and meat, cheeseand nuts, cheese and eggs, meat and milk, or eggs andmilk or nuts at milk at the same meal. Milk, if taken atall, is best taken alone. The reason for avoiding eatingthese combinations is because each protein requires aspecific character and strength of digestive juice to besecreted. Eggs require different timing in stomachsecretions than do either meat or milk.

4. Do not eat fats with proteins. This means do not usecream, butter, oil, etc with meat, eggs, cheese, nuts,etc. Fat depresses the action of the gastric glands bydelaying the development of appetite juices and inhibitingthe pouring out of the proper gastric juices for meats,

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nuts, eggs or other protein. Fats may lower the entiregastric tone more than fifty per cent.

5. Do not eat acid fruits with proteins. This is to say,oranges, tomatoes, lemons, pineapples, etc., should notbe eaten with meat, eggs, cheese or nuts. Acid fruitsseriously hamper protein digestion and results inputrefaction. Milk and orange juice, while by no meansan indigestible combination, is far from a goodcombination. Orange juice and eggs form an even worsecombination.

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 producefermentation. The practice of eating starches that havebeen disguised by sweets is also a bad way to eatcarbohydrates. If sugar is taken into the mouth it quicklyfills with saliva but no ptyalin is present which we knowis essential for starch digestion.

7. Eat but one concentrated starch food at a meal. Thisrule is more important as a means of overeating than asa means of avoiding a bad combination. Whileovereating of starches may lead to fermentation, there isno certainty that the combination of two starches will doso.

8. Do not consume melons with any other foods.Watermelon, muskmelon, honeydew melon, cantaloupeand other melons should always be eaten alone. This ispossibly due to the ease and speed in which melonsdecompose.

9. Milk is best taken alone or let alone. Milk is thenatural food of the mammalian young, each speciesproducing milk peculiarly and precisely adapted to theneeds of its young. It is the rule that the young take themilk alone, not in combination with other foods. Milkdoes not digest in the stomach, but in the duodenum,hence in the presence of milk the stomach does notrespond with its secretion. The use of acid fruits withmilk does not cause any trouble and apparently does notconflict with its digestion.

A suggested combination of meals is included in thefollowing plan of eating three meals a day :

Breakfast Fruit. Any fruit in season may be used. It is suggestedthat not more than three fruits be used at a meal, as, forexample, grapes, well ripened bananas and an apple. Itis well to have an acid fruit breakfast one morning and asweet breakfast the next. In season breakfast may bemade of melons. In the winter months, one or two driedfruits such as figs, dates, raisins, prunes, etc., may besubstituted for the fresh fruit.

Lunch A large raw vegetable salad of lettuce, celery, and oneor two other raw vegetables plus avocado and alfalfasprouts or nut and seeds. As an alternative, a vegetablesalad (omitting tomatoes), one cooked green vegetable

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and a starch.

Dinner A large raw vegetable salad (if nuts or cottage cheeseare to be used as the protein, tomatoes may be used inthis salad), two cooked non-starchy vegetables and aprotein.

Fat meats, sour apples, beans, peanuts, peas, cereals,bread and jam, or hot cakes and honey or syrup, arenotoriously slow in digestion and are frequent sourcesof discomfort and putrescent poisoning.

If the body’s reserves are carefully hoarded they willcarry us well beyond the hundred year mark withyouthful enthusiasm and zest. Their depletion is one ofthe most common calamities of modern life. Thealkaloids and alcohols, with which gastro-intestinaldecomposition charges our bodies, rob us of ourreserves, greatly weaken our vital resistance and sooneror later produce a state of physiological collapse.

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