Food Combining Diet

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By Natural Health+

This means a small yet important change in your eating habit that is composed of carefully separating food choices into three groups.

With food combining diet, you may eat what you want; you may eat as much as you want; working within the parameters that proteins and carbohydrates are not to be taken together.

How it works is the way you segregate or separate your food choices strictly into proteins, neutrals, and carbohydrates. Identify what you crave, research what group they would fall under, and combine.

You would have to combine only two groups that work in perfect synchronization when ingested: either proteins and neutral or neutral and carbohydrates. And never combine the two outer groups, meaning, never eat proteins and carbohydrates simultaneously. For example, steak with gravy and salad.

Why food combining?

Food combining is equal to the biochemistry of our body that separates food groups namely proteins and carbohydrates, and prepares these upon ingestion for breaking down into the system to digest.

Carbohydrates are processed in the mouth with the help of alkaline saliva, while proteins are processed in the stomach with the help of the acidic gastric juice.

Food combining gives your body enough nutrition for one of the two natural digestive processes—from the “water-in-mouth-convergence”, which is the body’s first reaction to the ingested food until it travels through to the final digestion. The food is thoroughly processed, breaks down and leaves nary a trace in the stomach in a maximum of two hours, is thoroughly digested and therefore, would be excreted daily. Ergo, you would feel lighter and healthier.

Is food combining too complicated?

If you are just starting with food combining diet, it is not easy since you have to change your old cooking habits. But if you have started combing the supermarket aisles for your favorite food, you would, in time, get used to the concept of matching your chosen food groups with the ideal combination following the wisdom of food combining until this becomes habitual and a matter of regularity every meal time.

Rule of thumb—Separate sausages and bread, fish and rice, steak and potatoes, noodles and cheese, hamburger and buns, chicken and salad. Not too complicated, agree?