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Natural Health Restoration Why do we care about the way we combine the various foods we eat? Why shouldn't we just eat anything we want any time we want?
Why Food Combining?
Simply because our digestive system is not designed to digest the complex assortment of foods that most of us continuously combine together without discrimination.
Before the foods we eat can be absorbed through the delicate and complex walls of the intestinal tract and be transported to the cells of our body through the bloodstream, they must first be broken into simpler biochemical elements. The key to this process is the interaction of foods with specific enzymes.
Enzymes are the active elements in some foods, but primarily from our digestive juices. They have specialized functions that enhance or limit their ability to process specific types of foods, and are responsible for the successful biochemical processing of the foods we eat. These enzymes combined with a healthy intestinal tract determines the absorption of our foods into the bloodstream, where the nutrient, lipid or energy molecules go about the business of running and repairing our body.
By understanding that our digestive enzymes have specialized functions and biochemical limitations, it becomes clear that our systems are not designed to digest numerous types of foods at the same time, meal after meal, year after year without some cost to the quality of our life.
Protein enzymes do not digest carbohydrates and carbohydrate enzymes do not digest protein. Fat enzymes digest neither protein or carbohydrates. Carbohydrate digestion inhibits protein digestion and vice versa, rendering potential nutrition into a toxic load, staging many serious health conditions while adding extra pounds and stealing vigor and vitality.
The purpose of this information is to give those of you who love to eat and who are looking for a simple and successful eating lifestyle for detoxification and permanent weight management that allows everything, just in a particular order, while teaching you what works and does not work for your body, giving you real power and freedom in the complex and often confusing world of health and weight management.
Although changing our dietary habits may at first present a challenge, the increased vitality, well being and true weight management are their own reward. There are remarkable physical, mental and emotional benefits to be gained when we cooperate with the biological capabilities we are born with through food combining. When used along with our own individual genetic code for food, we can easily avoid many of the more serious health problems, manage our weight and enjoy food like never before.
Digestive restoration begins when we reduce the amount of toxic metabolic by-products we are absorbing as a result of improperly combined and poorly or undigested food material passing through our system.
Eat fruits first and alone. Eat them as long as you can, or want to, it's really ok to eat just fruit all day on occasion. It rests the digestive system, helps clean waste, provides lots of energy to the muscles and brain. Monkeys do it all the time. Not recommended for diabetics without careful supervision.
Next, eat your complex carbohydrates, like greens, grains, beans. The valuable fibers and nutrients digest effeciently in an alkaline digestive medium, still providing steady blood sugar for energy to drive the muscles and brain, and providing lots of essential nutrients needed for healthy function.
Last, eat proteins. They break down into amino acids for repair, and do not digest effeciently in the presence of most carbohydrates, either simple carbohydrates, high glycemic or refined carbohydrates. They do fine with green vegetables, not so good with sugars, chips, bread, rice and potatoes.
An ideal day of food combined eating would look something like this...
Fruit for breakfast and mid morning snack. Or a fruit smoothie for breakfast and whole fruit for snack.
Lunch of a big fresh salad with steamed or grilled vegetables and rice or chips or your favorite bread and butter. Maybe a big sandwich with all vegetables and wonderful dressing.
Afternoon snack could be more vegetables and dip, more salad, vegetables and nuts, or an oatmeal cookie and tea.
Last meal is a protein meal with cooked vegetables and salad if you like. This is where we leave out the simple carbohydrates, opting for more produce volume to go with our protein, whatever it might be.
Bedtime snack should be protein, yogurt, more of the protein from dinner, or some cheese or nuts. We sleep much better on protein, it repairs our damaged tissues while we sleep and does not upset our blood sugar balance like alcohol, sugar snacks, chips, crackers, iced cream, all waking us up in the middle of the night because our blood sugar crashed and our alarm system went off.
How it Works
Carbohydrates
Carbohydrates are the main source of energy for all work of the nerves, muscles and brain. Sugars and starches convert to glucose (in the bloodstream for immediate use), and glycogen (stored in muscle or as fat for later).
Simple sugars found in sugar, honey and fruits digest quickly. Fruits are delivering their payload almost before being out of your stomach. Starches found in grain and legumes are more complex, having to be digested into glucose. Cellulose is the carbohydrate found in the skin and fiber of fruits and vegetables, when combined with probiotics and enough water, support healthy intestinal function and proper elimination.
The main enzymes for carbohydrate digestion are salivary amylase (pytalin) and pancreatic amylase (amylotrypsin) together in an alkaline soup. Simple sugars and complex carbohydrates do not digest well together, the faster moving sugars get held up behind the slower, more complex carbohydrates like vegetables, grains, potatoes, and bread, causing some level of fermentation fartage with pathogenic overgrowth and toxic by-products. Toss in protein and the alkaline soup becomes neutral, fermentation and putrefaction everywhere.
Refined carbohydrates like white flour products, white sugar, candy, soft drinks, and other highly processed foods cause nutrient deficits with a toxic load, leading to serious health problems. These should be eliminted or at least restricted.
Knowing your genetic code (blood type) for your most beneficial carbohydrates helps further sort your foods for you.
Not so long ago it was believed that sugar was bad because it caused blood sugar levels to rise quickly and vegetable and grain carbohydrates were good because their effect was delayed.
Now we know that some foods release their sugar load slowly and others have a flash effect on blood sugar levels. There is a formula to figure out exact sugar values, and cooking time, added fats, etc all have some bearing on sugar load for those managing diseases of blood sugar. Here is a simple division of carbohydrates into general low, mid and high glycemic loads.
All Fruits These are fruit based carbohydrates with
Brandy a high glycemic load.
Champagne
Wine They combine well with other
Cognac fruits, making a grape day really worth it for the wine
lover on a diet.
Carbohydrates with a Low Glycemic load
Asparagus
Celery
Parsley High Glycemic
Kale Artichokes
Herbs Potatoes, yams
Chard , Spinach Fresh Corn
Mustard Gr. Winter Squash
All Lettuces Whole grains
Mushrooms Oats Wheat
Zucchini Rice Rye
Crookneck Sq. Barley Millet
Mid Glycemic Buckwheat Bulgar
Beets Cornmeal
Broccoli Breads
Carrots Cereals, chips
Cauliflower Pasta
String Beans Cake
Leeks Cookies
Onions Pie Crust
Peas Chocolate
Peppers Distilled Alcohol
Tomatoes Bourbon
Cabbage Scotch
Brussels Sp. Vodka
Parsnip/turnip Rum Gin
Tequila, beer, etc.
Protein
Amino acids that result from healthy digestion of quality proteins are used in building and repairing all tissues of the body. The largest group being the muscles and the brain, which are pretty important to good health and vitality.
Amino acids are digested with the influence of proteolytic (protein splitting) enzymes pepsin and trypsin, then protease in an acid soup. The presence of carbohydrates will render this soup neutral, ferment the carbohydrates and rot the protein into some pretty nasty stuff. The alcohol from the fermentation does take the edge off, but has a high cost in upset body chemistry and toxic load. Use the highest quality protein sources you can find. Genetic identification through Blood Type further sorts protein for your greatest health benefit.
Fat slows down the digestion of protein and carbohydrate. Quick digesting simple sugar like fruit, honey, sugar or syrups makes the longer and more complex digestion of proteins far more difficult. Best to avoid them in the same meal. Once protein digestion has begun, nothing else really does very well except dark leafy greens.
Beef Dairy Protein Desserts are
Lamb Cheese Cheesecake
Fowl Milk Creame Brule’
Fish Keifer Iced Cream
Seafood Yogurt Custard/Pudding
Eggs 1/2 &1/2 Flan
Soy products
Nuts, Nut Butter, Seeds
Fats/Lipids
are the most concentrated source of energy in our diet. Along with pure high quality energy, fat carries fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E, &K, integral to the process of making calcium available to the tissues and converting carotene to Vit A. The fat splitting enzyme lipase is also secreted by the pancreas, turning high quality fats and oils into glycerol (through the liver, another source of energy) and fatty acids (for hormone activity, healthy blood, arteries and nerves).
Fats and oils tend to slow down the process of digestion. The best sources are determined by blood type and come from organic and grass fed animal products, avocados, olives, raw nuts, seeds, whole grains and legumes.
Fats
Butter Heavy Cream
Oils Sour Cream
Mayonnaise can actually go either way, made without egg it counts as a fat and would be considered a salad dressing. With egg it becomes a fatty protein, the classic mayonnaise sandwich spread that goes so well in a sauce or on a sandwich.
Some key things certain foods can do for you are as follows:
Pineapple is a wonder food, rich in fibers, Vit. A. C, potassium and the enzyme bromelain. The potassium flushes excess water. It is rich in energy and will help soften all the stored fat that follows you around. It is a valuable anti inflammatory and digestive aid. It is the food to have before creamy, greasy, cheesy fatty foods, also excellent to have the morning after that same cheesy, creamy, greasy, fatty food orgy.
Papaya is the best to soften and digest excess protein or flesh. We use it to soften you up so we can wash out all the excess fat and flesh you are carrying around. Papain, the main ingredient in meat tenderizer, is from papaya. Best before and after red meats.
Mango also has enzymes to digest flesh and protein, working best on fowl.
Strawberries are rich in bromelain like pineapple, just not as strong. We have such nice strawberries around here in the summer, put lots in the freezer and enjoy them all year.
Berries of all other kinds are rich in blue pigments, excellent for eyes and good blood building nutrients.
Grapes are one of the two all day fruits. Grapes flush excess sugars and sugar residue from the tissues. They also a great for moving sludge from the intestinal walls. The book, The Grape Cure by Johanna Brandt, documents the value of grapes as a cleansing therapy.
Cherries are a good source of bioflavonoids which has significant antioxidant properties. In addition, they contain ellagic acid which helps combat cancer. Cherries contain modest amounts of potassium and vitamin C. If you have a lot of joint pain, a cherry day will be your favorite.
Watermelon is the other all day fruit. It is known for assisting the kidneys in washing excess sodium from the tissues. All that sodium laden fast food has us retain water, also known as false fat. I have seen 6 pounds disappear after a watermelon day. Expect to eat an entire watermelon, 25% protein when eaten seeds and all.
Apricots are full of vitamin A, and mineral rich, the facelift in a fruit.
Prunes do the obvious, clean a sluggish colon, but are also very mineral rich, a valuable feed fruit.
Greens of all kinds are rich in chlorophyll, chemically similar to blood cells, with boost your oxygen levels in your blood. The fiber in the greens and oil in the dressing help soak up and push out what the pineapple has softened.
Popcorn is our favorite scrubbing food, eaten at the end of a grape day (yes, with butter, just no salt) to push out what has been pulled away from the walls of the colon. For some, popcorn is their favorite calming food,
Fats/Oils are what drive all cellular activity, all cells have a lipid (fat) membrane. The better quality fat, the better quality membrane. Hydrogenated fats are not good building material, yet a high percentage of all packaged food fat. Read labels, avoid hydrogenated fats like your life depended on it.
To further repair a damaged gut wall and clean up pathogenic populations that thrive in such an environment, replace healthy probiotic populations in the small and large intestine. Rebalance enzyme activity and increase the quality of your nutrition by adding superfoods. Superfoods are things like enzyme rich fruits, Super Blue Green Algae products, plant enzymes of all types, sprouted and live foods, Coenzyme Q10, colostrum, probiotics, ginseng, royal jelly, wild honey, bee pollen, cereal grasses, Essential Fatty Acids from specialized seeds and Norwegian fish oils, nutritional yeast and highest quality cooking fats and salad oils.
Excellence can be attained if you......
Care more than others think is wise
Risk more than others think is safe
Dream more than others think is practical
Expect more than others think is possible
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