[Dr.Clark] Principles of Food Combining

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Principles of Combining Foods Properly

 

By Dr. Herbert M. Shelton

Reprinted from Dr. Shelton's Hygienic Review

 

There are sound physiological reasons for eating foods in compatible

combinations. In other words, some foods, if mixed in the digestive

system, will cause distress! The principles of food combining are

dictated by digestive chemistry. Different foods are digested

differently. Starchy foods require an alkaline digestive medium

which is supplied initially in the mouth by the enzyme ptyalin.

Protein foods require an acid medium for digestion- hydrochloric

acid.

 

As any student of chemistry will assure you, acids and bases

(alkalis) neutralize each other. If you eat a starch with a protein,

digestion is impaired or completely arrested! The undigested food

mass can cause various kinds of digestive disorders. Undigested food

becomes soil for bacteria which ferment and decompose it. Its by

products are poisonous, one of which, alcohol, is a narcotic that

destroys or inhibits nerve function. It plays havoc with nerves of

the digestive tract, suspending their vital action such that

constipation may well be a result! As set forth in Dr. Herbert

Shelton's FOOD COMBINING MADE EASY these are the salient rules for

proper food combining.

 

The Basic Rules of Proper Food Combining:

 

1. Eat acids and starches at separate meals. Acids neutralize the

alkaline medium required for starch digestion and the result is

fermentation and indigestion.

 

2. Eat protein foods and carbohydrate foods at separate meals.

Protein foods require an acid medium for digestion.

 

3. Eat but one kind of protein food at a meal.

 

4. Eat proteins and acid foods at separate meals. The acids of acid

foods inhibit the secretion of the digestive acids required for

protein digestion. Undigested protein putrefies in bacterial

decomposition and produces some potent poisons.

 

5. Eat fats and proteins at separate meals. Some foods, especially

nuts, are over 50% fat and require hours for digestion.

 

6. Eat sugars (fruits) and proteins at separate meals.

 

7. Eat sugars (fruits) and starchy foods at separate meals. Fruits

undergo no digestion in the stomach and are held up if eaten with

foods that require digestion in the stomach.

 

8. Eat melons alone. They combine with almost no other food.

 

9. Desert the desserts. Eaten on top of meals they lie heavy on the

stomach, requiring no digestion there, and ferment. Bacteria turn

them into alcohols and vinegars and acetic acids.