Guest guest Posted August 2, 2001 Report Share Posted August 2, 2001 Here's something to get started anew for controversy, if anyone was taught this old school way of nutritional thinking! In Health, Steve ----------------------------- August 2, 2001 NUTRITION NEWS FOCUS " Nutrition news is important. We help you understand it! " Today's Topic: Food Combining Tee-hee!! Sorry, this is just so laughable that a scientist cannot take this so-called theory with any degree of seriousness. The theory of food combining basically states that eating the wrong combinations of foods causes a variety of problems because different foods require different enzymes for their digestion. For instance, eating protein with carbohydrates is supposed to cause the protein to not be digested, which will then ferment and putrefy, spending up to two years in the large intestine. It's all fiction. This type of suggestion lives up to the " Tell a big enough lie and people believe it " school. The body puts out a variety of digestive enzymes in combination. Digestion begins in the mouth, continues in the stomach, but really cranks up in the small intestine with different aspects of digestion occurring along the way. Pancreatic juice is secreted into the small intestine and contains enzymes that digest proteins, carbohydrates, and fats. We have evolved to eat meals of mixed foods. No human population has ever subsisted on eating single foods at a time. HERE'S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: An especially ludicrous variant of the food combining theory is that when you don't digest foods properly, you get fat. Well, exactly the opposite happens - if you don't digest foods properly, you absorb fewer calories. This erroneous assumption was the basis for a book that was on the N.Y. Times best seller list for more than two years. (This story originally appeared in Nutrition News Focus on September 27, 1999.) ******************************************************************** Please recommend Nutrition News Focus to your family and friends. If you like, point your browser to http://www.nutritionnewsfocus.com/cgi-bin/birdcast.cgi where you'll find an easy recommendation form. NNF Licensing: You can license Nutrition News Focus for your newspaper, magazine, radio, television show, etc. For details, please write to Ken. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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