Food Combining

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unday night my wife and I had her sister and

husband over for dinner. They are also into raw foods so

my wife prepared a real smorgasbord of raw food

delights. <br><br>We started with cream of mushroom and

pepper soup, had 3 entrees consisting of yam burgers,

seed loaf and spinach pie, then topped the night off

with 3 raw desserts, fudge truffles, Afrikande (dates,

raisins, coconut and nuts), and tofu pie (like cheese

cake) with raspberry topping (might have been cooked).

I of course had 2 servings of everything and when I

was putting things away, and no one was looking, I

had still more of the Afrikande and then made a

coconut smoothie. WHAT THE HECK WAS I THINKING!<br><br>I

woke up at night with sever stomach pain. Soon I was

vomiting. Back to bed for a few hours and then vomiting

again. Then before morning the diarrhea started. The

next day I was too sick to work so I fasted and stayed

in bed. By the next day I was much better but very

weak, so I had just more water, raw juices and one

apple. Today I am back to normal.<br><br>My wife thinks

I had the flu but I don't. I think it was BAD FOOD

COMBINING along with OVEREATTING. When I think about all

the different ingredients in all those recipes it is

no wonder that my body rejected them. A lot of raw

foodist believe that you should only eat one type of food

at a time… and they may very well be correct. When

we eat more than one food at a time the body gets or

creates enzymes specific to the food that we just ate.

Some enzymes do not work well with each other. Enzymes

to digest protein (like nuts and seeds) are alkaline

and enzymes to digest starches are acidic. Eat

protein and starches together and the enzymes work

against each other leaving the food to sit in the stomach

more than the usual 3 hours. So the foods start to rot

and you get sick. Good food combining practice also

says that fruits should be eaten on an empty stomach.

Fruits do not require digestion in the stomach so they

are in and out in about 20 minutes. But if you just

had a nice big protein meal like I had then the fruit

just sits behind the protein in the stomach and

ferments for those 3 hours waiting for the protein to get

out of the way. Yes, having fruit deserts AFTER you

meal is not a good idea even though everyone does

it.<br><br>So this illness was a real strong reminder to me

that I should be more observant in food combining and

not overeating… even if it is all raw.<br><br>There

are many food combing charts in the health books.

Find one that you can understand, cut it out and put

in on the inside of you kitchen cabinets where you

can refer to it as you prepare your meals. There are

even 3 categories of fruits - acid, sweet and

sub-acid. The sweet and the acid fruits do not go well

together so it is important NOT to combine them when you

make a juice or smoothie. An orange, grapefruit, or

pineapple (acid fruits) can all be combined together but

should not be mixed with a banana, dates, or figs (all

sweet fruits). They might taste great together and I

guess it won't kill you to do it once and a while but

ideally it is not the best combination for your

body.<br><br>One other big food combining rule that I always do

remember and practice is " Eat melons alone or leave them

alone " . You can eat all different melons separately or

together but not with anything else.<br><br>-OrionsDad