combining

[Guest guest]

So what exactly is the purpose of " combining " (or not, as it were)?

 

Monte

 

 

 

In RawFoodsBeginners , " cloudriver "

<cloudriver> wrote:

> How long do you have to wait, please, to be able to eat fruit

again

> after eating other things? >

>

> The way I learned it, Corrie, from Fit For Life by Harvey and

Marilyn

> Diamond is:

>

> Eat fruit by itself on an empty stomach. Let 20-30 minutes elapse

> after eating fruit before eating other foods. Three hours should

> elapse after eating other foods before eating fruit again.

>

>

[Guest guest]

Food combing deals with the proper combining of foods when eating to

ease digestion and maximize nutrition.

 

When combined poorly, some foods may sit in the stomach for

digestions, while other, incompatible foods, digest first. This may

lead to fermentation, etc. Digestion is not as efficient this way and

we may loose nutrients in the process. Some foods contain lots of

water which dilute stomach acid. Some foods require more stomach acid

or different enzymes than others, so poor combining can can affect

this. The strong stomach acid digesting one food may negatively

affect digestion of another food, just as extra liquids will dilute

stomach acid, making it impossible to digest some other foods, so

that food won't digest till the concentration of acid increases again.

 

So, anyway... the IDEAL is to eat one food at a time (some avocados

OR some mangos, etc.) That way the body focuses on the proper

conditions for digesting one thing.

 

Regarding combining, here are a few general rules (there are more):

 

Eat melons by themselves

Eat starches with greens

eat proteins with greens

Do not eat starches with proteins.

 

That comes from my understanding of combining back when I ate cooked

foods. Perhaps some on this list have studied food combining for raw

foodists.

 

Jeff

 

 

 

>So what exactly is the purpose of " combining " (or not, as it were)?

>

>Monte