The Principals of Proper Food Combining - The Wisdom of Eating

[Guest guest]

B " H

 

When we give up eating meat we need to make ourselves ready to accept

new wisdom if we are to get the most out of vegetarian living. Moving

up to a higher level of morality always entails becoming able to

receive new wisdom, and we should joyfully embrace that new wisdom -

in our own time and gradually.

 

Part of wisdom is knowing what kinds of things are " just for me " and

what things are principles that are generally, or even universally,

applicable.

 

" Just for me " things include: " I don't particularly like tomatoes. " ,

I think purple is prettier than pink. " " I prefer cherry wood to oak. "

(All of those things are true about me, BTW.)

 

When it comes to certain other matters, however, it is not in our own

best interest to say that it is " just a theory " or " I don't believe

in... " until one has researched it.

 

We have to be able to discern between those types of matters in order

to live wisely and well. Vegetarianism is a part of living wisely and

well, but it is subsumed by wisdom, not the lord over it.

 

There are chemical and anatomical facts about food, the human body

and their interactions that must be considered in order to get the

most out of food. Knowing the principals of maximal eating will not

only improve the quality of your health and lives, you will have more

energy to give.

 

It is simply a fact of chemistry that fully formed proteins require

an acidic enviornment in the stomach in order to be digested, while

carbs require an alkaline enviornment in order to be digested.

 

If we eat them together the stomach will secrete both the acid and

basic secretions necessary for the digestion of both.

 

What happens? Right. Exactly what our high school chem lab tests

taught us. The acid and the base neutralize one another. Digestion

will still occur as the body is very determined to live, but at a

much more sluggish rate. The mass of undigested food will take two

or three times longer to digest and will putrify in our gut. Many of

the nutrients will be lost. Our bodies will labor long and hard to

digest the food. Thus, precious energy is frittered away - energy

that might be used to bring joy to someone and make the world better.

The last point is the reason I present the principles of proper food

combining to you. I have no vested interest in the matter other than

the fact that I inhabit this world with you and would like to see

everyone's energy freed up for joyous activity.

 

Beans and chickpeas, for instance, contain protein and carbs. The

gas they give us the the result of imperfect digestion going. Even

those natural foods are not handled well by our bodies. They rot in

our gut. The gas is being released as part of theh process of the

decomposition of the bean molecules. The situation is much worse if

one eats cheese and bread.

 

Proteins and carbs should be eaten separately, about 4-6 hours apart

if the last meal was properly combined, and always with vegetables to

get them through our gut ASAP.

 

It took me years to adopt the principles of proper food combining,

not because I didn't see immediately that they are true and stand up

to everything we know about chemistry, as well as everything we

experience about indegestion, fatigue and ultimately disease, *but

because they were on a higher level of perfection than I was then

ready to receive*. It took me years of work on myself to become ready

to accept the principles of proper food combining, but I realized I

needed the work, not the principles.

 

There is a difference between saying: " I have not yet been made

aware of this. " or " This is more wisdom than I can handle right

now. "

and just saying: " If it works for you. " or " I don't believe in that. "

or " Poo Poo. " (which is what a gut that doesn't accept these

principles says)

 

Doreen