"Food Combining Reduces Stress Just By Simplifying Digestion"

Food combining is the simple answer to digestive issues and a lot of disease. Remember: when you're stressed, in body or mind or both, you have physical issues. Too many different types of foods, in the SAME meal, create HAVOC in your body and confusion in your mind. STRESS. LOOKING OLD. You've come to right place to learn how to optimize digestion and become well.

Then digestion takes place very efficiently. By that I mean, the food will be completely digested and the nutrients will be absorbed properly by the body. Then they're used to do the good things in your body.

But if you have a lot of different types of foods in your meals, they'll create confusion in the body. Poor food combining forces the body to release the different enzymes to digest all of these different foods. This results in less physical digestion. You get fermentation, i.e. rotting, in your gut, which then becomes poison.

Result: stress. It's like throwing a whole bunch of ingredients into a recipe. That AREN'T supposed to be there! What do you suppose would happen if you threw meat and vinegar into a cake batter? Would it turn out okay? So why would poor food combining work in your digestive system?

Result: Malabsorption. You don't get the benefit of the foods that you chose and loved to prepare. If food is just partially digested, it's not going to be broken down enough into micro nutrients to get through the cell walls of the digestive system to get into the rest of your body where they're needed.

It's like a train that can't get through a huge pile of rocks. It's too big. It's stopped dead in its tracks. It can't get to the other side.

Poison in the digestive system has the following effects. Ever wonder why:

• You suffer from food allergies and sensitivities?
• You've got this huge gut?
• Your complexion isn't as nice as it could be?
• Your hair isn't as thick and shiny as it could be?
• You're suffering from pain in your joints? The garbage has to go somewhere!
• You often or always feel bloated after meals.

PROPER food combining. Food combining has so many benefits:

• Detoxification.
• Excellent nutritional absorption, therefore resulting in energy, improved condition of hair and skin.
• Overall feeling of well being.
• Mental clarity.
• Weight loss and maintenance.
• Health maintenance and prevention.

Most Optimum Food Combining

• Eat the most concentrated (high) protein foods at the beginning of the meal. Foods that contain the most protein include legumes, nuts, seeds, and animal products. When proteins are eaten after starches and other foods, there won’t be enough stomach acid.
• Eat saltier foods first before other flavours since these encourage digestive juices. This doesn’t mean you should be using a lot of extra salt in your diet. I'll explain the flavors of foods in more detail in the coming Organ system diets.
• Proteins, fats, and starches combine best with green and non-starchy vegetables.
• Green vegetables (especially leafy greens) are best eaten at the same time with high proteins.
• Eat the starches in the latter part of the meal.
• Concentrated proteins (such as animal proteins) are more easily digested in small amounts, 2 - 5 oz daily for women and 3 - 6oz daily for men. So if you're used to eating 16 oz steaks with potatoes, stop it right now!
• Starches and green and non-starchy vegetables combine well as a meal by themselves, with no high proteins.
• One starch per meal since starches don’t combine well with each other. If your digestion is normal, you may be able to tolerate two starches in one meal, such as rye bread with beets or 2 different breads, but you’ll have to listen to your body to see if that is true.
• Fruit and sweetened foods should be eaten alone in their own meals, or in small amounts at the end of a meal.


Recommended Order of Eating

• Protein
a. Miso soup, if a soup is salty and enzyme rich such as miso, it can be eaten first. A light vegetable soup is eaten at the end of a meal.
b. Beans, nuts.
c. Cheese, eggs.
d. Fish, meat.
These proteins combine well with Green and Non-starchy vegetables (cooked or raw) such as kale, collard greens, broccoli, mushrooms, radish, etc.

• Starch
a. Rice.
b. Bread.
c. Potatoes.
d. Winter squash
These starches combine well with Green and Non-starchy vegetables (cooked or raw) such as kale, collard greens, broccoli, mushrooms, radish, etc.

Food combining like everything I teach you, will work for you, IF you work it. You'll be solving many of life's mysterious health problems just by doing something as simple as eating your meals in a different order and rhythm.

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