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Food Combinations And Sequential Eating.

Food Combination.

Old school thinking of scientist and layperson alike was that foods could be combined in any combination and the stomach could not differentiate between them. Today, we know this is not true. The majority of food combinations in today's society cause much digestive distress. Many times without listening to that pain in our gut, caused by poor food combinations, we just grab for a dose of alkalizers to quiet that upset stomach. The fact that antacids are the largest-selling over the counter drug is evidence that something is surely wrong with the way we eat.

I remember several times as a child having stomachaches after eating those good old home cooked meals. My parents, not having a clue about proper food combinations, would just tell me to lay on my stomach until the pain went away. This is not right my friends; you should not have any stomach pains after a meal. That pain is a signal from your body telling you that it didn’t like whatever you just ate.

Over the years most of us have learned to ignore the pain of indigestion. Until I started experimenting with proper food combinations and how my body felt after a meal, I use to think that a feeling of slight irritation or that bloated feeling after a meal was a sign that my stomach was full and I had eaten enough. This is not how your body should feel after a meal. With proper food combinations you will feel satisfied with your meal without any irritation or bloating in the stomach.

As you go about eating wrong food combinations the stomach can also become desensitised. After years of choking down undigestible foods the sensory nerves in the stomach can get worn down, which makes the pain of indigestion more tolerable. But eventually acid reflux sets in and you end up buying tons of acid reflux medication thinking that something is wrong with your stomach.

It’s not your stomach that’s wrong, it’s the wrong food and food combinations that cause stomach problems.

No matter what type of food you are eating, learning proper food combinations is the BEST place to start when making healthier changes in your diet and improving your over all total health. Some of these rules have been around for thousands of years.

When Moses saw that his people were not ready for a healthier diet he taught them of proper food combinations and a selective diet. Exodus 16:8 “Bread in the morning and meat at night.”

"And be not like the greedy servant, who always ate up, at the table of his lord, the portions of others. And he devoured everything himself, and mixed all together in his gluttony. And seeing that, his lord was wroth with him, and drove him from the table. And when all had ended their meal, he mixed together all that remained upon the table, and called the greedy servant to him, and said: 'Take and eat all this with the swine, for your place is with them, and not at my table.'

"Take heed, therefore, and defile not with all kinds of abominations the temple of your bodies. Be content with two or three sorts of food, which you will find always upon the table of our Earthly Mother. And desire not to devour all things which you see around you. For I tell you truly, if you mix together all sorts of food in your body, then the peace of your body will cease, and endless war will rage in you. And it will be blotted out even as homes and kingdoms divided against themselves work their own destruction. For your God is the God of peace, and does never help division. Arouse not, therefore, against you the wrath of God, lest he drive you from his table, and lest you be compelled to go to the table of Satan, where the fire of sins, diseases, and death will corrupt your body.

Jesus, Essene Gospel of Peace Book 1

What Science Has To Say About Food Combining.

When it comes to food combing every modern book and research done at any university will basically tell you the same thing.

The two worst combos.

Good old “meat and potatoes,” this is one of the worst food combinations that is most commonly seen followed by the constant chicken and rice recipes found in fitness magazines. Just about every meat platter in a restaurant comes with some type of starchy food. But everybody is doing it, so it must be right. Wrong! This knowledge has been known since the time of Moses and modern science has now proven why these two types of food should never be combined at the same meal.

Why?

1. The gas produced in the bowels by these pour combinations can be terrible. Letting this gas out could result in lung damage to those individuals in your close proximity. (Ha!)

2. Starches require more alkaline juices for digestion and meats require acid juices for digestion. The digestion of bread first begins in the mouth, the taste buds send a message to the brain and the saliva produces a substance called pytalin. This substance starts to digest alkaline foods and when swallowed the stomach knows to start producing alkaline juices for digestion.

When acidic foods like meat are eaten, acid juices such as hydrochloric acid are produced in the stomach for digestion. When acid and alkaline juices mix in the body they tend to neutralize one another creating indigestion which results in constipation, flatulence, putrification and eventually cell starvation.

The second most common of the worst food combinations is eating sugar or sweet fruits with starches or protein foods. The sugars and acids in fruit slow the digestion of starches, just like meat, only now, you have a starch and sugar sitting in a warm dark place which results in fermentation producing alcohol inside the body. Think about it, that is exactly how beer is made, sugar and grains set up to ferment in a warm dark place, so don’t make your body a natural distillery.

Below is a list of other helpful tips for better digestion no matter what type of diet you are on.

Fruits and vegetables don’t mix. Here again the sugars and acids in fruit slow the digestion of starches in vegetables and may cause fermentation, bloating and gas. It is best to eat fruits and vegetables at separate meals or wait at least and hour between eating the two.
Any greens, sprouts, and vegetables mix well together.
Vegetables are the best choice to mix with protein foods and foods with essential fatty acids such as nuts, seeds, and avocados. You can also mix veggies with meat. Since meat is completely void of fiber the vegetables will add the fiber needed to help carry the meat through.
Starchy foods: rice, potatoes, bread ect.. go better with vegetables, herbs, sprouts, or a little butter. Chinese food with brown rice and veges is good, baked potato and butter, herbal bread with butter or olive oil.
Melon fruits should always be eaten alone with no other mixture. E.g.
Watermelon, Honeydew, Cantaloupe, Crenshaw.
Citrus fruits are better eaten alone or mixed with each other. E.g. Lemons, Oranges, Lime, Grapefruit. These are acid fruits yet in the body they become great alkalizers. Never mix these with starches or cereals this combonation produces acid in the system.
Starches and sweets mixed together are very acid producing and should never be eaten at the same meal. E.g. pies, cakes, bread and jellies, pancakes and syrup.
Tomatoes are non-acid forming. It’s good to eat them with salads but do not mix them with meats, sugars, or any vinegars. Keep the meal very alkaline when eating tomatoes. A little starch or salt is OK.
Orange juice and milk are helpful to the body but should be taken at opposite ends of the day. Better orange juice in the morning and milk at night, the high calcium will help you sleep easier.
Wheat and Barley breads especially when sprouted are very alkaline and can be mixed with milk, a little butter, or herbs and other vegetables.
Milk is very alkalizing and should not be added to coffee, tea, or sugar. I noticed I got very bad indigestion when I ate cookies or sweet cereals with milk.
Shellfish of any kind should not be taken with alcohol.

Sequential Eating.

Even if you are not eating a perfect diet sequential eating can have a huge impact on your digestion. In a nutshell this is basically eating the most liquid and easiest to digest foods first, and then eating the foods that digest slower afterwards. For example, say you had a meal that consisted of fruits, vegetables, starches, and meat. This would be the exact order you would want to eat them.

1. Eat the most liquid food first, which would normally be the fruit.
2. Next eat the vegetables.
3. Then the starches.
4. And last the meat.

If you don’t follow this sequential eating here’s what happens. Heavy proteins and fats take the longest to digest. If you eat starches or fruits after meat then they will sit on top of the meat in the stomach and begin to ferment before your body has the time to digest them. This will cause gas and alcohol to build inside of you.

Also try to avoid drinking too much with your meals. This dilutes the stomach juices and keeps them from doing their job properly. It’s best to drink about 30 minutes before a meal or an hour after a meal. It’s ok to drink a little bit during and right after the meal to help rinse off food that may be stuck to your teeth. This will help prevent cavities.

These tips above will help to keep you flatulent free and allow for nutrients to be better assimilated in the body. The more simple the combinations, the easier they will be to digest. Beauty lies in simplicity. Slowly work on cutting out items with your meals so that they become more simple. Sometimes only 1 to 3 oranges at a meal will fill me up. I never thought I would see the day, but now I actually prefer my salads without any dressing. I can taste the vegetables much better.

Here is a quick chart that you can print out and hang on the inside of a cabinet door that will help you remember what combinations are good and which are poor.

Good Combinations.

Meats or heavy proteins and veges.
Starches and veges.
Salads (veges and nuts, seeds, or avocados)
Fruits (melon fruits only with other melon fruits and citrus fruits by themselves.) Others you can mix but it is better to eat them without mixing.
Milk and sprouted grains are best or cereals with out too much sugar.
Soaked nuts and seeds are good with vegetables and are ok with fruits and dried fruits.
The less number of different kinds of food at one meal the easier the digestion.

Poor Combinations.

Meats or heavy proteins with starches (chicken and rice, meat and potatoes).
Sugar with starches.
Fruits with vegetables.
Milk with sugars, coffee, or tea.
Shellfish with alcohol.

Following a few simple rules in food combining can make a HUGE difference in your digestion and health. It will relieve much if not all bloating and gas after a meal.

It is best to keep a diet that is more alkaline producing, which consist of about 80% alkaline producing foods and 20% acid producing. Many of the main diseases of today are found in acidic environments; cancer, arthritis, ect... as we alkalize the body with better foods and food combinations many of these problems disappear. Cancer cannot survive in pH of 8.2.

One easy way to test your body pH is by litmus paper or commonly called pH strips. You can buy about a hundred strips for about $10 on the Internet. All you do is put urine or saliva on this small strip of paper and it will turn a certain color that will tell you how acidic you are. From there you can learn whether or not you need to eat more acid or alkaline foods. It’s that simple. The body needs to read from 7.3 to 7.5 pH. Anything below that, shows that the body is acidic and lacking minerals. Although being too alkaline can cause some health problems I guarantee 99% of the population is too acidic.

A person who gets very little physical activity should have a greater intake of alkalizing foods. Exercise and activity will help to burn up some of the acids in the body. So if you are sedentary most of the day, avoid eating sweets and to many starches.

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