No mat­ter how far you’ve gone down the wrong road, turn back and get on the right road. 

                                                      ~ Ancient Turk­ish Proverb

Prin­ci­ple 3
Com­bin­ing Foods– Healthy Digestion

The Diges­tive system

 Human Diges­tion is the process by which the body con­verts food to  it’s most eas­ily assim­i­lated form for energy and cell repli­ca­tion.  This starts in the mouth with chew­ing  (which is ter­ri­bly impor­tant) where the food is then passed to the stom­ach where it sits in hydrochlo­ric acid and enzymes until it is bro­ken down enough to enter the intesti­nal sys­tem.  The food is then passed to the small intes­tine where the major­ity of nutri­ent absorb­tion takes place.  The food then trav­els through the large intes­tine where water and few nutri­ents are fur­ther absorbed before trans­fer to the rec­tum for elim­i­na­tion of waste.

Food should digest com­pletely in the body in three to four hours and ide­ally, we should only have one days worth of food in our intestines.  Fruit is the excep­tion to this and digest in 30 min­utes, which is why it should be eaten alone before your meal. The major­ity of soci­ety how­ever, has up to six days worth of food in their bow­els and this is due to improper eat­ing.  To change this, we must under­stand the process of digestion.

 When you eat, the diges­tive process starts in the mouth through chew­ing and saliva. The prob­lem we encounter is not know­ing that dif­fer­ent foods are digested dif­fer­ently.  When we are born, our body doesn’t come with an oper­at­ing man­ual and our par­ents, teach­ers, dieti­cians and doc­tors just know the basics.  Put plainly, they just don’t under­stand as DNA sci­ence is new and con­stantly being updated.  They only know if some­thing is wrong.  If you doubt this, think about the side affects of med­ica­tions that don’t apply to every­one. This is because every­one is dif­fer­ent and the map­ping of per­sonal DNA although around the cor­ner is not here just yet.  The New York Times reported ear­lier this year that  the cost of  per­sonal DNA map­ping should go down from 100,000 dol­lars cur­rently to around 1,000 dol­lars in about five years. While per­sonal DNA map­ping is being made cost effec­tive, doc­tors will con­tinue with trial and error dosage pre­scrip­tions. When your doc­tor ask if you are tak­ing any med­ica­tion, tell them you juice and see what reac­tion you get. Don’t get me wrong, I strongly rec­om­mend a bi-annual checkup.

This is your body, there is only one like it  and only you are capa­ble of under­stand­ing and spend­ing the amount of time nec­es­sary to deter­mine how it oper­ates.  Amer­ica is only 233 years old, the rich­est nation on earth and our life expectancy ranks 50 in the world (2009 CIA Fact Book)

Once again with­out going into a Class of Bio Chem­istry let’s take a brief  look at why this is.

There is a term that comes into play here that is far
too often over­looked.
Genetic Diversity

As you recall from Prin­ci­ple 2, we talked about genes and the fact that in this code lies our indi­vid­u­al­ity.  Embed­ded in our DNA is also the code for the the rate and pro­por­tions at which we pro­duce enzymes and acid for digestion.  This is ini­tially deter­mined by our par­ents.  Now it is nice to live in  a melt­ing pot but guess what?  We are eat­ing food that our genes were not built for. You can’t just stuff food from all over the world in your sys­tem and expect to digest it like some­one of that Coun­try or Nation­al­ity because the rate at which you pro­duce enzymes and the amount you pro­duce can­not adapt fast enough. Now because DNA is dynamic, it will attempt to adjust over time, but it might or might not.  This is why some peo­ple can tol­er­ate spicer food then oth­ers or some peo­ple can eat more then oth­ers with lit­tle to no weight gain.  Just because you see some­body eat some­thing doesn’t mean that you can too. I remem­ber back in the 70’s and 80′ when Amer­i­cans spoke of Chi­nese food not being enough because they would be hun­gry again in a cou­ple hours.   This is not just because we ate too much meat, it was because our genes after gen­er­a­tions pro­duced the enzymes to metab­o­lize meats and  fats bet­ter then starches.  Our sys­tems were not able to get the nutri­ents from just veg­ies and noo­dles with a lit­tle good tast­ing sauce and a sprin­kle of meat.  This is called Genetic Diver­sity.  Even as our DNA adjust to a wider vari­ety of foods, we can’t eat Chi­nese food one day, Ital­ian the next and Mex­i­can after that.  The body just doesn’t adjust that fast.

Starchy foods such as bread, rice, pota­toes and beans require an alka­line source, which starts in the mouth with the enzyme ptyalin.
This diges­tive enzymes opti­mum pH is 6.7–7.0  When the pH reaches a level of 5.0 ptyalin ceases to func­tion properly

Pro­tein foods such as meat, poul­try, dairy and nuts require an acid source for diges­tion, which start in the stom­ach with hydrochlo­ric acid and pepsin.
When the body detects pro­tein, it release hydrochlo­ric acid to cre­ate an acidic env­iorn­ment for pepsin to work. Pepsin func­tions best in acidic envi­ron­ments with a pH of 1.5 to 2.0.  When the pH reaches a level of 5.0 pepsin ceases to func­tion properly.

Now if you are eat­ing starches and pro­teins together you are caus­ing the alka­line medium and the acid medium to can­cel each other out and become less effec­tive in digest­ing your food. In fact the diges­tion process can stop tem­porar­ily all together.  The result is undi­gested food, which becomes soil for bac­te­ria, cre­at­ing diges­tive dis­or­ders, gas and foul smelling breath that rises from the intestines.  This then results in acid imbal­ances as your body tries to kick start the diges­tive sys­tem.  This is also the rea­son why peo­ple are walk­ing around with up to six days worth of food in their body.

We are now in the 21st Cen­tury and our lifes­pan hasn’t increased in over 100 years.  What are we doing wrong? 

1. It appears that our breath­ing is too shal­low and caus­ing us to get sick. 
2. We don’t eat enough fruits and vegetables.
3. The way we eat is for over stim­u­lated taste buds accus­tomed to chem­i­cal addi­tives with­out real­iz­ing the impact it is hav­ing on the diges­tive system

We suf­fer from every diges­tive calamity known to man and we are invent­ing new ones to label the ridicu­lous mess we are caus­ing through the way we eat every day.   How can a per­sons intol­er­ance to a man­made food prod­uct be called a dis­ease.  As many of us know,  the stom­ach is not what is referred to as the belly.  The Belly is all your intestines full of days of food and over­loaded with stored fat. The top pic­ture show’s the truth.

There is no such thing as a food com­bin­ing weight loss diet, because proper food com­bin­ing is the way your sup­posed to eat.

We all com­bine foods Steak and Pota­toes, Shep­ards Pie, Ham­burg­ers with Buns, Hot­dogs with Buns, Cheese and Crack­ers … sound famil­iar?  The prob­lem is we are com­bin­ing foods wrong!  Why because nobody told us and we are not taught how to eat in school.  They were the ones serv­ing us this food.  Don’t get me wrong, you can enjoy a ham­burger with frys, but why don’t you try eat­ing cor­rectly and then see how it makes you feel.  Peo­ple are walk­ing around with tums  and other antiacids every­day as if this is normal.

You are not what you eat, you are what you digest

The next prob­lem is drink­ing water or some sugar laden drink as we eat.  If we eat a salad with every meal or water rich veg­eta­bles that haven’t been cooked until they are limp and devoid of all nutri­ents,  we should be able to get through our meal with­out a drink of any­thing for thirty or so min­utes.  If you need to drink, just take a sip of water to ease what­ever you are eat­ing down your throat with­out dilut­ing your diges­tive juices.  The next step is, if you need to drink some­thing, check the mois­ture of what you are eat­ing.  I’m not talk­ing about a few potato chips or pop­corn, I mean real food.  It will take a lit­tle prac­tice, but you will adjust your eat­ing habits before you know it and your lifestyle  and health will totally change.  For exam­ple, at a steak house you would pass on the bread and baked potato and enjoy your steak with steamed veg­eta­bles and soup. A lit­tle bread won’t hurt, but we mean like half a slice or a cou­ple bites.  If you want a baked potato, eat it at lunch with a cou­ple tabs of but­ter and stuffed with broc­coli (A sprin­kle of cheese won’t hurt too much, but we do empha­size sprin­kle) and a side of salad. Exper­i­ment with the chart below to find out what works best for you, after all this is your life and only you know your DNA, but we rec­om­mend that you stay pretty much to the chart until you have reached your first weight goal.  Then you will see the effect wrong eat­ing has on your body and you will be equipped to adjust accord­ingly.  Every­body’ diges­tive sys­tem is dif­fer­ent and the chart is a guide to get you to your weight loss goal and keep you healthy before you start exper­i­ment­ing.  Trust the chart. Print it out and stick it in your wal­let or purse and another on the Fridge.

Healthy Eat­ing Chart

We all enjoy a Philly cheese steak from time to time, but now is not the time to even con­sider eat­ing like this.  Get your body in shape first and then as you exper­i­ment, you will learn through expe­ri­ence when to treat your­self to some­thing that will slowly become less attrac­tive to you. You must exper­i­ment, because your body is unique.  No two peo­ple have the same diges­tive pat­tern.  The only way to be absolutely sure you are digest­ing prop­erly is to fol­low the Chart until you learn what works for you. Once you begin to use food com­bi­na­tions to lose weight, you will expe­ri­ence a new level of health.

Food Com­bin­ing was devel­oped in the 1920′  by Dr. William Howard Hay in response to a need to cure him­self of Brights dis­ease, which he did.  Food Com­bin­ing was refuted by Dr. Stew­art Bax­ter in 1935 who demon­strated that the pan­creas secreted both acidic and alka­line medi­ums simul­ta­ne­ously regard­less of the food con­sumed.   The fact is that this didn’t make sense because simul­ta­ne­ous or not, the enzymes required for starch and pro­tein func­tion under oppo­site con­di­tions.  The Key to this is the “Genetic Vari­a­tion” of the indi­vid­ual. I am not a Doc­tor, but I do know that Food Com­bin­ing works from the expe­ri­ence of myself and 1000′ of peo­ple.  The first thing you will notice is lit­tle to no food dis­com­fort as in burp­ing, gas, heart­burn and the rest of the dis­com­forts we have all endured from time to time. Some of us belch every­day. I often won­der if Dr. Bax­ter was hired to refute this study.  We all know from expe­ri­ence, cer­tain foods just don’t mix. We all have foods that we just don’t like, they don’t agree with us. Now you have a chart. The fact is, this is one of the health­i­est diets known to man. It will for­ever be a part of the way I eat.

Organic apple cider vine­gar will also greatly assist in pro­vid­ing the enzymes and acid needed for proper digestion.

The next thing we need to do is enjoy our food. Set aside at least fif­teen to twenty min­utes ded­i­cated to eat­ing each meal and use every minute of that time.  Take the time to chew your food, remem­ber­ing that your stom­ach doesn’t have teeth and it will take this long for the stom­ach to tell the brain I’ve had enough.

The final point to remem­ber is con­trolled consumption.

1. The body doesn’t need more then 1600 calo­ries daily
2. 55 – 60 grams of which should be protein
3. Less then 60 grams of total fat of which less then 20 grams should be sat­u­rated fat
4. Take a multi vit­a­min at lunch time – when your body has what it needs the less likely you will be hungry

Begin eat­ing foods in proper com­bi­na­tions – This becomes sec­ond nature
Prac­tice eat­ing with­out drink­ing until 30 min­utes after your meal
Set aside 20 min­utes at meal­time totally ded­i­cated to the task of eat­ing
Prac­tice con­trolled consumption

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