by
Paul
Benhaimparticles first, and larger and more fibrous parts following. This is
one of the reasons it is important to chew food properly. Factors
that slow digestion include eating a high proportion of fatty foods
and drinking alcohol before or during a meal.
The absorption of foods is dramatically affected by what
foods have been mixed together. With a single item of food, the
brain has no trouble. Two items, say bread and butter, are still
manageable although the brain will be somewhat stressed by it.
When you eat a burger in a bun with butter, lettuce, cucumber,
mayonnaise, vinegar, salt, pepper and wash it down with a milk
shake, what do you think the brain says? It doesn’t, it gives up.
The proper digestive functions are not set in motion and a heavy
toxic waste tip is created in the digestive tract for some time. If
does not take such extreme foods to confuse the system either – a
cheese or jam sandwich does the trick. Bread, cheese and jam
‘plants’ were just never meant to be consumed together.
Most digestion of food occurs in the stomach by digestive
juices. The type of juice secreted for digestion of one type of food
is of no value to a combination of both foods. For example, if an
acid food such as pulp-less orange juice is taken at the same time
as a starch inhibited (it needs an alkaline environment) and
digestion of the starch is inhibited, resulting in gas, upset stomach
or more subtle effects.
Meat and potatoes, fish and rice, eggs or cheese and
toast, cereal and milk are all protein and starch combinations that
cannot be digested efficiently in the stomach. There are suitable
alternatives that help efficient digestion. Proteins need acidic
juices, starches need alkaline juice, and when both are produced
they neutralize each other. Some good food combinations are
strawberries and mango, apple with pumpkin seed and orange
with sunflower seed. To balance out our usual acid diet we
sometimes need a strongly alkaline food – drink raw green juice
(with pulp).