Food combining tips

May 3, 2003

Some Food Combining Tips from N W Walker

Your Body is a Food Processing Center

The manner in which our food is prepared by mastication and insalivation

has considerable influence in the process of digestion and in the ultimate

emission of the fiber and other non-digestible material from the small

intestine into the colon. The finer the mastication, the easier is the work

of the digestive glands and the liver.

Once the food gets into the stomach it is entirely cut off from any

activity or passage through any part of the digestive system, except during

the seconds when the pyloric valve opens to let a minimal amount of the

liquefied bolus pass through at regular intervals. This allows the various

gastric juices in the stomach to work on the specific type of

mineral-chemical elements of which the food eaten was composed. There is a

definite orderliness in the movement of the stomach, especially in the

separation and ejection of the more liquid parts of the bolus from the more

solid.

The dome of fundus of the stomach is not, as many suppose, to cushion air

which is expelled when burping. It has been put there for the stomach to use

as a storage place for retaining the bulk of food while the activity of the

pylorus macerates the bolus and passes it out into the duodenum (small

intestine) from time to time. The movement of the bolus starts within a few

minutes after it has entered the stomach.

The stomach is flat and in a state of collapse until food is eaten. Then

each subsequent mouthful takes its turn in being processed by the gastric

juices between the cardiac sphincter and the pylorus. Carbohydrate foods

pass from the stomach soon after ingestion and require only about half the

time required by proteins for complete gastric processing. Fats, however,

when eaten alone remain in the stomach a long time and when combined with

other foods, their passage through the pylorus is considerably delayed.

Because of the chemical nature of both our bodies' digestive systems and

of the foods we eat, it is vital that we understand how to eat proper

combinations of foods so that the body can efficiently use them for good

health and maintenance of body weight.

Orange Juice and Oatmeal Do Not Mix

In chemistry, oil and water do not mix, nor do acids mix with alkaline

substances. They are totally incompatible. Such is the case with the food

we eat. In the preparation of our meals, every food present represents a

chemical combination of elements atoms and molecules - according to the plan

of Nature. When these foods are composed of raw vegetables and fruits, the

elements composing them are vital, organic, live elements, and can be

combined in any desired mixture. Any mixture that has not been cooked or

processed can be eaten together because the elements combine in a natural

manner and the result is beneficial to the body. When the foods are

processed or cooked, however, the elements composing them have become

devitalized. This applies to all of these foods, without exception.

Your Stomach Is Well-Organized - Unless You Put the Wrong Food In It!

Chemically, carbohydrates (sugars, starches and grains) are alkaline

substances, and they need an alkaline digestive medium in the stomach for

proper and complete processing. Proteins, on the other hand, are acid

substances which require their own specific acid digestive juices.

When a carbohydrate enters the stomach it receives a disinfecting

hydrochloric acid bath because the delicate lining of the intestine it will

be later entering can be harmed by the presence of infectious elements. When

a protein enters the stomach it also is disinfected by the hydrochloric acid,

after which the protein digestive juice pepsin is secreted by the glands in

the stomach, and the breaking down of the protein begins to take place.

Don't Put a Mass of Confusion Into Your Stomach

The natural sequence of this acid-alkaline chemical law is disrupted when

we eat concentrated foods. If we eat an alkaline food, such as potatoes, and

at the same time eat an acid one, such as chicken, the chicken is not

properly digested because it is infiltrated by the acid and pepsin protein

digestive juice. The meat (protein) is likewise interfered with by the

presence of the carbohydrate in the chyme. The result of this incompatible

condition is the fermentation of the carbohydrate and the putrefaction of the

proteins,

The Road to Constipation Is Paved With Proteins and Carbohydrates

To make matters worse, if the protein was eaten before the carbohydrate,

the passage of the carbohydrate out of the stomach will be retarded. When

carbohydrate and protein foods of a concentrated nature are eaten together,

the bolus of such a combination is treated first by the protein enzymes in

the upper part of the stomach and the carbohydrate food is thereby

" contaminated. " When, at its allotted time, the bolus reaches the middle part

of the stomach, further acidulation by hydrochloric acid takes place. The

result of this delay causes the carbohydrate food to remain in the stomach

longer than necessary for its own enzyme processing. This is likely to

result in its eventual fermentation along its way to absorption and

elimination. This condition can have a serious bearing on a person's

elimination problems.

Eating the Wrong Foods Can Be Complicated Eating Natural Foods Are Easy

It is an easy matter to remember the difference between the natural and

the concentrated foods if we bear in mind that all vegetation contains both

carbohydrates (in the form of natural sugars) and proteins in the form best

suited for processing by human digestion. The concentrated carbohydrates and

proteins require a greater amount of digestive processing, thus causing a

great burden of labor on the digestive organs.

Here are some examples of concentrated carbohydrates and proteins, which

should not only be avoided in combination, but avoided completely!

Bread with eggs or flesh food of any kind

Coffee and sugar

Hamburgers and soft drinks

Meat and potatoes with biscuits

Pie or cake with coffee or tea

Soups containing flour of any kind (for thickening) with meat stock or

pieces of meat

Fruits and Vegetables - Nature's Best Combination

With few exceptions I have found that raw fruits and vegetables are

perfectly compatible when eaten together, either mixed in a salad or

separately during the same meal. Melons of all kinds, though, should be

eaten alone, the whole meal consisting of nothing but melon. Melons require

an unusual time to digest, thus you would be leaving whatever else you ate

with the melon to sit in the stomach for much too long a time.

If You Have An Alkaline Stomach:

Fruits should only be eaten when they are ripe, because their sugars have

not formed completely and therefore will have an acid reaction in the system.

Ripe fruit, although apparently acid to the taste, has an alkaline reaction

in the body, thus interfering with natural digestion.

If You Have An Acid Stomach:

It is extremely important to bear in mind that if refined sugar of any

kind, or any flour product is eaten during the same meal with fruits (except

bananas, dates, figs or raisins) either together or within an hour or two,

the sugars and starches will have a tendency to ferment in the digestive

tract, causing an acidulated condition of the stomach.

The Science of Food Combining - Help Is At Hand

A study of the food chart which is in fold-out form in the back of my book

will show how, with a little practice, foods can easily be segregated, and by

combining all foods consistently in the manner indicated, a long step in the

right direction will have been taken.

This Is One Diet You Can Put Partly Off Until Tomorrow

I present this matter of food combinations here, at this point, in the

hopes of helping you gradually change over from a diet which is cooked and

devoid of enzymes, to a way of eating which supplies everything Nature meant

us to have for our health and our weight.

I do not advocate as a general rule changing over from customary eating

habits in a sudden, complete manner. The reaction from doing so, while

generally is more constructive and cleansing to the body, may cause more

discomfort (temporarily) than is desired or anticipated.

Unfortunately, we have become a race seeking painkilling remedies for

instant relief, disregarding the consequences rather than choosing ways to

eradicate the cause of our bodily discomforts by means of the slower, more

certain methods.

Which Would You Rather Be Addicted To, Sleeping Pills or Grapefruit Juice?

For example, insomnia is one of the afflictions daily becoming more

pernicious among Americans. Sedatives and sleeping pills of all kinds are

increasing in demand. Any drug that induces sleep cannot be anything but

habit-forming, advertisements to the contrary, because if the habit is not

physical, then it becomes mental. Inability to sleep is due to malnutrition

and toxic conditions in the body reacting on the nerve system, so that the

individual loses the power to induce sleep while the toxic conditions exist.

Many sleeping pill drug addicts have found that a large tumbler full of

fresh grapefruit juice before going to bed at night, and a high enema to

clean out the lower intestines, have helped them to the point where they were

able to sleep without the use of pills or powders, with little change in

their diet. Others have found that a glassful of straight celery juice or

lettuce juice worked as efficiently when these juices were properly extracted

and taken fresh and raw. A change in the diet is usually effective when

concentrated sugars and starches are eliminated.

I am firmly convinced that there is an ever-increasing demand for this

knowledge. It is so extremely simple, and yet as old as the hills. More and

more people are awakening to the fact that seeking the aid of Nature is to be

desired more than blind guessing. After all, except in the case of accident,

very little can happen to our body except as a result of what we put into it.

Did You Know Meat Can Give You Bad Breath?

When we eat incompatible mixtures of food, such as meat and potatoes,

bread and jam, fruit and sugar, a great deal of fermentation takes place, and

the formation of gas is unbelievable.

When, added to the fermentation of such food, we also have the presence of

putrefaction of cooked flesh (meat, fish or fowl), the gas is not only

increased in volume, but its perfume is anything but esthetic. This accounts

for the rank odor which permeates the breath, not only of most meat eating

people, but also of most elderly people. When we have corrected our eating

habits we will succeed in purifying our breath without the aid of

deodorizers.

If You Must, You Must, But I Wouldn't!

When a person actually feels that he just must require some flesh protein,

it has been found that fresh fish with fins and scales have been used with

benefit if their cooking has been limited to a matter often to fifteen

minutes of steaming, but not frying it in fat or grease. Sea fish is

preferable if fresh, because sea food is the most complete of all foods, and

the sea fish contains virtually all the trace elements contained in the

oceans.

River and lake fish of the same characteristics, fins and scales, are

compatible because lakes and rivers also contain much of the elements washed

into them from the mountains, hills and valleys.

Bear in mind, however, that permissible is not the same as total

abstinence!

The Man Who Flirted with Death Over a Piece of Roast Beef and Yorkshire

Pudding

The results of the disastrous consequences of the body's inability to

handle the deadly combinations of concentrated foods, consumed for years

without the slightest notion of the consequences, are very real. Nature has

endowed our bodies with the ability to handle much misuse, but there comes a

day in which the body's tolerance level has been reached, and we find our

bodies breaking down. Our health, which we had taken for granted, has

decayed and our bodies are fat and flabby, our muscle tone gone.

There could be no better proof, to my mind, than the case of a man who

came under my care, to benefit from my research. He was of British origin,

and few meals were complete for him unless they included meat and potatoes

and frequently Yorkshire pudding.

He had a stroke a year earlier, which was followed in a comparatively

short time by three more. They left him bereft of speech and unable to walk.

Orthodox treatments in his home town had left him progressively worse,

unable to control his bladder or his bowels.

On his arrival here, I took him to the doctor who at that time cared for

my students. As usual, the program was a rigidly strict one: colonic

irrigations, quantities of fresh juices daily, raw vegetable and fruits and

positively no starchy, sugary or protein foods.

In three months' time, he was able to talk quite coherently and to walk

around a little without the aid of even a cane. But his British appetite

made his wife's life miserable.

He wanted some meat and potatoes! I told him the chances were that if he

did eat such a meal, in three days he would rue the day he was born. Some

friends came to visit them the following weekend, and he begged to be able to

join them in what he called " a real meal. "

" All right, " I said, " go ahead if you want to. It's your body, and if you

want to suffer the consequences, don't ask anybody for sympathy. I shall

simply come around next Wednesday and gloat over your misery and lack of

sense! "

They all went to a restaurant famed by publicity for its delicious

dinners. There he became a model of decorum by eating only a small piece of

meat, a few potatoes, a little bread and a small piece of pie. I met him

quite by accident the following Monday, and he was jubilant when he saw me.

" See Doc., I told you it wouldn't do me any harm! I feel like a million. "

I said, " Fine! I'm glad to hear that. I will remind you of it when I see

you on Wednesday. "

When I went to their apartment on the following Wednesday, the model of

decorum was writhing on his bed, crying like a child. We took him to the

doctor who was caring for him, and he was given a colonic irrigation. For

nearly a whole hour the gas that poured out of him and the putrid odor of the

waste matter washed out of his colon were an object lesson which his wife

should never forget as long as she lives.

I reminded them both that I had warned them that, particularity in his

condition, flagrantly ignoring his diet would do him no good, and the

incompatible combination of the foods he was craving would have exactly the

effect we had witnessed.

It is a pitiful and lamentable fact that the vast majority of people

simply dig their graves with their teeth, and then eat themselves right into

their graves!

When human nature allows the element of appetite to be in control, that

person indulges in beverages and foods which are not compatible with natural

and physiological laws, and the result is the devastation of the body. The

results of this devastation are obvious: pain, ill health, an inclination

toward disease, and the outward manifestations of rolls of fatty tissue in

the waistline area, with a protruding stomach...

May 3, 2003

What book was this from? Thanks.

DaRocksMom wrote:Some Food Combining Tips from N W Walker