Proper Food Combining

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B " H

 

This is written in anticipation of a common reaction to encountering

the Principles of Proper Food Combining for the first time. Most

people think it is enough to have given up eating flesh in order to

maintain health. While giving up meat, and often more importantly

milk and milk products, are wonderful first steps they are certainly

not the be-all and end-all of maximal eating.

 

When we give up eating meat we need to make ourselves ready to accept

new wisdom if we are to get the most out of vegetarian living. Moving

up to a higher level of morality always entails becoming able to

receive new wisdom, and we should joyfully embrace that new wisdom -

in our own time and gradually.

 

Part of wisdom is knowing what kinds of things are " just for me " and

what things are principles that are generally, or even universally,

applicable.

 

Just for me things include: " I don't particularly like tomatoes. " , I

think purple is prettier than pink. " " I prefer cherry wood to oak. "

(All of those things are true about me, BTW.)

 

When it comes to certain other matters, however, it is not in our

best interest to say that it is " just a theory " or " I don't believe

in... " until one has researched it.

 

We have to be able to discern between those types of matters in order

to live wisely and well. Vegetarianism is a part of living wisely and

well, but it is subsumed by wisdom, not the lord over it.

 

It is simply a fact of chemistry that fully formed proteins require

an acidic enviornment in the stomach in order to be digested, while

carbs require an alkaline enviornment in order to be digested.

 

If we eat them together the stomach will secrete both the acid and

basic secretions necessary for the digestion of both.

 

What happens? Right. Exactly what our high school chem lab tests

taught us. The acid and the base neutralize one another. Digestion

will still occur as the body is very determined to live, but at a

much more sluggish rate. The mass of undigested food will take two

or three times longer to digest and will putrify in our gut. Many of

the nutrients will be lost. Our bodies will labor long and hard to

digest the food. Thus, precious energy is frittered away - energy

that might be used to bring joy to someone and make the world better.

The last point is the reason I present the principles of proper food

combining to you. I have no vested interest in the matter other than

the fact that I inhabit this world with you and would like to see

everyone's energy freed up for joyous activity.

 

Beans and chickpeas, for instance, contain protein and carbs. The

gas they give us the the result of imperfect digestion going. Even

those natural foods are not handled well by our bodies. They rot in

our gut. The gas is being released as part of theh process of the

decomposition of the bean molecules. The situation is much worse if

one eats cheese and bread.

 

Proteins and carbs should be eaten separately, about 4-6 hours apart

if the last meal was properly combined, and always with vegetables to

get them through our gut ASAP.

 

It took me years to adopt the principles of proper food combining,

not because I didn't see immediately that they are true and stand up

to everything we know about chemistry, as well as everything we

experience about indegestion, fatigue and ultimately disease, *but

because they were on a higher level of perfection than I was then

ready to receive*. It took me years of work on myself to become ready

to accept the principles of proper food combining, but I realized I

needed the work, not the principles.

 

There is a difference between saying: " I have not yet been made

aware of this. " or " This is more wisdom than I can handle right

now. "

and just saying: " If it works for you. " or " I don't believe in that. "

or " Poo Poo. " (which is what a gut that doesn't accept these

principles says)

 

Doreen

[Guest guest]

Hi Doreen,

 

" Principles of Proper Food Combining...

....It is simply a fact of chemistry that fully formed proteins require an acidic

enviornment in the stomach in order to be digested, while carbs require an

alkaline enviornment in order to be digested.

 

 

Intuitively, we know that many things we have been taught are wrong. We fight

to cut the ties with those myths to free ourselves. We need to be careful not

to substitute one myth for another myth.

 

It is a myth that proteins require an acidic environment to be digested. There

is no truth in that statement. In fact, the person who initiated that statement

lied to everyone.

 

Protein needs both an acid and alkaline environment to be digested. The process

of protein digestion begins in the stomach (acidic) and ends in the small

intestine (alkaline).

 

There are three groups of enzymes which are involved in this process. The first

appears in the stomach, the second is secreted by the pancreas into the small

intestine, and the third is secreted by the small intestine into the small

intestine.

 

Proteins are long chained molecules made up of smaller units called amino acids.

Each protein structure has its own arrangement of amino acids.

 

There are about 20 different amino acids which by common agreement, make up

human protein - alanine, arginine, asparagine, aspartic acid, cysteine, glutamic

acid, glutamine, glycine, histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine,

phenylalanine, proline, serine, threonine, tryptophan, tyrosine, and valine.

 

Eight of these are considered essential for humans, because we do not have the

enzymes in our cells to manufacture them. They are lysine, tryptophan, valine,

histidine, leucine, isoleucine, phenylalanine, threonine, methionine, and

arginine. The best sources of these amino acids are animal sources. A second

source which is less bioavailable are plant proteins.

 

Each enzyme is very specific. Each enzyme is only able to do one specific

action. Digestive enzymes separate larger molecules into smaller molecules.

 

Pepsin, the enzyme in the stomach, which initiates (begins) protein digestion,

recognizes the link, the union, between two specific amino acids. That link is

where the separation takes place.

 

The pancreas produces specific protein digestive enzymes which recognize other

amino acid to amino acid links and act upon them. The small intestine enzymes

which digest protein, act on even different amino acid to amino acid links.

 

Ultimately, what is left are protein structures, polypeptides, dipeptides, and

amino acids. All of these can be absorbed. The majority of the digested

mixture is dipeptides (2 amino acids connected together). Only a small amount

of amino acids are ever produced.

 

 

" Digestion will still occur as the body is very determined to live, but at a

much more sluggish rate.

 

The body has an intelligence all of its own. It knows what is the right speed

needed to digest the food we eat.

 

" The mass of undigested food will take two or three times longer to digest and

will putrify in our gut.

 

Digested or undigested foods can putrefy in our gut. The wrong type of bacteria

does that to us. Putrefying bacteria does not discriminate between digested and

non-digested food. They are not prejudice.

 

" The gas is being released as part of theh process of the

decomposition of the bean molecules.

 

Not everyone who eats beans becomes gassy from beans. Why?

 

" The situation is much worse if one eats cheese and bread.

 

This does not happen with all types of cheese, all types of breads, and every

person. So, we need to ask the questions:

 

What type of cheese does it occur with (almost all hard cheeses are cultured

with their own type of streptococcus bacteria)

What types of bread are we talking about?

How is the bread prepared by the person who is about to eat it?

What is true about the person who becomes gassy? Not all individuals are

affected by this condition.

 

 

Fred

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

---B " H

 

Thank you for this post, Fred:

 

Just a couple of responses below:

 

In rawfood , fred lieberman <fred_lieberman>

wrote:

> Hi Doreen,

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> " Principles of Proper Food Combining...

> ...It is simply a fact of chemistry that fully formed proteins

require an acidic enviornment in the stomach in order to be digested,

while carbs require an alkaline enviornment in order to be digested.

>

> > It is a myth that proteins require an acidic environment to be

digested. There is no truth in that statement. In fact, the person

who initiated that statement lied to everyone.

>

> Protein needs both an acid and alkaline environment to be

digested. The process of protein digestion begins in the stomach

(acidic) and ends in the small intestine (alkaline).

 

You are bearing out a basic principle of food combining. It is

precisely *in the stomach* that the enviornment has to be acidic in

order for proteins to be digested properly. If the process of

digestion does not occur under maximal conditions in the stomach the

maximum amount of nutrients do not survive the digestion process.

> > >

> Proteins are long chained molecules made up of smaller units called

amino acids. Each protein structure has its own arrangement of amino

acids.

> > >

> Eight of these are considered essential for humans, because we do

not have the enzymes in our cells to manufacture them. They are

lysine, tryptophan, valine, histidine, leucine, isoleucine,

phenylalanine, threonine, methionine, and arginine. The best sources

of these amino acids are animal sources. A second source which is

less bioavailable are plant proteins.

 

L-taurine is also considered an essential amino acid, although it

functions differently in the body than the ones you named.

>

> " Digestion will still occur as the body is very determined to live,

but at a much more sluggish rate.

>

> The body has an intelligence all of its own. It knows what is the

right speed needed to digest the food we eat.

 

It will certainly do its best to deal with what we put into it. But

why make life harder for our bodies?

>

> " The mass of undigested food will take two or three times longer to

digest and will putrify in our gut.

>

> Digested or undigested foods can putrefy in our gut. The wrong

type of bacteria does that to us. Putrefying bacteria does not

discriminate between digested and non-digested food.

 

That is not my understanding. Please check your last statement. To

the best of my knowledge, disease causing microbes very definitely

prefer a putrified enviornment.

>

> " The gas is being released as part of theh process of the

> decomposition of the bean molecules.

>

> Not everyone who eats beans becomes gassy from beans. Why?

 

Some people's bodies are healthier and moral vital than others.

>

> " The situation is much worse if one eats cheese and bread.

>

> This does not happen with all types of cheese, all types of breads,

and every person. So, we need to ask the questions:

>

> What type of cheese does it occur with (almost all hard cheeses

are cultured with their own type of streptococcus bacteria)

> What types of bread are we talking about?

> How is the bread prepared by the person who is about to eat it?

> What is true about the person who becomes gassy? Not all

individuals are affected by this condition.

 

I would refer you to the physicians and biologists who are members of

> The Int'l Natural Hygiene Society. They are in a better position to

explain the reasons for the principles than I.

 

You'll find some excellent resources if you search " natural hygiene

pioneers " . Take a look at Dr. Shelton's, Dr. Tilden's, Dr. Sidwa's

work, as well as that of some of the " young " generation. Some modern

pracitioners' sites are there as well.

 

Doreen

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[Guest guest]

~snip~

 

> Digested or undigested foods can putrefy in our gut. The wrong

type of bacteria does that to us. Putrefying bacteria does not

discriminate between digested and non-digested food.

~snip~

> To

the best of my knowledge, disease causing microbes very definitely

prefer a putrified enviornment

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Is not the distinction aerobic vs. anaerobic? The Lower the pH the better

the environment fon anerobic, the Higher the better for aerobic?

rusty

[Guest guest]

Hi Fred, Doreen and All,

 

I think we have to be careful with all of this scientific talk and rely

more on our results and common sense. While Fred was trying to disprove

some of what Doreen was saying I also saw some things he claimed which

are incorrect when you look at the current research. For instance to say

that animal proteins are more bioavailable I believe to be a false

statement. It is however a statement or belief that is purported in many

circles. I have read about several studies disproving that. Also all

proteins originate from plant sources anyway, so why not get it from the

source.

 

It's simply old thinking promoted my the meat industry that animal

proteins are better absorbed than vegetable proteins. Here's another

example. Last summer I was speaking to a guy at Rutgers University who

was doing research on Cancer. He was some kind of biologist. He told me

that the current research says that now there are only two amino acids

that are essential. The body supposedly can manufacture the rest. I

don't know if this is true but he was a researcher in the field.

 

By the way if anyone knows of where I can find more information on this

two essential amino acid theory, please send me the links or study to

read. The point is that science keeps on finding out more things. But

many people are functioning with outdated information. The general

public seems to be at least 50 years behind in their general knowledge

about nutrition.

 

But before there was science to explain and back up all of these claims,

there was always our experiences. I know from my own experiences that

food combining works. I do know that when I eat beans I get more gas.

Who cares why. It isn't healthy. By the way that is one thing I disagree

with Dr. Joel Fuhrman about. He recommends eating beans because of some

anticancer compounds. But he doesn't know anything about food combining

and doesn't address it at all in his book, " Eat to Live. " For the most

part it is an excellent book if you want to be convinced by endless

studies that fruits and vegetables are the best foods for humans by far.

 

Peace and Health to All of You, Roger

 

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[Guest guest]

To the best of my knowledge, disease causing microbes very definitely prefer a

putrified enviornment

 

 

Everything is not always as black and white as we are led to believe.

 

 

Is not the distinction aerobic vs. anaerobic? The Lower the pH the better the

environment fon anerobic, the higher the better for aerobic?

 

 

I am not that well versed in bacteriology to answer that statement.

 

Fred