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One of the most important eating habits to practice is that of food combining.

Food combining rules are misunderstood and rarely used. Poor combinations cause indigestion, abdominal pains, and the numerous health challenges related to indigestion.

Many chronic illnesses occur after years of indigestion. Read on to learn about this art of eating.

When you combine food incorrectly, the food is not properly digested and will rot, decay, ferment, and putrefy in the digestive tract. This defeats the whole purpose of eating because the body cannot digest or assimilate rotten food.

Bad food combinations are eaten at almost every meal by those eating the standard American diet. Starchy bread, rice, or potatoes with high protein meats or nuts, sugary desserts after dinner, and acidic red tomato sauce on starchy pasta and pizza are a few of the most common examples.

Food combining is based on the length of time it takes to digest each unique food, the enzymes required to digest them, and the acid or alkaline pH required in the stomach.

The enzyme factor is important to consider. There are 75,000 to 100,000 enzymes present in the human body. The digestive enzymes create a chemical transformation, turning the food into nutrients.

Eat food group requires a different enzyme to digest it. For example, fat requires lipase, protein requires pepsin, and starches require ptyalin and amylase.

- Melons

The first food to be aware of is melons. The melon sugars digest quickly. It may take 20 minutes for them to pass through the stomach and into the digestive tract.

If these sugars are eaten with other foods, they will be held up in the stomach for hours. The stomach is a warm, moist environment and the sugars quickly ferment. Fermented sugars cannot be assimilated by the body.

- Fruits

The next food group to focus on is fruit. Fruits may be broken down into four general categories:

- Sweet (bananas, mangos, dates, figs, raisins)
- Sub-Acid (apples, berries, pears, persimmons)
- Acid (grapefruit, pineapple, oranges, kiwi, tomato)
- Salad (bell peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, avocado)

As a general rule, eat fruit alone and on an empty stomach. This rule may be broken. Fruits may be combined with neutral foods such as celery and leafy greens. It may be combined with pre-digested living foods such as sprouts, soaked nuts, and soaked seeds.

You may safely combine sweet fruits with sub-acid fruits. Sub-acid fruits combine well with acid

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Sub-acid fruits combine well with acid fruits. Avoid sweet with acid fruit combinations.

The salad fruits are low in sugar and they may be eaten with vegetables, nuts, seeds, and sea vegetables.

Do not combine the avocado with nuts and seeds. This is a hard to digest combination and it creates too much fat for one serving. Eat your meal with one or the other.

While not ideal, small amounts of the sub-acid or acid fruits may be eaten with nuts, seeds, and vegetables without discomfort.

For example, a combination with pear slices in a salad with greens, veggies, and walnuts may be eaten. Almond butter on apple slices should be an okay combination.

Everyone has different digestive strengths so you must experiment to find what works for you.

- Celery and Greens

Celery and leafy greens are neutral and may be eaten with any other food. Eating celery or leafy greens with or soon after a fruit meal greatly improves the digestive strength.

- Starch

Starchy foods are next on the list. They combine well with vegetables but make a horrible combination with protein foods.

Starchy vegetables include carrots, beets, sweet potatoes, yams, parsnips, rutabagas, sprouted grains, and turnips. The cooked starches include grains such as breads, pastas, potatoes, and rice.

Digestion of starches begins in the mouth. The enzyme ptyalin is released to begin the chemical change.

When chewing food, the stomach creates a gastric juice filled with enzymes specific for each food.

If you chew starches, the gastric juice will have a slightly alkaline pH. If protein foods are chewed, the gastric juice will have an acid pH. If you chew non-food item, such as a pen, the stomach will not create gastric juices.

If starches are eaten with proteins, the stomach will be confused. It may create gastric juices with a slightly acid pH. The starch enzymes ptyalin and amylase are destroyed in an acidic environment. The stomachs pH may not be acidic enough to digest proteins.

When eaten together, neither starches nor proteins will be fully digested. The proteins will putrefy and decay and the starch sugars will ferment.

This poor combination is stressful for the body. Viktoras Kulvinskas writes "95% of people are deficient in amylase, starch digesting enzyme, and should take a full spectrum enzyme with all starchy meals or leave them alone." he continues "All food is poisonous if it is not digested, no matter what you are eating."

The acid foods include tomatoes, lemons, ketchup, red tomato sauce, vinegar, & acid fruits. They combine well with non-starchy vegetables, fats, and proteins.

The acid foods should not be consumed with starches. They will create an acidic pH which will prevent the starch enzymes from working. Liquids should be consumed 30 minutes before eating food. Drinking liquid with a meal will dilute the gastric juices.

Nuts and seeds combine best with vegetables. If you have hemp seeds with coconut oil, you double the conversion ratio of medium-chain omega-3 to long-chain omega-3. Soaking the nuts and seeds makes them much easier to digest.

Desserts should be eaten alone or after a simple salad. The desserts are usually high in sugar and consumed after one is already full. This is overeating and the sugars will ferment. The perfect way to beat the sugary dessert craving is to eat fruit 20 minutes before the entree

Fresh raw juices require little to no digestion. They should still be chewed to help digest and assimilate the nutrients. There is an old rule, "Drink your food and chew your liquids".

Fermented foods combine well with vegetables, nuts, seeds, and sea vegetables, Because of the acid component, the fermented foods are NEVER to be combined in the same meal with starchy foods such as bread, rice, and other grains, root vegetables, ect.

The easiest to digest meals consist of one to five ingredients. Mono-eating, which is eating one food until full, is an excellent way to eat.

The food combining rules are not as important when eating a primarily living foods diet. The living foods have their own enzymes which assist in the digestive process.

It is not always possible to follow the food combining rules, especially during potlucks or special dinners. I recommend purchasing the E3 digestive enzyme supplements. Use the enzymes whenever you over eat, eat cooked foods, or eat poor food combinations.

If you experience discomfort after a meal, chewing celery sticks or drinking fresh ginger root juice or tea will improve digestion. Chewing the celery will assist the body in creating more enzymes, and the ginger will improve circulation and digestion.

Proper food combining will lead to improved digestion, youthful and enthusiastic energy, improved health, and hopefully a longer life-span!

More info can be found in "The Health Evolution"

The best food has four qualities...Raw, Ripe, Fresh and Organic. It is very important to make sure we have the highest quality food available. The highest quality food would have all four of those, but we want a minimum of two or three of them. If you ever eat a food that doesn't have any of those or only one of those, you want to avoid it.

Over the last year or two I've learned that there is something even more important ...That is "Live Foods", also know as Life Foods. The big difference between raw food and live food is this. Raw food is growing on a tree and once you pick it, it starts losing its enzymes and starts losing its vitamins and nutrients.

If you eat it pretty close to the time it was picked, that is excellent. Most people don't get to do that because it is sitting on the shelf at the health food store for a couple of weeks. The best foods we can eat are live foods which, after they are picked or after they are grown, they are still growing more nutrients, they are still growing more enzymes and they have natural probiotics in them.

Those would be foods such as sprouts; wheatgrass; sunflower sprouts; fermented foods like Rejuvelac which is a fermented wheat berry drink; nut and seed cheeses, which actually aren't cheeses but nut pates which are fermented; almond milk, fermented almond milk; yogurt, fermented yogurt made non-dairy.

Everything I recommend is vegan. These are the foods that Dr. Ann Wigmore survived on and from what I see her information is the simplest and the easiest information out there for people to follow. Her books today are the cheapest and the simplest to follow and they are the ones that get the most results. People can do a lot of complicated things and make this really complicated. But you can keep this really simple and just get her books and follow her advice

When I interviewed health experts in my book, they were people who had been eating raw foods for a very long time. Not all of them, but a majority of them all said that the most important food in the diet is sea vegetables, also known as seaweed. The reason why it is so important is that the food grown today, even on organic soil, is demineralized because of hybridization and the environment and also the lack of the nutrients in the soil.

It doesn't have the amount of minerals it should, so many people suffer from a mineral deficiency. We can get that from supplements, but sea vegetables are loaded with many minerals that can't be found in today's foods

I am often asked if sports drinks are healthy, such as gatoraide or poweraide. No, the average sports drinks are not healthy. They are high in processed sugar and they create an acidic pH in the body. They speed up the aging process.

To maintain energy levels during sports, you can eat a little fruit before so your body will have enough
sugar. You could eat some fruit half-way through the
soccer game (such as oranges), and then eat another
piece or two of fruit after the game to replenish the sugar levels.

The quickest way to replenish the sugar and electrolytes is to blend up a bananna or two with
celery and water. This will give you all the sodium
and potassium you need.

You could also soak dried fruits such as raisins and
apricots in water, and drink the water during the
game.

Fresh juice is also a good option if you can make it
before the game.

If you shop at a health food store, you may be able to find a high quality organic juice that you can drink during the game. It may be healthier than the
gateraide.

You may also want to add a high quality green superfood powder to your water after the game to replenish vitamins and minerals. The green superfood
powders will help your body become alkaline.