Have ever seen the food charts the government puts out? Well, if you have, try and get them out of your mind. We´re going to show you how to be a pickier eater. We´re going to show you how to pick the right foods to put together.
For optimum health and energy, it is important to know how your body digests the food you eat. Not all food requires the same kind of chemicals for digestion. Your stomach produces an alkaline-based chemical for digesting starchy* foods like rice, bread, and potatoes. It produces another, acid-based chemical, for digesting protein foods like meat, dairy products, and nuts. When combined, these two types of digestive chemicals actually neutralize each other. So, when you eat a starchy food with a protein food, you send a mixed message to your stomach. It produces each type of digestive chemical, which in turn, cancels each other out, and the majority of the food you just ate lies in your stomach for a much longer time than is healthy. Some of it is passed on to the small intestine prematurely requiring it to do a job it wasn´t designed to do. Digestion time is unnaturally lengthened and much more energy is expended in the process. And you wonder why you´re so sleepy after a big meal of meat and potatoes.
Not all food requires the same kind of chemicals for digestion.
The smart solution is to combine foods that are digested using the same type of digestive chemical. Vegetables can be digested using either an alkaline-based, or an acid-based chemical and, as such, can be combined with either starchy foods or protein foods. Instead of eating a steak and baked potato, have a small steak with a big salad, or a modest baked potato with lots of steamed vegetables. Eat one combination for lunch, and the other for dinner. That way, you combine foods that are digested the same way and you are combining water-rich foods with compressed foods.
Then there is fruit. Fruit is in a league all by itself. It isn´t even digested in the stomach. Within a few minutes of eating, fruit is passed on to the small intestine where it is digested and its nutrients are absorbed. Because fruit isn´t digested in the stomach, it should be eaten when the stomach is empty. Combining fruit with starches or proteins causes it to sit in the stomach and ferment causing gas and bloating. Always eat fruit by itself and on an empty stomach!
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