PDF Ebook Guidelines for Healthy Eating
In addition to nutrition, there are various areas that one should pay attention to in order to maintain overall health. Health should not only be restricted to the physical body, but also the mental, emotional and spiritual bodies. Below are some measures that can be taken to improve our overall well-being.
The basic rule behind food combining diets are that concentrated proteins like meat and eggs should not be mixed with concentrated starches like potatoes and bread in the same meal. The theory behind it is that concentrated starch and concentrated protein have opposite digestive requirements, and thus if they were to be eaten together, neither gets digested properly. Protein is digested in acid while starch requires an alkaline environment for digestion. Hence it is thought that they are best eaten separately. It is believed that if the body is struggling to digest incompatible mixtures of food, it may tend to malfunction in other areas. Conversely if the workload on the digestive system is lightened, then more energy can be allocated to the rest of the body systems, and they are able to work more effectively. (Habgood 1999)
One well known food combining diet is the Hay Diet. In addition to separating concentrated proteins and concentrated starches in the same meal, its founder, Dr William Hay, also stresses on the importance of replacing processed with natural food, and gradually increasing the intake of fresh fruits and vegetables. In addition, in order to achieve maximum health benefits, he advocates that we should have a diet consisting mainly of alkali-forming foods, because an over-acidic system slows us down and leads to illness. (Habgood 1999)
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