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Rather than eating all sorts of different foods at the same meal, we should - as much as possible - limit ourselves to one kind of food at a meal.
Protein foods need a stomach environment that is predominantly acid to be digested properly. Carbohydrates, on the other hand, digest best in an alkaline environment. Now, since the stomach cannot be both acid and alkaline at the same time, if we eat both protein foods and carbohydrates at the same meal, the digestion of one of the two -- if not both -- is bound to be less than optimal. What this boils down to is that if it is to be steak and baked potatoes, eat the steak at noon and the baked potatoes for supper. Your body will be much obliged to you for it.
Of course you are not expected to go to extremes. For one, if you do what you should be doing anyway -- eating natural, unrefined foods -- it is virtually impossible to eat pure carbohydrates. Every whole grain, whether it is wheat or oats or millet, supplies some protein. Moreover, many of the predominantly protein foods such as soybeans or lentils contains some carbohydrates. What you should not do is load your stomach with pure protein foods such as meat, fish, eggs or cheese and pure carbohydrates such as white bread, white rice and/or sweet desserts at the same time. In fact, one of the worst things you can do is have a sweet dessert after a heavy protein meal. You are well advised to not have fruit after a heavy protein meal. Fruit is best eaten on an empty stomach. They often have fruit for breakfast. Fruit taken on an empty stomach digests fairly quckly. If you feel hungry a couple of hours later, you may have a bowl of homemade yogurt. Fruit, if not taken first thing in the morning, should be taken between meals rather than after a main meal. Here are the basic rules in a nutshell:
Eat vegetables with either proteins or carbohydrates but don't eat vegetables with fruit. For example, eat baked fish with baked cauliflower or chicken stew with lentils.
Eat steamed brown rice with a vegetable stew made of carrots, peas, green peppers and tomatoes.
Eat fruit with nothing but fruit.
As for fat and oils, eat them with proteins rather than with carbohydrates. That's not to say that you cannot have a slice of oven-fresh whole-wheat bread and butter!
Try this approach. Apart from its long-term health benefits, you'll experience immediate short-term benefits. You won't feel bloated as you tend to do after a heavy mixed meal. Your 'separate foods' meal will digest without calling attention to itself. No feeling bloated, no billiousness. No feeling sluggish. None of this feeling as though your stomach were filled with rocks that refused to disappear.
Source: "the Internet"
BODIES RUN ON ALKALINITY - BATTERIES ON ACIDITY
Dr Boyd Eaton, M.D., and other researchers at the University of Georgia in Atlanta and at Harvard University, thoroughly researched the diet we developed when our ancestors in the Paleolithic Era were all "hunters and gatherers." It is fundamentally critical to understand since our digestion, absorption, distribution and elimination processes have developed from that specific diet. To be physically, mentally and spiritually at peak performance we must today eat in harmony with our longstanding genetic predisposition to food.
Basically, the forces that shaped prehistoric processes in the human organism are absolutely relevant today. Our ancestors' diet was generally 75 percent foods they gathered such as grass, leaves, wild vegetables, and a huge array of greens. Twenty-five percent were foods they hunted.
We are heirs of a process that began in humans before the development of agriculture. Our biological patterns have been worked out in the crucible of natural selection.
This diet allowed the body fluids to be alkaline; only the stomach was acidic to facilitate digestion. We are, therefore, alkaline by design, but acidic by function. All our activities (e.g. the muscles in the legs of a runner) create acids that must be neutralized in the body.
Today, we must consume food that is 75 percent by volume alkalizing, and 25 percent by volume acidifying. This will guarantee robust energy and optimum potential for beneficial daily self-healing. Your body chemistry will be in balance and operate at peak performance.
Source: Vitality
The Anti-Aging, Good Nutrition, Weightloss Group