Food combining: |
Don’t sweat It .

NE OF THE things

I’m most often

asked about on su-

permarket tours is
"Food Combining."

You know - not eating meat
with starches, balancing acid
and alkali foods, or saying that
your body can’t digest certain
combinations of foods.

It’s a nutrition theory that
seems to be "recycled" every
10 years or so, About a decade
ago it was popular as the
"Beverly Hills Diet", while it’s
currently known as the "Fit for
Life Diet."

So what’s the problem with
"Food Combining"? Plain and
simple, it just has no effect.

Our digestive system has 3
main functions: Breaking
down our food, absorbing the
nutrients, and (to put it deli-
cately) eliminating the waste
products of digestion.

When we eat food, we break
it down by chewing it up and
then churning it around in our
stomachs. That makes it easy

for our digestive enzymes 10 -

break it down to the point
where we can absorb it.

Our digestive system is
designed to deal with all kinds

of food mixed together. It.

churns everything up together
and then all of the necessary
enzymes. are excreted willy-
nilly. And what starts it all
going? The presence of plain
oid FOOD in our stomachs.

So what's the problem
with "Food Combining"?
Plain and simple, it just
has no effect.

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(which is very low. in protein,
and lias no fat), our stomachs
will still excrete enzymes that
digest protein (protease), and

our pancreas will exercte en-.

zymes to digest fat (lipase).

If all we'eat is meat, which is
low in carbohydrate, our pan-
creas will-still ¢xcrete carbo-

digesting enzymes (amylase), ---

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Bo even-if all we eat is fruit

along with the protease and

lipase,

Since every. enzyme is -:

secreted, no matter what we
eat, there’s no need for you to

worry: about cating special.

combinations of foods, '
And, what about balancing
acid and. base? Well, your

stomach is acid because the

protein enzymes work best in

an acid environment. The acid —

your:,stomach produces will
depend on the acidity of your
meal. The stomach always
aims for.a very high acidity to
let the protein. enzymes do
their best work.

As the stomach empties its
contents into the intestine, a
change takes place: The pan-
creas neutralizes the acid by
pumping in bicarbonate. This
is so, that the carbo and fat en-
zymes can do their jobs - they
work best in an low acid en-
vironinent,

So once again, no matier
what you actually eat, the food
will be acid: in-the stomach,
and then neutralized in the in-

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testine.

My biggest criticism of food
combining is this; WHY
WORRY ABOUT IT??

We already spend enough of
our busy lives shopping,
cleaning, and preparing our
foods. Do we reaily need the
added hassles of only cating
food "A" with food "B" but
not with food "C"? Your body
has evolved through millions
of years to digest all kinds of
foods. Why fight the wisdom

The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, November 3, 1993 - B3

of nature? ee -
There are. other problems.
with food combining, - too.
Many nutrients’ are best ab-
sorbed when they. arc. con-

meal. A good example is
Vitamin C helping us to ab-
sorb the iron from foods like
legumes or raisins.

The fibre in whole grains
and vegetables can help our
body dispose of some of the
"toxic wastes" from digestion,
by binding them up and carry-
ing them out of the body, The
soluble fibre in foods works
with the protein and fats at
each meal to help regulate our
blood sugars for a steady
supply of energy for work and
play.

Our bodies are much more
talented than we give them
credit for. They serve us well
without a lot of interference,
or even guidance from the old
noggin. So just eat regular
meals, please, and slop worry-
ing about it!

: ~ City of Terrace Councillor :
_ on November 20, 1993 |

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