COMBINATION PRODUCTS: A little history.

The idea right mix of products exists for a long time. Even in ancient Rome doctor Celsus singled unfavorable combination of foods is poorly absorbed by the stomach, and called for caution with regard to salt, Pimento, very sweet and fatty foods. The question of combination products received scientific confirmation in the works of Pavlov, who, through various methods found that for every kind of food allocated different in quality and quantity of digestive juices. Moreover, this separation begins in the mouth and should continue throughout the digestive tract (saliva, gastric juice, pancreatic juice, bile, digestive juices are thick and small intestine, as well as microflora). Processing and digestion of food takes place each type in the relevant department of the digestive tract and has a definite, a characteristic time. A more fully the problem of the right combination of foods considered and justified an American physician and educator Herbert Shelton. It was his job and became the basis for a modern system of food combining.

To date, separate power supply is one of the most popular concepts associated with maintaining a healthy lifestyle.

Basic principles of combination products

According to this theory, we eat no snacks, hot or desserts, and foods of different nature. For the convenience of all possible products are divided into groups: proteins, fats and carbohydrates. It is assumed that this classification helps to orient not only in the variety of their effects on the human body.

In the process of digestion of the elements contained in the products we consume, behave differently. The fact that the breakdown of proteins requires an acidic environment, and for the breakdown of carbohydrates – alkaline. Therefore, the main goal of a separate food – to help the body to adjust to each element. If your stomach at the same time products of different nature, the work of their digestion is hampered, and if it enters the stomach to be combined food, the body fails, which may be momentary or long-term. Poorly digested foods are deposited as fat and impurities that can lead to weight gain, and the emergence of diseases.

Rules of combination products

To maintain “friendly environment” in the digestive tract, the concept of a separate feed system offers not only a combination of products, but the plane made food groups.

1.Do not recommended to eat a carbohydrate food and acid in one step

Bread, potatoes, peas, beans, bananas, dates and other carbohydrate products can have a lemon, orange, grapefruit, pineapple, cranberries, tomatoes and other acidic fruits.

2.Do not recommended to consume protein and carbohydrates in one meal

Nuts, meat, eggs, cheese and other concentrated protein foods should not be combined with concentrated carbohydrates: bread, cereals, pastries, sweet fruit.

3.Ne recommended to consume two concentrated proteins at one meal

Two proteins of different types and different compositions require different digestive juices and different concentrations. These juices are allocated in the stomach is not in the same time. Therefore it is necessary to comply with the rule: a protein in one meal. This rule has long been known to people seeking to maintain their normal weight – many dancers, for example, do not eat fish and meat together, meat and nuts, etc.

4.Do not recommended to consume fats with proteins in one step

Cream, butter, sour cream, vegetable oil should not be eaten with meat, eggs, cheese, nuts and other proteins. Fat inhibits the action of the glands and inhibits the release of gastric juices in the use of meat, eggs, nuts.

5.Ne recommended to combine acid fruits with proteins

Oranges, lemons, tomatoes, pineapple, cherry, sour plum, sour apples can not be eaten with meat, nuts, eggs. The less complex mixtures of food, the simpler the dish, the more efficient digestion.

6.Ne recommended to consume starches to sugar in one meal

Consumption in one sitting jelly or jam with cereal, mix sugar with cereals (eg bread, drizzled with syrup) can cause fermentation, and even lead to poisoning.

7.Ne recommended to consume a concentrated starch in one step

If the two kinds of starch (potatoes or porridge with bread) are consumed at the same time, one of them to digest, while the other remains intact and is in the stomach, as the goods does not pass into the intestine and prevents absorption of other foods, it causes fermentation, increasing the acidity of gastric juice, burping, etc.

8.Ne recommended to consume watermelon and melon in one sitting with any other food

Watermelon, honey, musk and other kinds of melons should be eaten separately.

9.Ne recommended to consume milk with other foods

Milk fat prevents the secretion of gastric juice. And since milk is absorbed not in the stomach and the duodenum, the presence of milk secretion of the stomach does not react, which prevents the assimilation of other foods.