Separating food means - as the name implies - that you do not eat certain foods together, but only "separately" ingested! First of all, you assign all foods to one of the following 3 categories:
• High protein: foods that contain relatively high levels of animal or vegetable protein.
• high in carbohydrates: foods that contain relatively high levels of sugar / starch / carbohydrates.
• neutral: food that does not contain carbohydrates and protein, or both.
Since this assignment is not so easy to apply to some foods, there are various "nutritional popes" who have made their own assignments and are then named after the food combining: e.g. Haysche Trennkost ...
There are then systems with 5 or more classes of food where e.g. alone the fruit is divided into three classes.
Often, everything that is mostly oil or fat is assigned to an extra class. If you take a meal, then you decide either rich in protein or carbohydrate and then any neutral food.
Haysche food combining:
This food combining is according to the American doctor. Howard Hay (1866 - 1940), who "invented" them. For his time he was suffering from an "incurable" kidney disease. Then he looked at the diet and lifestyle of Naturpölkern and recognized in it a "natural food combining".
He changed his diet after the food and was "cured" to the amazement of his medical colleagues! Among primitive people he discovered that they hardly eat meat and animal protein! He reduced the consumption of proteins and carbohydrates.
In Germany, the Fastenarzt Dr. med. Siegfried Möller 1940 first published this diet in German as a book. Until 2003 there was a clinic in Homberg / Ohm, which healed hopeless illnesses. Characterization of Hay's food combining:
• The food should consist of 80% base formers: fruits, vegetables, salad
• The other part of the diet should be made up of 20% acidifier: meat, fish, egg, dairy products, wholegrain products, flour and sugar.
• Concentrated protein and carbohydrate food must be taken separately.
• The amount of co-localized protein and starch must be reduced to avoid over-acidifying the body - see Acid Bases.
• In the morning, base-forming foods should be consumed, protein meals at lunchtime and high-carbohydrate foods in the evening.
• Neutral foods can be combined with foods high in protein or carbohydrates.
• The food must be chewed thoroughly.
• Between meals should be at least 4 hours.
Why do you separate foods while eating?
Man a few thousand years ago did not know a strawberry cake with cream or potato with cottage cheese - something that modern man has "invented" and his body is not yet prepared for it.
Modern research has also found that various foods are digested differently in the stomach and also require very different gastric juices. Protein is digested very sour in the stomach - with carbohydrates, however, the stomach contents are more basic.
Now, if you eat both at the same time, then the stomach can not be both acid and alkaline at the same time! That for him it is problematic to digest everything together! It digests much longer and takes 1-3 hours to digest everything - hence the feeling that you are getting tired and mate at the non-separated food, after the meal ...
With the food you will have less stomach and digestive problems, even your heartburn can disappear!
How do you eat after food combining?
In the case of food combining, it does not matter whether you eat vegetarian or raw-food - this is not a requirement. It is usually the other way round that someone, e.g. Wholesome food is and in addition the food still separates. Protein rich foods are e.g. Meat, fish, eggs, dairy, soy, nuts, seeds and seeds. You can then choose one of them for a meal and combine it with neutral foods: salad, herbs, most types of cabbage, many vegetables. That a steak with potatoes and salad is wrong - either steak with salad or potatoes with salad!
Carbohydrate-rich foods are e.g. Potatoes, rice, pasta, bread, cakes, ... cheese or sausage on a bread is bad! But e.g. Honey, jam, tomatoes, butter or herbs are ok!
Muesli or fresh porridge:
Of course you should not pour milk into your "cereal"! The basis of a cereal are cereals (products), ie starchy and the milk is protein-containing - that naturally digests badly! But for the connoisseurs among you, who has "shocked" now: if you are not vegan, you may give yourself "in need" a small shot of full-fat (!) Cream (contains hardly any protein!) In the cereal ...
Rumors and more about food combining:
Food combining is not a diet! It is just a (permanent) diet, such as Whole foods or raw food.
Food combining does not serve to decrease! You can safely lose weight with whole foods or raw food, but rather not with food combining! If you would eat the same amount of food separately or unseparated, your body would take much longer and consume much more energy to digest non-separated food. With separated food, the body can better evaluate it, draw more energy from it, and consume less energy to digest. This energy can then additionally begin in your body ...
Critics
Critics like to say that the "primitive man" did not even know our food separation tables and did not feed on them! Critics also like to argue that many fruits are made of starch and protein and the stomach gets everything together. This is true as well - but still anyone can understand for themselves / even learn that digests with the food much faster and easier. That's just an experience fact.
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