In this video you'll discover the top food combinations that you must avoid.
The topic of food combination has been one that's really been brought to the forefront
as of lately.
This is referring to should you combine your fats with your proteins, your proteins, with
your starches or your starches with your fats, and it's leading to a lot of confusion for
people.
So what we're going to talk about in this video is the food combinations to avoid the
food combinations that work well together.
And then of course at the end of this video, we'll talk about the science behind this methodology.
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Let's go ahead and kick this off with a couple of guiding principles to this whole methodology.
Now this is really based off some ancient philosophy of how you should eat your food
in order to be able to digest it to the best of your abilities.
Now when we look at enzymes and pH environment, let's start here.
So basically the idea is that certain foods require a certain enzymes and a pH environment
in order to be digested well.
So imagine if we have a food that needs an alkaline environment in a food that needs
in an acidic environment, we combine them together.
The idea is that it's going to actually create a neutral environment and you're gonna have
a hard time digesting those foods.
Now moving on here, we look at foods that digest at different speeds.
So this the same thing.
If you have a food that digests very slowly in one that digest very rapidly, the idea
is that it's going to create almost like a traffic jam sort of situation within your
gut that's going to mess up with your digestion.
So the it is also believed that this leads to a lot of problems.
Things such as bloating, inability to break down foods, fermentation of foods within your
gut, gastrointestinal distress, and I've even seen seen some resources that are saying it
can lead to gastrointestinal cancer.
Let's go ahead and we'll talk about that more at the end, the different science behind this.
Let's go ahead and move on.
Let's talk about fruits.
We're going to talk about all the different categories of food here and how you should
combine them according to this ancient philosophy.
Now, fruits is estimated that you should eat them on an empty stomach and the reason you
should eat them on an empty stomach is because they should be eaten alone.
And the reason for this is because they digest very rapidly.
It's a simple sugar that's digesting very rapidly and we don't want to combine something
that digest rapidly with something that digests very slowly.
So when it comes to fruits, eat your fruits alone according to this combination system.
Now the next, let's talk about starches here.
Now when we look at starches, the thing is about them is that they require an alkaline
environment when being digested.
Now they combine well with vegetables and fats and the things that they don't combine
well with are going to be things like protein.
Okay?
So some examples of your starch is going to be rice, bread, pastas, potatoes, also squash.
Now when we look at these different starches, like I said, this is a prime example of something
that requires a particular enzyme and also is digested in an alkaline environment.
And the proteins need that acidic environment, right?
And if you are someone who has a very alkaline environment, you're trying to eat proteins,
it's going to sit in your stomach like a rock.
You feel it when you eat it.
So we want to make sure that we're combining these in order to get the best results according
to this methodology.
Let's go ahead and talk about protein.
Now, protein requires that acidic environment like I just mentioned, and they don't go well
with starches.
They also digest very slowly, right?
So think back to the fruit, which is going to be really rapid.
The protein, which is going to be very slow.
We don't want to combine them together as a digest at different speeds.
So the protein combines well with non starchy vegetables.
It should not be combined with starches or fat.
Some examples of the protein is going to be chicken, beef, pork, salmon, or all your vegetarian
and vegan sources of protein.
Let's talk about fats now.
So fats are a little bit more easy to work with.
They pair well with starches and vegetables.
They do not pair well with protein, something that you really need to consider.
Now the examples of fats are going to be olive oil, coconut oil, things like avocados.
You want to make sure that you're comparing those fats with the proper foods so that it
can be digested to the best of your ability.
Now let's talk about sugar, and this methodology is believed that you should take sugar in,
have it completely on its own, just like fruit.
You shouldn't combine sugar with other foods.
Now I will go a little bit further to say that combining a sugar with like carbohydrates
or proteins, it leads to a lot of oxidation and inflammation in the body.
It's never a good thing.
That's why I really promote removing sugar from your diet altogether and then the other
thing to consider here is leafy greens and non starchy veggies can be combined with everything.
It can become bind with the starches, it can be combined with the protein, the fats, everything,
so you can pretty much have those leafy greens and non starchy vegetables with all the different
foods.
Now when we look at the science behind this, basically there is no science behind this.
Like I said, it's based off an ancient philosophy.
As a matter of fact, I found science basically saying that this methodology really holds
no weight but there was no science that went and actually prove that this methodology works
well.
Now, here's the thing.
There's a lot of isolated case where sports reports where people are saying, Hey, I started
using food combination and it works so well for me.
They found that it gave them less bloating and they found that they just felt better
and so this is something that, like I said, the science doesn't back it up.
There's no peer reviewed research reports at saying this food combination methodology
is something that you really need to move forward with in order to drastically improve
your health.
That does not exist, but there are a lot of people who say that it works well.
So really it's up to you.
Give it a try.
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