combination diet

[dave1307]

I am wondering more about this lately. About making sure to combine or not combine certain types of foods, i.e. proteins, carbs, fats. I heard that it is best to not combine grains and fruit, because the fruit digests much faster and you get the fruits' nutrient properly that way, but if you eat it with grains then it will get stuck behind in a slower process and you won't digest the fruit as quickly and then it won't absorb as well. Anyway, I think I might try to separate fruits and grains, like eat the fruit 30 minutes prior to my morning quinoa or whatever.

Not sure about carbs and fats. Meats take a while to digest, so I am going to eat meat just a few days a week. I really like olive oil as a fat and I assume it's ok to use on pasta in terms of combination. It probably also depends what source the carbs/fat/protein is to determine how fast or slow it goes through digestion. So it seems wise to not combine fast foods with slow foods.

[dave1307]

Ok, I will answer my own post lol. I just read more about food combination in my Orthomolecularism book by Hemat. He discussed the following: avoid eat high starches with high proteins. Avoid high starches with high fats. Combine high protein with high fat. That is the the basics. He says to do food combination this way to ensure that you don't get deficiencies. So that is exactly what I'm concerned about at this point. I've been doing Hemat's diet for about 2 days now, I will do it for about 2 weeks and see how I feel. My brain already feels a bit better, I am using lots of good fats with proteins, and also Hemat says you can use fats/proteins with low carb vegetables like spinach. So I've doing things like spinach and flax oil, or olive oil. ANd I ordered some fish oil which I am excited about because it is much easier to digest omega-3 fats from fish oil than it is from flax oil.

[studentofthegame]

is this the book u mention?

www.amazon.co.uk/Orthomolecularism-Principles-Practice-S-HEMAT/dp/1418462039/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1313261482&sr=8-2

[dave1307]

Yes, that's it. It's pretty thick and dense, but it's a great reference tool if you're looking up something specific. It seems like a med school text book.