[RAQ]

Does blending your food affect absorption? My typical day is as follows:

9am Shake
Cup of oats
Scoop of cottage cheese
Banana
Spinach
Blueberries
Acai berry juice

12pm
Salad with
Cucumbers
Broccoli
Tomato
Tuna

2pm Shake
1/2 cup oats
Peanut butter
Protein powder
Banana
Spinach
Blueberries
Carrot

6pm
Vegetable stew (Carrots, Corn, Potatoes, Green Beans, Peas)
Some kind of meat, Salmon or Chicken or Steak

10pm
Tuna patty (3 eggs and tuna quiche)


That's been my diet for the past 2 weeks, it's a little better than the burgers and taco bell i'm used to but I'm sure could use some improvement.

[Chris_Keller]

I've been wondering the same thing for quite a long time.

TTT

[JohnnyBuddha]

Yep. Check out this link on food combining:

Food combining

It's hard and not necessarily advisable to follow the site's instructions to a tee, but it gives a good overview of how the body handles digesting different foods.

[RAQ]

wow crazy read JB.

[joshetc]

Originally Posted by JohnnyBuddha

Yep. Check out this link on food combining:

Food combining

It's hard and not necessarily advisable to follow the site's instructions to a tee, but it gives a good overview of how the body handles digesting different foods.

So basically we can eat lemon juice with all our simple carbohydrates and our body will waste energy digesting them? If this is true, it seems like a really easy to to avoid gaining weight while still eating a shitload..

[Vedic]

Ummmmm, its not that simple or every nutritionist or dietician in the country would have their patients doing it.

[joshetc]

Originally Posted by Vedic

Ummmmm, its not that simple or every nutritionist or dietician in the country would have their patients doing it.

I figured, which means they are over-dramatizing the effects of mixing acids with starches.

[JohnnyBuddha]

Originally Posted by Vedic

Ummmmm, its not that simple or every nutritionist or dietician in the country would have their patients doing it.

Yeah, it'd be interesting to study and analyze the theories more in depth than I can manage with my short attention span with chemistry and the like. I like the general gist behind the theory though: that different substances require different digestive enzymes/environments to be properly digested and that a hard-working or stressed digestive system affects many different health-related things.

[Stuckey1]

So, this article advises against ever eating a sandwich because it says to not mix bread and meat at a meal. Also, eggs and meat together is apparently a bad thing.

[ronin0352]

Hmm, I personally think that article is full of shit, just from glancing at it.

Do not eat fats with proteins

So basically don't eat any thing with protein. Meat has fat, eggs have fat, cheese, nuts, etc. Basically everything that passage mentioned as a source of protein also has fats.

A suggested combination of meals is included in the following plan of eating three meals a day :

Breakfast
Fruit. Any fruit in season may be used. It is suggested that not more than three fruits be used at a meal, as, for example, grapes, well ripened bananas and an apple. It is well to have an acid fruit breakfast one morning and a sweet breakfast the next. In season breakfast may be made of melons. In the winter months, one or two dried fruits such as figs, dates, raisins, prunes, etc., may be substituted for the fresh fruit.

Lunch
A large raw vegetable salad of lettuce, celery, and one or two other raw vegetables plus avocado and alfalfa sprouts or nut and seeds. As an alternative, a vegetable salad (omitting tomatoes), one cooked green vegetable and a starch.

Dinner
A large raw vegetable salad (if nuts or cottage cheese are to be used as the protein, tomatoes may be used in this salad), two cooked non-starchy vegetables and a protein.

So basically eat like a rabbit? One protein a day?