When you digest food, enzymes are designed to decompose one food at a time. Your enzymes are unable to do this when you eat poor food combinations, causing not only indigestion, but also the buildup of toxins that eventually produce disease. A diet that combines foods properly ensures that you can build and maintain good health. Follow these guidelines to combine foods optimally.
Step 1
Combine foods that have high vitamin C content with foods that have high iron content. You can, for example, eat red peppers with quinoa and steak with potatoes (as vitamin C increases your absorption of iron). You can also eat bell peppers with kidney beans or cereal and papaya for optimal iron and vitamin C food combinations.
Step 2
Eat broccoli with your fish dinners (such as shrimp, tuna and flounder) as the nutrients in broccoli and fish combined are much more effective at fighting cancer than either nutrient alone.
Step 3
Eat bananas with your yogurt, as this combination aids digestion and boosts your immunity to disease.
Step 4
Combine starches (bread, corn, pasta, potatoes, rice, cereal, crackers, pretzels, beans, lentils, tortillas) and proteins (pork, chicken, turkey, veal, lamb, beef, nuts) well independently with leafy green vegetables. Do not eat starch food items with protein food choices.
Step 5
Eat fruits with other fruits. If you feel the fruits you are eating are too sweet, you can eat a handful of nuts with the fruit. Eat 80 percent fruit with 20 percent nuts. Do not combine fruits with other types of foods (such as vegetables and proteins).
Step 6
Always eat melons alone, as melons digest faster than any other type of food.
Step 7
Mix strawberries, pineapple and grapefruits with grapes, apples and peaches. Do not combine any of these fruits with sweet fruits like raisins, dates or bananas, however.
Step 8
Combine fats and oils with everything (except fruits), but in limited amounts so that they don't slow your digestion down too much.
Tips and Warnings
- TrustedHands.com and Dr. Shelton's Hygienic Review report that you shouldn't eat starches and proteins together because your body needs an alkaline base to digest starches and an acid base to digest proteins.
References
- Dr. Shelton's Hygienic Review; Shelton, Herbert M.; 1979
- TrustedHands.com - Basic Rules of Food Combining
- GardenDome.com
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