Food Combining: What To Eat To Flatten Your Tummy + Optimize Digestion

There’s quite a lot of controversy when it comes to the practice of food combining. Does it work? Is it worth all the effort? Despite all the opinions, the practice of food combining can significantly ease digestion and promote proper assimilation of nutrients. It's worth a second look if you've already written this practice off. Developed in 1911 by physician, Howard Hay, who studied and concluded that foods would be better digested if they were eaten with other comparable foods that digested at similar rates or contained the same enzymes necessary to breakdown their nutrients. Sounds rational enough. The controversy began when after further research and a growing understanding of nutrition we realized that, one - most foods naturally contain a combination of fats, carbohydrates and proteins, making it hard to pinpoint which group a food belongs to categorically, and two - the more combinations of these food categories an ingredient or meal contains, the more types of enzymes are needed to break them down for your system to use. While there has been little direct research on the effects of food combining, the practice has helped many people ease digestion complaints and help with nutrient assimilation, whether scientifically validated or not. Some believe that because a heavy and complicated meal containing many different ingredients requires different enzymes as well as an acidic or alkalizing environment, these secretions in the digestive process may actually cancel each other out, causing the digestive process to slow and work less efficiently. This can result in gas, bloating, and other complaints of indigestion. More so, poor food combining coupled with indigestion can lead to stagnation and fermentation in the gut, causing bacteria and yeast overgrowth, candida, symptoms of weakened immunity and other results of poor or compromised digestion down the road. Remember, good health starts with a strong gut! It's worth revisiting food combining, especially if you have weak digestion. Here’s what you might experience if you give it a go: - Improved digestion - Reduction of toxin buildup and formation in the gut - Increased nutrient absorption - Reduced gas and bloating - More rapid elimination - Improved energy [olists num=1] [olists num=2]

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