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Digestion is a complex process. However, food combining is a simple way to understand

digestion.

Digestion starts with smell.  Smell stimulates the digestive organs to get ready for food. 

Once the food enters the mouth, it should be chewed until it is a liquid so that acidic salivary digestive enzymes such as ptyalin (breaks down starches) can be mixed into it. 

The liquid food then enters the stomach, which secretes hydochloric acid that further breaks down starches and acidic gastric enzymes that breaks down starches and acidic gastric enzymes that break down proteins and emulsifies fats.  The liquid food leaves the stomach and enters the duodenum.  The duodenum triggers the stomach's peristaltic activities and triggers the liver and pancreas to secrete digestive enzymes. 

   The main activity of digestion occurs in the duodenum.  The alkaline digestive fluids of the pancreas neutralize the acidified food that leaves the stomach.  The alkaline pancreas enzymes saturate the food while it is in the duodenum. The liver secretes bile, alkaline digestive fluids that break down fats.  The digestion enzymatic sequence actually wraps (saturates) foods with a mucous code.  The code puts the food on a waiting list for digestion and dictates the proper strength of enzymes needed to break down a particular kind of food.

   Digestion is a sequence or chain reaction of enzymes that require specific strengths of alkaline and/or acid enzymes. Wrong food combing interrupts, blocks and stops the sequence.  This results in putrefaction and fermentation of foods.  Wrong food combinations end the building of cells and immunity and start the destruction of cells and immunity.  Wrong food combination causes colds, allergies, skin eruptions, clogged veins and arteries, constipation, diarrhea, bad breath, plaque on teeth, coated tongue, diseases, stomach gas, addiction, mood swings and irritability.  Wrong food combinations make chemicals such as vinegar, alcohol and salts.  Consequently, the person becomes addicted to the chemicals that make inside their body, crave them and use them to season foods (i.e., vinegar, salt, wine, etc,)

    The end result of wrong combining is dis-ease.  Food is forced to be utilized without proper digestive juices and it becomes rancid (rotten) before it is absorbed.  An acid-alkaline imbalance occurs, cellular waste congests the tissues and toxins pollute the blood, nerves, bones, tissues and brain.   

Whatever is fed to the body is fed to the brain!

Wrong combining decreases the nutritive level of the body and decreases the brain's ability to function.  The culminating effect of wrong food combination is constipation, weak immunity, mood swings, irritability, diseases, a short life span and nutritional death.

DOCTRINE OF SIGNATURES:  Foods that grow in the ground combine together harmoniously.  Green fruits combine with each other, leaves combine with leaves, sweet fruits with edible skin combine with each other, sweet fruits with the skins that are peeled combined with each other, sour fruits combine, citrus fruits only combine with citrus, sweet fruits that change skin color (melons) combine with each other, green fruits that change skin colors (squashes) combine with each other. Food combining works on the principle that everything can be married (combined) It is safer to combine within the families (sweet fruits, squash, beans, grasses) than outside the plant family.  The method used to combine vegetables outside of a plant family requires herbs. Herbs (spices) can help marriages between different families to be harmonious. For example, garlic can neutralize the disharmony between acid and alkaline plants and unite mismatched combinations. There are many such herbs. Usually, they do not have the taste of either plant to be combined or they have a dominating flavor.

    The breaking of this rule heads the list as being the worst of the disease-producing dietary habits. It takes a series of acid digestive juices to digest the protein and a series of alkaline digestive juices to digest the starch. When you eat a protein and a starch together, they neutralize themselves and minimal digestion is the result.  Thus, food does not digest, it putrefies.

Exceptions:

  1) Avocados combine well with all starchy vegetables and grains.

  2) Legumes combine fairly well with grains.

2. FRUITS DO NOT COMBINE WITH STARCHES!

    The digestion of fruits requires hardly any time at all in the mouth and stomach while starches require most of their digestion time in those areas.  The fruit sugars are quickly absorbed into the intestines while the starch requires digestion in the mouth and stomach.  If the fruit sugars are held up in the stomach while digestion of starch continues, the food will putrefy or decay in the system.

3. FRUITS DO NOT COMBINE WITH PROTEINS!

    The fruit sugars leave the stomach quickly and are absorbed directly into the intestines while the protein requires significantly more time digesting in the stomach.  If the sugars are held back in the stomach while trying to digest the protein, the food the fruit sugars mix with will putrefy.

4. FRUITS DO NOT COMBINE WITH VEGETABLES!

    Remember that fruits are cleansers and vegetables are builders. Tomatoes are a fruit and an exception to this.  Tomatoes combine with the following vegetables: leaf lettuce, celery, okra, cucumbers, eggplant, bell peppers and summer squash.

    Melons combine with NO OTHER FOOD.  They are in their simplest form and require no digestion at all in the stomach. If they are held back in the stomach of 104*F or 40*C while digesting anything, they will putrefy.

    These two food groups definitely repel each other. The chemistry of these fruits is NOT compatible. For example: Bananas and grapefruit, oranges and raisins, tangerines and prunes.

   Our digestive system's ability to effectively process the foods we eat depends, in part, on not overloading the gastrointestinal tract. Some people believe in eating only one particular food for a meal. This is known as a monotrophic diet.

    The sugar burns quicker than the starches.  The heat of the sugars generate, causes the starches to ferment (rot) before they can be properly digested. Sugar does not combine with fruits, starches or proteins. When sugar is combined, it weakens the digestive fluids and creates toxins.

    The digestive system only receives one signal at a time. Once a fried food enters the stomach, the brain receives the signal to digest the oil.  The oil around the starches or meat causes the body to secrete strong fluids in order to metabolize the oil.  These strong digestive fluids emulsify fats and cannot metabolize starch or meat.  After the breakdown of the oil, the digestive fluids must switch to the alkaline or acid fluids needed to break down the starch or meat, which the oil saturated. While the oil was broken down, the starch or meat became rotten and created toxins that destroy health. 

   Milk must be drank by itself, then after drinking the milk, wait an hour before eating another type of food.  Milk requires lactose to be digested. Lactose enzymes are only needed until the child is five years old.  Then, the child no longer makes lactose enzymes (lactose intolerance) Adults usually cannot digest cow''s milk, colostrum milk or breast milk.

    Animal flesh requires an acid fluid for digestion.  These acid fluids are destroyed by carbohydrates and fruits.  Animal protein or vegetable protein should not be combined with carbohydrates. When they are eaten at the same time, the animal flesh is not properly digested and the carbohydrates (starches) are not properly digested.  Protein (vegetables, animal flesh) can be combined with vegetables.. Ideally, meat should not be combined with any vegetable, fruit or starch.

At least one hour should pass before eating another type food. In other words, a hamburger and bread sandwich is not proper food combining. It is harmful to health. Never mix starches with meat.

   This causes both fruits not to be digested properly.  They begin to ferment and rot.  This causes the body to deteriorate. 

   This causes the body to deteriorate. Mixing sweet fruits with grains causes the spoilage of the grains and fermentation and stops digestion.  The grains (wheat, rice, corn, rye, barley, millet) causes the sweet fruit to burn (metabolize) too slowly. This mixture of fruits causes constipation. Cow's milk mixed with grains or sugars works against digestion too.

This information is shared via The Center For Building Better Health Naturally and "African Holistic Health" by Llaila O. Afrika