Food Combining and Digestion: A Rational Approach to Combining What You Eat to Maximize Digestion and Health - Softcover

Meyerowitz, Steve

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1878736574 ISBN 13: 9781878736574

Publisher: BOOK PUBLISHING COMPANY, 1996

Synopsis

This easy-to-follow book teaches you how to stop indigestion and get more nutrition from what you eat. Includes techniques to increase flow of digestive juices and ways to stop indigestion. Over 25 illustrations & Charts.

About this title

About the Author

Steve was pronounced "Sproutman" in a 1977 Vegetarian Times Magazine feature article that explored the why's and wherefores of his 100% sprout diet. While over 2 decades time, most diets change, Steve is still a believer in living foods and one of the most prominent spokespersons for sprouting.

Steve got interested in sprouts after a 20 year effort to correct chronic allergies and asthma with conventional medicine. He made dramatic changes in diet and within two months of eating a strict "living foods," vegetarian diet, his lifelong symptoms disappeared. He continued to practice a 100% raw foods diet (nothing cooked, packaged, canned, frozen or processed) for five years. During that time, he also experimented with other extreme diets such as fruitarianism (just fruit) and fasted for as long as 100 days.

Steve is the inventor of two home sprouters, the Flax Sprout Bag and the Kitchen Garden Salad Grower. He is the author of several health and diet titles including Juice Fasting and Detoxification, Wheatgrass Nature's Finest Medicine, Sprouts the Miracle Food, Sproutman's Kitchen Garden Cookbook, and the forthcoming Wetter is Better and Power Juices.

Steve has been featured on the Home Shopping Network, TV Food Network, in Prevention, Organic Gardening and Flower & Garden Magazines. In 3 minutes on QVC, 953 people ordered his Cookbook and Tabletop Greenhouse.

From the Back Cover

Food Combining & Digestion.

Stop treating your stomach like a compost and start treating it like a garden.

Adam had it easy. He ate the fruit off the trees and the leaves from the plants. There was no pasta, pesto or pizza. Our modern diet, with all its complexity, requires more gusto than our sedentary bodies can achieve. Flatulence is not the only fallout. We pay for our indigestion with our energy and our longevity. Every stress on the digestive/eliminative system is a drain to our daily energy level and a threat to long range health. Change your bad habits. Navigate through your meals for optimum digestion and turn your health around.

Explains the Laws of Quantity, Frequency & Chemistry. Digestion Times of Different Foods. Mastication. Good Habits. Bad habits. Foods to Avoid. Influence of Emotions. A Perfect Meal. An Awful Meal. How to Strengthen Digestion. Use of Herbs & Enzymes. Controlling Appetite. Food as Energy.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.

Digestion is one of the primal forces of life. Food is one of our most powerful addictions. At 900 billion dollars per year, we spend more on food than on our homes! Food is our second greatest living expense surpassed only by the medical care we sometimes need to correct our dietary indiscretions. So, with all this food and overconsumption, is it such a wonder that the #1 best selling drugs in America are household names like Tums, Pepto-Bismol, Alka-Seltzer, Rolaids, and Digel?

What To Eat

There are so many diets and so many doctors out there touting their best selling books and theories, it's enough to give you indigestion! Overeating is the number one digestive offense we commit and eating less solves a lot of problems. It does not matter if your diet is natural, organic, vegetarian, fat-free or sugarless---too much is too much. There is only a limited volume of digestive juices available at any given meal. If you exceed your capacity, even the finest organic food will decay rather than digest. Rule #1: Eat less for better digestion.

When to Eat

Hunger is a primal response. Most of us have never experienced true hunger because our lunch has barely left our stomach when we sit down for dinner. But resting your digestive organs in between meals is one of the best ways to insure an adequate supply of digestive enzymes for the next meal. Rule #2: Eat when you're hungry.

During bedtime hours the stomach is closed for business. Food eaten then mostly sits there sabotaging your enzyme bank account for tomorrow and giving you bad breath in the morning. Eating late at night, is like trying to make a deposit after the bank has closed.

Where To Eat

Do you eat while walking? Or in an elevator? Do you eat and drive? Have you ever eaten when you were upset? While having an argument? Everything affects everything. The anger of an argument constricts the ducts that release gastric juices. Compare a candlelight dinner with Mozart to a food fight or noshing in an elevator. Rule #3: Optimum digestion requires comfort, relaxation and enjoyment.

Exercises

Eastern medicine views the forces of digestion as the element of fire. So, if you think of the stomach as your 'furnace,' then to increase digestion, we must make more heat. One of the best ways to intensify a fire is to feed it oxygen. Aerobic exercises are thus a great prescription for improving digestion. Jogging, swimming, walking, trampolining...all do the job. When you see the color come into your face, you're hot. Can't exercise? Do 5 minutes of deep breathing just before the meal. A sedentary lifestyle handicaps digestion. Exercise builds appetite and the higher temperatures of a well oxygenated body achieve more efficient combustion.

Edition details

• Publisher: BOOK PUBLISHING COMPANY
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1878736574
• ISBN 13: 9781878736574
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 110