Great read about proper food combining discovered by Ivan Pavlov and mentioned in his book, The Work of the Digestive Glands. No more burgers and friends, rice and chicken

Excerpt from Fit For Life by Hrvey and Marilyn Diamond © Copyright 1985 The Principle of Proper Food Combining Perhaps you may have already come into contact with proper food combining. It is becoming more and more popular (and justifiably so). The importance of proper food combining has been proved as a result of intense research time and time again over the last eighty- five years. In fact, one of the first people who studied this subject is probably familiar to you. Does the name Ivan Pavlov ring a ben? In addition to his experiments on conditioned reflexes, Pavlov also did a great deal of study of proper food combining, and in 1902 he published a book entitled The Work of the Digestive Glands, wherein he revealed the basic fundamentals of proper food combining. Proper food combining works, and it works beautifully. There have been many studies done substantiating its value, most notably by Dr. Herbert M. Shelton, who from 1928 to 1981 had a school in San Antonio, Texas, where he compiled the most extensive research data available on the proper combinations of foods. Dr. Shelton's work, backed up as long ago as 1924 in the Journal of the American Medical Association by Dr. Philip Norman, shows the effectiveness and validity of food combining as a science. If it is violated, a host of problems result, which are an enormous hindrance to the successful loss of weight. It stands to reason that if the appropriation cycle is encumbered in any way, then the cycles following will also suffer. NOTHING STREAMLINES THE APPROPRIATION CYCLE MORE THAN ADHERING TO THE PRJNCIPLES OF PROPER FOOD COMBINING. How does proper food combining fit in with the loss of excess weight? How do you start your day? Do you jump out of bed with an incredible feeling of vitality, ready to charge into the day? Or do you drag yourself out of bed and gulp down some coffee to get the day going? Do you go through your day with a positive feeling of anticipation? Or are you thinking, Gee, I hope I can make it until Friday. At the end of the dayare you still full of energy? Are you looking forward to spending some time with your kids, your spouse, or your friends? Or, come evening, do you barely have enough energy to get dinner down and then collapse on the couch in front of the TV prior to passing out? The difference between these two types of days boils down to one crucial element: energy! There's probably not a person reading this page right now who would not like to have more energy. It's like money. If I were to hand you a flfty-dollar bill, would you tear it up and throw it into the street? I doubt it. If you would not take a fifty-dollar bill and throw it away, would you do that to something far more important than money, your energy? You wouldn't knowingly, but unknowingly you may be doing that regularly. If you want to run, read, play, or do anything, you require energy. In fact if there is no energy in your body, it means that you are not alive. No energy, no life. Everyone wants to have more energy. Guess what function of the human body demands more energy than any other function? The digestion of food! Isn't that interesting? Have you ever felt sleepy after a meal? Who hasn't? That happens because all energies are concentrated on taking care of the food in the system. The digestion of food takes more energy than running, swimming, or bike riding. In fact, there's nothing you can name that takes more energy than the digestion of food. This energy is crucial for the all-important detoxification (elimination of toxic waste) of the body. If we can eliminate toxic waste from our bodies on a regular basis, we are going to lose weight on a regular basis, and not put that weight back on. It takes energy to eliminate, and the elimination cycle is of extreme importance. The body cannot eliminate toxic waste without your cooperation. The way we must assist the body is to supply it with readily available energy on a steady basis. This is the answer to being healthy and trim. It's having a sufficient amount of energy at the body' s disposal to take care of detoxification. If the digestion of food takes more energy than any other function of the body, where is it, do you think, that we are most likely to be able to free up some energy for use elsewhere? From our digestive tracts, of course. Food combining is based on the discovery that certain combinations of food may be digested with greater ease and efficiency than others .The successful results obtained through the principles of food combining can be explained and substantiated by the facts of physiological chemistry, particularly the chemistry of digestion. Energy is the key, and nothing streamlines the process of digestion, which optimizes energy, more than proper food combining. Food combining teaches this: THE HUMAN BODY IS NOT DESIGNED TO DIGEST MORE THAN ONE CONCENTRATED FOOD IN THE STOMACH AT THE SAME TIME. This is a very simple but significant statement. Remember what is meant by concentrated food: ANY FOOD THAT IS NOT A FRUIT AND IS NOT A VEGETABLE IS CONCENTRATED. Proper food combining merely states that because the human stomach is not capable of digesting more than one of these concentrated foods at a time, you should not eat more than one concen- trated food at a time. It's just that simple. Every species of mammal has a specific type of digestive system biologically adapted to a particular type of food--from the lion, whose digestive tract is about twelve feet long, to the giraffe, whose digestive tract is about two hundred and eighty feet long! There are carnivorous, herbivorous, omnivorous, graminivorous and frugivorous animals on this planet. There is some argument as to what type of digestive system the human species possesses, but one thing is certain: Humans do not possess ALL these different types of digestive systems. However, we humans eat the diet of a lion, a giraffe, a pig, a horse, and an ape. And not only do we eat the different diets of all these animals, but we do so at the same meal! This places a tremendous burden on the digestive faculties, forces the creation of toxic waste in the system, and squanders a great deal of precious energy. I wonder if you have ever eaten meat and potatoes together. Fish and rice? Chicken and noodles? Eggs and toast? Cheese and bread? Cereal and milk? You might be saying, "Hey, wait a second here, what else is left?" Don't worry, there's plenty. What if I were to tell you that eating these particular combinations is not in your best interest and also insures that you will have neither the slim body nor the energy you want? In fact, regularly eating these particular combinations guarantees that you will never have the energy that you need. The cornerstone of weight loss is detoxification, and detoxification is entirely dependent upon energy. The improper combination of food in the stomach is exactly why we have an "energy crisis" in this country. It is also a contributing factor to why people in this country are dying at age fifty. Death means the body no longer has the energy to deal with its situation. And death at fifty is indefensible. Nearly two thirds of the population are overweight. A great deal of that can be attributed to the fact that we eat foods haphazardly and indiscriminately combined. This deserves further explanation...