What is food combining? Is it important?
After you eat a meal, blood is shunted to your digestive system, and away from the muscles, brain, and other organs. This is why you feel like resting after eating a big meal and not going out for a jog. If food is in your system too long, it can ferment and putrefy, causing indigestion, heartburn, and weight gain due to improper assimilation. In contrast, fruits and vegetables, which are mostly water, take only a short time traveling through the digestive tract. Moreover, different types of foods require different types of digestive enzymes in your system, meaning they’ll digest more efficiently if you avoid mixing foods from one group with those of another. It is therefore good to know how to combine foods so that meals require as little time as possible in the digestive system. Correct combinations assist proper digestion, assimilation, and elimination of each food eaten. You’ll also experience better sleep when you combine your foods better. Some basic food combining principles tha
