Food combining

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The basic rules are as follows. You may find other sources that go into more detail about detrimental food combinations, but these are the essentials.

1. Don't eat high protein and carbohydrates at the same meal. This means nuts, eggs, meats and cheeses should not be taken with breads, starchy vegetables like potatoes, pasta or especially sweet foods including fruits.

2. Avoid mixing carbohydrates with acids. This means potatoes, rice, pastas and breads should be eaten separately from acidic foods like lemons, limes, tomatoes, vinegar and other sour fruits. Orange juice in the morning with your cereal is a bad combination from a food combining perspective.

3. Don't eat two high protein sources at one meal. Milk and meat, meat and cheese, eggs and meat, nuts and meat, nuts and eggs, eggs and cheese, etc., all need to be avoided while on a food combining regimen.

4. Fats should not be mixed with proteins. This means cream, oil or butter shouldn't be mixed with meat, eggs or nuts. Eating lean meats is a must while on this diet.

5. Acidic fruits should not be mixed with proteins. Oranges, lemons and tomatoes should therefore not be mixed with meat, eggs or nuts. Lemon chicken, duck a l'orange or tomatoes in your omelet need to wait until you're done with your food combining.

6. Most fruits, but especially melons, should be eaten alone. Other high sugar fruits like pineapple, bananas, mangoes and other tropical fruits should be eaten by themselves as well, but melons are the big ones. Skip those appetizers you find at Italian weddings where they wrap melon in prosciutto if you want to avoid the line for the bathroom later on.


BASIC RULE - WATERY FOODS FIRST
To simplify this concept of sequential or layered eating, the basic rule or principle can be stated as follows:
Eat the most watery food first .....


BAD COMBINATIONS TO AVOID
The following represents some examples of bad combinations to avoid

Mixing dried sweet fruit, honey, maple syrup or bananas with nuts or seeds

Mixing starch foods with fresh or acid foods or fruits

Mixing dried sweet fruits with acid fruits.

Never eat dried sweet fruits with or after concentrated proteins

Eating raw, fresh or dried fruits after any cooked food

Avoid drinking beverages or even water during or after meals



CHEW ALL FOOD CLOSE TO LIQUID
For best digestion - chew all food close to a liquid before swallowing.

Also in the 14th edition of Howell's Textbook of Physiology on p.777 is some very interesting research:
Abbe Spallanzani (1729 - 1799), one of the older observers on gastric digestion, found that cherries and grapes, when swallowed whole, even if entirely ripe, were usually passed unbroken in the stools. ....
We can assimilate only those foods which are most liquified. .....


EAT WITH ATTENTION
An excellent practice is to eat with 100% attention on the taste of the food. See Self-mastery through Attentive Eating .....


DIGESTION TIME OF VARIOUS FOODS
(approx. time spent in stomach before emptying). ........

Water
when stomach is empty, leaves immediately and goes into intestines,
Juices
Fruit vegetables, vegetable broth - 15 to 20 minutes.
Semi-liquid
(blended salad, vegetables or fruits) - 20 to 30 min.
Fruits
Watermelon - 20 min.digestion time.
Other melons - Canteloupe, Cranshaw, Honeydew etc. - 30 min.
Oranges, grapefruit, grapes - 30 min.
Apples, pears, peaches, cherries etc. - digest in 40 min.
Vegetables
Raw tossed salad vegetables - tomato, lettuces, cucumber, celery, red or green pepper, other succulent vegetables - 30 to 40 min. digestion. -
Steamed or cooked vegetables
Leafy vegetables - escarole, spinach, kale, collards etc. - 40 min. - Zucchini, broccoli, cauliflower, string beans, yellow squash, corn on cob - all 45 min. digestion time
Root vegetables - carrots, beets, parsnips, turnips etc. - 50 min.
Semi-Concentrated Carbohydrates - Starches
Jerusalem artichokes & leafy, acorn & butternut squashes, corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes, yam, chestnuts - all 60 min. digestion.
Concentrated Carbohydrates - Grains
Brown rice, millet, buckwheat, cornmeal, oats (first 3 vegetables best) - 90 min.
Legumes & Beans - (Concentrated Carbohydrate & Protein)
Lentils, limas, chick peas, peas, pigeon peas, kidney beans, etc. - 90 min. digestion time
soy beans -120 min. digestion time
Seeds & Nuts
Seeds - Sunflower, pumpkin, pepita, sesame - Digestive time approx. 2 hours.
Nuts - Almonds, filberts, peanuts (raw), cashews, brazil, walnuts, pecans etc. - 2 1/2 to 3 hours to digest.
Dairy
Skim milk, cottage or low fat pot cheese or ricotta - approx. 90 min. digestion time
whole milk cottage cheese - 120 min. digestion
whole milk hard cheese - 4 to 5 hours digestion time
Animal proteins
Egg yolk - 30 min. digestion time
Whole egg - 45 min.
Fish - cod, scrod, flounder, sole seafood - 30 min. digestion time
Fish - salmon, salmon trout, herring, (more fatty fish) - 45 min. to 60 digestion time
Chicken - 1½ to 2 hours digestion time (without skin)
Turkey - 2 to 2 ¼ hours digestion time (without skin)
Beef, lamb - 3 to 4 hours digestion time
Pork - 4½ to 5 hours digestion time


Note1: raw animal proteins have much faster digestion times than the above times for cooked/heated animal proteins.
Note2: The digestion times given are under an ideal situation of eating only one food, chewing well, and having efficient digestion, as is the case e.g. after a fast. They are digestion times for optimally healthy persons, with good eating habits. The digestion times are to a large part derived from Dr. Gian-Cursio's and Dr. Bass' practices.
Digestion times are much longer on a conventional diet, and for persons with non-optimized digestive systems, or persons lacking in energy, and for meals with many ingredients put together haphazardly = not in the optimum sequential order.)


EAT SMALLER AMOUNT - FEWER VARIETIES
The smaller the amount of a particular food eaten, the less is the digestive time for that food. The greater the amount of a food eaten, the more is the digestive time prolonged.

..... Remember the less you mix and the fewer the varieties you use, the easier it is to digest and the less you will be tempted to overeat. The greater the variety, the greater the tendency to overeat.


THE IMPORTANCE OF BLENDED SALADS
Due to the liquification of vegetables by blending:
1 - Absorption and assimilation of its vitamins, minerals proteins etc. is increased to approximately 5 times as compare to eating and chewing the salad.
2 - A blended salad will digest and leave the stomach in 15 to 20 min. compared to 30 to 60 minutes for a tossed salad eaten whole......
Etc.
Conservation at energy in the digestive process is the key to all healing. (Success in healing is measured in terms of energy available. This was known by the early masters of Natural Hygiene) .....

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Chitra Vishu is the beginning of the month of Chitrai,Tamil New Year. It is a beginning of Vasantha Ragam/Rithu ( ). Tamil people celebrate this day with great enthusiasm&happiness. It marks the beginning of an era of prosperity&good luck.

This is according to Solar system widely followed in Kerala,Tamil Nadu, Assam, Punjab&West Bengal. This is also observed in Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia,&South Africa amongst Tamilians.

Tamils have named 60 years in a unique way starting from Vikurthi, Kara, Nandana, Vijaya etc. This year is Vikurthi Varusham.

Our Legends say that Brahmmah ,The Lord of creation, started creating the universe from this day.It is also mentioned that Lord Sundareswara(Shiva) married Godess Meenakshi on this auspicious day.

The most important part of the day is Vishu Kani. All types of fruits, vegetables, Rice, Dal, Silver coins/small vessels, & a mirror decorated with a gold chain along with all Pooja materials are neatly arranged, in a convenient place, preferably Pooja Room itself on the previous night. There is a typical flower called Kani flower, in yellow colour,if used, adds to the beauty of the function. Big Kolams (Rangoli) are created on the floors inside&outside the house.

On the new year day, elders wake up the children at 04.30 hrs, &closing their eyes bring them to this Kani Room and open their eyes to see the Gold/ Silver things and all decorations and look into the mirror. Ladies light the lamps. Elders give their children a few coins as a part of celebration called as' Kaineettam'. By witnessing such things, it is believed, will bring them joy, happiness,luck& prosperity throughout the year. All people visit the nearby temples to offer prayers & archana to the deities as a part of gratitude to them for ensuring prosperity.

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In the evening Panchangam(Almanac) is being read in temples to predict the performance of the year for rains, production of grains,major events and special forecast for each Rasi.It is said that that hearing the reading of Panchangam itself is auspicious &bring prosperity.