Try this Diet if You’re Not Digesting Food Well

Posted on May 15, 2012 by

Are you not digesting food well? Let’s take a look at how long some commonly eaten foods take to pass through the stomach: fresh fruit, when consume…

Are you not digesting food well? Let’s take a look at how long some commonly eaten foods take to pass through the stomach: fresh fruit, when consumed alone on an empty stomach, leaves the stomach in about fifteen to twenty minutes. Vegetables take a little over one hour. A serving of pasta, a serving of whole-grain cereal, a filllet of fish, or a breast of chicken spends about three to four hours in the stomach.

Steak and other red meats take a little longer. If you were to eat chicken with some raw vegetables and steamed broccoli alone, it would still take only three to four hours because this would be a quick-exit combination. However, a more typical meal in our culture would be a combination of chicken with french fries or rice, or bread (as in the case of a chicken sandwich).

When you mix foods in this way, the transit time of the meal skyrockets from approximately three to four hours in the stomach to approximately eight hours in the stomach, backing up the whole digestive system and exhausting your energy. This happens every time foods are “miscombined,” creating a slow-exit meal.

If you are just starting to transition away from a mainstream diet, simply give your favorite foods a quick-exit makeover. For example, while a steak combined with a potato spends eight to twelve hours in the stomach, a steak combined with a raw salad and steamed green vegetables spends only about four to five hours in the stomach. If it’s pasta you’re craving (ideally whole-grain pasta), just have it with marinara sauce, unlimited vegetables, and some raw vegetables, and it should leave the stomach in about three hours.

You could even have a couple of whole-grain cookies for dessert, guilt free! Learn the simple rules for mixing foods in the chart below and you’ll be on your way. If you were to choose only one Raw Food Energy principle for optimum digestion, energy, and weight loss, apply the principle of eating quick-exit combinations. Once you know what categories your favorite foods fall into, it is not at all difficult to combine your meals properly.

Five Rules of Combining Food to Digest Better

  1. Starches combine only with other starches and all raw and cooked
    vegetables.
  2. Fleshes combine only with other ?eshes, all raw vegetables, and all cooked
    nonstarch vegetables.
  3. Nuts combine only with other nuts, seeds, dried fruits, bananas, and all
    raw vegetables.
  4. Dried fruits combine only with other dried fruits, avocados, bananas, nuts,
    and all raw vegetables.
  5. Fresh fruit should only be eaten alone on an empty stomach.

These tips should help you to beat the problem of not digesting food well. Hope this helps you!

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Good Snack Food – Learn What You Should Eat

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by Justin Fox on April 6, 2009

Some people need to eat constantly and others can go long stretches between meals effortlessly. To the latter group, I say, don’t start a habit of snacking if you don’t have one already. Snacking makes the digestive system work around the clock, which will make you feel fatigued and slow the whole cleansing/healing process.

For those of you who want, or need, food between meals, reach for the quickest-exit foods — namely, fresh fruits and vegetables. The goal is to select mini-meals that require
minimal digestive effort.

Raw vegetables are the most ideal snack because they are light and will not create fermentation if you eat them too soon after lunch. Fresh fruits are a good snack if you wait a full three hours after a properly combined lunch. Nuts/seeds/dried fruits are okay if you wait a full three hours after a properly combined, nut-free lunch and a full three hours before a nut-free dinner.

You may enjoy anything made from nuts/seeds/dried fruits anytime as dessert or a snack without waiting any specific amount of time. I recommend snacking from the same category of food as your lunch to eliminate the issue of waiting. What you can do is to split your lunch up into two parts.

For example, if you had an avocado sandwich and salad at midday, you might have more of that sandwich or another avocado sandwich (possibly with any leftover salad or vegetables) mid afternoon. Since whole-grain cookies combine with the grain-bread sandwiches, you could also have some whole-grain cookies later on without having to worry about what the midday lunch has left in the stomach.

The other way to avoid waiting is to eat a neutral meal before your snack. For example, if you just eat a large raw vegetable salad for lunch, which is completely neutral, you can enjoy a snack from any category at snack time. If you prefer to have a late-day snack, you could select one from the same food group as your dinner.

For example, if you knew you were having fish and vegetables for dinner at 7 P.M. but you wanted a snack at 5 or 6 P.M., you could enjoy some raw goat cheese and vegetables because they combine perfectly with fish.

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Detox Tip: Dry Brushing to Improve Your Skin and Health

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This article will talk about the benefits of dry brushing. Take a look at your largest organ — your skin. The quality of your skin will give you an …

This article will talk about the benefits of dry brushing. Take a look at your largest organ — your skin. The quality of your skin will give you an idea of the quality of your organ tissues. When you put something unnatural into your body, imagine it going straight into your tissues and organs. How can your skin and eyes glow if your tissue quality is laden with junk?

When you put only natural, fresh foods into your body, your tissue quality will reflect that and you will glow with the radiance nature intended. When your skin is getting oxygenated from within due to excellent blood flow and unobstructed pathways, the signs of aging and cellulite can be reduced dramatically without any expensive creams or plastic surgery.

Dry brushing is one of the greatest detoxification tools after colonics. Dry brushing is done with a special natural-bristle body brush that you can find in any health food store. The brush costs only about $7 and is one of the cheapest, most effective beauty and health treatments you can enjoy.

When you dry brush your body correctly:

  • Your lymphatic system is stimulated to push out wastes.
  • The dead skin is removed, making way for your skin to breathe fresh oxygen into the tissues for greater oxygenation throughout.
  • Lactic acid and other lymph waste is brushed away.
  • Cellulite is targeted and diminished.
  • You are left feeling totally energized.

How to Dry Brush Your Body

Stand in your bathtub, shower, or anywhere you are comfortable, completely dry and nude. Take the dry brush off the long wooden handle. Since you should always brush the body in upward strokes toward the heart, with the exception of the torso, begin brushing the tops of your feet in firm strokes toward the ankles. Then make ?rm strokes up the calves, toward the knees (make two strokes over each spot).

Brush upward along the backs of the knees, the groin, and the armpits (these are the major lymphatic drainage regions, so pay extra attention to them). Next, brush the fronts of the thighs from the knees to the groin and hip sockets and the backs of the thighs in firm upward strokes.

If you are prone to cellulite or “saddle bags,” spend a moment brushing those areas in a circular motion. Next, brush the torso in downward strokes; then brush the palms of the hands well from the fingertips to the wrists — followed by long brush strokes from the wrists to the armpits and shoulders. Be sure to brush equally on both sides of the body.

Finally, place the brush back on the wooden stick and brush as much of your back as you are able to reach. This whole process should only take about three to five minutes. A new brush can feel harsh the first couple of times but will quickly soften, so brush more gently at the beginning if you need to. This practice will leave your physical and energy bodies completely refreshed and invigorated!

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