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How To: Food Combinations

Hi I'm Amy

I'm here with Caravan Wellness today I'm a registered

dietitian and we are going to be talking about food

combining today it's a very popular topic right now

you might have heard some of your friends talking

about it

so what we're gonna do is we're going to cover why might

you be interested in food

combining and what is food combining so the theory

behind food combining is that a lot of the foods that

we eat require separate enzymes to break them down

so when you combine the wrong foods together it creates

a sludge in the body and a slowness in your digestion

which can lead to everything from bloating weight

gain exhaustion

you name it

so what should you eat together the foods that you

should eat together when you're eating protein

so the meat that's in the sandwich

you should combine it

Only with non starchy vegetables

so that would be greens that would be peppers that

would not be sweet potatoes when you're eating carbohydrates

what should you eat it with not protein

you should eat it with healthy fats such as avocado

or if you want to put enough butter on it and any

non-starchy vegetables

those all go together

fruits should be eaten alone

fruit digests

the most quickly of all foods so we want it to go through

our body on its own very quickly acting like a broom

to remove toxins and to keep us regular

so when you are eating fruits

we don't even want to pair it with non starchy vegetables

additionally you want to avoid drinking any water

especially cold water while you're eating the reason

for that is because cold water and water in general

dilutes the enzymes in our stomach

so our digestion becomes less efficient

so something like eating a sandwich is exactly very

popular culture

but almost exactly what you don't want to do

we have the carbohydrates

we do have the starchy vegetables

but we also have the protein so that confuses our body

as we need to draw all of our different enzymes into

the gut at the same time which slows digestion and

causes some sort of backup

so when we separate the foods we can call forward the

enzymes that we need to help digest very smoothly

so therefore

there's no bloat

there's no gas there's no distension and we can use

the food very easily for energy which is what our body

likes and what our body requires do you have to do food

combining when you feel terrible

if you eat a sandwich

absolutely not

some people feel better when they

Do try food combining so it's up to you and it's something

that you can easily do anywhere you can go to a restaurant

and get a salad with some grilled shrimp on it

you can go to a restaurant and get an open-faced avocado

sandwich

there's so many things that you're doing in your everyday

life

but if you make small edits like not having a fruit

salad on the side of your omelette

you might feel that much better

so that's food combining so by incorporating food

combining into your into your regular program you

might feel more energized

you might experience some weight loss and your body

might be really happy so that's food combining if

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that's it for today