Food Combining for Nutrient Absorption with Absolique Trichologist
Many have not heard of food combining, yet it is so important to digestion and absorption. Incorrect food combining can create an acid pH, and a competing environment for digestion and absorption resulting in a meal loaded with calories but with no nutritional value. Understanding and practising food combining is super important when trying to use good quality food for nutrition to help with health, hair loss, hair thinning, hair breakage and scalp conditions.
We talked about pH testing, so now you should know your pH or have ordered your pH test kit and booklet. Now you should begin to understand how pH impacts your body and be ready to make some changes to help balance your pH, and the cheapest thing to do which makes a big impact is food combining. There are some rules which will impact most comfort dishes, but please tune in as change can be gradual, it does not have to happen all at once.
Food Combining for Nutrient Absorption with Absolique Trichologist
- Acid foods need to be combined with alkaline foods
- Do not combine animal proteins with direct carbohydrates
- Combine animal proteins with low GI vegetables
- Do not combine different animal proteins
- No fruit with any other fruit or any other food
Here we go, with correct food combining for pH balance, assisting alkalising, digestion and absorption, acid foods need to be combined with alkaline foods. Your Easy pH booklet has a double page table of the acid and alkaline food to use as a guide. For an example, beef, seafood, and chicken (and most animal proteins) are acid, this is not a problem and they are healthy, but they need to be combined with alkaline food such as alkaline vegetables. So, animal proteins and vegetables are a perfect balanced meal without the carbohydrate.
Most grains and cereals (carbohydrates) are acid so should not be combined with another acid. Meat and potato are an acid combination and will form acid and a competing environment for absorption. Let us break this down a little more, animal proteins require certain digestive enzymes to break them down into the functional form of amino acids, whereas carbohydrates break down to sugars which have many different digestive pathways in the body. Combining both animal proteins – amino acids, and carbohydrates – sugars, in the same meal, create and competing environment and all you will get from it is a calorie value, sugar energy, an acid environment and no nutrition.
Ok, now you have got that, no animal proteins with carbohydrates, or even high glycaemic index foods (GI), look at your daily meals, what is the combination? Most people are eating what is considered a healthy diet, but when you look at these food combinations, how do you score? Let us start with breakfast, eggs on toast are tasty, but an incorrect food combination, instead consider organic eggs (not just free range) with vegetables such as tomato, mushroom, spinach etc. Get creative and think outside of your normal.
If you want to continue with the carbohydrates, such as gluten free bread, it needs to be combined with vegetable proteins or vegetables, not animal proteins. For correct food combining do not have animal proteins and carbohydrates (bread, pasta, rice, potatoes, corn, peas, sweet potato, other grains) in the same meal. Hope this helps and makes some sense, get started looking at all you meals and start with one at a time to correct the food combination and you will notice a change in your digestion very quickly if you implement this and the articles to follow. Next, we will talk about fruit.
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