Lifestyle Choices

 

Let’s Look at Food Combining

First developed by Dr. William Howard Hay, the theory behind careful food combining is simple: don’t mix protein or acid fruits with carbohydrates at the same meal. If your enzyme system is not as good as it should be, eating concentrated proteins and starches at the same meal can play havoc with digestion, increasing the number of incompletely broken down food particles that find their way into the bloodstream to cause trouble. Concentrated proteins such as cheese, eggs, fish, and meat need an acid medium for digestion. If there are any concentrated starch or sugar foods in the stomach at the same time this can interfere with or even neutralize the acid medium so that the proteins are incompletely digested.

Carbohydrates are different. They need an alkaline medium for digestion. Normally, the acidity of the stomach isn’t high enough to interfere with this process. Just how much acid is released into the stomach depends on the amount of protein present in the digestive tract. In the presence of acid fruits, meat, or other protein foods, the breakdown of starches can be greatly interfered with in someone whose digestive enzymes are already inadequate. This can result in quantities of incompletely digested food particles that pass directly into the bloodstream and can cause sensitivity reactions. Some of the most common reactions in overweight people are feelings of increased hunger, fatigue, or anxiety, or food cravings, all of which lead you to eat more and gain weight instead of losing it. If you have difficulty with compulsive eating or trouble losing weight, it is a good idea to apply the food combining principles to whatever slenderizing regimen you choose to follow.

Eat one protein meal, one starch meal, and an alkaline-forming meal a day. For instance, take meat, fish, or poultry together with a tossed salad or root vegetable and fresh fruit at one meal. Then your whole-grain cereal, whole-wheat or rye toast, plus natural sugars such as figs or raisins or dates at a second meal. Finally, have an alkaline-forming meal of, say, fruits and milk or yogurt at the third meal.

 

Do-it-Yourself Allergy Testing

The second approach depends on testing yourself to see if you have any particular foods that may be producing sensitivity reactions that can resuit in tiredness, increased appetite, or depression, which spark you to eat more than you should. This means sitting down and making a list of the foods you eat every day, those that you crave, and those that, after you eat them, make you feel more hungry, tired, nervous, or depressed, and those that you use to improve your mood. (Chocolate can cheer up lots of people, or bread, cookies, and cheese.) Once you’ve made your list (and it may mean keeping a record for several days of what you eat, what time, how you feel afterward, and so on), you can see clearly the foods most likely to be troublesome to you. They are almost always those you crave the most, eat most often, or use to boost your morale when it needs it. Some of the most common offenders are grains such as cereals or breads, milk and milk products such as cream, yogurt, and cheese, and packaged, processed foods that contain monosodium glutamate or chemical colorings, flavorings, and preservatives. Put yourself on a diet free of all these things for a week by sticking to fresh meat, fish, and poultry with fresh fruits, salads, and fresh vegetables. Or, better still, go on the Rohsafte-Kur for five days. Then see how you feel.

Have you lost some of your insatiable hunger? Have you also lost weight? Now, one by one, reintroduce these foods—slowly and carefully, only one at a time. Eat cheese, for instance, a moderate amount at a meal, and then don’t eat it again for four days. Then test another food in the following four days. Did you experience any kind of withdrawal symptoms such as headache or increased hunger during these days? Did you get a lift from eating the food or any immediate reaction to the food? If not, then you are pretty safe with it and can introduce it back into your diet. If you did, it is likely to be a trouble-causer for you and is best completely eliminated. Food allergies and how they can affect us can be enormously complex, but these two methods are very simple things to try if you suspect a food allergy could be behind your problem in losing weight. For anyone who has repeatedly suffered with overweight, they are certainly worth experimenting with. ^-Whichever method you choose, drink a lot (eight to ten glasses a day) of pure water (not coffee or tea) to help eliminate toxic wastes before they can cause trouble, stop using extra salt on your foods, and eliminate white flour and sugar from your diet.

 

Design Your Own Regimen

It is important that every woman develop her own slenderizing regimen to suit her needs and her tastes within the bounds of good nutrition, but there is one particular regimen that I find extremely useful, and which I offer as a possibility, called the Breakthrough Diet. It was worked out with the help of Dr. Dagmar Leichti, director of the Bircher-Benner Clinic in Zurich. It is designed to get you into a slenderizing program with a bang and into a new way of eating and also to help you reeducate your appetite quickly and remove all the by-products of stimulants such as coffee, alcohol, and pollutants from your system. But it demands you spend the first day of the regimen in bed if possible, or at the very least, resting quietly. Sunday is a good day to start. Many women who have tried it find it is just the impetus they need to get them going.

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