Food combining

[aquallascott]

• Starches + Veggies = OK</li>
• Proteins + Veggies = OK</li>
• Proteins + Starches = No No</li>
• Plant Proteins + Plant Proteins = OK</li>
• Animal Proteins + Animal Proteins = No No</li>
• Starches + Starches = OK</li>
• Fats + Proteins (animal or plant) = No No (or pair moderately)</li>
• Fats + Carbohydrates = OK</li>
• Fats + Starches = OK</li>
• Fruits are best eaten on an empty stomach</li>
• Fruit + Raw greens = OK (except melons)</li>
  Is there any merit to this actually helping with digestion? 
  Read a few books, specifically "healing with whole foods", but I can't find a reliable source of the science behind it.  

 

[centralforce6661]

Paul Pritchard (the author of healing with whole foods) is part of the vegan activist movement, and his views on animal product consumption need to be taken with a grain of salt... Or a whole salt shaker.

 

[aquallascott]

I agree with that, I mean the guy looks very sickly. I'm aware that veganism isn't ideal, I'm just more concerned about the whole eat fruit alone info, and such that I've been reading all over the place. I know that combining foods plays a role in tcm, but how valid is all this?

 

[starduststreakoflightning]

What you said makes no sense.
Potatoes (which are starches) also have proteins. First failMeat has both proteins and fats. Second fail

 

[centralforce6661]

No but the book to which aquallascott is referring is written with a TCM/Western mix... Which quite frankly distorts the TCM and presents it poorly.

However this is essentially correct, the idea of food combining from a TCM perspective has nothing to do with the concept of macro nutrients and this smacks of just an opportunity for this author to prey on ignorance to push one line in the whole thing:

Animal protein + animal protein = No.

How dare you consume two meat products!!!!!

Etc.

Fruit should be eaten on an empty stomach but it's fine to eat something afterwards.

The reason is because fruit begins to ferment when it is sitting on top of something else and this causes gas build up. Not a TCM idea at all, purely scientific.

 

[aquallascott]

Thank you, that's all I really needed to know. It's funny because if I remember correctly, I believe you were the one who I got the idea of reading that book from Centralforce.
On another note, I don't think that list is the best worded, and of course things like potatoes have protein, the point I was trying to get across was regarding how things digest together. Potatoes are mostly starch, where as meat would be in the "protein" category. Yes, meat has fats it's refering to things like avacado's/butter. Nonetheless I had my suspicions that its was bunk.


Anyways, cenrtralforce, I have a few questions for you and was wondering if you could shoot me a pm?