Combining Foods in the Best Way
Even I’m not of Italian origin, nor I have ever visited Italy, I am crazy about their fantastic, tasty, but VERY caloric food. Lasagne, spaghetti, tagliatelle… The key to their successful cuisine is, as they say, the love of good things and good taste. But, if you want to lose weight, to improve your health, to control your blood pressure or blood sugar, your food must not be just tasty. It has to work for you.
It’s not so complicated once you get it. You just need to follow the nutritionist’s advice or watch the caloric values of food you buy, and the most important- you have to respect the rules of combining different food groups. Actually, you need to know which food goes together and can be consumed during one meal, and which food has to be eaten separately.
It took me quite time to realize which goes with what, and how much time has to pass between consuming 2 different types of food. Basically, advices given by the nutritionist were good, but somehow I found it boring to consult different tables and graphs before every single bite, because I didn’t want to lose weight, but to eat healthy. But, if you want to lose weight, it’s very important to actually do it. Simply, there’s no other way, and if you just consider few types of diets, you’ll see that all of them are based on this principle.
So, in order to help those of you who want to lose weight in the healthiest way and above all- not to harm themselves, I’ll tell you “my secret”. I believe that you know that you should eat at least five times a day, and that your portions should be smaller. The first thing is not to combine proteins and carbohydrates. This is “the deadly combination”. Those two types of food consumed during a single meal are bad for digestion because they are incompatible, and they don’t let our body to utilize the nutrients from our foods to their full extent. This combination leads to indigestion, bloating, abdominal discomfort… The second thing is, eat starches and acids at separate meals, because they neutralize each other, and it also leads to indigestion. Third, eat proteins and acids, because proteins need an acid medium to be digested. Fourth, don’t combine proteins and fats. Fats need few hours to be digested. And last, but not the least, and definitely the hardest for all- forget the deserts! After the pleasure they give you, which lasts only until you have eaten it, they become too heavy, indigested, and bacteria turn them into acids, vinegars, and alcohols.
