One of the basic rules of weight loss dieting is the launch of the body metabolism. With the smooth metabolism are believed not to be the buildup of substances in the body resulting in illness. Including obesity.
Food combining is one method that is often used for weight loss. In the food combining, the focus is to set a combination of these types of foods in a certain period.
The wrong food combination, or have a much different indigestion, can cause the food left in the intestines. Just because, the result of digestion is not fluent, appeared like the rest of the fermentation gas build-up resulting in flatulence, and body work will not be optimal.
By doing the food combining diet, you can achieve a healthy lifestyle and the ideal weight you want through food. Here are a few basic rules in a Food Combining :
1. Eat more fruit
Things to know, fruits contain a simple sugar that is very easy to digest. Therefore, the fruits are highly recommended to be eaten on its own, not combined with other foods.
If eaten with other foods with different digestion process time, then the digestion process of the fruit will be distracted and follow a longer time of other food indigestion. Sugar from fruit settled in the stomach and fermented because the process becomes longer.
2. Protein and carbohydrates are not appropriate
Do not eat proteins and carbohydrates concurrently. Because the two types of these foods produce enzymes that mutually cancel each other. It will make your food takes a long time to digest and cause fermentation in your gut.
In a Food Combining, you can combine proteins with vegetables calorie-free, such as green vegetables, and carrots. Carbohydrates also can you consume with vegetables, or food with vegetable protein, such as soy.
3. Eat melons and watermelons when the stomach is empty
You may be accustomed to presenting melon and watermelon as a dessert. However, consciously or not, because that habit, your stomach will be bloated. It's like the belly is filled with gas, slightly decreasing blood sugar, accompanied by a slight sense of nausea.
Why is it so? Because, lemon and watermelon – so too with more fruits, preferably consumed alone are not combined with other types of food. Because of this, fruits have a different digestive process with other sweet foods. To optimally Digest, eat watermelon and melon before eating when the stomach is empty.
4. Eat a lot of green vegetables
However, green vegetables keep best foods for human beings. Does not contain many vitamins and minerals, such as amino acids (essential for building proteins), vitamins B, magnesium, iron and fibre, food is also ideal combined with all types of food. Therefore, it would be good always to enter the menu of green vegetables from your diet every day.5. Limit of fat
Although fats and oils by different types of food – except fruit, still the consuming should be limited as they are full of calories, and it took a long time to be digested. Therefore, always give a distance of 4-5 hours between meals, if there are fat on the menu.
6. Set the Distance of Eating Time
After knowing the time it takes a type of food (carbohydrates, protein, fat and fruit) to digest in the belly, then you must learn to give sufficient time for all the food out of the stomach, and reduce the effects of the bad.
In a Food Combining, the following suggestions are time constraints between the consumption of foods that could not be integrated with either:
- Heavy meal two hours after eating fruit
- Eat a protein three hours after consuming a carbohydrate
- Carbohydrates and eat four hours after eating protein. (*)
