Lets talk Food Combining

When I first heard of food combining I was very confused on the whole process and how it was supposed to help weight loss.

If you don’t know what food combining is, you came to the right place. Food combining basically means only eating certain food groups together. The reason being is that foods digest at different times. For example, steak with potatoes can lead to negative health and digestive effects.

The rules of food combining are:

• Only eat fruit on an empty stomach, especially melons.
• Don’t combine starches and proteins.
• Don’t combine starches with acidic foods.
• Don’t combine different types of protein.
• Only consume dairy products on an empty stomach, especially milk.

I know what you’re thinking, I’ve been eating meals all wrong. Well, that’s not true. After people tried this, they said the first three days they could really tell a difference and were feeling better than ever. Then after a week or so, they felt bloated all the time very sluggish and noticed they had gained weight.

In this YouTube video, Kelani Anastasi shows what her everyday morning routine is as a food combiner. Two months later she posted this video saying how bad it has been for her body. I came across different videos of people debunking food combining and saying how it only made them feel and look worse.

When I watched videos on food combining I immediately thought this is way too much food. Two breakfast that are basically completely carbs is the first problem I saw. While you do want to eat more carbs in the morning, you don’t need to over do them. The rest of the rules after I read them just didn’t make sense. When has it ever been bad to eat steak and chicken together or with a potato on the side?

According to an article on healthline.com, ” The rules of food combining are largely based on the idea that the body is not equipped to digest mixed meals. However, this is simply not the case. The human body evolved on a diet of whole foods, which almost always contain some combination of carbs, protein and fat.”

A study was tested on a person that did food combining and one that did not. After six weeks, participants in both groups had lost an average of about 13–18 lbs. But, the food-combining diet offered no benefit over the balanced diet.

So, there you have it! Food combining is just another crash diet that doesn’t even work! Eat good and stay smart people!