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Grains. The Top Ingredient Keto, Paleo, Whole 30 Agree You Should Avoid

What Is the Ingredient? Grains Yup, grains. You may have guessed it, also known as wheat, corn, rice, rye, barley, bulgur, sorghum, triticale, millet, oats, and teff. Or more commonly known as bread, pasta, processed foods, fast foods, baked goods, etc. It wasn't until recently that I realized all the "diets" like Keto, Paleo, Whole 30, and Wheat Belly lifestyles all agree on eliminating grains and of course sugar. But don't we already know that? I've noticed brain fog clears, energy levels go up, and mental wellness improves when removing grains. Recently, I fell back into poor eating habits. It happens to us all. You go out to eat once or twice and eat bread, fried food, etc., and it happens just like that, and you're back into your old routine. And just like that, you're feeling poorly again. But is it really the fried food or the grains? If you suffer from seasonal allergies, it may not be pollen but food allergies or sensitivities that are the real culprit. You may have gluten or corn sensitivity. You can try food allergy/sensitivity tests at home to determine if you have sensitivities. You can read more about that discovery in the 5 Day Cleanse -AHA moment. Below is the comparison of Paleo, Keto, Whole 30, Wheat Belly, and AIP lifestyles. It is easy to notice that all lifestyles agree that you should avoid grains and sugar. Of course, we all know at this point that sugar should be avoided. What are Paleo, Keto, Whole 30, Wheat Belly, and AIP? LifestyleMeatsDairyFruitVeggiesLegumesNuts/FatsAvoidAvoid Why avoid Grains? Grains can cause inflammation, digestion issues, gluten sensitivity, joint pain, and more. But let's focus on the many benefits of going grain-free. Benefits of Going Grain Free Improve your mood Reduce anxiety Clear brain fog Prevention of dementia - read Grain Brain for more on this and Alzheimers Relief from acid reflux Reduced joint pain Relief from allergies Improved skin Reduce inflammation Relief from digestion issues Recommended Reading - No Time To Read, Try Audible for on-the-go listening I am now proposing that we yank that big chunk out of our diets. This is because, by eliminating grains, you eliminate the appetite-stimulating effects that encourage consumption of junk carbohydrates. William Davis, MD, Wheat Belly Total Health The origin of brain disease is in many cases predominatly dietary. Although several factors play into the genesis and progression of brain disorders, to a large extent numerous neurological afflictions often reflect the mistake of consuming too many carbs and too few healthy fats. David Perlmutter, MD, Grain Brain Gluten has been linked to coronary disease, arthritic conditions, cancer, diabetes, and thyroid disease. You name the symptoms, gluten is likely the cause. Jack Wolfson, The Paleo Cardiologist Take Away The takeaway from these comparisons is that avoiding grains and sugar is beneficial, and most seem to agree. As I've said before, over and over, no two people are the same; therefore, no two people will have the same results or outcomes. Try an elimination diet to see how you feel after eliminating certain foods. Everyone will have an opinion on whether or not to eat meat or not. Eat grains or not. Be vegan/plant-based or be an omnivore. Both sides make claims about what you should or should not do. But none of them can say what will work for you. It's just a general theory on what they've seen. Not everyone is the same, so you must find what works for you by trying different eating habits and documenting how you feel. Take Your Time and Find What Works For You For instance, I know now that eating grains have caused me allergic reactions. Secondly, I know that I cannot eat a lot of red meat as it causes my triglycerides to rise and that I must take a high dose of fish oil to maintain healthy triglyceride levels. Knowing these things about your body will take effort, time, and focused energy to find what works for you. I encourage you to stick with it. Be your own advocate and detective in finding what is suitable for you. The efforts of my blog are to share my knowledge and experiences with you to see if something will work for you and not to tell you what you should or shouldn't do with your own body and health, but to be proactive in your wellness. Remember that other factors such as endocrine disruptors can also impact your health. You have to thoroughly assess contributing factors, including a food sensitivity test that can jump-start you in the right direction. Check out my course Health and Wellness Explained to start decoding what works for you and only you. I wish you peace and guidance on your journey. Take care and be well. Read the full article

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Celebrated four years since the release of the award-winning, The Black Victorian on 17.7.

Grateful for all the opportunities this project opened me up to, and I honestly look forward to receiving more and more and more.

Enjoy these wonderful BTS by my friend and assistant for the day, Niya Wells. Special love to my muse, Eve Majok and MUA, Johanna Essien 🤎

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Monet by Stephanie C. Nnamani

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Randomly thought about bookmarking this read a few days ago, and I finally had the chance to read. Coincidentally it is exactly a year + a day from the publishing. Excerpt I loved: “I craved the experience; to live in the same space as my work. Much like I craved a concrete memory of a younger me. To move in the physical world, with it.”

“ . . what is real is determined by what resides beyond the physical and especially by the willingness to expand to reach it.”  — @tefftheory

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Siblings of the Sun 📷: Teff Theory

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Hi, I just want to say that the post with the beautiful black woman and the table of fruit has a mistake in the caption linked to her instagram. It should be "Teff Theory" not "Terf Theory", just thought you should know! :)

I cannot believe I fucking wrote terf theory oh my god THANK YOU SO much for pointing this out.

Just to make this clear this blog is very pro trans and very anti terf

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Terra Nullius: Grifters, settler colonialism and "intellectual property"

Terra Nullius is my latest column in Locus magazine; it explores the commonalities between the people who claim ownership over the things they use to make new creative works and the settler colonialists who arrived in various "new worlds" and declared them to be empty, erasing the people who were already there as a prelude to genocide.

I was inspired by the story of Aloha Poke, in which a white dude from Chicago secured a trademark for his "Aloha Poke" midwestern restaurants, then threatened Hawai'ians who used "aloha" in the names of their restaurants (and later, by the Dutch grifter who claimed a patent on the preparation of teff, an Ethiopian staple grain that has been cultivated and refined for about 7,000 years).

I gave a keynote based on this essay in January at the "Grand Re-Opening of the Public Domain" event at the Internet Archive in San Francisco.

Both the venality of Aloha Poke and the genocidal brutality of Terra Nullius reveal a deep problem lurking in the Lockean conception of property: all the stuff that’s “just lying around” is actually already in relation to other people, often the kind of complex relation that doesn’t lend itself to property-like transactions where someone with deep pockets can come along and buy a thing from its existing “owner.”

The labor theory of property always begins with an act of erasure: “All the people who created, used, and improved this thing before me were doing something banal and unimportant – but my contribution is the step that moved this thing from a useless, unregarded commons to a special, proprietary, finished good.”

Criticism of this delusion of personal exceptionalism is buttressed by a kind of affronted perplexity: “Can’t you see how much of my really top-notch labor I have blended with this natural resource to improve it? Who will willingly give their own labor to future projects if, every time they do, loafers and takers come and freeride on their new property?”

This rhetorical move continues the erasure: it denies the claims of everyone who came before you as ahistorical figments: the people who coined, popularized and nurtured the word “aloha” or inhabited the Australasian landmass are stripped of their claims as though they were honeybees whose output is a naturally occurring substance that properly belongs to the beekeeper, not the swarm.

Terra Nullius [Cory Doctorow/Locus]

https://boingboing.net/2019/03/04/lockes-revenge.html

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teff theory. siblings of the sun, 2018.

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Self-portrait by award-winning, self-taught Nigerian Artist, Stephanie C. Nnamani in the courtyard of her matrilineal home in Abia state (2017) as part of an ongoing project.

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Theory and Diagnostics of Hot Star Mass Loss. (arXiv:2109.08164v3 [astro-ph.SR] UPDATED)

Massive stars have strong stellar winds that direct their evolution through the upper Hertzsprung-Russell diagram and determine the black hole mass function. Secondly, wind strength dictates the atmospheric structure that sets the ionising flux. Thirdly, the wind directly intervenes with the stellar envelope structure, which is decisive for both single star and binary evolution, affecting predictions for gravitational wave events. Key findings of current hot-star research include:

* The traditional line-driven wind theory is being updated with Monte Carlo and co-moving frame computations, revealing a rich multi-variate behaviour of the mass-loss rate dM/dt in terms of M, L, Eddington Gamma, Teff , and chemical composition Z. Concerning the latter, dM/dt is shown to depend on the iron (Fe) opacity, making Wolf-Rayet populations, and gravitational wave events dependent on host galaxy Z.

* On top of smooth mass-loss behaviour, there are several transitions in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, involving bi-stability jumps around Fe recombination temperatures, leading to quasi-stationary episodic, and not necessarily eruptive, Luminous Blue Variable and pre-SN mass loss.

* Moreover, there are kinks. At 100 Solar Masses, a high Gamma mass-loss transition implies that hydrogen-rich very massive stars have higher mass-loss rates than commonly considered. At the other end of the mass spectrum, low-mass stripped helium stars no longer appear as Wolf-Rayet stars, but as optically-thin stars. These stripped stars, in addition to very massive stars, are two newly identified sources of ionising radiation that could play a key role in local star formation as well as at high-redshift.

from astro-ph.HE updates on arXiv.org https://ift.tt/gBqA9FO

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15 Underrated Weight Loss Tips That Actually Work | Eat This Not That

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15 Underrated Weight Loss Tips That Actually Work | Eat This Not That

Keep it simple, stupid. The polite version of this saying, known as Occam’s Razor, basically says that the simplest path forward is usually the best. You can apply this theory to everything, even quick weight loss.

What’s simpler than identifying your existing daily habits and then making tiny tweaks that can help tip the scale in your favor? By taking advantage of the more underrated parts of your daily routine, you could toss the rice cakes and running shoes once and for all. In fact, a swing of just 10 calories a day—about as many calories as you burn in 3 minutes of standing still—will make you a pound slimmer by this time next year.

So, before you sign up for a complicated diet plan or commit to an expensive personal trainer, make sure you’ve taken advantage of these simple, effective, and underrated ways to strip off the pounds. And to lose even more weight, you won’t want to miss The Best Ways to Lose Belly Fat for Good, Say Doctors.

A striking new study published in the journal Diabetes suggests that simply blasting the air conditioner or turning down the heat in winter may help us attack belly fat while we sleep. Colder temperatures subtly enhance the effectiveness of our stores of brown fat—fat keeps you warm by helping you burn the fat stored in your belly. Participants spent a few weeks sleeping in bedrooms with varying temperatures: a neutral 75 degrees, a cool 66 degrees, and a balmy 81 degrees. After four weeks of sleeping at 66 degrees, the subjects had almost doubled their volumes of brown fat. (And yes, that means they lost belly fat.)

Drinking coffee may help you lose weight and lower body fat. In fact, drinking four cups of coffee daily could reduce body fat by about 4%, according to a recent study. You just have to make sure you’re not using the 7 Things You Should Never Add to Your Coffee. A cup of coffee has nearly zero calories. A cup of coffee with cream and sugar has 80 calories. If you drink two cups a day, learning to take it black will save you 14 pounds in a year!

Go Full Fat

Not around your waist, but on your plate: A new report from the Credit Suisse Research Institute found that more and more of us are choosing whole-fat foods over skim, lite, fat-free or other modern monikers of leanness. And while many health organizations like the American Heart Association still want us to cut down on fat—particularly saturated fat—this full-fat trend may be a healthy rebellion against those decades-old credos, according to recent studies. Click here to discover The 20 Best Full-Fat Foods for Weight Loss!

They’re the best fruits for weight loss. That means Pink Lady apples, watermelon, red grapes, and raspberries. The higher levels of nutrients called flavonoids—particularly anthocyanins, compounds that give red fruits their color—calm the action of fat-storage genes. For example, research conducted at the University of Western Australia found that the Pink Lady apples had the highest levels of flavonoids, antioxidants which are thought to keep the body in tip-top condition.

Steep Pu-Erh Tea

This fermented Chinese tea can literally shrink the size of your fat cells! To discover the brew’s fat-crusading powers Chinese researchers divided rats into five groups and fed them varying diets over a two month period. In addition to a control group, there was a group given a high-fat diet with no tea supplementation and three additional groups that were fed a high-fat diet with varying doses of pu-erh tea extract. The researchers found that the tea significantly lowered triglyceride concentrations (potentially dangerous fat found in the blood) and belly fat in the high-fat diet groups. Although sipping the tea could have slightly different outcomes in humans, we think these findings are promising enough that it’s still well worth your while to fix yourself a steaming hot cup.

Make Every Day Casual Friday

Wearing jeans to work wears away your belly. University of Wisconsin researchers found that people who wore denim to work took almost 500 more steps (about a quarter mile) throughout the day than they did on days when they wore more formal attire. Sure, you may feel more dapper in your suit, but losing extra belly fat is sure to make you see jeans in a different light and feel more confident—no matter what you’re wearing.

Smelling fresh green apples and bananas curb appetite and make sugary desserts less appealing, studies have shown. The scientists suggest this is because the produce makes you subconsciously think about making healthier choices. If a fruit basket on your desk attracts too many flies, try a simpler idea, like a shea butter-based scented lotion, which will have the same effect. (If you’re eating your apple instead of sniffing it, go for the red one.)

Become a Cereal Killer

Does your crazy-busy morning routine leave you with little time to do more than scarf down a bowl of cereal before running out the door? If so, put down the spoon and listen up! Research has found that eating oatmeal is more satiating than the cold stuff and can help you slim down. Since the instant varieties aren’t always nutritional champions, it’s better to use the slow-cooking variety.

Take a Candy Daydream

A recent study found that fantasizing about eating an entire packet of your favorite candy before indulging may cause you to eat less of it. For the study, researchers asked participants to imagine eating 3 or 30 M&Ms, and then invited them to help themselves to some of the candies as a “taste test.” Those who imagined eating lots of M&Ms actually ate the least.

Schedule a Workout Date

It’s hard to squeeze in a workout before meeting friends for drinks, so you blow off…the workout, of course. A better idea: Tell your bud to meet you at the gym. You can socialize, get fit, and still hit the bar afterward. This trick works with spouses, too: A recent JAMA Internal Medicine study of nearly 4,000 couples found that people are more likely to stick to healthy habits like exercise when they team up with their partner.

Host a Melon Banquet

While all fruits are healthy, a handful of them reigns supreme when it comes to frying fat and de-bloating your belly. University of Kentucky researchers found that eating watermelon can lower fat accumulation, while another group of great minds discovered that honeydew can banish water retention and bloating. Spend ten minutes chopping up these slimming fruits for the week ahead. Enjoy them solo as a snack, throw them into yogurt or add them to salads. Watermelon is also one of these 50 Best Foods for Him—in Bed—share them with the man in your life.

While it may sound counterintuitive, eating before going to a work dinner or happy hour can actually take off pounds. A series of studies out of Penn State published in the journal Appetite found that noshing on an apple or a broth-based soup prior to sitting down to a restaurant meal can reduce total calorie intake by 20 percent. With the average restaurant meal weighing in at 1,128 calories, saving 20 percent once a day could help you lose up to 23 pounds this year.

Get Yourself Some Fish Oil

Need a little help jump-starting your weight loss (or fending it off entirely)? Your best bet may be to turn to the sea. It may sound a little unappetizing, but fish oil is one of the best nutrients for the human body. According to NIH, fish oil (which can be consumed by eating fish rich in omega-3 fatty acids such as tuna, salmon, mackerel, and sardines or by taking supplements – whichever fits best into your lifestyle) lowers triglycerides in those with diabetes and heart problems by as much as 20 to 50 percent. That’s not all these fish can do for your figure. Research suggests fish oil can also help boost weight loss by helping you feel full, according to a study published in Appetite.

Make a Breadless Sandwich

In seconds: Lay a slice of Swiss cheese on a cutting board. Top with a slice of deli turkey and a spoonful of hummus or guacamole. Wrap like a jelly roll and eat. You’ll save no fewer than 200 calories compared to your typical lunch.

With ancient grains trending, this one will battle quinoa and teff for space at your table. Native to the Middle East, kamut, also known as Khorsan wheat, is rich in heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acids, high in protein and low in calories. A half-cup serving has 30% more protein than regular wheat (six grams), with only 140 calories. Eating kamut reduces cholesterol, blood sugar and cytokines, which cause inflammation throughout the body, a study published in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition found. Kamut is a good source of zinc, iron, and B-vitamins, all of which will help keep your energy levels high so you can burn more calories throughout the day, aiding your weight-loss efforts. Toss it into salads or eat it as a side dish on its own. A quick tweak like that can have you melting fat fast—along with these secrets on 14 Ways to Lose Your Belly in 14 Days.

This content was originally published here.

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Wings and winged creatures have appeared in identity designs for centuries as part of heraldic crests, military insignias and automotive logos. They have become a symbol of prestige, strength and speed, with great examples being air force pilot badges and luxury car emblems such as Bentley or Aston Martin. Designers still make use of these symbols in their designs today, sometimes combined with modern art styles give the logo a more abstract appearance. In today’s inspiration showcase I present 45 magnificent winged logo designs, some just featuring outstretched feathered wings while others include full depictions of eagles, hawks and other birds.

Switzerland Cycling Owl by Brian Steely

Cult Classics Seeds Owl by Brian Steely

Cutwater Spirits by Brian Steely

For The Church by Peter Voth

The Spirit And The Church by Peter Voth

Bradford Design Co

Butcher Garage by Askmetolie

Yellow Knight Design

Hermetic Tarot Symbols by Onemandivision

Support The Troops by Strawcastle

Death Dodger by Maximum Black

Live Free by Prism Supply Co.

Togrimind

Strong Eagle by Vladimir Biondic

Eagle King by Jay Master

Peters Design Company

Eagle by Allan Peters

Eagle Kind Supply Co by Jay Master

Bald Eagle Lake by Levi Lowell

True Grit Open by Emir Ayouni

HRO Flight Squad by HRO Design

Rotten Machine by Septianto Nugroho

Golden Eagle Coffee by Landon Cooper

Pluribus Music Festival by Steve Wolf

CMTE Eagle by Jay Master

Dirtybird Campout by Chris Meyer

Eagle Passion by James Wilson Saputra

UBBL by Bryce Reyes

Jaeger’s Gym by Hipnos

Eagle Letter M by Kana Kasmambetov

Eagle by Artsigma

Private Investigator by Mike Bruner

Thunderbird by Josh Warren

Wild & Yonder Badge by Brian Bobel

Eagle Mark by Vadim Korotkov

Eagle Heraldic Logo by Mersad Comaga

Made Right Here by Matthew Cook

The Yoga Tonic by Jared Jacob

Traders of the Lost Arts by Ashley Cunningham

Cycle of Life by Brian Steely

The Frame Theory by Brian Steely

Sinister Records Mobile by Brian Steely

Walk The Walk by Brian Steely

Forged Shirt by Jeremy Teff

Eagle Tee by Andy Boice

Good Guys Wear Levi’s by Dan Cassaro

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Food Combining Theory: Fact, or Fiction?

One topic in the field of nutrition that has many people confused is the topic of food combining. That is, the idea that some foods should not be eaten with other foods. The schools of thought tend to be either (a) Ayurvedic theory or (b) newer theories that starches shouldn’t be eaten with protein-rich foods, etc.

Let’s take a look at both of these schools of thought, and I’ll share with you:

caveats for anyone wanting to avoid certain food combinations and;

how to heal the gut so you can let go of worrying about food combining

The Truth About Food Combining

In this article:

Ancient (Ayurvedic) Food Combining Theory

Westerners Adopting Ayurvedic Food Combining Theory

The Importance of Live Enzymes

Modern Food Combining Theory

The Argument About Animal Proteins

Seeds, Nuts, and Whole Grains for the Digestive System

My Modern Food Combining Theory Concern

7 Ways To Heal Your Gut

  Ancient (Ayurvedic) Food Combining Theory

Ayurveda theory is a body of work I respect, and it often resonates as truthful—or at least interesting.

It is based on ancient India’s study and practice of how the food we eat (as well as other lifestyle choices) affects the body, mind, and soul. (In a packaged-food world, most of us have lost touch with mindfulness about what we eat.)

For example, ancient near-Eastern wisdom suggests you eat all the tastes in each meal: sweet, salty, sour, pungent, bitter, and astringent. The idea is that doing so will leave you feeling very satisfied in both body and soul, diminishing the desire to snack or make poor food choices.

The three “types” or “doshas” in Ayurvedic tradition are Vata, Pitta, and Kapha, and each of them is thought to be inherent in each of us, but we are dominant in one or two of them. And, depending on which your dominant type is, you are encouraged to eat specific types of foods. For example, the Vata type is supposed to stick primarily to cooked foods and stay away from cold or raw foods.

Westerners Adopting Ayurvedic Food Combining Theory

Some Westerners (North Americans and Europeans) learn about Ayurvedic theory and Ayurvedic food combining, though, and adopt the rules without understanding the “why” behind the principle, or adjusting relative to our unique modern food supply.

(For example, I’m not sure most Americans would know what an “astringent” taste is, or even “pungent.”)

It may be problematic to attempt to strictly adhere to Indian rules when you consider these rules or guidelines are several thousand years old, and the foods Indians ate may not be available to us.

As an example of how food combining principles of Ayurveda, while helpful, may not serve us as a prescriptive roadmap to eating right is the fact that virtually, all Americans are eating anywhere from some to a lot, of processed food that comes in packages, boxes, and cans.

(We’ll assume you don’t eat drive-thru food, which might be another category entirely.)

And, if you eat any processed food such as sugar and white flour, you are eating differently than anyone, in the history of human beings, has ever eaten, until about the last 100 years.

And, prior to then, the rest of the 99.9% of human history has eaten only natural foods, grown in black soil or killed in the wild.

And, so you, the North American, maybe in much higher need of enzymes, which are needed to properly digest food.

An ancient Indian might be able to eat virtually all “warm” food because his dosha type is Vata, but all of that food is whole-grain rice, sweet potatoes, and medicinally powerful spices like turmeric and curry, for example.

If an American’s warm food is Campbell’s tomato soup, fried potatoes, or restaurant dishes, there’s a dramatic difference in the nutrient levels that were assumed by the Ayurvedic masters.

It’s clear that the vast majority of us need more raw plant food, which is not heated above 116 degrees, to supply digestive enzymes. (Think salads, sliced veggies, fruits, and green smoothies.)

The Importance of Live Enzymes

When we cook our food, many vitamins remain intact, some minerals are undamaged, but live enzymes in a raw plant food are destroyed by heat. The pancreas and liver supply digestive enzymes to make up the difference, but you have a finite quantity of enzymes available for a lifetime.

Some estimate that eating an all-cooked diet would completely burn out a lifetime of endogenous (produced by the body) digestive enzymes within about 35 years.

And, as Dr. Bernard Jensen said, “When you lose your enzyme production abilities, you die.”

In other words, every cell and organ is affected when the “draw” on your pancreas and liver has been exhausted. Eating only cooked and processed foods can manifest as, or contribute to, any number of different disease states. And, Americans trying to live by ancient law sometimes reject all raw foods, because they feel that the “dosha” is a diagnosis, and the suggestions from thousands of years ago are a prescription or a “diet” (which is a modern construction).

Those eating all cooked food, in the modern world, may find themselves depleted of nutrients, with literally hundreds of symptomatic ways this may manifest.

So, while you may wish to experiment with “warming” foods, I hope you will recognize that a modern adaptation may be to take digestive enzymes, eating only nourishing, whole foods and wild foods or better yet, seeking out salads, green juices or smoothies, and other enzyme-rich plant foods as well. Or, you could “heat” some of your soups and other foods in a dehydrator below 116 degrees, the point at which enzymes die.

After my own early adulthood of eating a processed-food diet, I committed to eating 60 to 80 percent raw plant foods at every meal and have done so for over 20 years now. By doing so, I reversed 21 different disease states (including Hashimoto’s, mini-strokes, and a large tumor), which have not recurred, and I got off four prescription medications.

Modern Food Combining Theory

Other nutrition fads or theories that are much more recent have been emphatic that certain food that shouldn’t be eaten together, and the entire premise of this proper food combining theory is that different food types digest more quickly, or more slowly.

So, while a slow-digesting food (like pork, which is dirty and contains no fiber) may take hours, or even days, to make its way from the mouth to the anus, which is a length of 30 to 35 feet in humans, a quickly digested food (like an apple) may take as short as 20 minutes.

The food theory is that if these foods are eaten together, the food that naturally digests quickly will ferment in the gastrointestinal tract since it becomes a commingled mass, trapped with the longer-digesting food.

While there may be some validity to this theory, I’ve seen absolutely no evidence to prove that specific classes of foods should not be eaten together or that doing so causes disease risk.

(And I’ve looked, for a long time now, since these ideas came into vogue some 35+ years ago.)

A long-standing debate about what human beings should eat, given our very long digestive tract, isn’t the purpose of this article.

But, suffice it to say that we aren’t built like carnivorous cats, who can digest no-fiber animal proteins easily and quickly, because the digestive tract is virtually a straight line from mouth to anus.

The clearest finding of thousands of nutrition studies—regardless of whether we eat animal flesh or we don’t—is that vegetables, fruits, and other plant foods, virtually all of them high in fiber, are extremely important in the diet.

And, they shouldn’t be a small side dish but rather, the crux of the diet at every meal.

Another important point is that virtually, our digestive process for all plant foods is under an hour. So, the theories that certain types of plant foods and other types of plant foods shouldn’t be eaten together make little logical sense, even if you buy into the premise of the food combining principle.

If they digest poorly, in combination, for you, the more likely the culprit of your discomfort is underlying gut inflammation (disease).

The Argument About Animal Proteins

If there’s an argument to be made for not combining foods, it’s that animal proteins like chicken, beef, and pork, which can take days to digest, especially for a damaged and slow digestive system, should not be combined with fruits, the most quickly digested foods.

(Of course, we should also consider the related argument that a very minor portion of any meal, and the overall diet, should be animal products if you eat them at all. After all, they come with no fiber and do not assist peristalsis and do not sweep, or clean, the tract.)

If you eat animal meat, it’s very wise to eat greens and vegetables with it.

Seeds, Nuts, and Whole Grains for the Digestive System

Legume seeds and whole grains, nuts, seed fruits, and seeds are also high in fiber and help keep your entire digestive system, and the blood, clean.

And, you have hundreds of natural, nutrient dense foods to choose from. Most people don’t realize that “grains” don’t have to mean wheat, which has become problematic. You have quinoa, teff, faro, millet, amaranth, and buckwheat, for example.

(Some of those aren’t even, technically, “grains,” though they’re somewhat starchy and can cook and be eaten like grains.)

I bring these up to say that we shouldn’t be so myopic as to think that because wheat has been hybridized, processed, and roundup-sprayed to death, that there aren’t other grains that have sustained most of the people of the earth for literally millions of years.

(In fact, most of the world’s populations have subsisted on mostly grains.)

Undigested protein fragments in most modern, animal-protein-rich diets circulate in the blood, leading to countless inflammatory states.

My Modern Food Combining Theory Concern

My concern about the modern food combining theory is different than my concern about people who strictly adhere, in the Western world, to the Ayurvedic theories. And, that concern is the most important point here:

Americans fearful of eating starchy foods (like potatoes or grains) together with fruits, in their anxiety about planning their food intake around these rules, may actually end up eating fewer fruits and vegetables.

That would be tragic in the Western world where all the nutritional deficiencies relate to lack of fiber and lack of micronutrients. (These are found in abundance in greens, vegetables, fruits, legumes, whole grains, nuts, and seeds.)

With the average American getting 1 to 2 servings of vegetables and fruits daily, rather than 20 servings our ancestors ate several generations ago—and most Americans eating no legumes in any given week—our main focus should be simply on getting more of these excellent, nourishing foods.

Now, more and more of us, in our third and fourth generation of eating mostly processed foods, have states of gut disease, both diagnosed and undiagnosed, that cause food sensitivities or even full-fledged food allergies.

If you notice that when you eat two food groups together, you have reactions—of course, it would be wise to stop combining those foods.

However, we shouldn’t confuse symptoms with the root cause. If combining plant foods causes gastric upset, headaches, brain fog, rashes, or other symptoms common to food allergies, the food isn’t the problem—the gut is.

Because it isn’t a normal state of affairs—even if it’s now a common state of affairs—to have trouble digesting wholesome foods, healing the gut is an important goal. So, how do we do that?  

7 Ways to Heal Your Gut

1. Learn to make or eat fermented foods.

If you’ve been on antibiotics (ever), learning to make and eat fermented foods, several different types, is one of the most important things you can do to rehabilitate a damaged microbiome. (This must be combined with a high-fiber diet, so living probiotic organisms in your cultured foods have something to attach to and build on in the gut.)

Many people think the negative effects of antibiotics will be short-lived, but unfortunately, without nutritional and possibly supplemental rehab, too many people suffer for years, or even decades, after antibiotic use.

You may be aware that yeast infections are common, after antibiotic use, and that’s because the normal population of yeast in the body gets out of control without the healthy microbiome to keep it in balance.

Less likely, but still common, significant risks of antibiotic use are small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO), recurrent viral and bacterial infections, Crohn’s disease, irritable bowel disease (IBS), and leaky gut syndrome.

Fermented foods are a lost art in the industrialized world where several generations ago, we began canning and preserving everything through various means.

But, when native populations all over the world “preserve” foods using cultures, the human beings who eat those foods, later, get the benefit of billions of living, “probiotic” microorganisms that are protective against pathogenic bacteria that could make them ill.

In this video, I’ll teach you more about rehabbing your gut with live, cultured foods.

2. Take live probiotic supplements.

Take a small-batched, live probiotic supplement, with good prebiotics (the “food” of probiotics) added. This is not usually sufficient, by itself, to repopulate a damaged GI tract with the “good” bacteria that keep the bad bacteria in check. But, it can be an important part of your healing, and again, I can’t overemphasize enough that this should be combined with a high-fiber diet.

3. Remove all chemical substances.

Eliminate all chemical substances, including pharmaceutical medications, that you can. (Do not discontinue prescription drugs without the guidance of your doctor.) Doctors feeding human beings chemicals, as a remedy for illness, are new in the past 120 years.

Chemicals are not metabolized by the gut and imbalance the entire microbiome.

Pharmaceuticals disrupt normal gut function and can even cause tiny holes to form in the lining of the intestines, causing “leaky gut.”

This diagnosis is becoming an epidemic of alarming proportions, and since allopathic doctors do not diagnose it, most people don’t know they have it. It causes no end of inflammatory disease, as toxins “leak” into the bloodstream.

4. Increase your consumption of greens, vegetables, fruits, legumes, nuts, and seeds.

Consider the entire classes of whole foods you’re reactive to, as temporary eliminations until you heal your intestines and colon.

5. Decrease or eliminate your consumption of poultry, beef, pork, seafood, and eggs.

6. Eliminate dairy products from your diet.

They are not easily digested by humans, and they contain added hormones, antibiotics, steroids, and even pus and blood from the cow, in modern dairy production.

7. Eliminate refined sugar and grain from the diet.

These foods aren’t just “empty calories.” They’re also gluey in the gut, slowing digestion and harming your ability to digest food, over the course of a lifetime.

I hope these tips serve you well in evaluating whether to add a correct food combining diet to what you’re working on in improving your diet to live to 100 without a disease.

  The food combining theory is indeed a complex and broad topic that needs a deeper understanding to know its real purpose. It’s also important to learn the difference between Ayurvedic and modern food combining theories to see which is more beneficial. Apply what you’ve learned here about combining food and experience a healthy way of eating food!

In your opinion, why do we need to understand the facts about food combining? Share your thoughts in the comments section!

Up Next: Herxheimer Reaction: What Is It, How Do I Clear It?

—Robyn Openshaw, MSW, is the bestselling author of The Green Smoothies Diet, 12 Steps to Whole Foods, and 2017’s #1 Amazon Bestseller and USA Today Bestseller, Vibe.

Learn more about the anti-diet she followed in a free video masterclass. She teaches about how to regain your energy, ideal weight, and stable mood with a whole-foods lifestyle.

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  Editor’s Note – This post was originally published on April 26, 2018, and has been updated for quality and relevancy.

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