Food Combining Diet

What Diet? - Food Combining Diet
In the 1970’s, two medical doctors researched extensively how the digestive system managed to work on the average modern-day Western diet as so many of their patients seemed to be suffering from digestive complaints. They found that the different types of digestive enzymes were often in combat with each other to digest carbohydrates (starches, grains, cereals etc) and proteins (from animal sources including meat, poultry, fish, dairy and eggs, and vegetable sources including nuts and seeds, beans and pulses).

They believed that, by separating the two major types of foods from each other at any meal, digestive harmony could easily be restored. Thus Food Combining (either a starch or a protein choice for each meal, combined with specific ‘neutral’ foods) was the major principle of the diet. The original book by Drs. Harvey and Marilyn Diamond was entitled Fit for Life. Many others have followed, observing the same principles.