What do you think about food combining?

   Food combining is based on two important concept: enzymes and transit time. Transit time refers to how long it takes certain foods to pass through the stomach. It turns out that under ideal conditions, all the food groups digest a little better when you eat only from one group or a couple of compatible groups. That is because they all use the same enzymes for digestion. So veggies digest better with other veggies, while fruits like to be with fruits. Then there is the issue of the transit time. Fruits digest faster than proteins. If you eat them at the same time, the fruits will sit in your stomach too long, until the proteins are digested. This is a recipe for autointoxication. Essentially, your stomach becomes an alcohol still, with the mixture of carbs, proteins and sugar fermenting into alcohol while you wait for digestion to complete. This is generally not a good thing hence we try to combine food properly, which is too long a subject to cover here. However, lots of info is available online.

   Food combining is less of a problem for beginners or people who are not 100% raw. For them food combining is sort of like fine tuning. If you are just starting out on a whole, raw lifestyle, there are more important issues to deal with so dont let the food combining issue get in your way.