SEQUENTIAL EATING
PROPER FOOD COMBINING
LIQUID VEGETABLES- THE HEALTHIEST WAY
SPINACH, CARROT AND SWEET POTATO SOUP
When the
quality of food consumed is better, great things will happen to the body and the mind.
The amazing intelligence present in every cell of the body and the wisdom of the body in its operation, will immediately
manifest (shows).
My regular readers will be able to recall my earlier post on EATING
FRUITS- BEFORE OR AFTER MEALS? where
I have posted excerpts from Dr Stanley-link here
“Graying hair,
balding, nervous outbursts, and dark circles under the eyes will not occur if
you eat fruit on an empty stomach.”
Dr Stanley
said,
“In my opinion and experience as a nutritional
consultant in Natural Hygiene (I began studying nutrition in 1936), sequential eating represents the
most advanced approach to understanding proper food combining.
After testing and retesting the concept on
myself thousands of times, as well as on others, including the
experience of Dr. Cursio,
his family, his patients, as well as other Hygienic doctors - Dr. John Mega, Dr. Marvin Telmar,
Dr. Anthony Penepent, etc.
FOOD COMBINING
Example- generally fruits takes 15mins-30 mins to
digest and meat takes about 3-4 hours to
digest.
Any
quick digesting foods must wait till the slowest digesting foods leave the
stomach before they too can leave - a process which can take up to 6 or 8
hours.
While waiting, the faster digested foods like fruits, vegetables and some of the starches undergo some
decomposition and fermentation. This produces gas, acid and even alcohol along
with indigestion. .....
SEQUENTIAL EATING REFERENCES
...... Grutzner fed rats morsels of food of 3
different colors. First the black, then the white second, and third the red
color. Shortly after, the animals were sacrificed, the stomach frozen and then cut in
sections. The different colored food was found to be in layers.
...Dr Stanley said, a famous case written during
the American Civil War, where a soldier received a gunshot wound which caused a large
visible opening to appear in his stomach. His digestion was studied for a
period of time by several doctors present, and they observed that his food
digested in different.
layers.
BASIC RULE - WATERY FOODS FIRST
To simplify this concept of sequential or layered eating, the basic rule
is:
Eat the most watery food first .....
BAD FOOD COMBINATIONS TO AVOID- see
examples at end of post
He
also advised to really chew all foods properly before swallowing- thus, less
energy will be use in digesting process....... eating less food varieties at
the same meal, also makes it easier to digest them. When there is more food variety,
people tend to overeat.
He added, conservation of energy in the digestive
process is the key to all healing. What he meant is that, our energy must be spent
on keeping healthy, not in digesting food. (Success in healing is measured in
terms of energy available. This was known by the early masters of
Natural Hygiene).
My
mind now seriously thinking again of what he said. So, to be at best of health
and to heal diseases, is mainly through eating healthy foods of the highest
nutritional value, which is “super foods”. I don’t think I will eat that chicken burger
(filling) anymore- they have been manufactured a year ago, definitely this is not
a super foodie. It is junk, I guess the “life force” is gone a long time ago.
Excerpts of what
Dr Herbert said on “A BETTER NUTRITIONAL PROGRAM’:
HIGH QUALITY NUTRITION-
To summarize: the quality of food
is higher, when it is closer to it’s natural state, in its raw, unfired (raw)
form.
In this form, all the enzymes are
found intact. The amino acids are in their finest form. The minerals, vitamins,
trace elements, carbohydrates and "life force" are present. The life
force, in turn is capable of reproducing healthy tissues.
When the quality of food consumed is better, great things will happen to the body and the mind.
The amazing intelligence present in every cell of the body and the wisdom of
the body in its operation, will immediately manifest ( will be seen).
Dr Stanley summarized that, when food that goes into the body is of higher
quality than the existing/ present body tissues, the
body begins to discard the lower grade materials and tissues and take the more superior
materials. The body now has
new and healthier tissues.
HEALING
BY NATURE
BY nature our body is very selective and always aim to improve towards better
health. The body always tries to produce health and always will, unless
our interference is too great. Only then do we fail to recover and
degenerate further into disease.
The self-curing nature such as on colds, fevers, cuts, swellings, injuries,
etc. are examples of how the body tends towards being healthy always - unless
we do something to stop the process.
Finally, he advised those who wants to practice a better diet, to be
consistent. Don’t quit after a few days, with excuses like-“old diet is better,
the new one makes me feel sick”.
It is
true about feeling weak or may be feeling sick. but he needs to give his
body a chance to adjust and complete its first phase of action
- recuperation. If he had waited a while longer, he would have begun to feel
better than before he started
THE IMPORTANCE OF BLENDED SALADS
Liquified vegetables by blending makes:
1 - The absorption and
assimilation of its vitamins,
minerals proteins etc. will increased to approximately 5 times more, as compared to eating and chewing the
salad.
2 - The blended salad will digest
and leaves the stomach in 15 to 20 mins, as
compared to 30 to 60 minutes for a tossed salad eaten whole.. Etc.
RECIPE
SPINACH,
CARROT AND SWEET POTATO SOUP –BLENDED FOR A MORE SUPERIOR VALUE
Ingredients:
2 cloves garlic- slice
3 shallots- slice
3 cups finely chopped spinach
½ cup baby carrots- very thin slices
1 small sweet potato – very thin slices
4 cups chicken stock (1+3)
Salt and pepper to taste.
Olive oil for sauté
Cooking technique:
Heat olive oil in a pan and saute garlic and shallots
until golden brown. Add in 1 cup chicken stock and sweet potatoes. When the sweet potatoes are half
cooked, add in spinach and carrots.
Cover with lid and put off fire when sweet potato
is cooked. Spinach will be cooked al dente.
Leave to cool. Next, pulse it in a blender, until done.
When ready to serve- heat up the remaining 3 cups of
chicken stock, add in salt and pepper.
When stock boils, add in blended veggies
for 2 minutes only. Put off fire. Serves hot.
NOTE:
BAD FOOD COMBINATIONS TO AVOID-
According to Dr
Stanley, here are some examples of bad food combinations to avoid.
This is very interesting and after reading many times and thinking deeply on
this, I am eager to follow his advice at best. Some examples are:
- Mixing
dried sweet fruit, honey, maple syrup or bananas with nuts or seeds
- Mixing
starch foods with fresh or acid foods or fruits
- Mixing
dried sweet fruits with acid fruits.
- Never eat
dried sweet fruits with or after concentrated proteins
- Eating raw,
fresh or dried fruits after any cooked food
- Avoid
drinking beverages or even water during or after meals
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