Fit and healthy due to good digestion

1. When we talk about healthy eating, we are usually talking about the noun, not the verb. Yet that turns out to be just as important. If you know how your digestive system works, you will automatically understand which foods, when, and in which combination of foods are best. Responsible cooking suddenly becomes a lot easier. You never have to leave the table with a (too) full stomach. And your body automatically maintains its weight. Health gurus Harvey and Marilyn Diamond claim that in the 1970s. How much of that is still true today? After all, dietary rules are constantly changing, it seems.

Healthy

1. There are so many theories about what is or is not healthy, how can you know what is correct and what is pure nonsense, without having to figure out and check everything yourself? How do you know if what Harvey and Marilyn Diamond claim in "Lifelong Fit" is true? You do not know. You will have to read a lot about it anyway and accept otherwise what sounds plausible. But most important is what works for you. If it doesn't work for you to start the morning with just fruit, then you won't. Because what doesn't suit you, you can't keep up. Better to strive to do it the best you can. Eating and living healthy doesn't have to be complicated. So: Try it, be critical and pick out what suits you, but don't make it a drama

2. There are so many theories about what is or isn't healthy, how can you know what is correct and what is pure nonsense, without having to figure out and check everything yourself? How do you know if what Harvey and Marilyn Diamond claim in "Lifelong Fit" is true? You do not know. You will have to read a lot about it anyway and accept for the rest what sounds plausible. But most important is what works for you. If it doesn't work for you to start the morning with just fruit, then you won't. Because what doesn't suit you, you can't keep up. Better to strive to do it the best you can. Eating and living healthy doesn't have to be complicated. So: Try it, be critical and pick out what suits you, but don't make it a drama

Good digestion

1. According to the Diamond couple, our digestive system has three cycles

Fruit

1. The body lives on glucose. Fruit consists of fructose

Glaze

1. If you eat fruit at one time of the day, the fruit acids can

Digestion

1. So eat fruit in the morning, drink freshly squeezed fruit juice (for the preservation of vitamins it is best to eat fruit unpressed) or lukewarm water (flavored with lemon or fresh mint) ; this also reduces your feeling of hunger. A breakfast of, for example, half a grapefruit, an orange, an apple and a banana is enough. After noon, your body is done with the elimination cycle. Because fruit, like yogurt, does not need to be digested, you can get the energy you would need for digestion

2. So eat fruit in the morning, drink freshly squeezed fruit juice (for the preservation of vitamins, it is best to eat fruit unpressed) or lukewarm water (flavored with lemon or fresh mint) ; this also reduces your feeling of hunger. A breakfast of, for example, half a grapefruit, an orange, an apple and a banana is sufficient. After noon, your body is done with the elimination cycle. Because fruit, like yogurt, does not need to be digested, you can get the energy you would need for digestion

Tired

1. Vegetables do not require specific digestive juices. This allows you to combine them with carbohydrates or proteins. To break down proteins (eg meat) you need acid. To digest starch / carbohydrates you need base. Base and acid neutralize each other, so they do not work together. The result: the body produces extra digestive juices and needs extra energy for this. This partly explains why you can feel so tired after a meal with proteins (eg meat) and carbohydrates (eg potatoes, pasta, rice). If the proteins stay in your stomach for too long, they spoil (claim the Diamonds). Like carbohydrates

Healthy combinations

1. You can easily combine two types of starch because they are not that difficult to break down and will therefore not spoil in the stomach. However, it is not recommended to combine two types of proteins because they have different digestive requirements

2. You can easily combine two types of starch because they are not that difficult to break down and will therefore not go bad in the stomach. However, it is not recommended to combine two types of proteins because they have different digestive requirements

Drinking

1. Alcohol The body does not need help digesting food. So you don't have to drink anything with food, and certainly no wine, to wash it down, rather it slows down digestion. Wine and beer

Nuts or meat after all?

1. When you start to shed, lose hair and break your nails as you reduce your consumption of dairy products, your body is adapting to the change in your diet from coarse calcium in milk products to fine calcium in raw nuts (peanuts are not nuts!). The hair will shine more and your nails will become stronger. A handful a day is more than enough and a complete meat substitute! Do not be afraid that you are not getting enough meat. You don't even need meat for your health. Vitamins B can also be found in other protein sources. And besides the fact that it takes a long time for meat to be digested and it is heavy on the stomach if you combine it incorrectly, it is also for the environment, not to mention the global food supply

2. When you start to shed, lose hair and break your nails as you reduce your consumption of dairy products, your body is adapting to the change in your diet from coarse calcium in milk products to fine calcium in raw nuts (peanuts are not nuts!). The hair will shine more and your nails will be stronger. A handful a day is more than enough and a complete meat substitute! Do not be afraid that you are not getting enough meat. You don't even need meat for your health. Vitamins B can also be found in other protein sources. And besides the fact that it takes a long time for meat to be digested and it is heavy on the stomach if you combine it incorrectly, it is also for the environment, not to mention the global food supply

Sugar and salt

1. Except for the sugars that your body gets from fruit, you don't need any sugar

2. Except for the sugars your body gets from fruit, you don't need any sugar

Finally

1. Eat early in the evening so that food has left the stomach before going to bed. Sleeping on a full stomach is bad. A properly combined meal will leave the stomach in about three hours: the nutrients are ready to be absorbed and assimilated. A full night's sleep (from well before midnight) will allow your body to complete the assimilation cycle before returning to the elimination cycle at around 4 AM