Come And Knock On Our Door
Ooh, a series on celebrity diets! The first article covers Suzanne Somers's "Eat Great, Lose Weight" diet, which apparently features food combining, along with a lot of relatively sensible advice. Unfortunately, the article is a little skimpy and vague. I suggest this site about food combining if you're curious to know the rules.
And Go Ask Alice says "If someone changes from eating a diet of highly refined food that is high in fat to eating the variety of whole, minimally processed, basic foods that are recommended in a food combining diet, they may feel better and lose weight by virtue of the change in the quality of food. This is coincidental to the food combining precepts, rather than directly attributable to it."
Interesting!
And Go Ask Alice says "If someone changes from eating a diet of highly refined food that is high in fat to eating the variety of whole, minimally processed, basic foods that are recommended in a food combining diet, they may feel better and lose weight by virtue of the change in the quality of food. This is coincidental to the food combining precepts, rather than directly attributable to it."
Interesting!
posted by mo pie at 3:05 PM
3 Comments:
I've done the Suzanne Somers food combining thing in the past. The first time, it worked great, but the 2nd time it didn't. Her recipes are really good, but they are a lot of work. After reading Diana Schwarzbein's book (whom Suzanne refers to), I no longer believe in food combining. http://www.schwarzbeinprinciple.com/pgs/home.html
I must say this starts out reading as fairly sound, and then I suddenly felt as though I were reading a medical text from Tudor England referring to how people die of the purples.
For some people with problematic digestions I'm sure learning certain no-nos in food combinations makes a huge difference. Normal healthy stomachs should be perfectly capable of digesting a reasonable sized meal of *gasp* acidic tomato sauce with *gasp* carbohydrate-laden pasta. The key part is "normal healthy stomach" and "reasonable sized portion".
A lot of people with really unhealthy diets probably don't have entirely healthy digestive systems any more. I'm on board with Alice, it's the careful planning and switch to more whole food, probably better portion control, and less processing that's doing the trick here.
Oh, my husband has noticed that he feels more "satisfied" with the same lunch if he adds a small piece of crystallized ginger at the end. Without the ginger he feels "snacky" sooner. His theory is it aids digestion, I have no idea what's going on, but it seems to work for him!
Post a Comment
<< Home