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Why bother with food combining?
When you eat animal protein (such as chicken), the stomach uses the digestive enzyme pepsin to break this down, which is an acidic enzyme.
When you eat starches (such as rice or a yam), the stomach utilizes an alkaline medium to break it down.
So when you eat a meal with both protein and starch in it, both the acid and alkaline digestive enzymes enter the stomach to break down these foods. Having acid and alkaline in the stomach at the same time results in neutralization of the acid enzyme and the alkaline enzyme. In other words, the food just sits and begins to ferment because there is no digestive assistance from stomach acids.
The result from this sort of mis-combination is that the food moves very slowly out of the body, causing a lot of discomfort, gas and fermentation. The longer food sits in the digestive tract, the more it ferments and feeds yeast. This results in constipation, bloat, nausea, along with many other symptoms.
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