Hi Leah,

I will answer this although you are no doubt aware (or will be)
that I am leaving this list for a while. To be honest, I do
not want to be seen as a promoter of food combining per se, as
it includes cooked foods and I am a raw eater and only need to
eat fruit separate. Nevertheless, taking a look at your
extensive info on your diet (more honest than some in here)
I would comment as follows:

Leah Calo wrote:

> Alan,
>
> Thank you for the guidelines, however, I have been following these
> guidelines for years and I wanted more in-depth information.  Like are
> bananas acidic or not and is it good to eat them with citrus fruit or
> not? Like should tomatoes be considered as fruit or can they be used in
> a salad? Etc.
>
Consider bananas (even if 100% ripe) as carbohydrate bombs and do
not eat them with any other fruit (but with potatoes or rice, for
example). Consider tomatoes to be a veggie and only eat them
with veggies. I have never heard of them being eaten with fruit
and never tried it myself, but I see no reason why they can not
be eaten with fruit (if you feel so inclined). ;-)

> I think I'm doing pretty well with it, because I have eliminated meat,
> dairy and eggs from my diet - so I pretty much can't go wrong with
> anything I eat.

Right on!!

 My main concern at the moment are the quantities - I'm
> finding that I am either hungry all the time or I am eating too much...
> I'm looking for a happy medium, which will satisfy my pleasure in eating
> and sustain my physiological nutritional needs.  I thought proper
> combining might be the answer - because I don't think it's what I am
> eating at the moment but rather how I am eating it.
>
> For instance, this morning I've had 2 bananas, a pear and a small orange
> (I don't know what they are called in English) and I am stuffed!!! I
> feel like I'm about to explode.

I could explain that (and already have elsewhere) but try a little
experiment to proove it to yourself. Eat a piece of bread and chew
it long and well. Notice how the starch slowly turns to sugar in
your mouth. This is due to the action of the enzyme ptyalin in
your saliva. Now eat a piece of orange and again eat a piece of
bread immediately afterwards. Notice how the bread does not
turn sweet no matter how much you chew. This is because citric
acid temporarily neutralises the enzyme ptyalin. So eat all
fruits alone (particularly the citrus varieties) and all carbohydrate
foods with salads...but not proteins or fruit.

> I've tried cutting down to like 1-2
> pieces of fruit in the morning, but then I find myself starving hungry
> at 11am! Any advise???
>
I presume you are buying your fruit from the local store/
supermarket. If you buy your fruit from a reputable organic supplier
it will be clean and ripe and absolutely delicious and satisfying.
I can eat this fruit for breakfast (no more than two handsfull)
and eat nothing and want nothing all day until around 18:00 hrs.

The best supplier I know (but not exactly the cheapest) is

Orkos
BP 89
F-77483 Provins

Fax: 0033 1 64 60 21  01
http://www.orkos.com

based in France. They have a 48-hour worldwide service.

> For lunch I have a nice live salad, usually with organic whole wheat
> bread (spread with avocado) with no condiments (dressing, oil, salt
> etc.)
>
Modern wheat (as well as barley, rye and oats) contains much too
of a sticky and useless protein known as gluten or gliadin. This
tends to stick to and gunge up your intestines..preventing the
intake of nutrients..and particularly fats and hence fat-soluble
vitamins. Read up on coeliac disease and sprue for more info,
as well as on other negatives in seeds such as enzyme inhibitors.

> Dinner varies mostly depending on the time I get round to it.  If I
> exercise (tennis/work-out) after work (sitting in an office in front of
> the computer for 9-14 hours a day) I will have fruit for dinner.
> Otherwise I will have rice (or some other starch) with fresh or steamed
> vegetables, or soup with bread, or another salad, or bread with humous
> (ground chick-peas with tahini, olive oil and garlic) and a small salad.
> As a rule if I eat something cooked, it will be with a salad - this way
> I don't eat as much cooked as I would if I didn't have the salad and I
> feel that the vegetables help the cooked stuff go down better (?!).
>
OK from a combining standpoint if you are a cooked food eater. Rice
is at least gluten-free BTW (as are maize, buckwheat and millet).

> I am 30 years old and have only started this way of life about 6 months
> ago.  So far so good, but I have had to start taking B12 pills because 3
> months ago my levels went way below normal and they wanted to give me
> shots.

B12 is always a bone of contention between the meat and
non-meat eaters. It can only be produced by consuming bacteria.
For example one could eat all apples unwashed (as long as they
are not sprayed with some insecticide). If you are relying
solely on local supermarket produce then you most certainly have
to wash and scrub anything you eat (although some packaged
salads are pre-washed in a strong lye). Your best bet is to
stop using any antiseptic toothpastes or mouthwashes. A healthy
mouth has a healthy (and neither dangerous nor detrimental)
bacterial flora. Antiseptic substances  eliminate this flora
and thus leave caries bacteria with no natural opponents.

> I recently got my own colema board and I strongly believe in colon
> irrigation - it has really changed my life.
> What are your views on this?
>
Personally I also strongly believe in it. But only during a
fasting period. It provides great relief and gets rid of all
the hardened, almost black pieces of faeces sticking in the
nooks and crannies of the large intestines. The more gluten
food you eat, the worse this problem is BTW.

> I didn't mean to bombard you with all of this, it sort of just came out.
> I hope you (and the rest of the people on the list) don't mind.  Someone
> did say a few posts ago that it would be nice (and I agree) to get a
> more personal idea of what people do, and think.  I'd love to hear your
> views and thoughts (I've been following your posts...)
>
Hope my comments helped.

Alan
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