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Sequential eating and food combining
Excerpts from "Ideal Health through Sequential Eating"
DIGESTION TIME OF VARIOUS FOODS
(approx. time spent in stomach before emptying). ........
- Water
- when stomach is empty, leaves immediately and goes into intestines,
- Juices
- Fruit vegetables, vegetable broth - 15 to 20 minutes.
- Semi-liquid
- (blended salad, vegetables or fruits) - 20 to 30 min.
- Fruits
- Watermelon - 20 min.digestion time.
Other melons - Canteloupe, Cranshaw, Honeydew etc. - 30 min.
Oranges, grapefruit, grapes - 30 min.
Apples, pears, peaches, cherries etc. - digest in 40 min.
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Vegetables
- Raw tossed salad vegetables - tomato, lettuces, cucumber, celery, red or green pepper, other succulent vegetables - 30 to 40 min. digestion. -
- Steamed or cooked vegetables
- Leafy vegetables - escarole, spinach, kale, collards etc. - 40 min. - Zucchini, broccoli, cauliflower, string beans, yellow squash, corn on cob - all 45 min. digestion time
Root vegetables - carrots, beets, parsnips, turnips etc. - 50 min.
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Semi-Concentrated Carbohydrates - Starches
- Jerusalem artichokes & leafy, acorn & butternut squashes, corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes, yam, chestnuts - all 60 min. digestion.
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Concentrated Carbohydrates - Grains
- Brown rice, millet, buckwheat, cornmeal, oats (first 3 vegetables best) - 90 min.
- Legumes & Beans - (Concentrated Carbohydrate & Protein)
- Lentils, limas, chick peas, peas, pigeon peas, kidney beans, etc. - 90 min. digestion time
soy beans -120 min. digestion time
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Seeds & Nuts
- Seeds - Sunflower, pumpkin, pepita, sesame - Digestive time approx. 2 hours.
Nuts - Almonds, filberts, peanuts (raw), cashews, brazil, walnuts, pecans etc. - 2 1/2 to 3 hours to digest.
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Dairy
- Skim milk, cottage or low fat pot cheese or ricotta - approx. 90 min. digestion time
whole milk cottage cheese - 120 min. digestion
whole milk hard cheese - 4 to 5 hours digestion time
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Animal proteins
- Egg yolk - 30 min. digestion time
Whole egg - 45 min.
Fish - cod, scrod, flounder, sole seafood - 30 min. digestion time
Fish - salmon, salmon trout, herring, (more fatty fish) - 45 min. to 60 digestion time
Chicken - 1½ to 2 hours digestion time (without skin)
Turkey - 2 to 2 ¼ hours digestion time (without skin)
Beef, lamb - 3 to 4 hours digestion time
Pork - 4½ to 5 hours digestion time
(Editor's notes
Note1: raw animal proteins have much faster digestion times than the above times for cooked/heated animal proteins.
Note2: The digestion times given are under an ideal situation of eating only one food, chewing well, and having efficient digestion, as is the case e.g. after a fast.
They are digestion times for optimally healthy persons, with good eating habits.
The digestion times are to a large part derived from Dr. Gian-Cursio's and Dr. Bass' practices.
Digestion times are much longer on a conventional diet, and for persons with non-optimized digestive systems, or persons lacking in energy, and for meals with many ingredients put together haphazardly = not in the optimum sequential order.)
EAT SMALLER AMOUNT - FEWER VARIETIES
The smaller the amount of a particular food eaten, the less is the digestive time for that food. The greater the amount of a food eaten, the more is the digestive time prolonged.
..... Remember the less you mix and the fewer the varieties you use, the easier it is to digest and the less you will be tempted to overeat. The greater the variety, the greater the tendency to overeat.
In experiments with dogs, - 1 variety was given, the dog ate and was satisfied. Another variety was given and he ate that too. Then another and he ate more. This continued till he was so loaded with food he could hardly move. Each new variety restimulated the appetite over and over again. .....
THE IMPORTANCE OF BLENDED SALADS
Due to the liquification of vegetables by blending:
1 - Absorption and assimilation of its vitamins, minerals proteins etc. is increased to approximately 5 times as compare to eating and chewing the salad.
2 - A blended salad will digest and leave the stomach in 15 to 20 min. compared to 30 to 60 minutes for a tossed salad eaten whole.
3 - To avoid oxidation during the blending, when the whirl-pool begins to form, stop the blender, pour it in a dish and begin to eat it. The oxidation is no more than when the salad is thoroughly masticated before swallowing.
4 - For people who have difficulty with handling of roughage (as in ulcers, colitis etc.), or digestion of raw food, blending it usually solves the problem.
5 - Since digestion and assimilation of vegetables becomes greatly simplified when blended, the energy saved on digestion can make the difference between lingering illness and rapid recovery in serious cases.
Conservation at energy in the digestive process is the key to all healing. (Success in healing is measured in terms of energy available. This was known by the early masters of Natural Hygiene) .....
BASIC PURPOSE IS SAVING ENERGY
..... Energy is the most important factor needed for recovery of health and it must be conserved at all costs and not wasted in unnecessary digestion. Sequential eating will maximize the conservation of energy without fail.
Try it - feel the difference - and you'll never go back to your old ways - I promise you that!
Also read: Dr. Cursio's Vegetarian Diet and Food Plan - that illustrates food combining in Dr. Cursio's practice, with menu examples.
More food combining examples here: Sample 100% Raw Daily Diet Menu
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Don't miss this free download: - REMARKABLE RECOVERIES FROM SEVERE HEALTH PROBLEMS - Dr. Bass' booklet presenting how raw foods and juices have been used clinically in medical institutions for over 100 years to help patients recover from cancer and other diseases. Even to improve intelligence.
Also read: New Concepts in Nutrition, Health and Rapid Healing of Illness PART 2 - about why saving energy is important:
"... all healing and regeneration is in ratio to the amount of energy which is available - the more energy, the more detoxicating healing ..."
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