Combing food is more than a culinary art, it is what we all do on a daily basis. There are many traditional foods that we have always combined, but in reality, without realizing it, this can have adverse health effects. A lot of what we eat comes from habit, like what our parents fed us and those favorite dishes that we just cling to like something we have to eat over and over again. Very few people really pay much attention to the health effects of what they eat. When we eat, we are not so interested in taking care of our body as simply in getting rid of those hunger pangs and excite the taste buds.
Eating should always be an enjoyable and even sociable event, but it should actually energize us, keep us strong, and move us forward, rather than slowing us down or making us feel bad. Many unpleasant feelings that assail us after eating that delicious food have to do with the types of food that we are combining.
It is not a bad recommendation for everyone to find one or two nutritionists and have them help us to make a truly balanced diet. Eating healthy is not just about eating some lettuce, it is understanding how various combinations of foods really do not make sense from the point of view of the body’s needs.
1. Save that favorite dressing for the diet version of your favorite salad.
You just can’t win by losing. Switching to that diet salad dressing because you think you’re being health conscious isn’t actually a very wise decision. Vegetables have a lot of good things for our bodies and they are an important part of a healthy diet. Unfortunately, it is the fat in that delicious salad dressing that really helps the body absorb and take advantage of all those precious benefits that a vegetable salad provides. Diet versions of anything have never really been a good weight loss solution. Eat a balanced and healthy diet and maintain an active lifestyle that includes exercise and sports.
it’s what really helps you lose weight and stay in shape. Don’t buy everything that contains the word diet at your local grocery store.
2. Mixing eggs with steak, you know those famous steak and eggs that can satisfy a lumberjack!
It is never a good idea to mix different types of protein. It’s best to mix eggs with veggies and then have that heavy steak for dinner. Plus, eating heavy protein too early in the day can certainly leave you feeling groggy at work. Start light and work your way up to heavier meals later in the day into the evening. We do most of the heavy digestion when we are lying in bed and resting or sleeping. If we force our body to work too hard to digest food while we are active, we will not have enough blood to handle all that activity, hence the feeling of dizziness and lack of energy that we can have.
3. Bananas and milk or that banana smoothie
This has been proclaimed by nutritionists as the worst combination that one can force on his body, no matter how delicious it may seem. In fact, it creates toxins that damage the body, lead to terrible gas, an upset stomach, and bloating. A good glass of chocolate milk helps digestion, so why invite bananas to the photo? Leave them for the Minions. You know those little yellow critters who eat 50 pounds of bananas a day …
4. That famous spaghetti marinara sauce with parmesan and American cheese.
Who would turn down a meal as good as spaghetti, especially with some garlic bread and maybe a glass of red wine? Have you ever noticed that after eating those 3 servings of spaghetti you find it difficult to even get up from the table and walk to the coach from the living room? This is because the tomatoes that make the famous spaghetti sauce are high in acid, and acid-based foods mixed with starchy foods like pasta just don’t mix. It becomes a digestion nightmare, no matter how delicious it is, if you don’t want to be overwhelmed by what you eat, it’s best to avoid spaghetti and lasagna with tomato sauce. How about a fresh olive oil sauce with garlic and basil?
5. Bread and jelly, or that peanut butter and jelly sandwich
Oh how we love that peanut butter sandwich with fries and a glass of cold milk. Many of us grew up with it! The problem is, the simple carbohydrates in such a delicious mix send our blood sugar through the roof and then the body has to release large amounts of insulin to lower it. This expands more energy than we got from eating that sandwich in the first place. After the words is like a bad hangover, we lose energy, will and our ability to concentrate. Let’s leave the PBJ to our childhood, but now is the time to start eating in order to help us in our day, not to slow down.
6. The habit of eating fruits after a meal with protein such as meat, potatoes, pasta dishes, etc., or after a heavy lunch or dinner.
Fruit dishes have always been served as a sweet dessert after a good meal or to cleanse the palate. The fruit should be eaten without combining it with other foods. It is best eaten for breakfast, perhaps on top of a good bowl of oatmeal, or topped with yogurt. Fruit has natural sugars, and meats and starches have complicated sugars. By mixing the 2, the sugar from the fruits will get stuck in the stomach, while trying to break down the heavier sugars, and a fermentation process will begin, which we all know produces unpleasant gas and stomach pain.
There are so many more food combinations that really aren’t the best at all when we’re trying to eat healthy. A lot of this has to do with breaking our old eating habits and then spending a little time researching what kind of diet would actually work for us. After all, we are talking about our health, our energy and our lifestyle. It certainly would not be a negative activity to try to improve our eating habits to give us a better quality of life. Talking to nutritionists, doing some research on the internet, asking questions, and experimenting with different health-oriented recipes could become a very enjoyable hobby for us, with the result of feeling like we are 20 years old again!
So enjoy your food, but turn it into something your body enjoys, too!