INSTANT ENERGY & REJUVENATION by FOOD COMBINING CORRECTLY

Ever find yourself being DIZZY, sleepy? OUT OF IT after a MEAL?? SAUSAGE, EGG, COFFEE, PASTRY and MILK will knock you out even if you had eight hours sleep. In that typical morning meal, you have combined dairy, starch, protein and liquids. Each food requires a different digestive enzyme to break it down. THROW’em ALL together, you cancel the enzymes out! They cancel each other out! Nothing gets digested! That insults your kidneys, ages you.

EGGS require stomach acid. Sausage too. But you put alkaline digestion TOAST in there, neither gets digested. First you get burpy, second you get kidneys insulted by undigested protein going through them, and last, you get toxic, old and puffy.

Kidneys aren’t the only area of body that takes the hit when you don’t food combine properly. The brain gets starved. For most of us ADULTS, a tidal wave of BLITZED STUPOR hits after lunch. Make it easy on yourself, have a protein with greens, minimum liquid. A sip of water. Or have starch with greens, veggies. Don’t try a three way. Nothing digests, you get sleepy.

Besides food combining, Yogi Bhajan used to say, After Breakfast work, after Lunch, lie down, after dinner, WALK. Lunch really takes it out of us, so 1.) lie down for ten minutes, covering yourself with a shawl. Also, 2) simple rules of food combining become really important at lunch hour. After any meal, but especially lunch, work does seem harder, obstacles larger, depression is able to creep in. That feeling of hopelessness, being swept into aging.

Try to move, your hand moves slowly. Your body is lethargic. You see the work that must be done but just don’t believe you can do it!

The reason lethargy hits after meals is, you’re digesting a mixture of incompatible items. (i.e. starches with proteins, or fruits with vegetables, or fats with starches.) Always FOOD COMBINE PROPERLY and then meals don’t slow you down. COMBINING means group your foods and eat them solo or with their “compatibles”.

The rule is, PROTEINS go with greens. So you want a Morning egg or two? Add watercress, very subtly on plate. People will eat it oddly enough and get this new habit and get a huge increase in energy and forget to ask for those two pieces of buttered toast which would make them zone out.

STARCHES also go with GREENS. Morning Toast? Well, it is possible that they’d eat the cress but maybe you don’t want greens with breakfast, so TOAST you should eat alone or with your hot morning beverage. And stop there. No proteins as you’re eating a starch meal.

The idea is that we don’t mix fruit, cereal, eggs, milk, sugar, jam, and bacon all in one meal. NEVER! That would sink the TITANIC!

If you want a bigger breakfast, do it in stages. FRUIT FIRST then a half hour later, you can have either protein or starch foods. Choose one or the other. Try slipping in the cress without pushing it. THEN an hour later, your proteins.

Remember, PROTEINS do not combine with sugars or starches. You digest proteins with stomach acid. SMELLING THE MEAL cooking is the way to develop acid, and with it, the ability to stay ‘light’ after proteins. You develop ACID when you smell proteins cooking. In England where the kitchen’s on another floor…. they use bitters before a meal to develop the acid. Bitter greens like endive or cress hidden in a romaine salad will do that. So take your bitters with your viand!

AVOID putting potatoes, noodles, starches, and bread next to meat. STARCH is digested by alkaline saliva, has no place in a tummy doin’ an acid thing. Neither digests well. Meat refuses to digest with all that starchy crud, and that damages your kidneys. Also, blood is stuck in the tummy area for such a long time that your brain suffocates. GET THE PICTURE?

SUGAR or fruits will ferment any starch, so don’t combine these. FRUITY SLUSH turns nasty in the bowel, and you’ll regret it the next day so use SUGAR FREE JAM on toast, in extreme moderation. FATS surround starch molecule so well that no saliva can digest the starch, hence go real skinny on butter when you eat starches.

Last, NEVER eat a dessert with a meal. WAIT until meal is digested. 3 hrs if possible. Since sugary desserts cause HIGH BLOOD sugar, followed 4 hrs. later by MAJOR LOW BLOODSUGAR, dessert would cause you to awake at 3 a.m. and toss and turn. A pc of cheese will put you right, then rinse mouth, go back to sleep. Better is NOT TO EAT dessert at night, but 3 hrs after LUNCH maybe! So the 4 pm tea and pie really do work. They make you starving for dinner at 7 pm.

PROTEIN in a starch meal will not digest. UNDIGESTED protein insults your kidneys (damages them) and will cause you to have a puffy face. ALL geriatrics look the same. Shepherd’s PIE face. It’s kidney failure starting….

NOW, just those food combining tricks should solve the problem and solve that groggy head syndrome. A basic healthfood diet with food combining will give changes in energy. But here’s another little change you can do. Cease drinking toxic stimulants like coffee, cokes. Coffee gives pancreatic cancer. It actually collects on pancreas as a black spot, visible in the eye. And quit DIET cokes as aspartame produces multiple sclerosis (ask me for files on Neutrasweet). Instead, HAVE A YOGI TEA BREAK. Tea is good stuff. The smart Brits conquered the whole back end of the world to get at this fragrant leaf with its gentle kick. Here’s a way to smooth out the caffeine in tea so you can sleep at night. I am going to give you a magic tea recipe that will not prevent you from sleeping but which will give you energy when required. Try this terrific recipe.

YOGI BHAJAN’s FAMOUS YOGI TEA:

Slow simmer l ½ gallons water with 6 cinnamon sticks, broken up a bit, but not crushed, l5 cardomon pods, whacked with hammer until broken up, 1 ½ dozen whole cloves, a thumb (lady’s) of ginger, peeled, sliced; 2 dozen black pepper corms. Simmer spices 10 minutes, then add 1 tsp blk tea, or a few Lipton’s bags. Let steep for 10 minutes, covered. Add 1 cup milk, ¼ cup honey, strain yourself a cup. See what you think. COOL IT PARTIALLY then Strain rest into a big, glass container. Store extra in huge glass jar in fridge, heat as requ’d. Put in thermos to carry to work and heat at work.

REQ’D. ONE ENAMEL POT TO BOIL IT IN, or stainless steel. NO ALUMINUM, teflon should be next to any food. GLASS is good, like pyrex, but I don’t know if they come that large. ONE ½ gallon GLASS JAR, for fridge storage, with lid. SMALL jars for carrying to work. (or thermos, but don’t carry MILK in a hot condition ever!).

CARRY Yogi Tea COLD in your thermos. HEAT as needed. In about ten years someone will invent a thermos that chills drinks but heats the stuff inside when you’re ready to drink or eat it. MAKE A FORTUNE!! Probably it will come from Japan or Taiwan. Operate like a ricecooker with solar batteries maybe. Maybe a plug in dealie, though.

WARNING: Inordinate tea drinking, it being diuretic, (just like coffee, cokes) can wash away potassium, magnesium and a half dozen other real important minerals your body needs. If you’re urinating too much on this buffered tea, you will note your bones are melting out into the ocean and will probably have to supplement minerals. Liquid Potassium is the only safe way to get Potassium as the tablets don’t break down once inside you. We’re talking minerals like those used in cement!

ONE OTHER WAY to get minerals is celery/greens juice made on a juicer, fresh and raw. Practically every mineral imaginable is in raw vegie juice. But if you’re not doing raw juices, go for the MAIN MINERALS. Magnesium affects heart strength. Potassium is muscle strength. Magnesium tablets are cheap and easily available. There are other trace minerals avail in “MINERAL FORMULA’. You can even try alfalfa, seaweed tablets and do it that way. CALCIUM is a mineral, did you know that? It needs other factors with it to be absorbed, though. Try Magnesium mixed with calcium and Vit D, a sure absorption formula. Many arthritis sufferers start Cal/Mag and get quick and permanent relief just from that!

You may not have heart or bone problems now, but coffee/ soda tea drinkers will get them down the line. Sodas have so much acid that you have to drink 32 glasses of water after you consume one soda just to re-alkanize yourself! They also cause wholesale excretion of minerals, i.e. bone mass as they are diuretic. No doctor would Rx a diuretic like tea or sodas without mandating a mineral replacement therapy. These drinks melt your skeleton right out your bladder into the ocean!

BEST is to drink raw juices, freshly made. Must be quaffed within seconds of breaking vegie or fruit’s cell walls. So have a juicer at work. The Hamilton Beach Juicer only costs 19$ at Wal-mart plus shipping. (ordered online!). Carry bags of carrots, celery, parsley, a small slice of beet… to work and juice something right in the office. Juicers are easy to clean. Too much fuss is made about cleaning juicers. You lift out the ring of vegie crud, slop it in garden outside, as compost, rinse all metal parts in the sink and leave upside down to air dry. (I often use my carrot/green/vegie crud for pet food, simmering it with the turkey burger.

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