Food combining has to do with helping your body properly digest and process the things you eat. If your body is not able to process what you eat, whether healthy food choices or just junk, you will end up with many very serious health issues. Foods that are high in sugar, processed, refined, and packaged are all acidic and send the body’s pH out of balance. This will keep the body from absorbing the essential nutrients of the things you eat and leave the door open to accelerated aging, disease and fatigue.
Here are two easy steps to take to bring balance back to your body.
Meditate each day. There is extensive scientific study that proves daily meditation will not only relieve stress but will prompt the brain to release a chemical that will help to nullify acid levels in the body. The second is to eat foods that are mostly alkaline. To create proper balance, acid-forming foods should not comprise more than forty percent of your daily food intake and the rest should be alkaline-forming foods. Not only should your choices be mostly alkaline-forming type foods but should be eaten in the proper combination with the acid-creating foods you eat. Drink at least five glasses but preferably eight glasses of alkaline water each day. Alkaline water can be created by adding alkalizing drops that you can get at your health food store or you can add some fresh lemon juice to the water.
Try not to drink sports drinks, sweetened fruit juices, coffee, sodas or black tea. All these will create acid in your system. The lists of things that are acidic or alkaline is far too extensive to list here but beef, beer, cow’s milk, hard cheese, cold cuts, flour (white), fruit juices, cranberry sauce, sweets like candy, cakes, chocolate, donuts and much more are all very acidic. Any type of processed, packaged and junk foods are going to be high acid and hard for your body to assimilate.
Food combining rules…
To learn how to effectively combine foods takes a course to explain but in general, processed foods, refined flours, packaged foods, fruits and meats are hard for your body to process. Combining them with other acidic things that are also hard to digest makes your pH balance to go out of control and will in time cause a lot of damage to your body. So, try not to eat these hard to digest items together and eat them either alone or with non-starchy vegetables. Instead of a hamburger for dinner or lunch eat the meat patty with green vegetables or a salad or eat the bread and fixings with tomato or cucumber of avocado instead of meat. You can have meat and you can have bread but not together. If you eat fruit, eat it alone and give your body at least three hours to digest it properly before you eat anything else.
You can eat high water foods with starchy foods or you can eat high water foods with proteins but if you eat starchy foods with proteins you will create high acid levels and your body will struggle to digest the foods.
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All forms of bakery products, pastas, and foods made from flour, fruit juices and products with added sugar should be avoided. Fruits and root vegetables such as potatoes should be consumed only with meals. The sugar eaten by the body comes to intestines through the bloodstream, and into the liver.
Metformin contains glucophage which reduces sugar release from the liver to reach the blood sugar levels and raise them too high. Hence the body doesn\’t need to produce as much insulin that makes you hungry. Hence the liver does not convert sugar to fat. There are various other benefits of Metformin apart from curing diabetes and it is loosing weight. But Metformin is not effective when blood is acidic due to excess lactic acid. There are various researches which show that exercises raises lactic acid but does not cause blood acid levels high enough to reduce benefits of Glucophage.
Metformin helps in lowering insulin levels which are very helpful in curing diabetes. Metformin is also an effective treatment for different kinds of diabetes. Since it acts at the source of the problem it helps to fight insulin resistance and also prevents and delays the onset of type 2 diabetes which leads to impaired glucose tolerance and insulin resistance. It also helps to reduce risk of diabetes-related death, heart attacks and strokes various other diseases.
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