Beware of Improper Food Combinations!

     I use to live back in one of the northern eastern states, and then I moved out west to a western state of the United States.  I discovered a few things had changed in the way of food.  Jello is a dessert back east, but out in the west it is a common salad.  It could be served plain, or with fruit, or with ground up vegetables, or set upon a lettuce leaf, or it can be served with a salad dressing topping, or with whipped cream, and it is still called a salad.  A fruit salad is the same way, even if it is served with pudding, or lots of whipped cream. This is a salad in the west, and dessert in the east.

     Another tradition that the west practices is the eating of dutch oven potatoes, and heavy on the meat.  The meat could be chicken, beef, beef steaks, or BBQ pork spare ribs.  The combination of heavily eating meat, and potatoes is practiced on almost every weekend, and on holidays.  After all this food is consumed, it naturally causes and upset stomach, and people take "Tums" for an upset "tummy", and after a few days they are again eating heavy on the meat and potatoes,  and then eat more tums to settle their stomach.  Heavy on the meat and potatoes is an improper food combination that will do you more harm than good.  Why is this so?  Well it takes an acid digestive juice to digest meat and an alkali juice to digest potatoes.  In the laws of chemistry, when you mix an acid with an alkali, it neutralizes each other.  In other words, as digestion juices, mixing these two different juices together will not digest your food because the proper causes of these digestive juices had been destroyed when you mixed an alkali with an acid.  So therefore, the combination of a lot of meat and a lot of potatoes will not get digested, and it will rot in your stomach, creating gas and an upset stomach.  The taking of tums will absorb the gas and it will help to relieve upset stomach, but the undigested food will just push itself through the intestines, and can cause constipation and other problems.  The people who are eating these bad food combinations don't understand what is taking place, and that is why they are right back to eating heavy on the meat and potatoes and tums all over again.  By practicing this style of eating the meat and potatoes over and over again, the body is not getting the proper nutrients, and the natural vitamins.  It is all being wasted away.  This form of eating will lower the immune system, and you will be sick more often.  Always remember that you can eat heavy on the meat and vegetables, or eat heavy on the potatoes and vegetables.  These two combinations will properly digest in your system.  But the heavy eating of meat and potatoes must be avoided.  This is an improper food combination.
     Another improper food combination that should be avoided are pickled products and milk.  You never mix vinegar with milk.  Why?  Vinegar will sour the milk and it will upset your stomach. I have heard that pregnant women like to eat pickles and ice cream. Eating these two separately is OK but they should never be eaten together. It will only make you feel sicker.
     I don't know who started the tradition of eating watermelon for dessert after eating a heavy meal, but after a heavy meal, the watermelon will rot in the stomach, and it will not get properly digested.  In other words, the vitamin C that is found in watermelon will do you no good at all, because it was not properly digested.  If you want to take the best advantage of the minerals and vitamins that are found in fruit,  the fruit needs to be eaten by itself, or eating it at least a half hour before a meal.  Fruit should never be eaten after a meal.  So from now on, eat fruit by itself as a separate meal, or a half hour at least before a meal, or at least 2 hours after a meal. Eating the fruit separately will help to lower your blood pressure, but the eating of fruit right after a heavy meal or the eating of an improper food combinations, this will raise your blood pressure, because your Heart has to work very hard in digesting that rough food. So be Wise when it comes to eating food combinations.

     Other food combinations that should be avoided are:

1. High protein foods like winter wheat, meat, poultry, fish and eggs.  These should never be followed by the eating of sweet desserts.
2. Citrus fruits should never be eaten with cabbage, or turnip greens.;
3. Apricots are not eaten with green leafy vegetables.
4. Prunes should never be eaten with onions and cabbage.
5. Do not eat carrots and grapes together.
6. Radishes and figs do not mix together.
7. Never mix blackberries and beets.
8. Mixing bananas and raw onions will create lots of gases in the stomach and intestines.
9. This is my own personal one:  Never mix black olives and split pea soup together.
10. Cheese and raw onions will create gas----If everyone seriously would leave alone these "  Improper Food Combinations  ", I do believe that the Tums Company would fold up and no longer be in business. Please read my article on Google Search: " Uncle Bob's Home Remedies-Words Of Wisdom And Redneck Ideas That Will Save You A Few Bucks.

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