About the separate food thought of the ancient Greek and Roman doctors, who needed to somehow curb the voracious stomachs of their contemporaries. However, it so happened that the separate diet, which we are talking about today, was fully developed in the early XX century. century, and its popularity began in half a century. Her "father" and creator is the American physician Herbert Sheldon.
Occurrence
Diet on the basis of separate nutrition arose after a long study of the principles of digestion and the combination of food. As a result, Sheldon divided all the products into groups by a combination, and also created a list of products unsuitable for combining.
Principles of Separate Nutrition
So, according to Sheldon, different foods must be digested in different environments, under the influence of different enzymes. The ingestion into the stomach of a "foreign" food for a particular enzyme suppresses its action. As a result, there is fermentation, food rot and the person is poisoned by toxins.
A separate diet suggests that the starchy vegetables, sweet fruits and sweets are digested in an alkaline medium. Protein food is digested in sour, nuts, cottage cheese, cheese, vegetable oils - in neutral.
With neutral products, you can combine either "acidic" or "alkaline". Alkaline and acidic can not be combined.
rules
- Mushrooms are neutral products and are combined with proteins and carbohydrates.
- Nuts should enter the stomach separately, because they are very useful in themselves.
- Cottage cheese is also a separate food and a high-grade protein. It can be combined only with green non-starchy vegetables.
- Eggs are combined with green vegetables.
- Milk is definitely a separate food. When combined with other products promotes fermentation in the stomach and putrefaction of products.
- Starchy vegetables do not combine with proteins and animal food. You can combine with vegetable oils and herbs.
- Nekrakamistye vegetables combine with meat and proteins.
- Sour fruit (Sheldon also includes tomatoes) should be a separate meal, at least 20 minutes before the rest of the meal.
- Pulses and grains are combined with herbs and vegetable oils.
- Vegetable oils must be unrefined and not roasted.
- Meat, fish and pizza are combined only with green non-starchy vegetables.
Diet
There are many variations of separate diets for weight loss. All of them are based on a four-day cycle: 1 day - proteins, 2 day - starchy food, 3 day - carbohydrates, 4 day vitamins . Based on this, a 90-day diet was created, with which, as they say, you can lose weight by 25 kg.
Minuses
The opinions of dietitians regarding nutrition separately are radically opposite.
First, nutritionists-opponents believe that with prolonged separate nutrition, the human body simply loses the ability to simultaneously produce various enzymes, which means that it is almost impossible to return to normal mixed nutrition.
Secondly, there can be no rotting and poisoning with toxins, because the stomach produces hydrochloric acid, which kills all microorganisms. If this process does not occur, then a person has dysbacteriosis, but here a separate diet will not help.
Third, in nature there are absolutely separate food products containing either protein,
Well, at worst, separate diet as a diet for weight loss does not approve, and our evolution, in the course of which, a man for millennia accustomed to mixed nutrition.
One thing is for certain - take and change your diet from head to foot, that's it, since Monday, it's impossible and harmful, or even dangerous. Take advantage of the short-term diet for weight loss is not terrible, because in 4 days no radical changes in the body will happen. However, in order to sit for three months on a separate diet, you need to think carefully yourself and it is advisable to hear the opinion of an expert, an experienced and tested doctor.