The Complete Book for Combining Foods E-Book

Herbert M. Shelton

• Herausgeber: David De Angelis
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2021

Beschreibung

Learn what you like and eat what you enjoy appropriately. You will enjoy this book and rejoice in good health after you have restored your body to its natural state. Rejoice in life, rejoice in your friendships and especially your family. Health will make all of this possible, and it will only come from a healthy diet and a natural way of life. You will not have to start this eating program slowly but simply dive into it. Prove to your body that you are in control and that you will treat it well from now on. Remember that losing some battles with your appetite is not as important as winning the war against disease. Feeding yourself properly is not the private property of a religion as even an atheist can have a healthy body. In all ways, truth is where you find it, and the truth I have revealed in this book certainly did not arise with me. Truth is eternal and cannot be created or destroyed, but the lives of those who seek it can be helped while the lives of those who reject and ignore it can be destroyed.

Leseprobe

The Complete Book for Combining Foods

How to combine foods foroptimal health

Herbert M. Shelton

Original title: Food Combining Made Easy

By Herbert M. Shelton (1951)

Edition 2021 by ©David De Angelis

All rights reserved

Index

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1 Classification of foodstuffs

Chapter 2 Food digestion

Chapter 3 Right and wrong combinations

Chapter 4 Normal digestion

Chapter 5 How to Combine Protein ... for dinner

Chapter 6 How to combine starches ... for lunch

Chapter 7 How to eat fruit ... for breakfast

Chapter 8 A salad a day

Chapter 9 Dietary pattern for a week

Chapter 10 How to cure indigestion

APPENDIX

Feeding raw foods

Protein (Important, but be cautious)

Gluttony and overeating

Eat only two meals a day

Dietary rules (summary)

Chew your food (chew, chew and chew)

Forget the salt

Pure water

Don't drink during meals

What to expect from dietary improvement

THE EASY COMBINATION OF FOODS

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DR. HERBERT M. SHELTON

- — 1951 —

Learn what you like and eat what you enjoy appropriately.

You will love this book and rejoice in good health after you have restored your body to its natural state.

Rejoice in life, rejoice in your friendships and especially in your family. Health will make all this possible, and it will only come from a healthy diet and a natural way of life.

You will not have to start this eating program slowly but simply dive into it. Prove to your body that you are in control and that you will treat it well from this point on. Remember that losing some battles with your appetite is not as important as winning the war against disease.

Feeding oneself properly is not the private property of a religion as even an atheist can have a healthy body.

By all means, truth is where you find it, and the truth I have revealed in this book certainly did not arise with me. Truth is eternal and cannot be created or destroyed, but the lives of those who seek it can be helped while the lives of those who reject and ignore it can be destroyed.

What we really cover in this book is the utilization of the foods that Nature has given us in an effort to keep our bodies healthy. You have been given free choice. You can choose the appropriate foods to introduce into your body or you can collapse through the inappropriate use of foods and poisons. It is solely up to you to choose your life.

Preface

Some people search for years for a simple way of life that brings joy and health. Being healthy and energized is enjoyable even though many people do not delve into the principles of the good life when they discover them. Only YOU can make things happen and it is only YOU who will receive full benefits from appropriate choices. If you don't choose to be healthy you don't have to complain when your illness becomes your destiny.

Some people don't like making decisions. The difficulty is not in KNOWING what is right, but in DOING what is right. It seems difficult to overpower the habits and appetites that have formed within a certain amount of time, but what a sense of well-being when we can overcome a bad habit or start a good one!

When we change for the better, even our best friends wonder <<what's wrong>> with us. They may wonder about our good intentions especially if a good habit of ours contradicts a bad one that is practiced. People like to be in contradiction with others and are jealous if you leave them to their own devices with their bad habits. Expect to be criticized for your good intentions. The most perfect man of all did not have many followers, and most people voted for him to be hung on a cross. The pioneers of our country tried to create a republic instead of a democracy because they knew that the majority was not always loyal. Therefore, don't be afraid to fight for the great principles you will read about in the next few pages.

Few people believe in a functioning health system. A HEALTH SYSTEM is not necessarily the best health system. A true health system prevents diseases from happening and therefore you can avoid the present medical system that tends to cure rather than prevent. When millions of people discover this basic health system you will once again see a revival of this country.

PHYSIOLOGICAL HEALTH FACTORS can be harmful or healthy factors. The state of your health may depend on how you can completely eliminate the negative and accentuate the positive.

If you have the ability to read... you have the ability to act and change your life from this moment until death. Your willpower and determination will decide whether or not you should reach the goal of a joyful and healthy life.

Many people kid themselves when they think they're happy with a cigarette between their lips. Others are happy with a snort of cocaine. But how many alcoholics do you know who are not happy while drinking! How many fat people do you know who are happily sitting down to a banana milkshake with ice cream and cream? The false happiness they experience will soon be replaced by one of the many illnesses or health problems they can only imagine. To compensate for their problems they are probably stuffing their faces with aspirin, sleeping pills, antacids, tranquilizers, etc.

We can be content by controlling our appetites and developing positive living habits. It will certainly take some time to corrupt willpower and abandon a bad habit, but it only takes a little willpower to start a new habit. A healthier and happier life depends on many positive physiological factors affecting the body and mind.

The purpose of this book is not to "know it all and say it all." By paying attention to the positive factors you will be able to achieve goals or by paying attention to the negative factors you will be able to eliminate them.

This book could have a major turning point in your life. Many people will praise it, others will condemn it, but condemnations will not change the truths you will find written here. Ignoring the truth means suffering the consequences of a past life and continuing to live with wrong appetites and poor habits. The choice is yours. You have been given freedom of choice. How you will use that freedom is your business alone.

What are you doing for your children's bodies by ignoring physiological factors? Do they have colds, headaches, and stomachaches? Are they tired, listless, hyperactive, or sick?

We do not intend to cure these diseases. Cure is not the subject of this book. There can be no disease if there is no cause, so it is necessary to eliminate the cause. It is a very simple premise. If there is no cause for a headache you will not suffer it. If there is no cause for vomiting you will not vomit. If there is no cause for a fever there will be no fever. All of these so-called ailments are almost all natural ways in which the body gets rid of something wrong that we put into it. For example: when we sweat, the sweat glands get rid of salt which is a poison to the body. Some doctors and nutritionists still believe that the body needs a certain form of salt called sodium chloride. Our habits have taught us to take pleasure in the taste of salt. The body can process all the amount of salt it needs from the natural foods we eat. A couple of tablespoons full of salt will be able to make you sick and in case kill you if you want.

I hope that this book will be just the beginning of a great adventure in life.

Introduction

A few years ago I was at a friend's house with whom, along with other people present, we were watching a television programme. One of the commercials featured a breakfast bowl into which a man poured a popular cereal product. To this he added two full tablespoons of white sugar. He then topped it with a sliced banana and a handful of raisins. To the mixture he had created he added, last, cream and milk in large quantities. As he showed the preparation of the dish, he used a variety of words to convince the listening public that his dish was both tasty and nutritious. When he had finished, one of the women in the group exclaimed: <<Every time I eat a dish like that, I get heartburn!>>. I replied: <<This happens to you and to several million other people.>> No human digestive system, in fact, is suited to digest a meal like that.

In nature, no animal ever eats a mixture of such disparate products. It is surely not a matter for human intelligence that, day after day, millions of men, women and children continue to consume such dishes and to stuff themselves with medicines in an attempt to alleviate the ailments they cause.

Every year millions of dollars are spent on digestives or similar products just to soothe the gastric difficulty that is almost inevitable after such a meal. Among the most famous, containing almost all sodium carbonate, we remember: Alka-Seltzer, Diger-Seltz, Digestivo Antonetto, etc. Many persons, then, resort to the ancient habit of using bicarbonate of soda; others use Milk of Magnesia. These drugs, which alone appear harmful, provide only temporary relief to the troubles caused by indigestion.

Despite the unnecessary suffering that millions of people experience on a daily basis and the considerable sums of money they spend in search of relief, there are unfortunately still many who, even for their own good, do not make the effort to feed themselves properly.

There is an old proverb that says: <<Actions, not words, are what count>>. The way we present the combinations of foods is such that it allows the common man to prepare his own food program. It has no need of expensive scientific verifications: everyone can organize his own meals in an ideal combination, following the rules contained in this book and then verify the results. Results that can then be compared with those obtained from the previous diet.

Not too long ago one of my representatives received a letter from a woman in Pennsylvania, to whom he had sold a copy of "The Easy Combination of Foods." I quote parts of it here: <<Writing letters of flattery is not my style, but this one has a deeper meaning. It is a letter of appreciation and thanks. A fortunate day was when I received your literature and requested a copy of The Easy Combination of Foods, by Herbert M. Shelton.>>

<<For years and years I had suffered from indigestion, gas in the stomach, bloating and pain. Now that I try to combine foods in the right way, the indigestion and discomfort have disappeared. No more gas, bloating, Alka-Seltzer or bicarbonate.>>

<<Why don't people make use of this simple method? Surely because they don't know it.>>

I have received many letters like this. Many people have talked to me personally and confirmed the same concept. Many people say they feel relief from the first time they eat a meal that is ideally combined. Just recently a man told me how he and his family got rid of digestive problems by eating foods that were combined in the right way. He and his family also found they could survive without the need for medication. Many other people have told me how, by combining foods, they were able to end certain allergies.

The human digestive system, according to nature, is not designed to digest elaborate meals. Seven-course or twenty-one-course meals were not planned by nature when it created man's digestive system. The person who sits in front of a table laden with all kinds of foods and eats everything, "from appetizer to dessert," will surely suffer from indigestion. If eating complicated meals becomes a habit, neglecting one's enzymatic limits, intestinal disorders will become chronic. Wherever he goes, he will have to take his supply of medicines with him. In fact, the habit of carrying pills in one's pocket, is strongly encouraged by practitioners. It seems more important to have an artificial remedy available than to learn to eat in such a way as to avoid the need for medication. It seems more important to enrich the pharmaceutical companies than to protect one's own health.

Because this book has been prepared for everyone and not just vegetarians, the menus presented contain mixed meals and meals for vegetarians only. This is not a compromise or a tacit defection from vegetarianism: it is just a way to meet the different needs of the various classes of readers.

Both on the medical side and on the part of the advocates of the so-called healing schools and of allopathy, objections have been raised to the avoidance of certain food combinations and the consumption of others. These objections, are based on the belief that the stomach of man is adapted to digest all kinds of food combinations. I shall not linger long in countering these objections, for the arguments presented in the book are in themselves an answer.

More than sixty years' work in the field of nutrition, concerned with young and old, healthy and sick, rich and poor, educated and ignorant, and more than fifty years spent in institutional practice, give me a certain degree of authority in the matter. I have devoted more than sixty years to the study of dietetics, directing my attention to the care and feeding of many thousands of people. An intelligent reader should understand that so vast an experience qualifies me best to set forth the subjects which form the text of this publication, bearing in mind the circumstance that it has not been time spent in administering medicine to patients. Few physicians study dietetics, and even fewer apply it in the treatment of their patients. Their most common suggestion is: <<eat whatever you wish>>.

This book is not intended to assert that any dietary program or combination of foods can cure disease. I do not believe in cures, but I do believe, and I am prepared to prove it, that in all cases of disease, where the organic damage does not appear too serious to impair recovery, the removal of the causes enables the vital forces and processes, together with the normal materials of life, to restore health and wholeness. Food, indeed, is but one of the materials of life.

As an essential basis, the work of a hygienist must ensure that the individual receives the benefit of all hygienic means in their fullness because, only in this way, can he have a chance to recover. An attentive reader should have no difficulty in understanding that hygienic cures are the only rational and radical cures that in any age and in any part of the world have been administered to the sick. There will come a time when all forms of disease will be "treated" on the basis of infallible hygienic principles. When sound principles exist, they can be applied not to just one or two diseases, but to all. The same basic principles will underlie every kind of disease. Even in cases where surgery is to be used, the rules of hygiene should always be used to prepare the field for surgery.

Why worry about the combination of foods? Why not mix them confusedly and eat them roughly? Why waste time on such matters? Perhaps animals follow rules when combining foods?

The answers to these questions are simple. Let's start with the last one. Animals eat very simply without having to worry too much about combinations. What is certain, however, is that carnivorous animals, along with protein, do not consume carbohydrates. They do not eat acids along with protein. The deer, which grazes in the forest, combines its foods very little. The squirrel, which eats nuts, will probably, along with these, not consume any other food. It has been observed that birds eat insects and seeds at separate times. In nature, no animal, has at its disposal the great variety of foods which is characteristic of civilized man. Primitive man certainly did not have a wide choice of food. He, like the animals, fed himself in a very simple way.

As we will see later, the digestive enzymes in the human digestive tract have well-defined limits, and when, by eating disproportionately, you exceed these limits, you run into digestive problems. The right combination of foods is the healthiest way to respect enzyme limitations. Combine foods appropriately, do not eat unreasonably, and digestion will appear better and certainly more regular.

Food that is not digested has no value. Eating and then letting food "spoil" in the stomach means not only wasting it but also something more serious: food that decomposes in the stomach produces poisons that are harmful to the body. The right combination of foods, therefore, not only ensures better nutrition, as a result of better functioning digestion, but also serves to protect against poisoning.

A surprising number of food allergies disappear completely when individuals who are considered allergic, learn how to feed themselves, combining foods in such a way that they can be digested.

Their problem is not allergy, but indigestion. Allergy is the term given to protein poisoning. Indigestion gives, as a result, decay poisoning, also a protein poisoning. Normal digestion produces nutrients; not poisons to be put into the blood stream.

Well-digested proteins are not poisonous substances.

With my vast experience behind me, I offer this book to the most attentive readers, in the hope that they will use the information it contains in the best possible way, establishing better health and living, therefore, longer. To those who still have doubts, I can only say: <<Read this book and convince yourself of its importance>>. Judging without knowing, in fact, means putting an end to knowledge. Do not limit your horizons and do not deprive yourself of the opportunity to improve your health by condemning, without reason, the simple rules presented in this book.