by Deborah Devar

Our system goes through a cleansing process from twelve midnight until twelve noon, and a re-building from twelve noon to twelve midnight.  Supporting our body’s natural working order is yet another positive step toward supporting the body to heal itself. 

Breakfast: Nothing is required to support the natural cleansing process of the body except  saline (1 tsp. solar sea salts and 32 oz. of water) or fresh lemonade, grapefruit juice, maybe a cup of fresh peppermint tea.  If you can’t wait till after noon to eat then try a small amount of fruit, a small vegetable or fruit salad.  All types of berries are excellent.

Lunch: 1:00 p.m. or later: Soup (homemade, raw vegetable) and a salad. 

Dinner: Simple preparation- refer to any of the raw food recipes.

Simple is best.  The idea that we require variety at every meal to have health is false.  The digestive system prefers a very simple meal with few variations.  Look at this suggestion as a gain instead of a loss.  Food for fuel value should be the focus and meals that take time to prepare, are costly and do not supply high value nutrients are not worth it, so stick to simple, fresh, live meals 80% of the time.  Different types of foods require a different amount of time in the stomach and different enzymes to properly digest for assimilation.  Too many combinations often cause a variety of digestive disturbances. 

Because proteins, fats, carbohydrates and starches each require a different enzyme and pH range for their complete digestion, it makes sense to eat foods separately.  Each specific enzyme works most efficiently alone.  If all the digestion enzymes are triggered to work at the same time, the digestion process slows down significantly, and the food rots. Sometimes digestion is totally suspended when the enzymes dilute and cancel each other, or the enzymes that digest carbohydrates are destroyed by the acid pH of enzymes that digest proteins. 

For example, eating a piece of watermelon after a barbeque dinner consisting of animal protein means that the watermelon ferments in the stomach waiting for the protein to be broken down into small enough units to pass through. The fruit juices, which are simple sugars, sit in a 98.6-degree oven for up to eight hours or longer and ferment. Think of what happens when you pop the cork off a champagne bottle. The gas from the fermentation forces it to explode. This gas is being produced in your stomach.

RULES OF COMBINING

• Eat fruit alone on an empty stomach. Wait about one hour before eating anything else. Wait one hour to eat anything after drinking fruit juice.
• Eat melons on an empty stomach, alone, separate from other fruits and different varieties of melons. (Melons mold very quickly so smell them before you eat them)
• Divide fruit into three categories: acid, semi‑acid, sweet.  Do not combine acid fruits with sweet fruits.  Semi-acid can be combined with sweet or acid.
• Divide all foods into Starches/Proteins/Vegetables/Oils & Fats/Acid Fruits/Semi‑Acid Fruits/Sweet Fruits/Melons.
• Combine starches with vegetables, and a limited amount of fats/oils.
• Combine proteins with vegetables, and a limited amount of fats/oils.
• Drink liquids at least 15 minutes before you eat, or wait an hour after you eat.
• Fats and oils dilute/slow down digestion. 
• Eat real live fresh food, not manufactured foods such as margarine. 

There are many more details and rules of combining foods that are not explained here because they are very lengthy and difficult for most people to follow, but if you follow these simple rules you will be in compliance with all the laws of the mouth, stomach, pyloric valve release, small intestine, eleo cecal valve, large intestine, the absorption of fat soluble vitamins, water soluble vitamins, water absorption, the necessary bacteria, the filtering of toxins and secreting of specific hormones and enzymes as well as the timing of the excretion of specific hormones and enzymes.