Food combining

StormWarrior

What do you think of this? It seems a bit extreme to me that even certain types of fruit should not be eaten together, certain types of vegetables should not be eaten together and meat should only be eaten with non-starchy vegetables. Has anyone tried this?

EileenG

I think it's nonsense. I honestly can't see any reason that it would work, except that all the weird rules about what can and can't be eaten together would tend to keep calories low.

That said, the ever popular combo of fat and carbs (crisps, fries, doughnuts, spuds and butter, toast and butter, icecream, chocolate biscuits......) is the one that enables the body to store the calories as fat in the shortest possible time.

Transform

totally agree

d'Oracle

My family and some of my extended family, did this for a while a number of years ago.

A lot of us lost weight and some of us were more healthy.
My uncle had a skin problem which seemed to clear up. (not sure what it was)

I can't explain it, but as in most cases I have a theory on it.

In the Hay diet, you eat starch at one meal, Protein at one meal and fruit etc at another. It also greatly discourages processed food and stuff.
So if you are on it, you eat less grain and starchy food.
You eat a fairly decent amount of protein at one meal.
You eat loads of Veg.

Basically its a clean medium-low carb diet.
Which you could do yourself without the starch/protein apartheid and the faux scientific bluster that Dr. hay came out with.