Did you know some continuing research shows eating foods in particular combinations can actually make your body healthier? Weird, right? It’s something called trophology, and it can actually lead to better digestion and less bacterial growth in your digestive track.
Read these tips from Do It or Age Quickly- 60-Second Practices to Live Better, Stronger and Longer by wellness expert JB Berns, a guy who knows his stuff about how to stay healthy. A martial arts expert, he designed the Jackie Chan CableFlex system for at-home use and created DVDs such as Rehab Your Body at Home, Deante Modern Dance Workouts and Kids Bound. Sure, many of us are still young and far from worrying about aging. But all ages can benefit from this idea of trophology!
Protein:
•Protein + acid: Don’t eat concentrated proteins and acids together.
•Protein + fat: Don’t eat concentrated proteins and concentrated fats at the same meal.
•Protein + protein: Only eat only one concentrated (major source) protein at each meal, and keep to one serving. For example, you don’t want two types of meat or eggs and meat
•Protein + starch: Don’t eat concentrated proteins like meat, fish, eggs and cheese and concentrated starches like bread, potatoes and rice together
•Protein + sugar: Try not to each them at the same meal
Starch:
•Starch + acid, starch +sugar: Keep starch consumption separate from acid and sugar consumption.
•Fruit: Eat it by itself or don’t eat it at all
•Milk: Switch from homogenized or pasteurized to raw milk products
Check out Berns on an NBC news segment here. You’ve got to see this! He talks about his book- 60-second activities you should do every day to help you live a longer, stronger life. Examples?
1. Sleep on your back or on your RIGHT side in fetal position with your organs facing up
2. Breathe deeply 10 times before you go to bed, 10 times when you wake up and 10 times during the day to relieve stress
3. STRETCH.
Now watch the video to see more.
