Food Sequencing

#1. Food Sequencing

Food Sequencing

Most of us naturally load our plates up and there is no order to how we eat our meal The basic premise of "food sequencing" is to "layer" your meal by eating all of each food by itself and then involving on to the next food, rather than taking a bite of this and then a bite of that. Therefore, the understanding says if you eat five different foods at a meal and eat each in the spoton sequence, there will be five different digestive processes occurring simultaneously, each layer having the different enzymes agreeing to the needs of that particular food. The mental is if you take a mouthful of each different food, your stomach releases both acid and alkaline digestive enzymes and they cancel each other out. It's called "strata digestion" - a understanding that's been around for over 50 years.

Food Sequencing

To try sequencing the basic rules are: Eat the quickest digesting, most watery food first and chew foods close to liquid consistency before swallowing. Basically you begin with fruits/vegetables and develop to carbohydrates, seeds/nuts, dairy and animal proteins last. Of policy eating fewer different foods at each meal is believed to optimize digestion by simplifying it. Here's a short list of digestion times of foods:

Water - leaves immediately when stomach is empty and goes into intestines.
Juices - 15-20 minutes
Fruits - 20-40 minutes
Raw vegetables (salads, leafy greens, etc.) - 30-40 minutes
Cooked vegetables - 40-50 minutes
Starchy vegetables (squashes, yams, potatoes) 60 minutes
Grains - 90 minutes
Legumes, Beans - 90 minutes
Seeds - 2 hours
Nuts - 2-1/2-3 hours
Dairy - everywhere from 90 minutes to 5 hours
Animal protein:
Whole egg - 45 minutes
Fish - 30 - 60 minutes
Chicken - 1-1/2 -2 hours
Turkey - 2-2-1/4 hours
Beef, lamb - 3-4 hours
Pork - 4-1/2 - 5 hours

As you can see, there are different schools of understanding and different ways you can vary your meals if you find you're having digestive problems. Many of these protocols have been around for years, but today the first policy of activity many times is to prescribe an antacid or other medication. My recommendation is to always exhaust natural methods and supplements first before resorting to pharmaceutical drugs. I also encourage you to be mindful - pay close concentration to the foods you use to fuel your body and how they work on you. You are the devotee on you! And the extreme responsibility for your health lies with you as well.

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