The Importance of Proper Digestion 9 water and electrolytes in the processed food mass, which is then de- livered to the rectum for subsequent elimination. WHERE THE NUTRIENTS GO The intestine has a separate blood circulation that receives the ab- sorbed nutrients. This system is called the portal venous system which sees that the initial food product absorption is channeled through the liver The liver then processes the nutrients into accept- able forms for distribution and uptake throughout the body. The liver also serves an important role in removing or otherwise inacti vating toxic products to prevent them from being absorbed into the bloodstream along with the nutrients. However, a consistently poor diet or one that is poorly digested can overwhelm these defense mechanisms. The compensatory abilities of the body can only pro- tect so much SOME CLOSING NOTES The reader may well be asking why all this detail on digestion has any importance at all in the practical achievement of optimal nutri tion. After all, if you eat something and you have no intestinal dis eases, the body will do the rest, right? Life(and health) would be so much simpler if this were true. Ask yourself why you eat the way you do. If you are like most people, you eat for taste and out of habit. Who ever declared that a bowl of cornflakes with milk was the proper, if not ideal, way to begin the day? Probably your mother and the cereal-dairy arms of the food in- dustry. Trouble is, only your mother was motivated by what she thought was best for you This is the first major revelation that must occur to the motivated reader. And it shouldn't be a surprise. The food industry cares
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10 Optimal Nutrition for Optimal Health about the food industry and the profits it can make. This is not to accuse the food industry of any deep, dark conspiracies. All of big business does whatever it can do to legally increase its bottom line What you have to realize is that no big industry or business has your best interests in mind unless those interests coincidentally mesh nicely with what the industry goals were already. Therefore, one rule of thumb you should never forget is: Advertisements and business publications are not valid sources of scientific information They could be, and rarely are, but they are never to be trusted as such. In fact, as you will see as these chapters unfold, many of the most common pieces of dietary advice are exactly the opposite of the scientific truth Whoever first declared that Milk is a natural"or You never outgrow your need for milk"was only looking to sell milk. The truth is that the dairy industry has never outgrown its need for ever-larger profits. Science be damned. But I t be pick- ng on just the dairy industry. Much more of corporate America must take the blame for the daily poisoning taking place in the name of nutrition Regardless of whether you are concerned about why you eat the way you do, you must understand that the way you eat must be al- tered if you expect to obtain the benefits touted in this book. Food can be tasty, and all of the palate s desires can be satisfied but be re solved that many of the usual ways in which you' ve satisfied these longings in the past simply must be abandoned. However, and this is very important, do not feel that you must do everything that I suggest. Obviously, I feel that following all of the suggestions made would be optimal for your health. But much of what Il suggest might be very inconvenient or even overly expensive for you to in corporate into your lifestyle. That is not a reason to avoid following any of the suggestions. Just about any of the suggestions can make their own small contribution to your pursuit of optimal nutrition So, do what you can. You may well find that making one small change at a time will get you much further than trying to do every
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The Importance of Proper Digestion 11 thing at once and becoming overwhelmed and frustrated in the process, while rationalizing that life wasn't designed to be that dif ficult, and that you have to die sometime, anyway Although the end of the book will contain a listing of many prac- tical and important suggestions for achieving optimal nutrition, I would also advise you to dog-ear pages, make notes, and highlight what you consider to be especially important points. This book is intended to make you a healthier person, not just to satisfy your in tellectual curiosity and to answer questions that may have always had you puzzled
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apter 2 FOOD COMBINING PRINCIPLES KEEP IT SIMPLE In general, the larger and more complex your meals are, the greater the likelihood that they will impair your digestion to some degree Animals in the wild rarely eat more than one type of food at a time They may consume a variety of foods over time but the foods will typically be eaten singly. Such wild animals tend to be healthy until their natural life span has run its course. On the other hand, our pet dogs and cats often get the" of human-inspired food com- binations. Thus, as every veterinarian knows, our pets get the same degenerative diseases that their human owners get Impairing your digestion might not sound like something that would be enor- mously harmful to your health, but we will soon see that it can re- lly be just that. The body is something like a very finely tuned engine. The wrong fuel, delivered at the wrong rate, with other fuels or contaminants mixed in, will generally immediately impair the engines performance and eventually just shut down the engine The human body, however, can make an almost endless number of adjustments to food poorly digested short of the final insult, death. Rather than have the"intelligence"of an engine to sputter early on and eventually just not work, the body will plod along for an McGraw-Hill's Terms of use
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