14 Optimal Nutrition for Optimal Health extended time, coping with the toxins of poor digestion and ulti- mately acquiring any of a wide variety of chronic diseases. The body will persist in staying alive and even be clinically "healthy for prolonged periods of time in the face of poor nutrition. Most young people are still clinically healthy even though their nutri- tional habits are atrocious. However, as time passes and toxicity persists, diseases will manifest themselves. Most people cannot ap- preciate how this is happening in their own lives, since most of the world's developed countries are all in the same boat Until there is a sizable control population of people who are all eating and di gesting correctly, and as a consequence are living long, healthy lives, there will never be a wide appreciation by the public or their health care providers of how sick they are making and keeping themselves with their poor nutritional habits And just because they ate a certain way and felt well when they were younger will be no tification for continuing to eat that way when they are older and have fought toxicity for a much longer time Simple, small meals are always best Convenience and habit have many of us continuing to consume one or two massive meals a day rather than a greater number of small meals. Not only are large meals going to be consistently more toxic by mechanisms to be dis- cussed later, weight gain will also be consistently more pronounced y eating all of one' s daily caloric intake at one or two sittings rather than spread out over several more sittings. Look again at the exam ple nature provides us. Many wild animals spend most of their waking time continuously eating (grazing) small amounts of food Such animals are never obese and rarely toxic. Slow controlled take of nutrients tends more to be utilized at the time of eating to support the body' s functions, while large amounts of food nearly al ways trigger the conversion of excess nutrients into stored forms, seen primarily as the epidemic of obesity across the country today. Ablast from a blowtorch could easily kill you, but the same amount of heat delivered over an extended period of time could instead b
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Food Combining principles 15 a welcome support to your health. Rate of ingestion can be more crucial than the total amount ingested when looking at overall health and body size Toxic digestion can also promote weight gain. The leaky gut syn- drome, to be discussed in greater detail later in this chapter, permits greater caloric absorption from the food ingested as well as the ab sorption of toxins and incompletely digested foods. People who are obese and more toxic tend to have more prolonged bowel transit times. Their food simply spends more time in the gut than it should Constipation of varying degrees will promote this excess absorption of both toxins and caloric content. If you are not having at least one stantial bowel d degree. Consider this: You cannot leave any fleshy food such as meat sitting out on your kitchen counter without refrigeration for more than a day before it begins to noticeably rot and stink. Since rour intestinal tract is a vastly better environment for bacterial growth than your kitchen counter, it shouldn't surprise you that food trapped in your gut for more than twenty-four hours can reli ably be expected to begin rotting to some degree as well. Constipa tion is never desirable, but the severity of its negative effect on health remains little appreciated If constipation is one of your problems, be aware that the tradi- tional methods of treating this condition are only very short-term, symptom-oriented approaches An enema serves only to mechani- cally help clean out what has accumulated in the colon. Professional colonic therapies serve the same function, but tend to be more thor ough in effect. Laxatives work in different ways, but most serve to soften the stool, increase its bulk, or directly irritate the colon into contracting more regularly. Some of these approaches may occa sionally be useful to help "get you going"again, but it makes more sense to understand what caused the constipation in the first place Generally, waste will be slow to leave the colon and rectum if di gested food is proceeding just as slowly"upstream"of the colon
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