Health-Building Diet

Starchy food should be chewed well so that the saliva mixes with it and prepares it for further digestion in the intestines by mixing it with the enzyme of ptyalin in the saliva, which acts upon the starches. That is why all the grass and grain-eating animals spend so much time in chewing their food. They grind it up thoroughly and mix it with saliva, to stay well; and they do, if the food is suitable and provides all the elements needed for life's process. But man hasn't time for that, so he spends months in hospitals to try to patch up what a disregard for Nature's law of life brought on.

Protein foods and acids are agreeable and a good combination because they both take acid media for their digestion and thus will not cause fermentation by souring through an alkaline-acid reaction between them in digesting. Protein foods and starchy food are a bad combination, such as meat or eggs with bread, since the proteins require the acid in the stomach for their digestion. The starches are absorbent like a sponge and take up that liquid and cannot use it, since they are digested by the saliva in the mouth and, in the small intestines, by the amylopsin and diastase enzymes. Starches eaten with proteins, then, delay the digestion and cause fermentation.

Milk is a baby food. It should not be taken with other proteins at any meal. Two types of proteins are excessive and delay the digestion. The old Jewish law would never allow milk on the table with their big meal of the day.^[1] Milk is best combined with starches - potatoes, cereals, bread - and sweet fruits. Sour milk and yogurt are better for adults than sweet milk, as they are partly cheese already. Vegetables are best combined with all proteins either as a cooked dish or as a raw salad. That is an ideal combination for all big meals.

Liquids - Persons with poor digestion should not take liquids with meals, as they dilute the digestive juices and thus delay the digestion, causing bloating and headaches. For the

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¹ While the Torah admonishes not "to boil a kid in its mother's milk" (Exodus 23:19, Exodus 34:26, and Deuteronomy 14:21), Jewish oral tradition extends this to refraining from eating any meat or poultry (fleishik) and dairy (milchik) together. Fish and dairy is allowable, however. For the very kosher, one must also wait some time between eating meat and dairy to ensure that no residual particles from the previous meal are present in the mouth. The waiting time might be from three to six hours after eating meat. For eating meat after dairy, one simply needs to rinse out one's mouth and eat a solid neutral (pareve) food, like bread, to clear the mouth.