Solo, duets, trio ...
A new view of the process of digestion was expressed at the end of the 20th century by the famous physiologist Ivan Pavlov. He argued that not all food is digested equally and simultaneously, since it is treated with different enzymes in different parts of the gastrointestinal tract. Pavlov isolated several digestive enzymes, or gastric juices: milk, bread and meat. So, more than a hundred years ago, it became known that a ham sandwich causes the gastrointestinal tract to work simultaneously in two modes. If you drink this combination of coffee with milk, then in three. If coffee is sweet, and fatty ham is generally a disaster, according to the American physician Herbert Shelton, who went along the paved path further. According to Shelton, only food composed of "right" combinations of products is completely split, that is, it is digested and is beneficial to the body. And it's not just about enzymes. For the cleavage of proteins, for example, the medium is acidic. And for the treatment of starchy food an alkaline environment is required.
Non-surgical methods
Cutlets. In many families it is still one of the most favorite dishes. We will replace the bread, soaked in milk, with frozen vegetables. Any vegetable mixture, without thawing, grind, mix with minced meat, chopped herbs and onions. Salt, pepper, one raw protein - and you can cook quite harmonious cutlets.
- Borscht
Use not a meat but vegetable broth - already half the trouble. Substitution is unlikely to be noticed if all vegetables passer, and put potatoes purely symbolically - one. But do not regret garlic and herbs-spices! And then in the plates - a piece of meat.
- Pasta and pizza
Bread is quite compatible with cream (not with milk)! Plus the ubiquitous vegetables. True, tomatoes, perhaps, are not comrades, but in both dishes there are not so many to grieve. The main thing is to use seafood in this company, and not salami and ham.
- Pelmeni, khinkali, manti
Real, natural pel'meshki are good only in that they bring joy. We are not every day! And not kilogram! .. If you can not separate the dough and stuffing, at least drink before and after the green tea. Question: how is the same sandwich with ham going to be digested? The answer is: slowly and hard, because "bread" and "meat" enzymes require different conditions, and they simply interfere with each other. So the concept of "separate nutrition" was born, on which many American diets - William Hay, Susan Somers, Judy Meisel and Shelton (the leader's shirt) are based. Following them, one food can not include categorically incompatible products.
For example:
• meat, fish and poultry - with bread, cereals and starchy vegetables;
• bread and cereal - with honey, jam and other sweets;
• sour-milk products and cottage cheese - with sugar. Particularly "noncompany" products were melon (solo only), meat and fish (consumed exclusively with green non-starchy vegetables), milk (preferably solo, but some allow combination with savory fruits and even starchy vegetables). We will devote a separate ode to sour-milk products. They are combined only with fruits, vegetables, cheese and nuts, but how to combine! Yoghurts and curds, kefir and berry smoothies, as well as aerobatics figures - Greek salad with light cheese, Georgian "napagi" - cottage cheese with mint, Italian lasagna without pasta - from vegetables and cheese ... And all this works in the gastrointestinal tract simultaneously with janitors and gardeners, since it cleanses the pathogens from the intestines and "plants" it with useful lacto- and bifidobacteria. Sour-milk products are recognized as natural probiotics - part of the popular functional food today.
We share in time
Fruits-berries almost all doctors are advised to use separately from the main meal. Alone, the apple or plum is digested so quickly that there is simply no reason to delay them in the stomach in anticipation of other, more inhibitory foods. Moreover, sweet fruits and berries perfectly match with milk, sour cream, nuts - at least make parfait, at least pannakottu.
Beverages. Alas, not so much as a cola - even all table water is recommended to be separated from food and removed for at least half an hour: the liquid weakens the activity of gastric juices. But if you have already sat down at the table and really want to drink, it is better to do this before eating.
Now about the figure
Unlike most nutritionists, psychologists believe that life sentences like "I never eat flour and sweet" - not an option. On the contrary, we met with friends in a cafe - rejoice, order your favorite carbonara, polenta or cheesecake. But! Competently "surround" this dish - a plate of fresh vegetables, miso soup, green tea. Plus to that before and after the party, we do not play with buns, but eat low-calorie stewed cabbage or cauliflower, pears, cucumbers. That is ... we return to the combinations. So, subtracting from the usual dishes only individual ingredients and thinking over the daily diet as a whole, we will learn to live in harmony - not with Shelton, but with our own organism.
Beet Dessert
4 servings
- 2 medium beets
- 600 g of curdled milk
- small bundle of coriander
- 1 tbsp. l. sunflower unrefined oil
- 1 h .1. coriander seeds
- salt, freshly ground white pepper
Fold the washed beets in foil and bake in a preheated oven to 180 ° C until soft, about 1 hour and 15 minutes. Cool, clean, cut into random pieces. Preheat coriander seeds on a dry frying pan over a small fire, 1 min. In coriander, separate the leaves, cut the stems finely. Combine the beets, curdled milk, ground cilantro stems, coriander, oil, salt and pepper to taste. Beat up to homogeneity. Cool, sprinkle with cilantro leaves.
Puff with blueberries and chocolate
8 servings
- 500 g puff yeast dough
- 400 g of blueberries (can be frozen)
- 100 g of dark chocolate (more than 00% cocoa)
- Yolk
- 1.5 tsp. cornstarch
- Brown sugar
- whipped cream
Fresh blueberries are sprinkled with starch, frozen to sprinkle without defrosting, just before use. Do not unroll, cut the dough into 8 squares or rectangles. Each of them is slightly incised along the perimeter so that a "frame" with a thickness of 1.5 cm is produced. Lay the puffs on a baking sheet covered with parchment at a certain distance from each other. Break the chocolate into pieces and melt in a water bath. Melated each piece of dough from inside with melted chocolate, without touching the frame. Lubricate it with yolk. On the chocolate immediately put the blueberries to the berries stuck (a little berries should stay). Put the puff into a preheated oven for 180 minutes for 20 minutes. Then remove, distribute the remaining blueberries on the puffs, sprinkle with sugar to taste and return to the oven for another 5 minutes. Serve the puffs warm with whipped cream.
Combination with subtraction
Opponents of "separate food" believe that the process of digestion in such a simple scheme does not fit. Under the task of splitting food, enzymes not only gastric, but also "inferior organs" are sharpened, for example, pancreatic juice. He does not care what to work on - even whites, though fat or carbohydrates. But, perhaps, the main argument in the fight against the American concept is the historically formed food system. According to Shelton, all traditional cooking is wrong. Russian pies (yeast dough, meat-fish-eggs-cabbage) and Ukrainian borsch (meat, vegetables, beans or mushrooms). English breakfast (oatmeal, egg, bacon, bagel with jam) and French onion soup (onion, cheese, cream, crackers). Italian cuisine in general rests: pasta and pizza fell into a bad company in time immemorial. Tomatoes and peppers plus ham and salami, shrimps and mussels, cheese, cream ... In theory, the bel canto homeland, Celentano and vendetta should no longer be on the world map! And she is. Nevertheless, no matter how we treat Shelton's theory, you will agree: an escalope with potatoes is one thing, and in a company baked with spices of vegetables - another. Even if you align the dishes with caloric content (for example, add more olive oil to the vegetables), we will see: from the first option pulls into a heavy sleep, from the second - to feats. Perhaps some postulates of separate nutrition are still valid? And if without any systems to push the topic of traditional "Soviet" side dishes and sandwiches, we most likely will not lose, but buy. Vegetables in any form (not potatoes and especially not pasta!) - an excellent company for meat and fish. In case of time trouble, you can always have a package of frozen zucchini, pepper, broccoli in the refrigerator ... For a morning sandwich, we will try not to put meat, but cheese or cheese, and make them better friends in the stomach, as well as a lettuce leaf and a sprig of parsley. Here it is indisputable: cucumbers, cabbage, zucchini, greens and other "silage" perfectly combine, literally, with all products (except milk).