Food Combining Made Easy by Herbert M. Shelton

Author:Herbert M. Shelton [Shelton, Herbert M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

How to Take Your Starch

CHAPTER VI

One author says: “Don’t serve more than two foods rich in sugar or starch at the same meal. When you serve bread and potatoes, your starch-license has run out. A meal that includes peas, bread, potatoes, sugar, cake and after dinner mints should also include a Vitamin B Complex capsule, some bicarbonate of soda (other than that used on the vegetables), and the address of the nearest specialist in arthritis and other degenerative diseases.”

For more than fifty years it has been the rule in Hygienic circles to take but one starch at a meal and to consume no sweet foods with the starch meal. Sugars, syrups, honey’s cakes, pies, mints, etc., have been tabu with starches. We do not say to those who come to us for advice: If you eat these with your starches, take a dose of baking soda with them. Wc tell them to avoid the fermentation that is almost inevitable. In Hygienic circles it is considered the height of folly to take a poison and then take an antidote with it. We think it best not to take the poison.

Sugar with starch means fermentation. It means a sour stomach. It means discomfort. Those who are addicted to the honey-eating practice and who are laboring under the popular fallacy that honey is a “natural sweet” and may be eaten indiscriminately, should know that this rule not to take sweets with starches applies to honey as well. Honey or syrup, it makes no difference which, with your hot cakes, honey or sugar, it matters not which, with your cereals, honey or sugar to sweeten your cakes—these combinations spell fermentation. White sugar, brown sugar, “raw” sugar, imitation brown sugar (that is, white sugar that has been colored), black strap molasses. or other syrup, with starches means fermentation. Soda will neutralize the resulting acids, it will not stop the fermentation.

For more than fifty years it has been the practice in Hygienic circles to lake a large raw vegetable salad (leaving out tomatoes or other acid foods) with the starch meal. The salad has been a very large one, measured by ordinary standards, and made up of fresh uncooked vegetables. This salad carries an abundance of vitamins and minerals. The vitamins in these vegetables are the genuine articles and no chemist’s imitations of the real thing. No just-as-good substitutes for vitamins have ever satisfied the Hygienists. We take the real article or nothing. Capsule-eating is a commercial program and belongs to the drug fetish.

Vitamins complement each other. We need, not just the vitamin B complex, but all vitamins. A large raw vegetable salad supplies several known vitamins and those that may exist but have not yet been detected. Vitamins not only cooperate with each other in the nutritive process, but they also cooperate with the minerals in the body. These are supplied by the vegetable salad. To take vitamin preparations that are combined with calcium or iron or other minerals will not answer the purpose. These minerals are in non-usable forms.

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