Food combining

Food combining (also known as trophology) is a term for a nutritional approach that advocates specific combinations of foods as central to good health and weight loss (such as not mixing carbohydrate-rich foods and protein-rich foods in the same meal). The best-known food-combining diet is the Hay Diet; Hay lost 30 pounds in 3 months when he implemented his research. One randomized controlled trial of food combining has been performed, and found no evidence that food combining was any more effective than a "balanced" diet in promoting weight loss.[1]

Food combining adherents believe that watermelon and other melons should be consumed separately from other foods. [2][3]


See also

Alkaline diet
Fit for Life
Michel Montignac
Raw foodism
List of diets

References

  1. ↑ Golay A, Allaz A, Ybarra J, Bianchi P, Saraiva S, Mensi N, Gomis R, de Tonnac N (2000). "Similar weight loss with low-energy food combining or balanced diets". Int. J. Obes. Relat. Metab. Disord. 24 (4): 492–496. doi:10.1038/sj.ijo.0801185. PMID 10805507.
  2. ↑ "melons do not digest well with other foods and will frequently cause problems unless consumed separate from other food" Dr. Wayne Pickering, Naturopathic Physician
  3. ↑ Natalya Frolova, Registered Nutritionist, Food Combining chart