Contents:
- Medical Video: Food Combining Basics (2017) | Dr Mona Vand
- What is food combining?
- How do you do food combining during fasting?
- Break fast menu for food combining
- Sahur menu for food combining
Medical Video: Food Combining Basics (2017) | Dr Mona Vand
Have you ever heard about food combining? The principle of eating is to make food easier for the body to digest and provide optimal results for health. Combining food is believed to help you lose weight, prevent digestive problems, and have an impact on overall health. You can do food combining at any time, even you can try it in the fasting month. How to do food combining during fasting?
What is food combining?
Food combining is the principle of eating by combining certain foods so that the food can be digested properly. This principle categorizes food into acid, alkaline and neutral groups.
The body digests these food groups in different ways, so it cannot be arbitrary in combining food for consumption. Incorrectly combining food for consumption can cause these foods difficult to digest the body and have a negative impact on health, according to food combining.
There are four food groups in food combining, namely carbohydrates, protein, vegetables, and fruits. Usually the rules applied in food combining are:
- Fruit can only be eaten alone, cannot be combined with other food groups
- Vegetables can only be combined with protein
- Carbohydrates cannot be combined with animal protein
- Proteins can only be eaten in one type, cannot combine various types of proteins in one meal
How do you do food combining during fasting?
Doing food combining when fasting is actually almost the same as that done in normal months. It's just that your meal time is different, you can only eat when breaking fast and sahur.
Break fast menu for food combining
When breaking fast, you may need to eat food for some time. First, shortly after breaking fast, you need to drink sweet drinks to replace the body's energy lost during fasting. Besides sweet drinks, you can also consume dates. Or, you can also eat ice fruit (don't mix milk), it must be refreshing and can give you energy.
After tarawih prayer, you can continue your meal time again. Now, at this time you can eat big with a menu consisting of carbohydrates, vegetables, and vegetable protein or vegetables and protein. Example:
- Menu 1: brown rice, spinach, tofu and bacem tempeh
- Menu 2: brown rice, capcay filled with vegetables, fried tofu, vegetables, and chili sauce
- Menu 3: meat steak with sauteed carrots, beans and corn
- Menu 4: grilled chicken with spinach, carrots and mushrooms
One more thing that must be done in food combining is to chew food slowly. This is so that the body only needs a little energy to digest the food.
Sahur menu for food combining
Sahur can be likened to breakfast in ordinary months. For the sahur menu in food combining, you can only eat fruits. However, if you don't feel full enough, you can eat vegetables with protein.
Vegetables with protein together can provide a feeling of fullness longer, thus helping you withstand hunger until the time of breaking the fast. Eat fruit first at dawn. Give pause some time before you continue to eat other foods.
Examples of sahur menus for fasting food combining are:
- Menu 1: fruit salad, consisting of apples, papaya, mango, melon and cantaloupe
- Menu 2: banana, then proceed with a vegetable salad, consisting of lettuce, carrots, beans, corn, cabbage, chicken and eggs
Don't forget to drink plenty of water at dawn to maintain your body's hydration during fasting times. Water is also important to help the body digest the food you eat. You may need to drink at least 2-3 glasses of water at dawn.
