Chocolate a Good Combination with Anything

I was reading something about food combining, and how this regimen for eating has been catching on amongst alternative health type folks, because of it’s teachings that the reason for many digestive problems and even obesity is that we combine our foods all wrong, and this kind of screws up the whole digestive and metabolic process.  Some of it does make sense if I were honest with myself, but some of it also sounds a little like pseudo science when it starts getting downright zealous about certain food combinations and what you need to do to get around eating certain combinations of foods.

It almost makes it sound like you have to be a vegan to avoid combining certain types of foods such as dairy and starch, meat and dairy, starch and meat and so on and so forth, since these foods are so prevalent as least as ingredients in other foods in today’s typical American diet.  One food though they say is combinable with any other type of food and shouldn’t put a kink in anything is chocolate, which I’m sure is music to chocaholic’s ears (like me).

Supposedly chocolate does not interfere with the digestion of any other type of food group, and it can therefore be eaten with any other type of meal.  Now, as far as the food combining theory goes, it basically gives you certain food groups that can be eaten together and certain food groups that should really be avoided eating together if at all possible.

Let’s just put it this way, a hawaiian pizza would be the ultimate faux pas if you were following this eating plan, because it combines bread (starch), cheese (dairy), meat (ham), a derivative of vegetable (the tomato sauce) and fruit (the pineapple).

The idea is to get your digestive system doing the least amount of work possible, so that everything keeps moving right along smootly in the digestive tract, and you can save your energy for other, more important things, like working out.  Also it is supposed to help with weight loss because you are not storing as many unused calories in your fat cells so your fat cells should, in theory, shrink.  You still have to be careful that you don’t eat too much on this type of diet, it defeats the purpose and still overloads the system with too much food.