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“Carbohydrates are first digested by alkaline juices from the mouth, and proteins are digested by acid juices from the stomach. Eating the two foods together results in neutralization of the digestive juices so that the food takes much longer to digest” (Jonn Matsen in Eating Alive, p. 114). photograph of meat and potatoes courtesy – robynmac [...] A friend sent me the following information about bananas. I don’t know the source. But, what a fruit! photograph courtesy – Capgros at www.sxc.hu Bananas contain three natural sugars – sucrose, fructose & glucose, combined with fiber. A banana gives an instant, sustained & substantial boost of energy. Research has proven that two bananas provide enough energy [...] The phytic acid naturally occuring in grains, nuts, and seeds is considered an antinutrient, just like the oxalic acid in spinach, because it causes a nutrient deficit in the body by combining with the calcium, iron, zinc, and magnesium in all plant seeds and making these essential minerals unavailable. Actually – all minerals are essential! [...] It’s first thing in the morning and you’ve just drunk 18 oz of water. Before you drink the next 6 oz, still one hour before breakfast, take a small organic lemon, roll it on the counter to soften its juice cells, cut it in half and squeeze all its juice into the 6 oz of water [...] photograph courtesy – Zumbari at www.sxc.hu You know that rather gritty feeling you get on your teeth when you eat a spinach salad? That’s the oxalic acid in the leaves and stems. Oxalic acid is an organic acid found in a range of plant foods that can cause a nutrient deficit in the body and [...] Digestion of carbohydrates, proteins, and fats begins in the mouth with chewing, which breaks the food particles into smaller pieces and mixes them with salivary amylase, the enzyme that starts complex carbohydrate digestion by changing starches into dextrin. This doesn’t happen if we swallow too fast. Slow chewing also sends signals to the stomach and [...] Meghan Rathwell, our current instructor at CSNN, suggested we students do a home experiment to prove to ourselves that complex carbohydrates break down into simpler sugars in the mouth with the addition of the salivary enzyme known as amylase. Here’s the experiment: Eat a piece of rice cake that’s made of brown rice and chew [...] Do you like this word-cloud image? I’m finding it fun to plug text into the wordle website and check out the result. This “wordle” is the result of plugging in my notes from CSNN’s introduction to digestion today. And here’s another wordle using text from the home page of the Savings-Naturally.com webstore. I’m having fun! Best of health, [...] |
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