Volume 1, Number 48 • February 2012

Habit #48:
Eat with the Right Food Combination
As kids, our parents taught us to eat the right food.
Our science teacher taught us the same thing. Remember the three major food groups? Go, grow, and glow
foods? It’s amazing how my kids’ science books still have them.
But I find this amazing: Nowhere in this lesson (then and now) do they teach you to eat the right food in
proper food combinations.
What I’m about to teach you in today’s issue won’t be taught by your doctor. Friend, if you want to be
really healthy, you need to eat in the right combination. Right pairings. Right partnerings.
First, let me explain why this is crucial.

Why Proper Food Combinations?

To make your body healthy, you need to make your gut healthy.
My health mentor never tires of telling me, “Bo, your gut is the secret to healing your entire physical
body.”
In fact, when cancer patients ask him for treatment, no matter where the cancer is (breast, stomach, lungs,
prostrate, bones, blood, or liver), he’ll always work on their gut first.
And what’s the most taken-for-granted secret to a healthy gut?
Aside from eating the right food, you need to eat it in the right combination. There are certain foods that
can be digested more efficiently when eaten together.
How come? Because each type of food needs a particular digestive enzyme for it to be broken down and
utilized (strengthening good cells) or thrown away (excreted).

Right Combinations
Make Your Digestion More Efficient

Here’s what alternative medicine has discovered: The human body finds
it difficult to digest different types of food at the same time.
When we eat different types of food in one go, different digestive
enzymes are secreted into the stomach making digestion difficult. That’s
why people get indigestion, gas, heartburn, or flatulence.
For example, carbs like rice and bread are digested in an alkaline
environment. Protein like chicken or fish is digested in an acid environment.
Combining a carb and a protein in a meal can give your digestive system a

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hard time because it has to use a different type of enzyme for the carb and a different enzyme to digest the protein.
Mixing veg with a protein (like fish) is better than pairing a protein with a starchy food (like rice) since
it’s more difficult to digest.
And remember one of the most fundamental keys to health? Fruits should be eaten on their own since it
digests so easily. Thirty minutes and it’s done. That’s why I tell you to make your breakfeast purely fruits (Habit
#3), nothing else.
And avoid eating fruits at other times of the day. Let’s review why. If you eat a melon after a sandwich,
the melon will rot in your stomach and turn to acid instead of being ready to go to the intestines. This happens
because the sandwhich has a much slower rate of digestion.
Proper food combination will make our digestion efficient.

Good Bacteria in Your Gut

Fact: Millions of bacteria live in your gut.

Don’t worry. Some are actually good for you. When you have good health, the bacteria population in your
gut is balanced (more good bacteria than bad bacteria).
But once this balance is upset (meaning the bad bacteria population is more than good bacteria), our health
suffers. That’s when we easily get sick with colds, coughs, and other infections.
How do you maintain this healthy balance in the gut?
You got it: Proper food combination!
If the food you eat is correctly combined, your stomach won’t get “confused.”
But when you eat the wrong combination of food, food fails to get digested properly and undigested food
sits in your guts. All those supposed to be wonderful enzymes get mixed up and neutralize each other, thus failing
to do good digestive work.
And this upsets the balance of bacteria in your gut.
Now that I’ve explained why proper food combinations heals and strengthens our bodies, let’s dive into
how to actually do it…

Habit #48:
Veg and Protein or Veg and Carb

Here’s how to do it.

Remember our rule? Lunch and dinner should always have vegetables
(Habit #5). That would mean eating raw salads (Habit #8) and cooked veggies.
At every meal, veggies will be your anchor. Your staple. Your main dish.
But what will be its pair?
Habit #48 is simple: For lunch and dinner, choose only one partner to pair
with your veg. If you pair veg with brown rice (or other carbs), then don’t eat fish.
If you pair veg with fish (or other protein), don’t eat brown rice.
That’s it!
I know. Simplifying your food combinations looks unexciting. And I must
admit that I can’t totally follow this combination in every meal. But if you can
follow Healing Habit #48 as much as you can, you’ll bless your body.

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Observe Your Body’s Reaction

Try this proper food combinations for 30 days and observe your body. Why? Because each person’s body
is different. Everyone has his own individual biochemistry.
Thus, your body has different needs. So your needs for proper food combination may be greater or lesser
than someone else—your wife, husband, brother or sister.
So observe your body. Observe especially how it reacts to what you eat. If after eating, you feel weak—
then there must be something wrong either with what you ate or the combinations of what you ate.

Keep a Food Journal

If you already have a journal, you can use that. If you don’t have any, pick up any little notebook.
For 30 days, write down the food that you eat.
This will help you study which food combinations are the right ones for you and which ones made you
feel low or bad.

Be Conscious

Even if you need to eat at a restaurant, you can still practice proper
food combination. It’s all a matter of being conscious of what is good for
your stomach and choosing it.
For example, if the meal is a steamed fish with steamed rice, ask the
waiter if you can replace the rice for steamed vegetables or vegetable salad.
Or if you want to eat rice, choose a vegetable dish to go with it.

You’ll Feel Lighter, Stronger, Better

When I follow this simple food combination, I feel lighter. Stronger. Better.
And I know you will too.
By the way, it takes getting used to. But when you get the hang of it, this will be your new normal.
Happy healing yourself!

May your dreams come true,

Bo Sanchez

P.S. We’ve been working on removing harmful food from your diet. In next week’s issue, we’ll work together on
removing harmful elements in your environment. Watch for it!

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