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Melons are such a perfect food for humans that they require no digestion whatsoever in the stomach. Instead , they pass quickly through the stomach and move into the small intestine for digestion and assimilation. But this can happen only when the stomach in empty and melons are eaten alone, or in combination only with other fresh raw fruits. When consumed with or after other foods that require complex digestion in the stomach, melons cannot pass into the small intestine until the digestion of other foods in the stomach is complete. so they sit and stagnate instead, quickly fermenting and causing all sorts of gastric distress.

RULE: EAT MELONS ALONE OR LEAVE THEM ALONE

It has been established that, when sugar enters the mouth along with starch, the saliva secreted during mastication contains no ptyalin, thereby sabatoging starch digestion before it reaches the stomach. furthermore, such a comabination blocks passage of sugar through the stomach until the starch is digested, causing it to ferment. the by-products of sugar fermentation are acidic, which in turn further inhibits digestion of starches, which require alkaline mediums for digestion. Bread (starch) and butter (fat) is a perfectly compatible combination, but when you spread a spoonful of honey or jam over it, you introduce sugars to the blend which interfere with the digestion of the starch in bread. The same principle applies to breakfast cereal sprinkled with sugar, heavily frosted cakes, sweet pies, and so forth.

RULE: EAT STARCHES AND SUGARS SEPARATELY

All sugars, without exception inhibit the secretion of gastric juices in the stomach. that’s because sugars are digested neither in the mouth nor in the stomach. Instead, they pass directly into the small intestine for digestion and assimilation. When consumed in combination with protein, such as cake after steak, not only do the sugars inhibit digestion of proteins by suppresising gastric secretions, the sugars themselves get trapped in the stomach instead of moving swiftly to the small intestine, and this delay permits bacteria to ferment the sugars, releasing noxious and gases which further impair digestion.

RULE: AVOID CONSUMING SUGARS AND PROTEINS AT HE SAME MEAL.

In McLeod’s physiology in modern medicine, we find a fact accepted by all physcians: ” Fat has been shown to expert a distinct inhibiting influence on the secretion of gastric juice”. For two or three hours after the ingestion of fat, the concentration of hydrochloric acid and pepsin in the stomach is sharply decreased. This delays digestion of any proteins taken together with the fat which gifaves bacteria ample opportunity to putrefy the protein. that is why fatty meats such as bacon and marbled steaks, or leans meats fried in fat, sit so heavily in the stomach for hours after eaten them.

RULE: EAT CONCENTRATED PROTEINS AND FATS AT SEPARATE MEALS. WHEN YOU CANNOT AVOID MIXING THEM, EAT PLENTY OF RAW VEGETABLES TO ASSIST THEIR DIGESTION AND PASSAGE.

Since protein requires an acid medium for proper digestion, you’d think that acid foods enter the stomach, they inhibit the secretion of hydrochloric acid, and the protein-digesting enzyme pepsin can work only in the presence of hidrochloric acid, no just any acid. Therefore orange juice inhibits the proper digestion of eggs and a strong vinegar dressing on salad inhibits the digestion of a steak.

RULE: AVOID COMBINING CONCENTRATED PROTEINS AND ACIDS AND THE SAME MEAL.

Any acid food taken together with starch suspends secretion of ptyalin, a biochemical fact of life upon which all physcians agree. Therefore, if you consume oranges, lemons and other acid fruits, or acids such as vinegar, along with starch, no ptyalin is secreted in the mouth to initiate the first stage of starch digestion. Consequently the starch hits the stomach without the vital alkaline juices it needs to digest properly, permiting bacteria to ferment it instead. A single teaspoon of vinegar or its equivalent in other acids, is all it takes entirely to suspend salivary digestion of starch in the mouth.

RULE: EAT STARCHES AND ACIDS AT SEPARATE MEALS. FOR EXAMPLE, IF YOU EAT TOAST OR CEREAL FOR BREAKFAST, SKIP THE ORANGE JUICE AS WELL AS EGGS. IF YOU ARE EATING A STARCH-BASED MEAL OF NOODLES OR RICE, AVOID VINEGAR AS WELL AS CONCENTRATED PROTEIN.

Different proteins have different digestive requirements. For example the strongest enzymatic action on milk ocurs during the last hour of digestion, whereas on meat it ocurs during the first hour and on eggs somewhere in between. It is instructive to recall the ancient dietary law wich Moses imposed ON HIS PEOPLE, forbidding the simultaneous consumption of milk and felsh.

Two similar meats such as beef and lamb, o two types of fish such as salmon and shrimp, are not sufficiently different in natureto cause digestive conflict in the stomach and may thus be consumed togehter.

RULE:  EAT ONLY ONE MAJOR TYPE OF PROTEIN AT A SINGLE MEAL. AVOID COMBINATIONS SUCH AS MEAT AND EGGS, MEAT AND MILK, FISH AND CHEESE. INSURE THE ASSIMILATION OF THE FULL RANGE OF VITAL AMINO ACIDS BY VARYING THE TYPES OF CONCENTRATED PROTEINS TAKEN AT DIFFEENTS MEALS.

This is the worst possible combination of foods to mix together at a single meal, and yet it is the mainstay of modern western diets: meat and patatoes, hamburgers and fries, eggs and toast, etc. When one consumes protein and starch together the alkaline enzyme ptyalin pours into the food as its chewed in the mouth. When the masticated food reaches the stomach, digestion of starch by alkaline enzymes continues unabated, thereby preventing the digestion of protein by pepsin and other acid secretions. The ever-present bacteria in the stomach are thus permitted to attack the protein and putrefaction commences rendering nutrients in the protein food largely useless to you and producing toxic wastes and foul gases, incluiding such poisons as indol, skatol, phenol, hydrogen sulphide, phenylpropionic acid and others.

If that is the case, you may wonder, then why does the stomach have no trouble handling foods that naturally contain both protein and starch, such a whole grains? as Dr Shelton points out, there is a great difference between the digestion of a food, however complex its composition, and the digestion of a mixture of different foods. To a single article of food that is a starch-protein combination. the body can easly adjust its juices, both as to strengh and timing, to the digestive requirements of the food. But when two foods ARE EATEN with different, even opposite, digestive needs, this precise adjustment of juices to requirements becomes imposible.

RULE: EAT CONCENTRATED PROTEINS SUCH AS MEAT, FISH, EGGS AND CHEESE SEPARATELY FROM CONCENTRATED STARCHES SUCH AS BREAD, POTATOES AND RICE. FOR EXAMPLE EAT TOAST OR EGGS FOR BREAKFAST, THE HAMBURGER PATTY OR THE BUN FOR LUNCH MEAT OR PATATOES FOR DINNER