Crazy Sexy Diet: Eat Your Veggies, Ignite Your Spark, and Live Like You Mean It! (29 page)
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Authors: Kris Carr,Rory Freedman (Preface),Dean Ornish M.D. (Foreword)
Tags: #Nutrition, #Motivational & Inspirational, #Health & Fitness, #Diets, #Medical, #General, #Women - Health and hygiene, #Health, #Diet Therapy, #Self-Help, #Vegetarianism, #Women
Alejandro Junger, MD
, is the best-selling author of
Clean: The Revolutionary Program to Restore the Body’s Natural Ability to Heal Itself.
SQUATTER’S RIGHTS
There are three times in life when squatting is necessary. One: childbirth. Two: if you’re employed as an umpire. Three: dropping the kids off at the pool, aka taking a crap. The modern can just wasn’t designed in your colon’s best interest. Ideally, your feet should be elevated about 10 to 18 inches off the ground—you want your knees to be higher than your hips.
I’ll never forget the first time I saw a squat toilet while working in a rural area of Japan. Basically, it’s a hole in the ground with a flusher. I thought, You’ve got to be kidding. When I asked my interpreter why the toilets in town were so freaky, he laughed and said, “It’s your toilets that are freaky, my dear.” Hmmm. Many years later, while studying the colon, I realized my Japanese host was right. The squatting position is the way we’re naturally designed for pooping. By raising your feet to simulate a squat position, you encourage (“that-agirl!”) a complete removal of waste.
No need to ask your plumber to take out your toilet and install a hole in your bathroom.
Renewlife.com
sells a LifeSTEP support stool that fits around your toilet so that your feet can rest in the anatomically correct position for healthy elimination. You can find a fancier version (a bit more chic and attractive) at miraclestep.com. If you want to be thrifty, just use a small hamper or trash can—that’s what I use. In addition to squatting, strong abdominals really help move things along. Do your sit-ups, folks! Happy pooping!
FOOD COMBINING
Another way to create
optimum digestion, assimilation, and elimination for better energy and overall health is strategic food combining. Different foods have different transit schedules (the time it takes from entry to exit) and require different digestive enzymes and varying acid/alkaline conditions. When we combine food properly, we can manage the traffic in our gut to move smoothly and without jams. When we don’t, the resulting gridlock creates road rage. The result? Foul farts, rot, too much mucus, constipation, partly digested food in your commode, and bloating that makes you blame your nice trousers.
Not everyone is sensitive to dense, miscombined meals. Perhaps you have the constitution of a gladiator and this step will only make you feel restricted and pissed. If so, forget it! Food combining is a somewhat new concept, and while there are many respected health practitioners who swear by its value, others think it’s a lot of nonsense. Be a curious Wellness Warrior and try it for yourself. If you suffer from belly and bowel troubles after meals, you may see a big difference. My guess is that you won’t have to experiment for long. A few days to a week should be enough to know if food combining is helping you.
When I teach nutrition classes in my workshops, I usually bring a fancy lace bra and a pair of my husband’s paint-stained overalls to explain the principles of food combining. Picture those filthy work pants covered in grease, paint, and God only knows what else in your washer. Those stank pants need to be soaked and laundered in boiling hot water with lots of Seventh Generation detergent and maybe a splash of natural bleach.
The metal clasps make loud banging noises and nothing but rags are safe with them in the spin cycle. Would you put your lovely (and extremely expensive) La Perla bra in the wash with that brute? My guess is no. If you did, your lady holders would be torn to shreds and useless. Tit slings need the delicate cycle. Dirty dog pants need a power shower. If you put them in the delicate cycle, they will remain filthy. Get the picture? Your bra and his pants require different transit times to get clean and spiffy.
Different foods have different transit schedules (the time it takes from entry to exit) and require different digestive enzymes and varying acid/alkaline conditions.
COMBO
BASICSThe basic principles of food combining are pretty simple. Here’s a list to get you started. To see these principles in action, check out Monday in my “Crazy Sexy Day in the Life” portion of
chapter 10
.
Eat melon alone or leave it alone (fifteen to thirty minutes’ digestion time).
note:
Animal protein can take eight hours or longer.