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Food pairing for easy digestion?

Does anyone out there know of any key food pairings or healthy orders of eating different types of foods? Example: Eating fruit on it's own is good since fruit is digested quickly vs. eating fruit with something like meat which can take days to breakdown in your stomach while the fruit you've consumed starts to rot before even being digested. I've heard to not mix meats and starches also (I'm a vegan so this is sort if irrelevaent but good to tell my friends who are meat consumers). Is there anybody familiar with this(ese) sorts of concepts and can give me any other examples of pairing which help food to digest easier and more quickly?

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1. Actually there are a couple of diet books based on food combining. It (food combining) was popular about 10 years ago. I can't think of the names right now but I can tell you the concept has been dismissed as a fad. Food combining is like veganism...it's simply an eating choice. It has nothing to do with health. There is no sound basis for these ideas. If food combining theories were true, the human race would not have survived to this point, as many basic foods contain a combination of proteins and carbohydrates in the one food. This applies to foods such as beans, grains, seeds, nuts and even breast milk. The only possible advantage to diets that promote these theories are that they might encourage people to eat more fruit and possibly eat less overall. But there is no evidence to support the notion that some foods should be separated...If I think of the books I'll leave a note...good luck The Food Combining/Blood Type Diet Solution by Dina Khader (Author) This one is fairly new but there were others as well.