Combining Your Food: Categorize Your Meals, Lose Weight and Feel Great

Our food senses sometimes tell us that some foods just don't mix well together. For example, there are some foods we refuse to eat for breakfast or dinner. In some of these cases, this is tradition while in other cases our bodies are trying to tell us what we need and when we need it.

Dr. William Howard Hay began eating according to these intuitive yet scientific principles in 1911 and created a revolutionary new diet with many health benefits. He was watching his own health decline after many years of advising others on their health. He had a dilated heart, Brights disease, and high blood pressure. Dr. Hay was determined to find the solution to his symptoms. He started his own treatment with the notion that the cause of all medical problems is a chemical imbalance in the body.

He started by changing his philosophy and began to develop a regimen of common sense lifestyle choices and a very specific diet with simple rules that he believed would restore chemical balance in his body. He took the same advice he gave his patients and got plenty of fresh air, exercise, and lived a relatively clean life.

His diet plan was based on his desire to eat "fundamentally" and follow very simple rules. He reasoned that eating the wrong combinations of foods encourages the digestive system to create more enzymes than it can handle in an attempt to digest too many different varieties, textures, and chemicals at the same time. This overabundance of digestive juices raises the acidity of the blood and causes hosts of problem in the body. It also prevents certain foods from being digested as well as they could be, thus causing your body to lose out on digesting beneficial minerals and nutrients.