The Beauty Detox Solution by Kimberly Snyder

your doctor might shrug it off, that in no way makes it less valid. Remember that the average doctor might spend only about two weeks studying nutrition in medical school—or less. One published study suggests that only about 25 percent of medical schools require training in the medical nutrition sciences, 11 and when medical schools do offer nutrition electives, there are generally low enrollments. It is simply not doctors’ area of expertise—even though they have lots of training in many other areas. Therefore, we should go to the experts on nutrition when we want answers, and there are those that have studied the principles of food combining for decades.
    HOW BEAUTY FOOD PAIRING WORKS
    In order to lose weight and look your most beautiful, you must free up energy from digestion. In addition to the foods we eat, we can increase or decrease Beauty Energy by the order in which we eat foods and the choice of foods we eat together. Remember:
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    MORE ENERGY = MORE BEAUTY
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    One of the biggest ailments of the Western world is a chronic lack of energy. A lack of energy can lead to a viciously frustrating cycle of overeating, constant snacking, and reaching for sugary, caffeinated beverages, all in an attempt to feel more energetic and not have to struggle through the day. And, as you now know, a lack of energy makes you hold on to excess weight and look less beautiful. And why are we so tired? Because we’re not combining our foods properly.
    Beauty Food Pairing is based on the science of how food digests optimally in the body. Different foods digest with different enzymes, and some call for more acidic or more alkaline environments. Dr. Herbert M. Shelton is generally considered the foremost expert on food combining. He spent years studying the way digestive enzymes work to help break down foods, the primary basis for Beauty Food Pairing. As Dr. Shelton explains, “Every student of physiology is well aware that the digestive enzymes have certain well-defined limitations and that different digestive juices are secreted for use in digesting different kinds of food substances.” 12
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    True Beauty Story
    MY CLIENT MELANIE LEE IS THIRTY-NINE YEARS OLD AND TRAVELS CONSTANTLY FOR her finance-related job. She has a lot of pressure on her to perform and close deals and have successful meetings with clients, and all the traveling adds to her stress. One of the few things that gives her a sense of stability and comfort is her favorite foods that she likes to fall back on, some of which she knows she can usually get in airport terminals and in the first-class section of planes.
    We had to work out a food plan for her quickly because she was on a downward spiral. She was incredibly stressed, had super-low energy and a lot of bloating issues, and her skin was breaking out and looked horrible. It was not a great time to make new food changes, but the one thing I saw from glancing at her diet was that we could easily work out a new food plan by changing only the order and combination of the foods she was eating, not the foods themselves.
    I talked to Melanie about a month later and she was thrilled! She was feeling much more energetic, and just from changing her food combinations, she had lost seven pounds—mostly old waste trapped in her body! Now she is truly her perfect weight and her body looks much sleeker. Her energy is super high, and she is so happy that she did not have to give up all her comfort foods to look and feel as good as she does now.
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    During her thirty-five years of study in nutrition, Dr. Ann Wigmore, creator of the Living Foods Lifestyle, adamantly believed that “proper food combining is important for good health.” 13 I took classes on food combining as part of the programs I attended at her institute in Rincón, Puerto Rico. The principles of food combining are also taught at the Hippocrates Health Institute in West Palm Beach, Florida, a prestigious and world-famous