The Beauty Detox Solution by Kimberly Snyder Page B

do our poor glands do next? Our stomach has to secrete more digestive juices to try to break down the food, but because there are still opposing digestive enzymes at work, they are neutralized again and again. The digestion of the carbohydrates is interfered with by the presence of the acidic digestive juices, and at the same time the proteins are prevented from digesting properly or completely in the presence of the alkaline digestive juices.
    This inefficient digestive process takes hours, costing us copious amounts of Beauty Energy. We immediately get tired after eating because all our energy is going right into our bellies. It is analogous to a nice Ferrari stuck in the mud with its wheels spinning. No matter how much we jam on the accelerator, the car stays right where it is, just spinning and wasting even more energy. We may experience gassiness, bloating and/or heartburn. Since we get tired pretty quickly after this ill-combined meal, this leads to a groggy afternoon with multiple trips to the company coffee machine or Starbucks, or an uninspired evening in front of the TV. Sound familiar?
    Even with the huge sacrifice of so much of our Beauty Energy, the food in this poorly combined meal is never 100 percent digested. There is a major problem with all this: The longer a food stays in the 98.6-degree body, and the slower it moves through our digestive system, the greater chance it has to become toxic residue as it bakes in our body at this high temperature. In contrast, the faster a food passes through our system, providing us with adequate nutrition and then exiting, the healthier it is.
    Because of these long hours of stasis in our hot bellies, much of the protein in the stomach will become putrefied (rotten), and much of the carbohydrates will become fermented. 17 Now we are dealing with literally rotting matter. Much of the nutrition within those foods is lost, while we are exhausted because the body wastes incredible amounts of energy trying to break the food down.
    Putrefied protein and fermented carbohydrates are unusable by the body and will not contribute to healthy, beautiful cell structure. We do not derive any value from foods that are improperly digested in this manner. As Dr. Norman Walker aptly puts it, “The greatest friends of old age are fermentation and putrefaction. Both of these are natural processes of disintegration. That is why they speed up the aging of people.” 18
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    ROTTEN STARCH + ROTTEN PROTEIN = MORE TOXIC SLUDGE IN OUR BODIES
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    Poor food pairing adds more toxic sludge to the wheel.
    A large component of this constantly amassing sludge comes from fermented and putrefied material, which is built up largely from improper Beauty Food Pairings. It is indeed muddying up our natural beauty, dulling our radiance and contributing to our getting old! Sludge slows down our systems and makes us pack on the pounds, especially around our belly area, no matter how relatively few calories we consume.
    When the food is finally pushed out of the stomach, where it has been for hours, it still has to navigate through about thirty feet of winding intestinal tract! The food could take some twenty to forty hours (or more) to get through the intestines. 19 That, my friends, iswhat at we call a serious Beauty Energy drain. Besides that, we just don’t get the most nutrition from our food when we don’t adhere to the laws of Beauty Food Pairing.
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    IMPROPER BEAUTY FOOD PAIRINGS:
Skinless chicken breast with potatoes
Lean turkey meat on whole-wheat bread
Tuna or salmon sushi rolls
Egg white omelet with whole-grain toast
Grilled or baked fish over wild rice
Low-fat cream cheese on a bagel
    We have been led to believe these combinations are okay—even healthy!—because they are low in fat. But they are in fact aging, slow-digesting foods that when combined contribute to the sludge in our bodies.
    Not combining proteins and starches at the same meal will optimize the amount of