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Deb Kennedy, PhD - Culinary Medicine: A Focus on Vegetables
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Thursday, August 01, 2024 at 2:00 pm Pacific, 2:00 pm Eastern
Join Dr. Deb for this engaging session where she takes vegetables from the clinic to your plate. She delves into the heart of culinary medicine, focusing on the vital role vegetables… Read More.
Question:
Could you address food combining? Are there vegetables we maybe shouldn't combine in a meal?
— Stacey Cronin
Answer:
So there is no scientific data to support that, that, um, combining certain foods does anything because we have all, we have an acidic environment in our stomach. We've got a whole host of enzymes that are there. We don't just release like a vegetable enzyme or a fat enzyme or protein enzyme. They're all released right when we, when we ingest food. Having said that, there are, um, certain forms of, um, medicine like naturopaths, naturopaths that I know of really believe in not food combining. Um, so what I always say is that if you're combine, if you're eating something and it's not green with you, um, then try eating it by itself. Your body never lies. I can't say scientifically there are any vegetables that we shouldn't combine. There are vegetables that we should combine, like, um, maybe like broccoli raw with something sweeter like sweet potato to make it, excuse me, make it taste better. Um, but no, there are no combining of, of vegetables from a health standpoint. You can, you can digest 'em technically, scientifically, yes.