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From: Chuck (ip102-12.dialup.edisontel.com)
Subject: Re: Carbohydrates and ptyalin
Date: April 2, 2003 at 6:34 am PST
In Reply to: Carbohydrates and ptyalin posted by Wook on April 2, 2003 at 3:14 am:
When a food prevailing in starches is mixed with a food prevailing in suagr (keeping in mind that both these food are not only "starches" and "sugar" but a complex combination of nutrients)
the salivary secretion is devoid of ptyalin. But is not truly its secretion that is checked, but its adjustment.
We must bear in mind that when we hear about good or bad combination, we're not talking about conbination of elements (as for instance: protein and fats) but we're talking about the combination of complete food that by turn are themlselves complicated combination of elements.
(in fact both protein, fats and carbohydrates are in every existing food) We know that our body can't its secretions so as to digest bad combination of complete foods mixed together, but it is able to adapt its secretion to the digestion of the mixture of elements found in a complete food.
The adjustment of bodily secretions is not only of degree of concentration character but also of time character.
Sugar, strach and protein contained in every food (for instance a banana) are digested in different moment.
The ptyalin predigest the carbohydrates and then when carbohydrates are finally digested protein are then digested as the gastric secretion chance.
When you eat two food that have a diffetent nutrients ratio or a different metabolic reaction this adjustament of the gastric secretions becomes impossible.
Hence, our body is able to digest every kind of nutrients combination as long as this is a natural one that takes account of the limit of the bodily secretions adjustment mechanism; but it is not able to digest complicated combination of food that are by themselves already a complicated combination of nutrients as they exceed the limit of the gastric secretions adjustment mechanism.
Starches and sugars shouldn’t be mixed when you mix two food that are by themselves a complicated combination of elements, and when you add poor white sugar to high amount of starches, but when you eat a food that contain both starches and sugar, the salivary secretion is able to adapt itself to this food; little doses of ptyalin are secreted so has to predigest the few starches stramforning them into semi-simple-sugar, then amylases complete the starch digestion once they’re been swallowed by transforming them into simple sugars, only when starch have been digested,, protein digestion begins.
But it’s important to understand that food combining means “combination of two “complicated combination of elements”-foods that have a different metabolic reaction or need a different gastrict secretion character” but it doesn’t mean that our body is unable to digest fat and protein, sugar and protein, starch and acids, starch and sugars as every food is a combination of all elements, because our body is able to adapt its secretions but there’s a limit to this adaptation mechanism; this limit is respected by nature and the food she provides to us while is not respected by innatural combination between various food.
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