Not sad at all, just peaceful music.
Tchaikovsky,(None But The Lonely Heart) Songs (6), Op. 6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PtIHBCuR-Q&feature=related
Joshua Bell on violin - Tchaikovsky - None but the Lonely Heart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HEQqtoAwjY&feature=related
Tchaikovsky, None But The Lonely Heart by David Garrett
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZhwtZjZ5eU&feature=related
Hvorostovsky sings Tchaikovsky's song "None but the lonely heart"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlfhPViN0j0&feature=related
Placido Domingo - Six Romances (None But The Lonely Heart)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCGg183BG00
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Joshua Bell - Faure - Apres un reve (After a dream)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOeR2T2rlVk&feature=related
Après un rêve - Gabriel Fauré - Flute フォーレ 夢のあとに
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsGfPZtI8-o&feature=related
Cello Journey #20, Jan. 9, 2007, Faure Apres un Reve
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zkvFPSPRuw
Cello & piano Gabriel Fauré - Après un Rêve
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnMRZ5BYAFE
Placido Domingo sings Apres un reve and plays piano with Alexis Weissenberg, 1983, look very young
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxEK34DyxgY&feature=related
Youngok Shin 申英玉, soprano, FAURE - Apres un reve
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ec2tmMUOw8&feature=related
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Cello Journey #26, Faure Sicilienne
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HskJ1gKa2NQ&feature=related
Gabriel Fauré - Sicilienne op 78, piano transcription
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtQkVWxjJoQ&feature=related
Pahud plays Gabriel Fauré Sicilienne Op78 flute
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KweXColOsgQ&feature=related
Faure's Sicilienne performed by Julian Lloyd Webber and John Lenehan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4ZbUbN2OPE&NR=1
2010年10月5日 星期二
2010年10月3日 星期日
消化(2)
為了解決我的胃氣漲問題, 除了要少吃易產生氣體的食物外, 也要改變飲食習慣, 以免消化不良. 上個月吃多了意大利粉和番茄, 本來在2008年經歷過的嚴重噯氣情況又再出現.
今天起按照澱粉質和蛋白質有不同的消化酵素原則進食. 停留在胃內時間較短的食物先吃, 以免積蓄過多未消化好的食物在胃內.
今天早餐吃了一只奇異果和滾水泡過的幾粒龍眼乾. 其實不該吃龍眼乾, 但太餓了. 後來購物後吃了一只天津雪梨. 午餐只吃七條用多士焗爐焗熟的橫澤魚, 一粒維生素B什. 早午餐之間喝當歸紅棗水(後來才發覺忘記放紅棗). 晚餐該吃蔬菜和兩片昨天剩下的麵包了. 以前沒想過這樣把澱粉質和蛋白質分餐吃, 不混合吃. (後記:晚餐吃120克菜心, 隔半小時才吃兩片烘多士. 之後, 一直至睡覺前只有一次噯氣, 因為沒有喝超過一口水, 多士能混和多些唾液. )
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http://www.ziondaily.com/2.0/web/health_10a/view.php?id=9168
含蛋白質和澱粉質的食物，兩者所需要的消化液都各有不同。要有適當的消化液，才能把某種食物分解，然後被身體吸收使用。譬如：消化澱粉質，首先要從口腔開始。我們口腔的唾液，含有一種唾液澱粉消化酵素(ptyalin)，是身體進行消化澱粉質過程的第一步。而消化和分解蛋白質的過程，則以胃部作為起首，其過程涉及兩種元素，一種是鹽酸(Hydrochloric acid)，而另一種是用來分解蛋白質的胃蛋白質消化酵素〔1001〕(pepsin)。這兩樣都是從胃部分泌出來，用以消化所有蛋白質。
傳統中國人的飯菜，必定有魚、有肉、有菜，而西方大多數食物，都是以馬鈴薯和肉類混合為主，或以麵包、三文治(澱粉質食物)夾雜著肉類、乳製品，如芝士、蛋和其它蛋白質一起吃。難怪現代先進國家的人，皆有這麼多消化系統的毛病出現。當蛋白質和澱粉質混合在一起進食時，我們的口腔所分泌出來的唾液，便不會產生任何唾液澱粉消化酵素(ptyalin)，而澱粉質在這情況下，就沒有經過其原本消化過程的第一步，而直接進入胃部未經適當消化的澱粉質，便會在胃部開始發酵，製造很多氣體。更糟的是，蛋白質要在一個酸性的環境中，才能被消化，但澱粉質，剛剛相反，卻要在一個鹼性的環境中，才能被消化。當蛋白質和澱粉質一起進入胃部後，因受到食物的刺激，從胃部所分泌出來的兩種消化液(一酸一鹼)，便會彼此中和，令兩種食物都不能夠被消化，而被迫停留在胃裡。這些被迫停留的食物，過了一段時間便會開始腐化，繼而製造很多氣體，令身體不適。更重要的是，在這食物腐化和發酵的過程中，所有食物的營養，會全被破壞和毀滅。因此，身體的細胞就缺乏了那些用來恢復年青、更新的補充營養。所以消化不良確實會導至營養不良，而這種惡性的飲食循環，會導至過早的衰老和產生很多疾病。
當提到蛋白質食物，我們主要是強調動物性的蛋白質，因為有些植物性的食物(如豆類)，含有天然混合的植物性蛋白質和澱粉質。當單獨進食這些食物時，我們的身體是可以分泌適當的消化液，只要配合適當的流程，便能有效地消化它們。可是有些人吃完豆類，仍然會感到不舒服。其實，很多食物都混合了蛋白質和澱粉質，很難找到一些是絕對只含100%的蛋白質或100%的澱粉質。我所指的蛋白質食物，是一些含有高濃度或高比例蛋白質成份的食物。以肉類為例，50%是蛋白質，但沒有任何澱粉質。同樣，澱粉質的食物也有相似的情況。例如馬鈴薯，它含有蛋白質8%，碳水化合物(澱粉) 90%。有好一些食物是界乎兩者之間的，如豆、扁豆、米、小麥、奎奴亞(quinoa)。
若單獨進食這些食物，我們身體也可以處理得到。所以，當西方人將牛排和馬鈴薯混合一起吃的時候，會導致消化不良，極之難將它們消化。中國人的飯菜是以吃飯 (米)和肉為主，故此相比之下，是比較好一些。所以西方國家的人，例如美國人，出現消化系統疾病的機會率及個案，相比東方國家的人較為多及普遍。總括來說，預防勝於治療。當你還年輕的時候，要及早處理你的生活和飲食習慣。病從口入，所以要為明天作計劃和打算，依從這五個原則，為自己建立一個適當食物組合的餐膳。否則，待年紀大後，身體和消化系統已經崩潰。到那時便會後悔，並且想搶救也太遲了。
http://www.drbass.com/sequential.html
Sequential eating and food combining
Excerpts from "Ideal Health through Sequential Eating"
............
BASIC RULE - WATERY FOODS FIRST
To simplify this concept of sequential or layered eating, the basic rule or principle can be stated as follows:
Eat the most watery food first .....
BAD COMBINATIONS TO AVOID
The following represents some examples of bad combinations to avoid
1. Mixing dried sweet fruit, honey, maple syrup or bananas with nuts or seeds
2. Mixing starch foods with fresh or acid foods or fruits
3. Mixing dried sweet fruits with acid fruits.
4. Never eat dried sweet fruits with or after concentrated proteins
5. Eating raw, fresh or dried fruits after any cooked food
6. Avoid drinking beverages or even water during or after meals
............
今天起按照澱粉質和蛋白質有不同的消化酵素原則進食. 停留在胃內時間較短的食物先吃, 以免積蓄過多未消化好的食物在胃內.
今天早餐吃了一只奇異果和滾水泡過的幾粒龍眼乾. 其實不該吃龍眼乾, 但太餓了. 後來購物後吃了一只天津雪梨. 午餐只吃七條用多士焗爐焗熟的橫澤魚, 一粒維生素B什. 早午餐之間喝當歸紅棗水(後來才發覺忘記放紅棗). 晚餐該吃蔬菜和兩片昨天剩下的麵包了. 以前沒想過這樣把澱粉質和蛋白質分餐吃, 不混合吃. (後記:晚餐吃120克菜心, 隔半小時才吃兩片烘多士. 之後, 一直至睡覺前只有一次噯氣, 因為沒有喝超過一口水, 多士能混和多些唾液. )
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http://www.ziondaily.com/2.0/web/health_10a/view.php?id=9168
含蛋白質和澱粉質的食物，兩者所需要的消化液都各有不同。要有適當的消化液，才能把某種食物分解，然後被身體吸收使用。譬如：消化澱粉質，首先要從口腔開始。我們口腔的唾液，含有一種唾液澱粉消化酵素(ptyalin)，是身體進行消化澱粉質過程的第一步。而消化和分解蛋白質的過程，則以胃部作為起首，其過程涉及兩種元素，一種是鹽酸(Hydrochloric acid)，而另一種是用來分解蛋白質的胃蛋白質消化酵素〔1001〕(pepsin)。這兩樣都是從胃部分泌出來，用以消化所有蛋白質。
傳統中國人的飯菜，必定有魚、有肉、有菜，而西方大多數食物，都是以馬鈴薯和肉類混合為主，或以麵包、三文治(澱粉質食物)夾雜著肉類、乳製品，如芝士、蛋和其它蛋白質一起吃。難怪現代先進國家的人，皆有這麼多消化系統的毛病出現。當蛋白質和澱粉質混合在一起進食時，我們的口腔所分泌出來的唾液，便不會產生任何唾液澱粉消化酵素(ptyalin)，而澱粉質在這情況下，就沒有經過其原本消化過程的第一步，而直接進入胃部未經適當消化的澱粉質，便會在胃部開始發酵，製造很多氣體。更糟的是，蛋白質要在一個酸性的環境中，才能被消化，但澱粉質，剛剛相反，卻要在一個鹼性的環境中，才能被消化。當蛋白質和澱粉質一起進入胃部後，因受到食物的刺激，從胃部所分泌出來的兩種消化液(一酸一鹼)，便會彼此中和，令兩種食物都不能夠被消化，而被迫停留在胃裡。這些被迫停留的食物，過了一段時間便會開始腐化，繼而製造很多氣體，令身體不適。更重要的是，在這食物腐化和發酵的過程中，所有食物的營養，會全被破壞和毀滅。因此，身體的細胞就缺乏了那些用來恢復年青、更新的補充營養。所以消化不良確實會導至營養不良，而這種惡性的飲食循環，會導至過早的衰老和產生很多疾病。
當提到蛋白質食物，我們主要是強調動物性的蛋白質，因為有些植物性的食物(如豆類)，含有天然混合的植物性蛋白質和澱粉質。當單獨進食這些食物時，我們的身體是可以分泌適當的消化液，只要配合適當的流程，便能有效地消化它們。可是有些人吃完豆類，仍然會感到不舒服。其實，很多食物都混合了蛋白質和澱粉質，很難找到一些是絕對只含100%的蛋白質或100%的澱粉質。我所指的蛋白質食物，是一些含有高濃度或高比例蛋白質成份的食物。以肉類為例，50%是蛋白質，但沒有任何澱粉質。同樣，澱粉質的食物也有相似的情況。例如馬鈴薯，它含有蛋白質8%，碳水化合物(澱粉) 90%。有好一些食物是界乎兩者之間的，如豆、扁豆、米、小麥、奎奴亞(quinoa)。
若單獨進食這些食物，我們身體也可以處理得到。所以，當西方人將牛排和馬鈴薯混合一起吃的時候，會導致消化不良，極之難將它們消化。中國人的飯菜是以吃飯 (米)和肉為主，故此相比之下，是比較好一些。所以西方國家的人，例如美國人，出現消化系統疾病的機會率及個案，相比東方國家的人較為多及普遍。總括來說，預防勝於治療。當你還年輕的時候，要及早處理你的生活和飲食習慣。病從口入，所以要為明天作計劃和打算，依從這五個原則，為自己建立一個適當食物組合的餐膳。否則，待年紀大後，身體和消化系統已經崩潰。到那時便會後悔，並且想搶救也太遲了。
http://www.drbass.com/sequential.html
Sequential eating and food combining
Excerpts from "Ideal Health through Sequential Eating"
............
BASIC RULE - WATERY FOODS FIRST
To simplify this concept of sequential or layered eating, the basic rule or principle can be stated as follows:
Eat the most watery food first .....
BAD COMBINATIONS TO AVOID
The following represents some examples of bad combinations to avoid
1. Mixing dried sweet fruit, honey, maple syrup or bananas with nuts or seeds
2. Mixing starch foods with fresh or acid foods or fruits
3. Mixing dried sweet fruits with acid fruits.
4. Never eat dried sweet fruits with or after concentrated proteins
5. Eating raw, fresh or dried fruits after any cooked food
6. Avoid drinking beverages or even water during or after meals
............
美、興奮、思考--煙花
早上在電梯遇到鄰居邀請我去看她和朋友舉辦的攝影展. 她以前說過為拍攝蝴蝶, 不惜犧牲睡眠時間. 我想她的作品是觀賞類, 不是思想啟發類. 短短時間怎可以向她解釋我已對觀賞性的視覺作品沒多大興趣了, 連前晚的大型維港煙花表演也懶得看. 我關的是這些煙花會否造成空氣污染, 多於關心它美不美. 畢竟我已不再是感性青年.
2010年10月2日 星期六
消化酵素
為了不要胃漲噯氣, 我要注意以下各點:
1.不是有胃酸就能消化食物, 要有適合的消化酵素.
2.醫生說我可能消化澱粉的酵素分泌不够.
3.消化澱粉的酵素ptyalin是由唾腺分泌.
4.其他消化酵素由口、胃和腸的分泌腺製造. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digestive_enzyme
5.食物搭配適宜有助消化.
6.高澱粉食物不應該與任何高蛋白食物搭配.
7.不要同時吃任何兩種高蛋白食物.
7.酸類食物不應該與澱粉食物或疍白食物搭配, 因為酸會阻碍澱粉分解, 酸使蛋白質腐敗.
8.番茄是酸性生果, 不是蔬菜. 它不適合和麪(十水一中尸)包、麵(十弓一田中)條一起吃.
9.牛奶是在十二指腸(是小腸始段。人體的十二指腸長約30 cm，約12指寬，由此得名??)內消化的, 因此和酸性生果一起吃不會影饗消化.
10.肥肉，酸蘋果，豆、花生、豌豆、穀物、麵包和果醬或者烤饼和蜂蜜或者糖漿，是較難消化並且易在體內腐爛毒化。
11.蛋白質與(竹難卜金)油脂不要同吃。奶油、黃油、油、等等與肉，雞蛋、乳酪、堅果等等一起, 油脂延遲胃口汁液分泌和壓止對肉、堅果、雞蛋或者其他蛋白質的適當消化液。
12.澱粉和糖不要一起吃。果凍，果醬、果子、黃油、糖、蜂蜜、糖漿、糖漿等等，在麵包，蛋糕，或者在同一頓膳食用穀物、土豆、等等或者糖用穀物，將导致發酵。
http://www.internethealthlibrary.com/DietandLifestyle/Food_combining.htm
food Combining
It is commonly believed that the human stomach should be able to digest any number of different foods at the same time. However, digestion is governed by physiological chemistry. It is not what we eat that is crucial to our health, but what we digest and assimilate.
Digestive enzymes
Digestive enzymes are secreted in very specific amounts and at very specific times. Different food types require different digestive secretions. Carbohydrate foods require carbohydrate-splitting enzymes, whereas protein foods require protein splitting enzymes, etc. It is the knowledge of the digestive process that has led many health practitioners to promote efficient food combing, the rules of which are briefly explained below:
1. Carbohydrate foods and acid foods should not be eaten at the same meal. Do not eat bread, rice or potatoes with lemons, limes, oranges, grapefruits, pineapples, tomatoes or other sour fruits. This is because the enzyme, ptyalin, acts only in an alkaline medium; it is destroyed even by a mild acid! Fruit acids not only prevent carbohydrate digestion, but they also produce a fermentation. Oxalic acid, for example, diluted to one part in 10,000 completely arrests the action of ptyalin. And, there is enough acetic acid in one teaspoon of wine vinegar to completely halt salivary digestion. Dr Percy Howe of Harvard Medical School states:
"Many people who cannot eat oranges at a meal derive great benefit from eating them fifteen to thirty minutes before the meal". Herbert Sheldon, author of 'The science and fine art of food and nutrition' reports: " I have put hundreds of patients , who have told me that they could not eat oranges or grapefruit, upon a diet of these fruits and they found that they could take them. Such people are in the habit of taking these foods with a breakfast of cereal, with cream and sugar, egg on toast, stewed prunes and coffee, or some similar meal."
Tomatoes should also never be combined with starchy food as the combination of the various acids in the tomato, which are intensified on cooking, are very much opposed to the alkaline digestion of starches. They may be eaten with leafy vegetables and fat foods.
What all this tends to mean is that people who say they cannot eat oranges or grapefruit as it gives them gas, could be blaming the fruit, when the problem may lie with the escape of starches and the bodies release of pancreatic juice and intestinal enzymes to break them down.
In cases where there is hyperacidity of the stomach there is great difficulty digesting starches. Fermentation and poisoning of the body occurs along with much discomfort. This is because the digestion of carbohydrates (starches and sugars) and of protein is so different, that when they are mixed in the stomach they interfere with the digestion of each other. An acid process (gastric digestion) and an alkaline process (salivary digestion) can not be carried on at the same time in an ideal way in the stomach. Before long, they cannot proceed at all , as the rising acidity of the stomach soon completely stops carbohydrate digestion. The highest efficiency in digestion demands that we eat in such a way as to offer the least hindrance to the work of digestion.
2. Do not eat a concentrated protein and a concentrated carbohydrate at the same meal. This means do not eat nuts, meat, eggs, cheese, or other protein foods at the same meal with bread, cereals, potatoes, sweet fruits. Cakes, etc. Candy and sugar greatly inhibit the secretion of gastric juice and markedly delay digestion and if consumed in large quantities can depress the stomach activity.
3. Do not eat two concentrated proteins at the same meal. Avoid nuts and meat, or eggs and meat, cheese and nuts, cheese and eggs, meat and milk, or eggs and milk or nuts at milk at the same meal. Milk, if taken at all, is best taken alone. The reason for avoiding eating these combinations is because each protein requires a specific character and strength of digestive juice to be secreted. Eggs require different timing in stomach secretions than do either meat or milk.
4. Do not eat fats with proteins. This means do not use cream, butter, oil, etc with meat, eggs, cheese, nuts, etc. Fat depresses the action of the gastric glands by delaying the development of appetite juices and inhibiting the pouring out of the proper gastric juices for meats, nuts, eggs or other protein. Fats may lower the entire gastric tone more than fifty per cent.
5. Do not eat acid fruits with proteins. This is to say, oranges, tomatoes, lemons, pineapples, etc., should not be eaten with meat, eggs, cheese or nuts. Acid fruits seriously hamper protein digestion and results in putrefaction. Milk and orange juice, while by no means an indigestible combination, is far from a good combination. Orange juice and eggs form an even worse combination.
6. Do not consume starch and sugars together. Jellies, jams, fruit, butter, sugar, honey, syrups, molasses, etc., on bread, cake, or at the same meal with cereals, potatoes, etc., or sugar with cereal, will produce fermentation. The practice of eating starches that have been disguised by sweets is also a bad way to eat carbohydrates. If sugar is taken into the mouth it quickly fills with saliva but no ptyalin is present which we know is essential for starch digestion.
7. Eat but one concentrated starch food at a meal. This rule is more important as a means of overeating than as a means of avoiding a bad combination. While overeating of starches may lead to fermentation, there is no certainty that the combination of two starches will do so.
8. Do not consume melons with any other foods. Watermelon, muskmelon, honeydew melon, cantaloupe and other melons should always be eaten alone. This is possibly due to the ease and speed in which melons decompose.
9. Milk is best taken alone or let alone. Milk is the natural food of the mammalian young, each species producing milk peculiarly and precisely adapted to the needs of its young. It is the rule that the young take the milk alone, not in combination with other foods. Milk does not digest in the stomach, but in the duodenum, hence in the presence of milk the stomach does not respond with its secretion. The use of acid fruits with milk does not cause any trouble and apparently does not conflict with its digestion.
A suggested combination of meals is included in the following plan of eating three meals a day :
Breakfast
Fruit. Any fruit in season may be used. It is suggested that not more than three fruits be used at a meal, as, for example, grapes, well ripened bananas and an apple. It is well to have an acid fruit breakfast one morning and a sweet breakfast the next. In season breakfast may be made of melons. In the winter months, one or two dried fruits such as figs, dates, raisins, prunes, etc., may be substituted for the fresh fruit.
Lunch
A large raw vegetable salad of lettuce, celery, and one or two other raw vegetables plus avocado and alfalfa sprouts or nut and seeds. As an alternative, a vegetable salad (omitting tomatoes), one cooked green vegetable and a starch.
Dinner
A large raw vegetable salad (if nuts or cottage cheese are to be used as the protein, tomatoes may be used in this salad), two cooked non-starchy vegetables and a protein.
Fat meats, sour apples, beans, peanuts, peas, cereals, bread and jam, or hot cakes and honey or syrup, are notoriously slow in digestion and are frequent sources of discomfort and putrescent poisoning.
If the body’s reserves are carefully hoarded they will carry us well beyond the hundred year mark with youthful enthusiasm and zest. Their depletion is one of the most common calamities of modern life. The alkaloids and alcohols, with which gastro-intestinal decomposition charges our bodies, rob us of our reserves, greatly weaken our vital resistance and sooner or later produce a state of physiological collapse.
© The Internet Health Library 2000
1.不是有胃酸就能消化食物, 要有適合的消化酵素.
2.醫生說我可能消化澱粉的酵素分泌不够.
3.消化澱粉的酵素ptyalin是由唾腺分泌.
4.其他消化酵素由口、胃和腸的分泌腺製造. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digestive_enzyme
5.食物搭配適宜有助消化.
6.高澱粉食物不應該與任何高蛋白食物搭配.
7.不要同時吃任何兩種高蛋白食物.
7.酸類食物不應該與澱粉食物或疍白食物搭配, 因為酸會阻碍澱粉分解, 酸使蛋白質腐敗.
8.番茄是酸性生果, 不是蔬菜. 它不適合和麪(十水一中尸)包、麵(十弓一田中)條一起吃.
9.牛奶是在十二指腸(是小腸始段。人體的十二指腸長約30 cm，約12指寬，由此得名??)內消化的, 因此和酸性生果一起吃不會影饗消化.
10.肥肉，酸蘋果，豆、花生、豌豆、穀物、麵包和果醬或者烤饼和蜂蜜或者糖漿，是較難消化並且易在體內腐爛毒化。
11.蛋白質與(竹難卜金)油脂不要同吃。奶油、黃油、油、等等與肉，雞蛋、乳酪、堅果等等一起, 油脂延遲胃口汁液分泌和壓止對肉、堅果、雞蛋或者其他蛋白質的適當消化液。
12.澱粉和糖不要一起吃。果凍，果醬、果子、黃油、糖、蜂蜜、糖漿、糖漿等等，在麵包，蛋糕，或者在同一頓膳食用穀物、土豆、等等或者糖用穀物，將导致發酵。
http://www.internethealthlibrary.com/DietandLifestyle/Food_combining.htm
food Combining
It is commonly believed that the human stomach should be able to digest any number of different foods at the same time. However, digestion is governed by physiological chemistry. It is not what we eat that is crucial to our health, but what we digest and assimilate.
Digestive enzymes
Digestive enzymes are secreted in very specific amounts and at very specific times. Different food types require different digestive secretions. Carbohydrate foods require carbohydrate-splitting enzymes, whereas protein foods require protein splitting enzymes, etc. It is the knowledge of the digestive process that has led many health practitioners to promote efficient food combing, the rules of which are briefly explained below:
1. Carbohydrate foods and acid foods should not be eaten at the same meal. Do not eat bread, rice or potatoes with lemons, limes, oranges, grapefruits, pineapples, tomatoes or other sour fruits. This is because the enzyme, ptyalin, acts only in an alkaline medium; it is destroyed even by a mild acid! Fruit acids not only prevent carbohydrate digestion, but they also produce a fermentation. Oxalic acid, for example, diluted to one part in 10,000 completely arrests the action of ptyalin. And, there is enough acetic acid in one teaspoon of wine vinegar to completely halt salivary digestion. Dr Percy Howe of Harvard Medical School states:
"Many people who cannot eat oranges at a meal derive great benefit from eating them fifteen to thirty minutes before the meal". Herbert Sheldon, author of 'The science and fine art of food and nutrition' reports: " I have put hundreds of patients , who have told me that they could not eat oranges or grapefruit, upon a diet of these fruits and they found that they could take them. Such people are in the habit of taking these foods with a breakfast of cereal, with cream and sugar, egg on toast, stewed prunes and coffee, or some similar meal."
Tomatoes should also never be combined with starchy food as the combination of the various acids in the tomato, which are intensified on cooking, are very much opposed to the alkaline digestion of starches. They may be eaten with leafy vegetables and fat foods.
What all this tends to mean is that people who say they cannot eat oranges or grapefruit as it gives them gas, could be blaming the fruit, when the problem may lie with the escape of starches and the bodies release of pancreatic juice and intestinal enzymes to break them down.
In cases where there is hyperacidity of the stomach there is great difficulty digesting starches. Fermentation and poisoning of the body occurs along with much discomfort. This is because the digestion of carbohydrates (starches and sugars) and of protein is so different, that when they are mixed in the stomach they interfere with the digestion of each other. An acid process (gastric digestion) and an alkaline process (salivary digestion) can not be carried on at the same time in an ideal way in the stomach. Before long, they cannot proceed at all , as the rising acidity of the stomach soon completely stops carbohydrate digestion. The highest efficiency in digestion demands that we eat in such a way as to offer the least hindrance to the work of digestion.
2. Do not eat a concentrated protein and a concentrated carbohydrate at the same meal. This means do not eat nuts, meat, eggs, cheese, or other protein foods at the same meal with bread, cereals, potatoes, sweet fruits. Cakes, etc. Candy and sugar greatly inhibit the secretion of gastric juice and markedly delay digestion and if consumed in large quantities can depress the stomach activity.
3. Do not eat two concentrated proteins at the same meal. Avoid nuts and meat, or eggs and meat, cheese and nuts, cheese and eggs, meat and milk, or eggs and milk or nuts at milk at the same meal. Milk, if taken at all, is best taken alone. The reason for avoiding eating these combinations is because each protein requires a specific character and strength of digestive juice to be secreted. Eggs require different timing in stomach secretions than do either meat or milk.
4. Do not eat fats with proteins. This means do not use cream, butter, oil, etc with meat, eggs, cheese, nuts, etc. Fat depresses the action of the gastric glands by delaying the development of appetite juices and inhibiting the pouring out of the proper gastric juices for meats, nuts, eggs or other protein. Fats may lower the entire gastric tone more than fifty per cent.
5. Do not eat acid fruits with proteins. This is to say, oranges, tomatoes, lemons, pineapples, etc., should not be eaten with meat, eggs, cheese or nuts. Acid fruits seriously hamper protein digestion and results in putrefaction. Milk and orange juice, while by no means an indigestible combination, is far from a good combination. Orange juice and eggs form an even worse combination.
6. Do not consume starch and sugars together. Jellies, jams, fruit, butter, sugar, honey, syrups, molasses, etc., on bread, cake, or at the same meal with cereals, potatoes, etc., or sugar with cereal, will produce fermentation. The practice of eating starches that have been disguised by sweets is also a bad way to eat carbohydrates. If sugar is taken into the mouth it quickly fills with saliva but no ptyalin is present which we know is essential for starch digestion.
7. Eat but one concentrated starch food at a meal. This rule is more important as a means of overeating than as a means of avoiding a bad combination. While overeating of starches may lead to fermentation, there is no certainty that the combination of two starches will do so.
8. Do not consume melons with any other foods. Watermelon, muskmelon, honeydew melon, cantaloupe and other melons should always be eaten alone. This is possibly due to the ease and speed in which melons decompose.
9. Milk is best taken alone or let alone. Milk is the natural food of the mammalian young, each species producing milk peculiarly and precisely adapted to the needs of its young. It is the rule that the young take the milk alone, not in combination with other foods. Milk does not digest in the stomach, but in the duodenum, hence in the presence of milk the stomach does not respond with its secretion. The use of acid fruits with milk does not cause any trouble and apparently does not conflict with its digestion.
A suggested combination of meals is included in the following plan of eating three meals a day :
Breakfast
Fruit. Any fruit in season may be used. It is suggested that not more than three fruits be used at a meal, as, for example, grapes, well ripened bananas and an apple. It is well to have an acid fruit breakfast one morning and a sweet breakfast the next. In season breakfast may be made of melons. In the winter months, one or two dried fruits such as figs, dates, raisins, prunes, etc., may be substituted for the fresh fruit.
Lunch
A large raw vegetable salad of lettuce, celery, and one or two other raw vegetables plus avocado and alfalfa sprouts or nut and seeds. As an alternative, a vegetable salad (omitting tomatoes), one cooked green vegetable and a starch.
Dinner
A large raw vegetable salad (if nuts or cottage cheese are to be used as the protein, tomatoes may be used in this salad), two cooked non-starchy vegetables and a protein.
Fat meats, sour apples, beans, peanuts, peas, cereals, bread and jam, or hot cakes and honey or syrup, are notoriously slow in digestion and are frequent sources of discomfort and putrescent poisoning.
If the body’s reserves are carefully hoarded they will carry us well beyond the hundred year mark with youthful enthusiasm and zest. Their depletion is one of the most common calamities of modern life. The alkaloids and alcohols, with which gastro-intestinal decomposition charges our bodies, rob us of our reserves, greatly weaken our vital resistance and sooner or later produce a state of physiological collapse.
© The Internet Health Library 2000
2010年9月30日 星期四
Alzheimer’s disease
大約十多年前, 家母記憶力和智力開始衰退, 我買了一本有關Alzhemer's disease 的書看. 裡面有一位美國老年男患者的案例. 他們沒有兒女, 沒有足夠的經濟能力聘請私人看護, 而護老院照顧不好. 他的景況使他年老的太太很悲傷. 這本書使我對這疾病有所認識, 但也使我流了不少眼淚. 好幾年內也不敢再翻這本書. 當時我感到當一個人失去了智力, 與人溝通和照顧自己的能力, 還給愛護他的人增添沉重的負擔, 是何等悲哀啊!
現在我已學會接受現實, 放棄以前被灌輸的悲喜觀念. 人生來就沒有保證不會讓不幸降臨到身上. 既然不幸來到了, 悲痛也無助改變事實. 以為人生會一帆風順是不是太天真呢! 我自少缺乏應對不幸的心理準備, 因此經歷了不少事故後才學會了豁達.
現在我已學會接受現實, 放棄以前被灌輸的悲喜觀念. 人生來就沒有保證不會讓不幸降臨到身上. 既然不幸來到了, 悲痛也無助改變事實. 以為人生會一帆風順是不是太天真呢! 我自少缺乏應對不幸的心理準備, 因此經歷了不少事故後才學會了豁達.
2010年9月25日 星期六
又一週
9月24日, 美元下滑, 金銀價齊創新高, 股市高位整固.
美國眾議院歲計委員會在周五以口頭決議方式通過，支持立法向中國產品徵收反傾銷稅，以迫使中國讓人民幣升值。
看看這blog的圖就知道人民幣在過去已升值不少了, 美國追逼人民幣急升值缺乏理據.
http://scottgrannis.blogspot.com/2010/09/chinese-manipulate-their-currency-to.html
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中秋節燒蜡, 亂放孔明燈, 是有點理性和責任感的成年人所為嗎? 為了幾分鐘興奮而不顧嚴重後果.
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Nat King Cole 30年前與現在還是一樣歌聲動聽，獨一無二的歌喉．unforgetable voice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8tRTZIx298&feature=related
美國眾議院歲計委員會在周五以口頭決議方式通過，支持立法向中國產品徵收反傾銷稅，以迫使中國讓人民幣升值。
看看這blog的圖就知道人民幣在過去已升值不少了, 美國追逼人民幣急升值缺乏理據.
http://scottgrannis.blogspot.com/2010/09/chinese-manipulate-their-currency-to.html
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中秋節燒蜡, 亂放孔明燈, 是有點理性和責任感的成年人所為嗎? 為了幾分鐘興奮而不顧嚴重後果.
*** ***
Nat King Cole 30年前與現在還是一樣歌聲動聽，獨一無二的歌喉．unforgetable voice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8tRTZIx298&feature=related
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