Bach - Concerto for Oboe and Violin in C Minor BWV1060 - Mov. 2-3/3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zorktkN4DC0
Mov.2 Adagio must be helpful for digestion
Alessandro Marcello - Concerto for oboe and strings - 2nd movement - Adagio - in C minor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjLoOmDddgk
Tomaso Albinoni - Concerto Oboe op.9-2 Adagio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPyFBUcWdZk
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto for oboe, strings and basso continuo in C major (RV 452)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdgOMZtoS68
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto for two oboes, two clarinets, strings and basso continuo in C major (RV 560) II. Adagio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzmWoQDOtyc
Bach Concerto For Oboe and Violin
in D Minor BWV 1060: II. Adagio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgbrgAI6QJE
J.S. Bach - Sinfonía de la "Cantata nº 156" Neil Black, oboe (Arioso)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92QOAVPYOMg
J.S. Bach - Concierto para dos claves (BWV 1060), adagio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_s-a-mDd1kM
Eschenbach - Mozart, Piano Sonata K.576 in D Major - II Adagio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0j8B4yGaYw
Mozart- Piano Sonata in C minor, K. 457- 2nd mov. Adagio, Mitsuko Uchida
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrpeZHWrx5Q
Idil Biret - Haendel Menuet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXcF8OFGWw4
Dmitri Shostakovich - Romance (from The Gadfly)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDW4VJGKLAQ
Cubus plays Piano Sonata No. 16, K545, 2nd movement by Mozart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRNE_IfFNZE&p=FD52A3D0479CE4F8&playnext=1&index=15
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Heavy smoker singers
Jacques Brel _ La Chanson des Vieux Amants
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1DpjXQUDsI&NR=1&feature=fvwp
Nat King Cole - I love you for sentimental reasons
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oWbzT_oAJ0&feature=related
Yves Montand--Syracuse - Yves Montand
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZNnJvVJNmU&feature=related
2010年10月6日 星期三
2010年10月5日 星期二
消化(3)
還是未解決胃氣漲煩惱, 吃白菜後馬上噯氣, 吃半個雪梨也噯氣. 吃多士吃魚後沒有噯氣. 已經減了份量和分類吃.
要試試合嘴呼氣吃.
http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/gas/
What are some symptoms and problems of gas?
What causes gas?
Gas in the digestive tract—the esophagus, stomach, small intestine, and large intestine—comes from two sources:
* swallowed air
* normal breakdown of certain undigested foods by harmless bacteria naturally present in the large intestine, also called the colon
Swallowed Air
Aerophagia, or air swallowing, is a common cause of gas in the stomach. Everyone swallows small amounts of air when eating and drinking. However, eating or drinking rapidly, chewing gum, smoking, or wearing loose dentures can cause some people to take in more air.
Burping, or belching, is the way most swallowed air—which contains nitrogen, oxygen, and carbon dioxide—leaves the stomach. The remaining gas moves into the small intestine, where it is partially absorbed. A small amount travels into the large intestine for release through the rectum. The stomach also releases carbon dioxide when stomach acid mixes with the bicarbonate in digestive juices, but most of this gas is absorbed into the bloodstream and does not enter the large intestine.
Breakdown of Undigested Foods
The body does not digest and absorb some carbohydrates—the sugar, starches, and fiber found in many foods—in the small intestine because of a shortage or absence of certain enzymes that aid digestion.
This undigested food then passes from the small intestine into the large intestine, where normal, harmless bacteria break down the food, producing hydrogen, carbon dioxide, and, in about one-third of all people, methane. Eventually these gases exit through the rectum.
People who make methane do not necessarily pass more gas or have unique symptoms. A person who produces methane will have stools that consistently float in water. Research has not shown why some people produce methane and others do not.
Foods that produce gas in one person may not cause gas in another. Some common bacteria in the large intestine can destroy the hydrogen that other bacteria produce. The balance of the two types of bacteria may explain why some people have more gas than others.
[Top]
Which foods cause gas?
Most foods that contain carbohydrates can cause gas. By contrast, fats and proteins cause little gas.
Sugars
The sugars that cause gas are raffinose, lactose, fructose, and sorbitol.
Raffinose. Beans contain large amounts of this complex sugar. Smaller amounts are found in cabbage, brussels sprouts, broccoli, asparagus, other vegetables, and whole grains.
Lactose. Lactose is the natural sugar in milk. It is also found in milk products, such as cheese and ice cream, and processed foods, such as bread, cereal, and salad dressing. Many people, particularly those of African, Native American, or Asian background, normally have low levels of lactase, the enzyme needed to digest lactose, after childhood. Also, as people age, their enzyme levels decrease. As a result, over time people may experience increasing amounts of gas after eating food containing lactose.
Fructose. Fructose is naturally present in onions, artichokes, pears, and wheat. It is also used as a sweetener in some soft drinks and fruit drinks.
Sorbitol. Sorbitol is a sugar found naturally in fruits, including apples, pears, peaches, and prunes. It is also used as an artificial sweetener in many dietetic foods and sugar-free candies and gums.
Starches
Most starches, including potatoes, corn, pasta, and wheat, produce gas as they are broken down in the large intestine. Rice is the only starch that does not cause gas.
Fiber
Many foods contain soluble and insoluble fiber. Soluble fiber dissolves easily in water and takes on a soft, gel-like texture in the intestines. Found in oat bran, beans, peas, and most fruits, soluble fiber is not broken down until it reaches the large intestine, where digestion causes gas.
Insoluble fiber, on the other hand, passes essentially unchanged through the intestines and produces little gas. Wheat bran and some vegetables contain this kind of fiber.
[Top]
What are some symptoms and problems of gas?
The most common symptoms of gas are flatulence, abdominal bloating, abdominal pain, and belching. However, not everyone experiences these symptoms. The type and degree of symptoms probably depends on how much gas the body produces, how many fatty acids the body absorbs, and a person's sensitivity to gas in the large intestine.
Belching
An occasional belch during or after meals is normal and releases gas when the stomach is full of food. However, people who belch frequently may be swallowing too much air and releasing it before the air enters the stomach.
Sometimes a person with chronic belching may have an upper gastrointestinal (GI) disorder, such as peptic ulcer disease, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), or gastroparesis, also called delayed gastric emptying.
Sometimes people believe that swallowing air and releasing it will relieve the discomfort of these disorders, and they may intentionally or unintentionally develop a habit of belching to relieve discomfort.
Gas-bloat syndrome may occur after fundoplication surgery to correct GERD. The surgery creates a one-way valve between the esophagus and stomach that allows food and gas to enter the stomach but often prevents normal belching and the ability to vomit. It occurs in about 10 percent of people who have this surgery but may improve with time.
Flatulence
Another common complaint is too much flatulence. However, most people do not realize that passing gas 14 to 23 times a day is normal. Too much gas may be the result of carbohydrate malabsorption.
Abdominal Bloating
Many people believe that too much gas causes abdominal bloating. However, people who complain of bloating from gas often have normal amounts and distribution of gas. They may just be unusually aware of gas in the digestive tract.
Doctors believe that bloating is usually the result of an intestinal disorder, such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). The cause of IBS is unknown but may involve abnormal movements and contractions of intestinal muscles and increased pain sensitivity in the intestines. These disorders may give a sensation of bloating because of increased sensitivity to gas.
Any disease that causes intestinal inflammation or obstruction, such as Crohn’s disease or colon cancer, may also cause abdominal bloating. In addition, people who have had many operations, internal hernias, or bands of internal scar tissue called adhesions may experience bloating or pain. Finally, eating a lot of fatty food can delay stomach emptying and cause bloating and discomfort, but not necessarily too much gas.
Abdominal Pain and Discomfort
Some people have pain when gas is present in the intestine. When pain is on the left side of the colon, it can be confused with heart disease, which sometimes causes abdominal pain. When the pain is on the right side of the colon, it may mimic gallstones or appendicitis.
[Top]
What diagnostic tests are used to find the cause of gas?
Because gas symptoms may be caused by a serious disorder, those causes should be ruled out. Health professionals usually begin with a review of dietary habits and symptoms. The health professional may ask the patient to keep a diary of foods and beverages consumed for a specific time period.
If lactase deficiency is the suspected cause of gas, the health professional may suggest avoiding milk products for a period of time. A blood or breath test may be used to diagnose lactose intolerance.
In addition, to determine if someone produces too much gas in the colon or is unusually sensitive to the passage of normal gas volumes, the health professional may ask a patient to count the number of times he passes gas during the day and include this information in a diary.
Careful review of diet and the amount of gas passed may help relate specific foods to symptoms and determine the severity of the problem.
Because the symptoms that people may have are so variable, the health professional may order other types of diagnostic tests in addition to a physical exam, depending on the patient's symptoms and other factors.
[Top]
How is gas treated?
Experience has shown that the most common ways to reduce the discomfort of gas are changing diet, taking medicines, and reducing the amount of air swallowed.
Diet
Health professionals may tell people to eat fewer foods that cause gas. However, for some people this may mean cutting out healthy foods, such as fruits and vegetables, whole grains, and milk products.
Health professionals may also suggest limiting high-fat foods to reduce bloating and discomfort. Less fat in the diet helps the stomach empty faster, allowing gases to move into the small intestine.
Unfortunately, the amount of gas caused by certain foods varies from person to person. Effective dietary changes depend on learning through trial and error how much of the offending foods one can handle.
Nonprescription Medicines
Digestive enzymes, available as over-the-counter supplements, help digest carbohydrates and may allow people to eat foods that normally cause gas.
The enzyme lactase, which aids with lactose digestion, is available in caplet and chewable tablet form without a prescription; Lactaid and Lactrase are two common brands. Taking lactase supplements just before eating helps digest foods that contain lactose. Also, lactose-reduced milk and other products, such as Lactaid and Dairy Ease, are available at many grocery stores.
Beano, an over-the-counter digestive aid, contains the sugar-digesting enzyme that the body lacks to digest the sugar in beans and many vegetables. The enzyme comes in liquid and tablet form. Five drops are added per serving or one tablet is swallowed just before eating to break down the gas-producing sugars. Beano has no effect on gas caused by lactose or fiber.
Prescription Medicines
Doctors may prescribe medicines to help reduce symptoms, especially for people with a disorder such as IBS. For more information about IBS, see the Irritable Bowel Syndrome fact sheet from the National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse.
Reducing Swallowed Air
For those who have chronic belching, health professionals may suggest ways to reduce the amount of air swallowed. Two options are to avoid chewing gum and to avoid eating hard candy. Eating at a slow pace and checking with a dentist to make sure dentures fit properly should also help.
[Top]
Points to Remember
Although gas may be uncomfortable and embarrassing, it is not life threatening. Understanding causes, ways to reduce symptoms, and treatment will help most people find some relief.
*
Everyone has gas in the digestive tract.
*
People often believe normal passage of gas to be excessive.
*
Gas comes from two main sources: swallowed air and normal breakdown of certain foods by harmless bacteria naturally present in the large intestine.
*
Many foods with carbohydrates can cause gas. Fats and proteins cause little gas.
* Foods that may cause gas include
o beans
o vegetables, such as broccoli, cabbage, brussels sprouts, onions, artichokes, and asparagus
o fruits, such as pears, apples, and peaches
o whole grains, such as whole wheat and bran
o soft drinks and fruit drinks
o milk and milk products, such as cheese and ice cream, and packaged foods prepared with lactose, such as bread, cereal, and salad dressing
o foods containing sorbitol, such as dietetic foods and sugar-free candies and gums
*
The most common symptoms of gas are belching, flatulence, bloating, and abdominal pain. However, some of these symptoms may be caused by an intestinal disorder, such as IBS, rather than too much gas.
*
The most common ways to reduce the discomfort of gas are changing one’s diet, taking digestive enzymes to help digest carbohydrates, and reducing the amount of air swallowed.
要試試合嘴呼氣吃.
http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/gas/
What are some symptoms and problems of gas?
What causes gas?
Gas in the digestive tract—the esophagus, stomach, small intestine, and large intestine—comes from two sources:
* swallowed air
* normal breakdown of certain undigested foods by harmless bacteria naturally present in the large intestine, also called the colon
Swallowed Air
Aerophagia, or air swallowing, is a common cause of gas in the stomach. Everyone swallows small amounts of air when eating and drinking. However, eating or drinking rapidly, chewing gum, smoking, or wearing loose dentures can cause some people to take in more air.
Burping, or belching, is the way most swallowed air—which contains nitrogen, oxygen, and carbon dioxide—leaves the stomach. The remaining gas moves into the small intestine, where it is partially absorbed. A small amount travels into the large intestine for release through the rectum. The stomach also releases carbon dioxide when stomach acid mixes with the bicarbonate in digestive juices, but most of this gas is absorbed into the bloodstream and does not enter the large intestine.
Breakdown of Undigested Foods
The body does not digest and absorb some carbohydrates—the sugar, starches, and fiber found in many foods—in the small intestine because of a shortage or absence of certain enzymes that aid digestion.
This undigested food then passes from the small intestine into the large intestine, where normal, harmless bacteria break down the food, producing hydrogen, carbon dioxide, and, in about one-third of all people, methane. Eventually these gases exit through the rectum.
People who make methane do not necessarily pass more gas or have unique symptoms. A person who produces methane will have stools that consistently float in water. Research has not shown why some people produce methane and others do not.
Foods that produce gas in one person may not cause gas in another. Some common bacteria in the large intestine can destroy the hydrogen that other bacteria produce. The balance of the two types of bacteria may explain why some people have more gas than others.
[Top]
Which foods cause gas?
Most foods that contain carbohydrates can cause gas. By contrast, fats and proteins cause little gas.
Sugars
The sugars that cause gas are raffinose, lactose, fructose, and sorbitol.
Raffinose. Beans contain large amounts of this complex sugar. Smaller amounts are found in cabbage, brussels sprouts, broccoli, asparagus, other vegetables, and whole grains.
Lactose. Lactose is the natural sugar in milk. It is also found in milk products, such as cheese and ice cream, and processed foods, such as bread, cereal, and salad dressing. Many people, particularly those of African, Native American, or Asian background, normally have low levels of lactase, the enzyme needed to digest lactose, after childhood. Also, as people age, their enzyme levels decrease. As a result, over time people may experience increasing amounts of gas after eating food containing lactose.
Fructose. Fructose is naturally present in onions, artichokes, pears, and wheat. It is also used as a sweetener in some soft drinks and fruit drinks.
Sorbitol. Sorbitol is a sugar found naturally in fruits, including apples, pears, peaches, and prunes. It is also used as an artificial sweetener in many dietetic foods and sugar-free candies and gums.
Starches
Most starches, including potatoes, corn, pasta, and wheat, produce gas as they are broken down in the large intestine. Rice is the only starch that does not cause gas.
Fiber
Many foods contain soluble and insoluble fiber. Soluble fiber dissolves easily in water and takes on a soft, gel-like texture in the intestines. Found in oat bran, beans, peas, and most fruits, soluble fiber is not broken down until it reaches the large intestine, where digestion causes gas.
Insoluble fiber, on the other hand, passes essentially unchanged through the intestines and produces little gas. Wheat bran and some vegetables contain this kind of fiber.
[Top]
What are some symptoms and problems of gas?
The most common symptoms of gas are flatulence, abdominal bloating, abdominal pain, and belching. However, not everyone experiences these symptoms. The type and degree of symptoms probably depends on how much gas the body produces, how many fatty acids the body absorbs, and a person's sensitivity to gas in the large intestine.
Belching
An occasional belch during or after meals is normal and releases gas when the stomach is full of food. However, people who belch frequently may be swallowing too much air and releasing it before the air enters the stomach.
Sometimes a person with chronic belching may have an upper gastrointestinal (GI) disorder, such as peptic ulcer disease, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), or gastroparesis, also called delayed gastric emptying.
Sometimes people believe that swallowing air and releasing it will relieve the discomfort of these disorders, and they may intentionally or unintentionally develop a habit of belching to relieve discomfort.
Gas-bloat syndrome may occur after fundoplication surgery to correct GERD. The surgery creates a one-way valve between the esophagus and stomach that allows food and gas to enter the stomach but often prevents normal belching and the ability to vomit. It occurs in about 10 percent of people who have this surgery but may improve with time.
Flatulence
Another common complaint is too much flatulence. However, most people do not realize that passing gas 14 to 23 times a day is normal. Too much gas may be the result of carbohydrate malabsorption.
Abdominal Bloating
Many people believe that too much gas causes abdominal bloating. However, people who complain of bloating from gas often have normal amounts and distribution of gas. They may just be unusually aware of gas in the digestive tract.
Doctors believe that bloating is usually the result of an intestinal disorder, such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). The cause of IBS is unknown but may involve abnormal movements and contractions of intestinal muscles and increased pain sensitivity in the intestines. These disorders may give a sensation of bloating because of increased sensitivity to gas.
Any disease that causes intestinal inflammation or obstruction, such as Crohn’s disease or colon cancer, may also cause abdominal bloating. In addition, people who have had many operations, internal hernias, or bands of internal scar tissue called adhesions may experience bloating or pain. Finally, eating a lot of fatty food can delay stomach emptying and cause bloating and discomfort, but not necessarily too much gas.
Abdominal Pain and Discomfort
Some people have pain when gas is present in the intestine. When pain is on the left side of the colon, it can be confused with heart disease, which sometimes causes abdominal pain. When the pain is on the right side of the colon, it may mimic gallstones or appendicitis.
[Top]
What diagnostic tests are used to find the cause of gas?
Because gas symptoms may be caused by a serious disorder, those causes should be ruled out. Health professionals usually begin with a review of dietary habits and symptoms. The health professional may ask the patient to keep a diary of foods and beverages consumed for a specific time period.
If lactase deficiency is the suspected cause of gas, the health professional may suggest avoiding milk products for a period of time. A blood or breath test may be used to diagnose lactose intolerance.
In addition, to determine if someone produces too much gas in the colon or is unusually sensitive to the passage of normal gas volumes, the health professional may ask a patient to count the number of times he passes gas during the day and include this information in a diary.
Careful review of diet and the amount of gas passed may help relate specific foods to symptoms and determine the severity of the problem.
Because the symptoms that people may have are so variable, the health professional may order other types of diagnostic tests in addition to a physical exam, depending on the patient's symptoms and other factors.
[Top]
How is gas treated?
Experience has shown that the most common ways to reduce the discomfort of gas are changing diet, taking medicines, and reducing the amount of air swallowed.
Diet
Health professionals may tell people to eat fewer foods that cause gas. However, for some people this may mean cutting out healthy foods, such as fruits and vegetables, whole grains, and milk products.
Health professionals may also suggest limiting high-fat foods to reduce bloating and discomfort. Less fat in the diet helps the stomach empty faster, allowing gases to move into the small intestine.
Unfortunately, the amount of gas caused by certain foods varies from person to person. Effective dietary changes depend on learning through trial and error how much of the offending foods one can handle.
Nonprescription Medicines
Digestive enzymes, available as over-the-counter supplements, help digest carbohydrates and may allow people to eat foods that normally cause gas.
The enzyme lactase, which aids with lactose digestion, is available in caplet and chewable tablet form without a prescription; Lactaid and Lactrase are two common brands. Taking lactase supplements just before eating helps digest foods that contain lactose. Also, lactose-reduced milk and other products, such as Lactaid and Dairy Ease, are available at many grocery stores.
Beano, an over-the-counter digestive aid, contains the sugar-digesting enzyme that the body lacks to digest the sugar in beans and many vegetables. The enzyme comes in liquid and tablet form. Five drops are added per serving or one tablet is swallowed just before eating to break down the gas-producing sugars. Beano has no effect on gas caused by lactose or fiber.
Prescription Medicines
Doctors may prescribe medicines to help reduce symptoms, especially for people with a disorder such as IBS. For more information about IBS, see the Irritable Bowel Syndrome fact sheet from the National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse.
Reducing Swallowed Air
For those who have chronic belching, health professionals may suggest ways to reduce the amount of air swallowed. Two options are to avoid chewing gum and to avoid eating hard candy. Eating at a slow pace and checking with a dentist to make sure dentures fit properly should also help.
[Top]
Points to Remember
Although gas may be uncomfortable and embarrassing, it is not life threatening. Understanding causes, ways to reduce symptoms, and treatment will help most people find some relief.
*
Everyone has gas in the digestive tract.
*
People often believe normal passage of gas to be excessive.
*
Gas comes from two main sources: swallowed air and normal breakdown of certain foods by harmless bacteria naturally present in the large intestine.
*
Many foods with carbohydrates can cause gas. Fats and proteins cause little gas.
* Foods that may cause gas include
o beans
o vegetables, such as broccoli, cabbage, brussels sprouts, onions, artichokes, and asparagus
o fruits, such as pears, apples, and peaches
o whole grains, such as whole wheat and bran
o soft drinks and fruit drinks
o milk and milk products, such as cheese and ice cream, and packaged foods prepared with lactose, such as bread, cereal, and salad dressing
o foods containing sorbitol, such as dietetic foods and sugar-free candies and gums
*
The most common symptoms of gas are belching, flatulence, bloating, and abdominal pain. However, some of these symptoms may be caused by an intestinal disorder, such as IBS, rather than too much gas.
*
The most common ways to reduce the discomfort of gas are changing one’s diet, taking digestive enzymes to help digest carbohydrates, and reducing the amount of air swallowed.
So Peaceful n beautiful Music
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
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
=================================
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
================================
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"
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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
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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
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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。
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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.
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