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(NaturalNews) A recent study looked at the packed lunches of 1,294 U.K. school children and found that according to government standards, only one percent of children in the U.K. were eating a healthy lunch. That's bad enough, but it gets even worse when you look at what the government's dietary standards are and then when you realize that what the government considers ideal is atrocious food combining. The U.K.'s dietary standards call for - in one meal - the inclusion of fruits, vegetables, meat or other protein, carbohydrates and a dairy product. But most who understand how digestion works know that carbohydrates and protein should never be eaten in the same meal - and that fruit should be eaten alone or before a meal.
The reason for separating food groups into different meals is that different foods require different and competing enzymes to break them down. So, for example, when a carbohydrate and protein are included in the same meal the body releases different sets of enzymes to digest them. But these enzymes effectively neutralize each other and this makes it difficult for the body to break down either one of the foods. The foods are then incompletely digested and when foods are incompletely digested, the body is unable to receive their full nutrient value. This also leads to, among other things, a clogged colon - which can be the source of tremendous toxicity in the body and many health problems in years to come.
Dairy, particularly pasteurized dairy, is also known to clog the digestive system. This is especially true when it's combined with refined carbohydrates, like white sandwich bread. The refined carbohydrates simply become a gooey paste in the body that's hard to eliminate.
Due to the rather extreme deficiencies in the "ideal" standards, many might argue that perhaps it's better that most of the children didn't eat an ideal lunch by the government standards. But a look at what they were eating brings reason for concern as well.
The researchers found that fruits and vegetables were lacking in most of the lunches - and that's really what should be in there in bulk. They also found that most of the lunches contained artificially flavored drinks, savory snacks and sweets - processed foods which are the sources of plenty of sugar, high fructose corn syrup, food colorings, chemical flavorings, and chemicals used in food preserving. In addition, most of the lunches had protein-based sandwiches which provide the poor carbohydrate and protein combination.
This research is said to give policy makers evidence of the need to provide parents with educational materials on how to pack a healthy lunch for their children. While it's a great idea to help parents learn to upgrade their nutritional standards for their children's lunches, some more consideration should go into what they are suggesting is healthy - and that consideration should stem from an understanding of how the body actually works to digest food.
More:
http://www.nhs.uk/news/2010/01Janua...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/ne...
http://www.internethealthlibrary.co...
Nutrition Handbook #1, Bernard Jensen, Ph.D.
About the authorKim Evans is a natural health writer and author of Cleaning Up! The Ultimate Body Cleanse. Deep cleansing has helped her, personally, eliminate over a dozen problems in her own body - including several that medical professionals had said there were no solutions for, except long-term drugs.
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