food combining

American  

[food kuhm-bahy-ning] / ˈfud kəmˌbaɪ nɪŋ /

noun

1. a dietary approach that advocates the eating of specific foods at specific times and restricts which types of foods can be eaten together.

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food combining British  

noun

1. the practice of keeping carbohydrates separate from proteins in one's daily diet, as a way of losing weight and also for some medical conditions

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Etymology

Origin of food combining

First recorded in 1915–20

Example Sentences

Sacha Bedding, chief executive of the trust, warns of a short-term crisis, with rising prices for heating and food combining with the end of a bigger welfare payment that was provided during the pandemic.

From New York Times • Oct. 2, 2021

The myth of "food combining," which purports that the body is unable to digest certain foods if they are eaten in the wrong combination, ranks high among these.

From US News • May 12, 2015

The rationales employed to advocate for food combining reflect a profound misunderstanding of the basic biochemistry and physiology of human digestion, and are poor pseudo-science at best.

From US News • May 12, 2015

The scientifically unsound rationales for food combining implicitly underestimate the human body's ability to do more than one thing at a time.

From US News • May 12, 2015

I'll have a lot more to say about that later when I discuss the art of food combining.

From How and When to Be Your Own Doctor by Solomon, Steve