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

Similarly, dedicated devotees of food combining refuse to eat fruit with a mixed meal because they worried about the meal slowing digestion down, such that the fruit will "ferment" in the gut.

From US News • Jul. 13, 2015

Typically, proponents of food combining warn that fruits must be eaten alone, lest they "rot" and feed "harmful yeasts" in the body.

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