What Follows the Swallows
Author: airgildaviss
Proteins, Fats, and carbohydrates are the major constituents of food. They carried food's energy to the body. The body digests each in an orderly fashion, yet at different rates. It digests simple carbohydrates (sugars) quickly while fats take longer. Proteins and complex carbohydrates (starches) fall somewhere in between.
Nature doesn't support this idea. All plant foods and some animal foods are combination of carbohydrate, protein, and fat. Broccoli and peas, for example, contain a pair percentage of protein, and even lettuce has a little fat. To get pure carbohydrates meal you will need to eat white sugar or starchy residue that's left after removing the gluten from white flour.
A pure protein meal could be egg whites or dry cottage cheese curds. For the fat meal a few tablespoons of butter or cooking oil would do. Pure foods, in this scene, don't occur in nature, but they can be manufactured.
Digestion is the process by which the body breaks food down into its component parts so that the sugars and starches of the carbohydrates become glucose; fats become fatty acids, and protein become amino acids. The body can pick up these substances from the intestines.
Only a part of digestion occurs in the stomach. The rest occurs in the mouth and intestines. In an amazing orderly fashion, carbohydrates digestion begins in the mouth with saliva and continues in the stomach. Protein digestion begins in the stomach and continues in the intestines. Fat is digested entirely in the intestines.
The stomach consistently has three basic functions:
- It breaks food particles down to more uniform size by muscular action.
- It brings the food mass to the needed consistency by adding or absorbing fluid.
- It brings the stomach contents to the necessary degree of acidity by secreting acidic digestive juices. This phase accomplishes those parts of digestion that require an acid medium.
When the stomach contents go on to the intestines, they become alkalinized by juices that pancreas secretes. The digestive process is completed in the intestines.
Foods high in fats are the worst offenders. The body cannot digest fats until they are alkalinized and emulsified by the intestinal juices (much as the grease on your hands cannot be removed until it is emulsified with soap and hot water). But the body has protective mechanism which meter the fat from the stomach to the intestines so that emulsification process isn't overwhelmed. If the amount of fat in a meal is not large, it will make little difference in digestion time. But a meal high in fat takes considerably longer to pass through the stomach.
The body can handle three or four kinds of whole plants foods with maximum efficiency and minimum stress. A more complex meal takes longer to the digest and exacts a higher energy price from the body. Eating snacks between meals disrupts the orderly digestive process and stresses the stomach. Digestive problems will slight if the stomach is presented with a simple meal, allowed to digest it, and then is given time to rest awhile before adding more food. Ideally meals should be four or five hours apart.
Take a drink of water. Water requires no digestion. It passes right through, giving everything a good rinse. If you must have something more, choose a piece of fresh fruit or munch on some raw veggies.
By: Airgildaviss
Title: What Follows the Swallows
Date: 9/4/2011
Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/nutrition-articles/what-follows-the-swallows-4568656.html
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