It is well known that basically healthy and nutritions diet is good for you. But your individual constituition may react negatively with even nutritions foods. Also incompatible food combinations may result in producing toxins in the body.
Food intolerance
A food intolerance is an inappropriate unhealthy reaction to a specific food that normally should cause no threat to health at all. This reaction can lead to a diverse array of symptoms such as IBS, migraine or headaches, bloating, skin problems, digestive disorders, cystitis, fatigue, weight problems or just a general feeling of ‘unwellness’.
Symptoms of food intolerance tends to be general and less severe but likely 10 become a progressive disorder that may become chronic. This is how food intolerance is different from food allergy. Food allergy produces immediate symptoms. Some times food allergy could be life threatening.
Check list for food intolerance
If any of these apply to you, you may be suffering from a food intolerance:
- Do you suffer from excessive abdominal bloating?
- Do you have chronic symptoms?
- Do you suffer from an unspecified illness such as IBS?
- Do you have problems with your bowel movements?
- Do you suffer from bladder discomfort?
- Do you suffer from thrush?
- Do you suffer from abdominal or lower back pain?
- Do you suffer from constant headaches?
- Do you suffer from skin problems?
- Do you suffer from constant fatigue?
- Do you suffer from burning sensations or acid problems in your stomach?
Extreme foods
Rely too much on particular types of food and you’re liable to give your digestive system problems. Take a look at your diet and see what you overdose on:
Foods that feed bacteria
Sugar ( such as cakes, chocolate, biscuits, honey, fruit, fizzy drinks and puddings) and yeast ( bread, buns, cheese, alcohol and mushrooms)
Symptoms of a bacterial imbalance include thrush, cystitis, IBS, abdominal bloating, fungal infections, fatigue, poor concentration and brain ‘fogginess’
Foods that form acid
Fruit, sugar, yeast, cheese, coffee, fizzy drinks and alcohol
Symptoms of an acid imbalance include stomach ulcers, burning stomach pains, acid flow back, painful joints and muscles, lower back pains, burning sensations in the bladder, headaches and, of course, fatigue.
Food most likely to cause sensitivity
Cereals, dairy, citrus, fruit, tomatoes, seafood, sugar and processed foods
Symptoms of a food sensitivity include migraines or sudden headaches, fatigue after eating, bloating, abdominal pains and skin rashes.
Food most likely to generate an intolerance
Wheat, cereals, dairy, yeast – based foods and fruit.
Symptoms of a food intolerance appear as chronic conditions such as IBS, eczema, dermatitis, dry or flaky skin, migraines or persistent headaches and chronic fatigue
Foods you’re most likely to crave
Yeast-based, sugary, salty, high-calorie, processed and fatty foods
Symptoms of an excess include sudden drops and fluctuations in energy, weak muscles, joint stiffness, poor skin quality and appearance, bladder or abdominal discomfort, thrush, gynaecological pains, loss in concentration and nerve sensitivity
Stimulating substances
Nicotine, fruit juices, alcohol, sugar, salt and anything with caffeine ( tea, coffee, fizzy drinks)
Symptoms of an excessive stimulant intake include palpitations, chest pains, inflamed skin, sore muscles and joints, bladder and digestive irregularities, emotional and hormonal imbalances and insomina
Incompatible food combinations – as per Ayurveda
- Eating bananas with milk can diminish agni, change the intestinal flora producing toxins and may cause sinus congestion, cold, cough and allergies.
- If fruits are eaten with potatoes or other starchy foods, there will be a difference in time for digestion.
- Melons and grains, taken together, cause indigestion. Melons digest quickly, whereas grains take more time. This combination will upset the stomach.
- Heated and cooked honey digests slowly by forming its molecules into a non – homogenised glue which adheres to mucous membranes and clogs subtle channels, producing toxins.
- If meat and milk are taken together, meat causes heating effect and milk causes cooling effect, counteracting one another, disturbing the agni.
- Never take milk and melons together. Though both of them are cooling by nature, they are incompatible as milk is laxative and melon is diuretic, and milk requires more time for digestion. Moreover, the action of acid in the stomach causes the milk to curdle.
Do not combine
- Meat of domestic & aquatic animals with honey, sesame oil, jaggery, milk, black gram, radish, sproused grai & fatty substances.
- Sugar with fish
- Dates with Banana
- Curd with banana.
Nutritional disorders
According to Ayurveda there are 5 types of Nutritional Disorders:
- Quantitative dietary deficiency, which includes under – nutrition due to insufficient food, and even starvation.
- Qualitative dietary deficiency, which includes consuming the wrong food combination, thereby resulting in malnutrition, toxic condition and lack of essential nutrients.
- Qualitative and quantitative over – nutrition, which includes emotional overeating resulting in obesity and / or high cholesterol, which can lead to hypertension, heart attacks or paralysis.
- Digestive disorders due to toxins in food.
- Digestive disorders due to intake of foods, which are antagonistic to your personal constitution.
