This easy-to-follow book teaches you how to stop indigestion and get more nutrition from what you eat. Includes techniques to increase flow of digestive juices and ways to stop indigestion. Over 25 illustrations & Charts. "Dear Mr. Meyerowitz, Thank you for your book Food Combining & Digestion . I have suffered with poor digestion for some 20 years. No, I cannot say that I am cured today. But I learned so much from your book that I am now more confident then ever that I am can achieve a more normal life when it comes to eating. I have been plagued with gas and indigestion it seems...forever. I have been to countless doctors and spent a fortune on tests, with basically no progress. You sir, in your fabulous little book, seem to be echoing all my complaints. For the first time, I have found a direction that makes sense. Albeit, it is not I quick fix. I understand the changes you suggest are broad and all encompassing. But I have begun. Already I have experienced more progress than I have in years." -- Mrs. Alice Angelos, New York, NY Chronic 'syndrome' complaints such as chronic fatigue syndrome, lupus, fibromyalgia, and multiple allergies are increasingly being traced back to digestive disorders such as candida, parasites, leaky gut, and irritable bowel. These insidious afflictions can live with you for decades wrecking your digestion and taking the edge off of your performance. Candida is a yeast microbe that lives in our intestinal tract in balance with other more friendly 'bacteria.' But when bad eating habits, infections, antibiotics, alcohol and aspirin change that balance, candida takes over resulting in gas, bloat, lethargy, yeast infections and skin problems to name a few. Over time, Candida develops into a fungus that sends roots (rhizoids) into our intestinal walls. Our intestinal lining is designed to absorb nutrients into our bloodstream and filter out bacteria and undigested proteins. This 25 foot long convoluted tube is made up of billions of protrusions called villi containing the cells and capillaries that send nutrients from our food into our bloodstream. When this forest of mucosal filters becomes irritated and weakened by candida and other parasites, the wall starts to break down and leaks bacteria and larger proteins into the bloodstream. Digestive disorders are only the beginning. Now you have a toxic dump inside you and an ongoing low level infection. Long term leaky gut toxicity has been implicated in everything from arthritis to allergies, eczema, asthma,...and so forth. Since candida and parasites thrive on sugar, you can test yourself by eliminating all sugar for one-two weeks. If you improve, it is a sign you should commence an anti-candida, anti-parasite program. Be sure to eliminate sugar in all it forms, glucose, sucrose, fructose, maltose, any kind of 'ose,' and that includes good sweeteners such as barley malt and rice syrup. Also look for them as ingredients in prepared foods like breads and crackers. Try the white powder version of the sweet herb 'Stevia' as an alternative sweetener. Food Combining & Digestion. Stop treating your stomach like a compost and start treating it like a garden. Adam had it easy. He ate the fruit off the trees and the leaves from the plants. There was no pasta, pesto or pizza. Our modern diet, with all its complexity, requires more gusto than our sedentary bodies can achieve. Flatulence is not the only fallout. We pay for our indigestion with our energy and our longevity. Every stress on the digestive/eliminative system is a drain to our daily energy level and a threat to long range health. Change your bad habits. Navigate through your meals for optimum digestion and turn your health around. Explains the Laws of Quantity, Frequency & Chemistry. Digestion Times of Different Foods. Mastication. Good Habits. Bad habits. Foods to Avoid. Influence of Emotions. A Perfect Meal. An Awful Meal. How to Strengthen Digestion. Use of Herbs & Enzymes. Controlling Appetite. Food as Energy. Steve was pronounced "Sproutman" in a 1977 Vegetarian Times Magazine feature article that explored the why's and wherefores of his 100% sprout diet. While over 2 decades time, most diets change, Steve is still a believer in living foods and one of the most prominent spokespersons for sprouting. Steve got interested in sprouts after a 20 year effort to correct chronic allergies and asthma with conventional medicine. He made dramatic changes in diet and within two months of eating a strict "living foods," vegetarian diet, his lifelong symptoms disappeared. He continued to practice a 100% raw foods diet (nothing cooked, packaged, canned, frozen or processed) for five years. During that time, he also experimented with other extreme diets such as fruitarianism (just fruit) and fasted for as long as 100 days. Steve is the inventor of two home sprouters, the Flax Sprout Bag and the Kitchen Garden Salad Grower. He is the author of several health and diet titles including Ju