Combining foods correctly can help strengthen therapies and treatments for osteoporosis, gout, anemia, otitis and allergies of various types, plus some chronic diseases like asthma or crohn's disease. The right combination of foods is the key to improving the absorption of the nutrients they have.
Food Combination Table
Some preparations with combinations that increase the nutritional power of foods and their beneficial effect on health are:
Salad that increases absorption of calcium and improves blood clotting
- Lettuce, broccoli, salmon seasoned with olive oil and sprinkled with chopped almonds. Rich in calcium and vitamins A, D, E and K.
Juice to lower cholesterol
- Orange with oat flakes. Orange vitamin C increases the efficiency of oat phenolic compounds in fighting bad cholesterol.
Anti-poisoning salad
- Tomato and arugula. Rich in flavonoids and vitamin C that help protect cells from damage caused by aging.
Juice for anemia
- Orange and cabbage. Vitamin C helps the iron absorption of iron found in vegetables, which helps in the production of red blood cells.
Sauce to prevent prostate cancer
- Broccoli and tomato. Rich in lycopene (tomato) and sulforaphane (broccoli) which are compounds that combined help in the comabate to prostate cancer. Recipe: 1.5 boiled broccoli. 2.5 tomatoes chopped and 1 cup tomato sauce ready.
Some foods combined improve the absorption of certain nutrients and should be consumed together, but some foods impair the absorption of nutrients from the other food and so you should avoid consuming them together, such as coffee and milk, where caffeine reduces the capacity of the body to absorb calcium.
Food can and should be used to strengthen therapies and treatments for osteoporosis, gout, anemia, otitis and allergies of various types, in addition to some chronic diseases such as asthma or Crohn's disease. This is because each food has thousands of components that are digested by the body in sequences that help in the absorption of nutrients.
