Originally posted by: saechaka
Try checking out the read on food combinations. Mixing fruits w/meals is not recommended nor is mixing meats w/carbohydrates in terms of optimal digestion. Mixing of certain foods usually leads towards poor digestion and fermentation of foods. At least according to this research.
http://chestofbooks.com/health...Orthotrophy/index.html
Please stop spreading this pseudoscientific rubbish. The author is a raw foodist, of the sort who would advocate sitting around eating raw foods to cure cancer.
This "mixing foods" nonsense has absolutely no science behind it. Your gastrointestinal tract churns and compresses to move food backward and forward along its length, thereby agitating the contents and both a.) breaking them up into smaller parts, and b.) forcing contact with enzymes that can cleave them to parts small enough for absorption. In other words, it mixes everything together - whatever, that is, that the stomach hasn't already mixed together. Obviously, the net movement is toward the colon, but your food generally sits in the small intestine for between 18-24 hours, plenty of time for nutrients to be digested and absorbed.
Malabsorption, when not caused by GI disease or dysfunction is either because you have consumed substances that bind nutrients (or enzymes) in the small intestine, speed transit through, or are consumed in excessive quantities, inhibiting absorption. They travel to the LARGE intestine, where fermentation occurs by bacteria - substances fermented in the large intestine, however, are things which human beings cannot digest or are unable to metabolize in large quantities (e.g. dietary fibers, lactose, etc.). I find the supposition that mixtures of certain foods "promoting" fermentation to be utterly laughable. Arguably, you want to promote fermentation and proliferation of colonic bacteria, which are associated with improved immune function, decreased cholesterol, improved GI health, more regular bowel movements, etc.
OP had crazy farts because he boosted his fiber, nothing more, nothing less. I frankly think that he may have been consuming a bit too much fruit and too little vegetable in comparison, and am not necessarily convinced that bananas are the reason - but if removing them solves the problem, more power to him.
