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Old Thu, Sep-24-09, 08:16
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Plan: Food Combining
Stats: 220/175/154 Male 5feet5inches
BF:?/27.5%/19.6%
Progress: 68%
Location: Newcastle UK
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Some plans (like Hay) seem to be very against drinking milk thinking it 'unnatural'. Others allow yoghurt and recommend having plain yogurt on friut for breakfast.

I found this imformation online which gives a digestion time for yogurt
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/i...06084345AAF1Ng3

For example simple carbs like suggary foods and highly process processed foods start to get broken down by the body almost immediately. This is why you are often hungry just 30 minutes after snacking. Also the enzymes in yogurt start to pre-digest it, so you can finish digesting a full container of yogurt in 45 minutes. Alcohol also starts to get digested within 1 minute of consumption.

Now if you eat complex carbs, fats or proteins they will take longer to digest and that is why you stay full longer. If you were to have 1 slice of 100% whole grain bread one day and 1 slice of white bread the next you will definitely feel a difference. After the white bread (which is easy to digest since it's simple carbs) you will be hungry within 15 minutes. Where as with the 100% whole grain bread you will start to feel hungry after 1 hour.

In general men digest food faster since their metabolism on average is faster than a women's. and that is why they can lose weight faster.


And this information which says that yogurt is easier to digest than milk:
http://www.stonyfield.com/Wellness/...ogurt_super.cfm

Yogurt is easy to digest.
The culturing process makes yogurt easier to digest than milk. The live active cultures create lactase, the enzyme that lactose-intolerant people lack. As a protein perk, the culturing renders the protein less allergenic, which is another reason why we pediatricians have noticed that many persons who can’t tolerate milk can comfortably digest yogurt.
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