The dissociated diet

Today I want to talk to you about the dissociated diet, starting with a question?
Can combining foods in a different way allow us to lose weight?
The answer is Nì, that is, neither no nor yes. I’ll explain better.
The dissociated diet was born at the turn of the twentieth century and the twenties, thanks to the intuitions of the physicist William H. Hay , who divided foods into alkaline, acidic and neutral and introduced the concept of food combination as a cure.

According to Hay, alkaline foods were carbohydrates, acidic foods were protein, neutral foods were fats and vegetables.
Basically, in a healthy diet, carbohydrate-based foods should not be combined with protein-based foods (therefore alkaline with acids),
because this would cause an intestinal pH imbalance and hence a body imbalance.
In reality, Hay’s assumptions, which led to the birth of Robert Young’s alkaline diet in the seventies,
have proved wrong over time: the gastric pH, for example, is always acidic, so eating alkaline foods does not alkalize gastric juices.

Both the dissociated diet and the alkaline diet have been scientifically disproved ( source ). Physiologically speaking, the body tends to restore a balance whether they eat acidic or basic foods or a mix of them.In fact, there are no studies that confirm that carbohydrates should not be associated with proteins , for example, or that we cannot eat. different sources of protein in a single meal. The dissociated diet makes you lose weight for reasons that do not directly concern food combinations, but rather due to the secondary effects that this kind of diet produces. Dissociating carbohydrates from proteins does not create any slimming mechanism in itself, quite the opposite.
Often, having balanced meals increases the sense of satiety, and has the advantage of reducing the glycemic load of the meal, that is, of ensuring that insulin does not rise exclusively due to carbohydrates, but also rises due to the proteins we eat, and this way you can better manage your glucose. This is the exact opposite of what happens with the dissociated diet, but it is a strategy used in other methods of weight loss, such as the signal diet, the Zone diet and so on.
Another typical objection to the dissociated diet is that not many carbohydrate-only foods exist, unless we consider sugar. So in reality we should consider the foods for their prevalence of carbohydrates, such as rice, but the reasoning falls apart with other more balanced foods: for example how to consider legumes? Legumes have a good amount of protein, but in fact they have more carbohydrates than proteins. Yet we consider them “sources” of vegetable protein. So why does the dissociated diet make you lose weight?