The Dissociated Diet or Hay: An Easy Guide
Dr. Hay was the first physician to theorize the advantages of a dissociated diet, i.e. a diet that uses particular combinations of foods to stay in the right weight and improve digestion and health, based on the nature of the food’s pH and effect. which have on intestinal PH.
Did you know, for example, that raw vegetables should never be eaten with protein foods , because like starchy foods they weaken those gastric juices that allow proper digestion of proteins, while they are recommended with carbohydrate-based foods?
Here, by the same principle also starchy foods, therefore carbohydrates, being digested differently from proteins, that is with different enzymes (for example ptyalin and pancreatic amylase) and in a more basic environment (small intestine), could create problems if ingested with proteins that instead require a more acidic environment (in the stomach) and involve hydrochloric acid, which breaks them down into smaller parts in a longer time.
When we talk about the dissociated diet, we therefore think that dissociating meals to lose weight only means separating carbohydrates and proteins .
Which is right, but reductive: when we eat, in fact, we not only introduce carbohydrates and proteins, but also fats or fibers, for example, or we drink things that could affect our digestive efforts (such as wine or coffee at the end of a meal).
In this article I will try to explain the dissociated diet step by step , starting precisely from the intuitions of Dr. Hay.
What is meant by a dissociated diet?
It is a diet that, with a differnt combination of foods, allows us to digest better, metabolize foods better, detoxify and lose weight.
Does it have any effect? Yes. For two reasons:
– because food cannot be reduced only to its calories and because if only calories were enough to lose weight, today we would all be thin.
– because our bacterial flora is much more powerful than we imagine , for better or for worse: not only the intestinal lymphatic tissue is connected to both the innate and mediated immune system, but the bacteria “decide” our level of hunger, and they are an important voice in our food cravings.
Having an intestinal balance allows the body to assimilate foods better, avoiding the damage that partial assimilation causes in terms of inflammation, deficiency, and slow metabolism.
The dissociated diet in itself is therefore not a weight loss diet , given that some people, by simply dissociating food, have literally deflated and started eating less naturally.
If we want it to be even more effective, we can of course also consider the calories, and follow a low-calorie dissociated weight loss regimen. Let’s see how.
How to lose weight with the dissociated diet
- first of all it is preferable to eat carbohydrates in the first part of the day .
This is because the digestion of carbohydrates is better until the afternoon, i.e. the enzymatic processes for starches and the digestion of sugars are more efficient.In addition, the catabolic phase occurs during the day, anabolic at night.
The liver is more efficient at converting sugars into energy in the first phase, while the night phase is for the body to repair and build. - It would be better to replace refined foods with their whole relatives.
- If an excess of fiber creates digestive problems , then it is preferable to use natural alternatives : tubers, basmati rice, or subjecting white pasta and rice to a cooling after cooking (they can then be reheated).
- You cannot finish meals with fruit (with rare exceptions) or sweets or bitters or coffee. Sour fruits such as citrus fruits or kiwis but also melon and watermelon do not combine with other foods.
- After lunch we can close the carbohydrate meal with a couple of nuts , or a piece of dehydrated fruit (for example a single date) or a very small portion of slightly acidic but also low in sugar fruit (peach). Coffee should be drunk an hour after a meal, if anything, or for breakfast after eating or during, never first and associated with either milk or honey.
- Each main meal (breakfast, lunch and dinner) must be eaten four hours apart. You can make small snacks, based on raw fruit or vegetables.
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