Hay Diet

The Hay diet is a food combining diet created by Dr William Hay in the early 1900's. It is based on the idea that the body can not cope with proteins and carbohydrates at the same time because of the way they are digested. This came from the belief that the human body is used to eating only one type of food at time and that the combining of food is a modern habit that are ancestors never did.

The hay diet states that the things wrong with modern eating habits are

• Poor elimination of wastes and toxins
• Eating to few alkaline forming vegetables and fruits
• Incompatible mixing of food

This can be remidied by the hay diet because it

• Cuts down on protiens starches and highly processed foods
• Improves the elimnation of toxins
• Increases the intake of vegtables, salads and fruits
• Doesn't mix any foods that fight

It also has some other more outrageous claims from the reduction of stress to the reports of previously stubborn medical conditions that have unexpectedly responded to correct food combining. You should eat 60% fresh fruits and vegetables, as much as possible in their raw state. The remaining foods should be protiens or starches that shouldn't be eaten together and should be left at least 3-4 hours apart.

Hay Diet: Reasons for

• Intake of foods not restricted
• Allowed to snack on neutral foods
• Should lose weight on this diet

Hay Diet: Reasons against

• No scientific basis
• Impossible to follow correctly (some foods contain proteins and starches)
• Complicated plan of which foods can be mixed
• Difficult to follow long term

Hay Diet: Verdict

The Hay diet is the earliest version in a long list of food combining diets if there was any basis to these diets or they did halve of what they claimed then everyone would have heard about it. The Hay diet is not the panacea of all ills as is claimed but the overall diet is reasonably healthy (if however hard to follow) and should help you lose weight.