Re: Meat and Potato myth or fact?

From: Jan (shantigiri_at_luukku.com)
Date: 08/11/04 

Date: 11 Aug 2004 04:10:49 -0700

"Jeff" <kidsdoc2000@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<cfc40j$bbp@library2.airnews.net>...
> "Markus" <markus@cablewave.com> wrote in message
> news:5c6dnYue4O4n2ITcRVn-sA@wavecable.com...
> > Newbie here;
> >
> > I was told once that the stomach has thirteen different acids to break
> down
> > different foods or whatever else that ends up down there. Supposedly
> there
> > are only two of these thirteen that will offset each other--the one
> produced
> > for red meat, and the one for potato--as the story goes.
> >
> > I can't find anything to back this story on the net. Have I not looked
> hard
> > enough? Or is it just plain ol BS?
>
> If that were true, then the Irish would have been in trouble, because in the
> early 1800s, potatoes were their main source of calories.
>
> This is total BS. The human digestive tract evolved so that you can have a
> diet this all meat, all vegetable or anywhere in between.
>
> The stomach has only one acid, hydrochloric acid. It it helps break down
> food.
>
> Jeff
>
I guess the question of Markus can be about digestive enzymes.
Different kind of digestive enzymes are needed to break down different
kinds of food. But there are more than 13 of those. As far as I know,
it is easier for the digestive system to break down simple meals.
Also, some food combinations are easier to digest than others. From
the standpoint of easy digestion the combination of meat and potato is
not ideal, but not very bad either.

Jan

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