Food Combining for Health: The bestseller that has changed millions of lives
The international best-selling guide to how the Hay diet (food combining) can improve health and vitality. With over one million copies sold worldwide, this is the ultimate guide to the health benefits of food combining from two of the most respected authors in the field.This is THE classic guide to the health benefits of the Hay Diet, or food combining, from Doris Grant, a pioneer for the Hay Diet in the UK. The diet works by keeping starch foods separate from protein foods in the daily diet so foods can be digested more easily and general health is improved.This informative guide gives you an in-depth look at the wide range of health problems that food combining has been found to alleviate, including • digestive disorders such as IBS and indigestion • obesity • ulcers • arthritic pain • persistent migraines and headaches • skin problems such as psoriasis and eczema.As well as practical advice on how to begin and then stick to the food combining system, this comprehensive book offers plenty of suggestions and over 90 recipes to show you how easy it is to stick to the plan.
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DORIS GRANT AND JEAN JOICE
Food Combining for Health
Thorsons
An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd.
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London SE1 9GF
First published October 1984
© Doris Grant and Jean Joice 1984, 1989, 1991, 2004
Foreword © John Mills 1984
Doris Grant and Jean Joice assert the moral right to be identified as the authors of this work
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Contents
Introduction – A Personal Experience
An Appreciation – Doris Grant 1905–2003
Part One: The Theory and the Proof by Doris Grant
3 The Hay System and the Degenerative Diseases
Part Two: The Hay System in Practice by Jean Joice
7 Menu Planning and Suggestions
Part Three: Recipes for Protein Meals
9 Salads, Dressings and Sauces
Part Four: Recipes for Starch Meals
Foreword BY SIR JOHN MILLS CBE
I am delighted to know that the Hay diet is being resuscitated after all these years. I have a copy of the original book, which my sister, Annette, gave me over 40 years ago, and on the flyleaf is written ‘John Mills’ Bible. Please do not remove’.
In 1942 I was invalided out of the Army with a man-size duodenal ulcer. In hospital I was fed on the usual ulcer-sufferer’s diet of rice puddings, mashed potatoes etc., and after three months there was no improvement. In fact, everything seized up and I became a walking zombie.
My sister, Annette, suggested to my wife, Mary, that she should put me on the Hay diet immediately. My first meal, which I remember with gratitude, was a thin minute steak, a large mixed salad and a small glass of claret. From that moment I have never looked back. After six weeks I was able to start work on a film.
Most diets, I find, are crashing bores, especially to hostesses, but if one follows the Hay diet it is possible to go to any dinner, public or private, and offend no one. All one has to remember is the principle of not mixing starch with protein. So one can wade one’s way happily through any festive occasion until it comes to the sweet course. I find the best way of coping with this is to leave the sweet untouched; the waiter will finally remove it, and nobody will have noticed.
I am sure that I could not, at my advanced age, cope with the work I have on hand at the moment if I were not a ‘believer’. I am playing eight shows a week in Little Lies at Wyndham’s Theatre, and the last act is a marathon. It is essential that I am really fit, and for this I rely practically entirely on the Hay diet. I am, incidentally, today wearing the jacket which I had made in 1938. It has not been let out, and I can still do the button up without any problem.
I wish the book every success, and I guarantee that anyone who follows the advice in it will derive the greatest of benefits from it.
Note
Sir John Mills wrote this Foreword for the first edition of Food Combining for Health in 1984. Since then he has continued his film and theatrical career, and at 95 has a cameo role in Stephen Fry’s film Bright Young Things.
As we eat so are we; our health is made or marred with our feet under the dinner table.
Food Combining for Health was first published in October 1984. Three months later it became a runaway bestseller as grateful and enthusiastic readers spread the word among their relatives and friends. By January 1986 it was arousing such interest that the Cumberland Hotel in London opened a buffet serving delicious Hay system lunches. The book has also created great interest abroad and, apart from an American edition selling in the United States and Canada, it has been published in Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Hebrew, Greek, Serbo-Croat and Finnish.
This is a wonderful tribute to the efficacy of the Hay system, and its success is constantly confirmed by the countless letters Jean and I receive from converts. Many claim that it has changed their lives – in some cases miraculously. Knowing that the Hay system does not ‘cure’ but merely allows the body to heal itself, we are continually amazed at the extraordinary inbuilt healing powers of the body revealed in these letters, and the unbelievable speed with which they often work. Readers report agonizing arthritic pains removed within two weeks; allergies and psoriasis of long standing completely gone in four days; chronic migraine and hay fever banished in a matter of weeks; two pounds of excess weight shed in one week without counting calories or feeling hungry. Many more similar cases have been reported.
