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There is in excess of 33% of the adult population, which comes to over 70 million people, who are ingesting various and numerous “over-the-counter” and medically prescribed medications for all types of digestive system conditions, disorders, afflictions and the consistent gut pain that accompanies them. There are some serious health problems in this nation, as a whole, and those problems are being spread globally.

The despair felt by the majority of people occurs when they actually follow the diet plans that are touted and generated by the health professionals. These are the very diets that the health industry considers to be the best diets. Even so, an increasing portion of affected people continue to have digestive system difficulties. For this very reason many folks will turn to drugs, medical surgical procedures or even resorting, in desperation, to extremely dull and bland foods. They feel like the alternative is simply to continue suffering.

That’s the reason this system was developed — to help slash a good portion of the $42 billion dollars exhausted on those pills in the US alone.

This simple eating system is designed to dramatically diminish the acid pH amount in a person’s entire body — not only in the belly. It does so by increasing the ratio of alkaline forming foods consumed and by showing you how to combine foods in a way that radically decreases the amount of acid digestive juices in the gut and small intestines essential to break down foods. With me so far? Hope so, as this is vital material.

One of the primary components of the Great Taste No Pain System is the knowledge of food combining, which was first introduced into the US in 1911 by Dr. William Hay, a New York doctor who used it to heal his Bright’s Disease, a kidney disorder which was often fatal at that time. In actual fact, among many thousands of lives it claimed was Teddy Roosevelt’s first wife, who died of Bright’s Disease at barely 22 years of age.

A basic understanding of Junior High chemistry is all you will need to see the logic behind this science: Mixing foods that require alkaline digestive enzymes with foods that need acid digestion enzymes slows and can even obstruct the digestive progression. It can and does delay digestion by as much as 10 hours and more. This can be extremely bad for the body. The Great Taste No Pain method alleviates this predicament, speeding food through your body, enabling it to absorb nutrients from foods at a much higher degree.

There is a manual in the system that is called, “Foods That Create Acid, Foods that Take It Away.” This one manual and its concept make the system as simple and easily understood as anything I’ve ever read before. All it takes is for a person to follow the guidelines in this manual and their body will naturally use the very minimum of energy for the digestive process, thereby preserving most of the energy for the healing process and for other functions of the body.

These guidelines could not have been developed at a better time. Our very society is highly addicted to junk and processed foods due to convenience needs. Contemporary cultures throughout the world are turning out to be a real challenge, even more than the digestive problems of the early 20th Century, because of this very processed food problem which was not present in the 1900s or earlier.

This system is called “Great Taste, No Pain” and if you’ve not heard of it by now, you’re in luck because you need to seriously think about it, now that you’re getting the word. The system’s author is Sherry Brescia. Ms. Brescia knows of which she speaks. She was actually an Irritable Bowel Syndrome sufferer, herself and she spent seven days, hospitalized for bacterial colitis.

As a medical insurance researcher and Chief Underwriter, she was able to explore the benefits of an alkaline- balanced body and over the following 15 years perfected the method she presently calls Great Taste No Pain.

She has successfully intertwined the numerous proven philosophies that help to alkalize the body. She has been able to conceive and write this easy to understand and use system which should be simple enough for anyone to use, regardless of where they may live or what their food alternatives may be.

What I Like About The System

Taste: This is not like you see with most restrictive diets as Great Taste, No Pain is not what one would traditionally call a diet at all. This is because it permits you to actually consume a large amount of exquisite, scrumptious, delicious food. All you have to do is make sure it’s combined in accordance with several simple guidelines. There is very little willpower control involved. It’s possible that the most exhilarating news for those who really relish eating is that there is a 176 page recipe book included in the system that is completely loaded with lunch, dinner, snack and breakfast recipes that will make your mouth water with taste. There are very few leafy, vegetable “rabbit food” recipes in this recipe guide. These meals are truly Gourmet type meals that only take (should you enjoy cooking) around 15 to 30 minutes to prep and cook. And with this, you’ll have a bunch of tasty leftovers to use in the future. So, don’t even belief, for one minute, that you cannot eat healthy, even when you have an extremely busy schedule.

Speed: I’m very impressed by the fact that it’s not necessary for you to have to read like 300 or more pages of material before you learn what you need to do. The first guide alone (“How To End Stomach Pain Forever, Even If Your MD Says, “No Way,”) gives you a quick background on this science and moves on, very rapidly, into the actual “how to..” on a step-by-step basis. I really like this.

Simplicity: The second guide gets right to the heart of the matter. It’s called “What To Eat With What.” This list is humongous. It must have taken a LOT of research to get all this information. It’s a massive list of foods that correspond to the system and there’s no way that you’ll ever be able to eat all these foods, there are so many. Every food known to man, practically. It tells you which foods can be combined naturally and simply for great digestion that you can be very comfortable with. The other list is the foods that you should never combine with at all. Another great resource. This system is so incredibly easy that, if you can’t understand it, you might want to go back and review your pre-school days. It’s very understandable.

More Simplicity: Traveling is the one thing that may ruin even the healthiest eaters. But in Great Taste No Pain, Sherry provides a ‘Pocket Guide For Pain-Free Dining Out.’ This application is phenomenal. One might store this tiny baby along with your credit cards and, until you grasp what combines with what, all you should do is pull out your pocket guide and quickly observe the rule, so you can eat and take pleasure in the remainder of your day, pain-free.

Here’s a little extra surprise. It’s even possible for you to eat at Micky Dee’s (McDonald’s) without suffering from the usual heavy bloating gas and reflux symptoms. Isn’t that incredible? No problem!

Meat: You know, people who suffer from digestive issues usually don’t tolerate meat well on a daily basis. This is why they have daily stomach pain. Well, the problem is really not about the meat but rather what is eaten along with the meat.

This is the very reason why each one of the particular “guides” included in the system actually lists all the possible foods that can be combined with meats to avoid the suffering. The vast majority of people will now find it possible to eat chicken, fish, beef, turkey, pork or even venison or any other meat type that they want to eat. Only though, if they combine it appropriately, and they will have no pain at all! And those vegetables that usually create havoc in the gut, such as cucumbers, broccoli, lettuce and the like, will no longer give you problems. I just love that aspect!

Fruits: If you want to hear horror stories, you should ask any person who suffers from stomach problems about them and you’ll get an ear full. Fruits are the most perfect food on Earth and it is quite sad when this food group is completely shunned by a humongous amount of the world population. Well, this will not be the case any longer for the simple reason that you will be educated about the reason that fruit causes problems in the gut and how you can easily change all that. You will be able to eat fruit once more and you can eat as much as you like. Yes, it’s true…very true!

Don’t worry about not being able to understand each and every “guide” in the GTNP system because they are written very simply and put in language similar to the “For Idiots…” series of books. They are very clearly written. Even, as Ms. Brescia claims, “even an 11 year old can teach this, ” I really love this about the system!

Things You Should Watch For:

The one thing you need to be careful of is that once you begin eating as approved in Great Taste No Pain, you may suddenly begin to feel all powerful. You could begin to think you might be “cured” of your digestive evils since they went away so fast and since you have a great deal of additional energy. That would be a mistake.

There is actually no technical “cure” for most digestive problems and the reason is that they are not technically treated as diseases at all. Simply put, they are merely maladies that occur because people eat the wrong food combinations. So, it would be wrong to believe that these principles presented in Great Taste, No Pain are cures. You see, people who have a sensitivity in their stomach will, unfortunately, always have those sensitivities. However, by using the GTNP system you have a way to make those annoying and painful symptoms disappear forever and provide you with a tremendous amount of energy.

For example, let’s say you’ve got it bad and have Diverticulitis or Crohn’s. Great Taste No Pain can assist you to remove your symptoms very rapidly.

Let us now move forward one year. You’ve now decided that, since you no longer have the burning gut and other symptoms, you’ve been “cured.” You then begin to eat the same way you did before GTNP and can you guess what happens next? Right…all your symptoms return, this time with a vengeance from hell. You see those GTNP principles are very sound ones and are based on research and practical experience. They work for everyone. However, if a person does not have any symptoms for a long time and then begins to have a belief that they are cured, they might want to seriously think again. If the principles of the system are ignored and the person resists them, those symptoms are guaranteed to return and be much worse. See, good health is a result of a lifestyle that is also healthy. It’s not a simple matter of “do this one thing, one time and you’ll be cured forever.” It’s imperative that a person who does GTNP, stays with the program.

It may also be a good idea to prepare yourself for the cleansing action of GTNP. This is not a long term problem. It is natural and occurs any time that your digestive system goes through a cleansing, which is what happens when you start using GTNP. You may, initially experience a little diarrhea. Don’t worry, it will go away. If your problem is a fairly frequent constipation, you might experience a bit of “looseness” in the beginning but it too will come to an end soon.

Also, because of the detoxing occurring, you may get a runny nose or get some other cold-like symptoms at first. It’s nothing to fret about. If you do, while it may not be enjoyable, it does mean it’s working. It means your body is becoming purer and the toxins are departing. And that is an excellent thing.

Conclusion:

What amazed me when I started using the system, was the amount of energy I experienced, not only during the day but also late into the evening. I felt no bloating or discomfort at all and I felt not urge to eat again in an hour. I also had no urgent need to have caffeine after my meals.

My strong personal and professional opinion is that for folks who desire to have sounder, longer sleep, increased energy, elimination of migraine headaches and gastritis pain, eradication of acid reflux almost immediately and disappearance of painful digestive problems and symptoms, simply follow the steps in the Great Taste, No Pain plan and completely change your life. You won’t believe the difference it will make. Get the whole system and you will be totally thrilled with the results.

And frankly, it won’t take an entire day for most people to feel a significant difference in their bodies. Often it only takes one meal. After you have been following it for a week or more, feel free to let me know how you like it. I personally trust that anyone who adopts this easy, gratifying food combining approach will gather massive health benefits.

Stomach Bloating After Meals Healthy eating habits include eating plenty of vegetables. protein foods like nuts and seeds require an acid environment and about four hours to digest. Wait at least 2 hours between eating and going to bed at night.

The food pyramid was designed by the US Dept. Of Agriculture for public health nutrition and it provides a model, and datas like about carbohydrate, or an aid for the healthy nutrition or dieting of children. Even if it is commonly known as the food pyramid for kids, it has applications for many healthy conditions and for all ages. It basically represents a guide to good health by showing the right food choices. Meat, vegetables and fruit, fat, dairy products and cereal, wholegrain bread and pasta make the main categories. The food pyramid also emphasizes the need to keep the level of sugar and fat low.

The food pyramid also shows how many food servings to have per day. Normally, the age and the level of activity also influence the portion size, but the body weight counts a lot here too. Fat should be taken from eggs, meat and dairy products and it ought to be 30% of your diet at the maximum. Olive oil, almonds, peanuts and nuts contain very healthy unsaturated fats.

Sugars on the other hand have the lowest nutritional value and the highest level of calories. Avoid jellies, jams and soft drinks, and try to replace sugar with honey for instance. As long as your diet is balanced, there shouldn’t be any problem.

By far the best source of minerals, vitamins and protein are dairy products, and children depend most on this category in the food pyramid. Cheese, milk and yogurt should be basics for your children’s daily diet. Avoid ice-cream and fat cheese.

Lean meat as a source of protein is very important, but you have to eliminate the skin, as it is the case with chicken. Stay away from junk food because it is poison for your body. Moderation is once again the best way to stay on the safe side and provide no nutrients in excess.

As for vitamins, they usually come from fruit and vegetables. Vitamin C and A, as well as magnesium, iron and fiber are richer in leafy greens than in other foods. It is important to eat a variety of vegetables in order to get all the nutrients necessary for the optimal body functioning. Put into practice the principles of the food pyramid and you will keep disease away.

Have you ever heard the old adage that “if it tastes great and you love to eat it, it must not be good for you?” Sometimes it seems that way, especially if you get stomach pain every time you eat the foods you love. Do you get indigestion, acid reflux, diarrhea, constipation or any of a number of other stomach disorders when you eat certain foods? Have you ever noticed whether or not you’re eating certain mixtures of foods when that happens? If so, you’ve stumbled upon the secret to ending stomach pain and misery. You just didn’t know that you’d found that secret.

You see stomach pain and really, many of the common but painful ailments that we have given names to such as diverticulitis, diverticulosis, colitis, irritable bowel syndrome and others didn’t just occur out of the blue. They began a long time before they actually surfaced to show themselves. It has been discovered that the foods that we love to eat don’t always love our bodies.

In most people who have “normal” digestive systems, incompatible foods, though not originally evident, cause the digestive system to break down and become diseased. If a person has an abnormal digestive system, one that may be slower or even faster than what would be termed a “normal” digestive system, the results become obvious much sooner than in the “normal” system.

Here’s how it works, in a nutshell. Foods are either acid based or alkaline based. The body’s normal pH, which is a measurement of acidity/alkalinity, is 7.35 to 7.45. The lower the number, the more acidic it is. When a person eats a certain food, let’s say an orange for instance, that food is swallowed and finds its way to the stomach. Oranges are acid based foods with a pH of about 3.69 to 4.34. That is VERY acidic. Most people think that if they eat acidic foods, their body will become more acidic. Au contraire, my fine feathered friend.

The truth is that when the stomach receives food that is acidic, it doesn’t just pass that food through without adjusting it. The stomach knows what the normal pH of the body is and it’s job is to make the foods that are coming through it as close to normal as possible before they go to the intestines where they are absorbed and distributed. While the stomach is breaking the foods down, it detects the pH of the eaten foods and adds just enough acid or alkaline to the mixture to balance the pH of the food.

So, once you’ve eaten this very acidic orange, the stomach determines that the pH of the orange is too low to be allowed to enter the digestive system. It then adds just enough alkaline substances to bring the pH of the orange back up to somewhere around 7.35 to 7.45. Once this is accomplished, the orange is allowed to leave the stomach and enter the absorption portion of the digestive process.

Sounds simple, right? What an easy job the stomach has, right?

Yea, that’s right, as long as the stomach only has to deal with one food and one pH. But what happens when you eat several different types of food with various pHs? Yea, the stomach’s job gets a LOT more complicated, huh?

So, what’s the point I’m trying to make? Just this. How do you think the stomach feels when you eat a meal that is very difficult to break down normally, like say, beef, for which it (the stomach) usually releases a fair amount of acids so that they can break down the beef and be absorbed at the proper pH and on top of that, you eat a whole potato, which has a higher but still acidic Ph of around 5.10. Add to that some cooked asparagus at a pH of 6.0 to 6.7 , some iced tea (pH 7.2) and some a dessert of fruit cocktail (3.4 to 6.0). Yow! First, it releases acids and then, to neutralize those acids, it has to release alkalines, then back to acids! The job’s not so easy anymore is it? No.

The sad part is that when this happens, the digestive process is slowed down right there in the stomach and many times those foods don’t digest for lengthy periods of time. Rather, they just sit in the stomach and start to become putrid. That means that the natural bacterias within those foods start to break them down. In other words, they’re just rotting. When natural material start to rot, they release gasses and toxins.

When the foods do eventually make it to the small intestines, they take those gasses and toxins with them and the toxins are absorbed into the system. The gasses cause bloating and abdominal distension and often pain. As the toxins are absorbed into the system, they become part of the structure of the body and in doing so, they begin to cause destruction of body tissue.

This is when the conditions and diseases that you hear about, that cause digestive problems, take place. This is when diverticulitis, colitis, ibs and the other diseases that I mentioned previously start to manifest themselves.

Don’t get too depressed about this though. There is a simple way to beat this whole system. Just learn how to mix the appropriate foods properly. That’s it.

Once a person understands how to combine certain foods, they can completely end stomach pain, bowel pressures, digestive problems and a number of other digestive disorders that complicate their lives and make them miserable.

This method is not something new. It has been around for centuries but people are often very stubborn and insist on eating food in certain combinations, to their detriment. Food is great, but it can cause you extreme torment if eaten in the wrong combinations.

Once people discover how to eat the proper combinations it is very common that the symptoms of the diseases disappear and they can lead normal lives without burning stomach pain, indigestion, diarrhea, constipation or irritable bowel syndrome. It’s the food mixtures that cause the problem. Not the food itself.

If they go back to eating the wrong combinations, the symptoms return. So what does that tell you?

This food combining system is not a miracle nor is it a secret. It is just a learning process that very few people know and understand.

If you or someone you care about is having any type of digestive or digestive system problems, the answer to their health may be a simple adjustment in the foods that they’re eating. It may behoove them to learn how to combine foods correctly and end their stomach pain forever.

“Given the history of Western medicine to date, many people seek empowerment in the health care of themselves and their families; nutrition is really basic component of preventive medicine and also an area that can be effective in corrective medicine for many common health problems.” *

Nutrition is a basic element of health and should not be overlooked during disease. Some well renowned practitioners state that every disease is a result of improper dietary habits.

Because of the rapid increase in cost of medical care and desire to live longer and healthier, higher and higher percentage of the population is becoming concerned about nutrition and maintaining their health. Without a doubt, nutrition plays a big role here.

Proper nutrition and regular physical activity can help us avoid taking drugs or even have surgeries to correct the results of fast-paced, fast-food consuming, multitasking life with no exercising.

Healthy dietary habits (the way we eat) are the foundation of healthy nutrition. Choosing nourishing (whole, unprocessed, without chemical additives) foods alone is not enough.

Simpler meals (with specific combination of foods for better digestion and absorption) are becoming the top-choice of many, who are oriented toward optimum health.

However, the factors that are often overlooked, but just as important in healthy nutrition are:

• the way our food is prepared and served,
• the time of the day when we eat,
• the setting in which we eat and
• how we feel when we eat.

The way of the Western world is that poor nutrition is readily available everywhere, any time and cheap. Farmers’ markets and health-food stores, on the other hand, are harder to find in some areas. In the end, all comes down to common sense. Our body is sending us messages all the time and if we would only learn to listen to these messages again, there would be no need whatsoever for trying out all the countless diets which don’t work. So, even though our biofeedback is a perfect messenger, we tend to override the signals and follow heavily advertised addictions. This kind of behavior affects the way we feel now, as well as over the long term. Being overweight is mostly the result of poor nutrition and low activity level. The only way to lose extra pounds permanently is to change the lifestyle. Choosing less fattening foods is a good choice, but not sufficient. Because certain emotions and fear of creativity and change also promote unhealthy (over)eating habits, we need to choose personal growth (over addictions), decide what we want and stay focused on our goals.

Dietary habits and eating patterns from our family’s traditions affect us all in our young age. As adults, however, we are making our own choices and decisions and we should keep asking ourselves why we’re doing the things we do – and keep the answers in our sight.

When body is in a detoxification stage (like during cold or flu when bowels, secreting cells and mucous membranes become more active), it is simply trying to eliminate the buildup of toxins we consumed throughout the longer period of time. Eating lightly (especially fruits and vegetables) and drinking more liquids (clean, fresh water and herbal teas), supports the cleansing process.

Our dietary needs are changing with the seasons of the year as well as with our age. Growing children need richer diet to construct and expand tissues. When we stop growing physically, we only need to maintain our body, which calls for lighter, fiber and nutrient rich natural foods. As we age even more and our metabolism slows down, our food requirements decrease further.

Just like fitness activity is equally important at any age, so is the low level of stress. While under stress, our body may not digest and absorb the necessary nutrients so well and sometimes the additional supplements are needed.

When we lose our appetite in response to the stressful situation, that is a very helpful reaction. As mentioned before, in stressful times our body does not process foods so well. Not eating will allow us to “hear” better what the only body we have for this life, is signaling us, and explore our feelings.

Human body needs food as a source of energy and as a fuel to maintain life. It is quite obvious that nutrition plays a major role in health as well as sickness. Fortunately, there are more and more practitioners available who are nutritionists. There are also more and more choices of wholesome, nutritious foods offered online and in the brick-and-mortar stores. Information is plentiful. But it’s up to us to decide to do and choose what’s best.

*Haas, M.D., Elson M.. Staying Healthy with Nutrition. 1. Berkeley, CA: Celestial Arts Publishing, 1992.

D. Perse is a student of Herbology, passionate about growing herbs and collecting interesting facts about them, including history and legends, medicinal uses, recipes and more. Website http://www.dariasworld.info/more_info.htm is devoted to herbs and offers tons of free information.

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