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Some people complain that they have issues with flatulence on a raw food diet. This can
come from two different things. One is they tend to be eating more cabbage family products.
So, cabbage can cause flatulence. Also in that family are kale and broccoli. So that's
one thing.
You can either eat less of those if you're having an issue, or you can marinate them
by adding salt. That helps break down some of the gaseous formations in the cabbage.
So, you can make sauerkraut even and so on, and generally people don't have as much problems
once it's broken down.
The other thing with flatulence is improper food combining. I've seen that happen sometimes.
What's happening is let's say you combine a fruit with seeds and nuts. The seeds and
nuts take much longer to digest than fruit. Fruit is very fast to digest. And so, what
happens is when you combine the two the nuts are still trying to process and the fruit
is already broken down. The sugars in the fruit have broken down, and it starts to ferment
in your stomach.
Basically, you want to try to eat your sugary items by themselves and then eat your proteins
and your greens on their own. So, it's just combining differently and leaving the sugars
out of when you're eating maybe your main meal where you have more nuts and seeds.
So those two things will avoid most flatulence problems on the raw food diet.