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CONSCIOUS COMBINING EXPLAINED: THE HARDLY EVERS – CHEESE
It takes ten pounds of milk to make one pound of cheese. Put another way, from one quart of milk you get a small handful of cheese.
If milk is tough, if not impossible, to digest, think what cheese does to your poor stomach without that moisture to ease its course. The harder the cheese, the harder it is to digest. Because it has virtually no moisture, it has to steal moisture from your body. Just like other proteins, only more so. And it suppresses hydrochloric acid, the enzyme necessary to digest fat. So the very enzyme cheese needs more than any other, because of its high fat content, is slowed down.
Another negative: cheese is heavily loaded with salt. If you ever tasted saltless cheese you'd understand why. It's like eating a gum eraser. In addition, most cheeses are loaded with preservatives, stabilizers, and artificial coloring.
Like all other dairy products, cheese creates a great deal of mucus, which coats your lungs and your intestines, making elimination difficult.
Not only does cheese have a lot of salt in it and not only is it in itself as high in calories as any food can be, but cheese also spends more time in your stomach than any other food you eat, it makes anything else you eat after it fattening because anything you eat after the cheese will get trapped in your stomach right along with the cheese. One reason people feel so full after eating cheese is that their stomachs are working so hard they can't deal with anything else. Nothing makes your stomach work harder than cheese and dairy products. Finally as in pasteurizing, processing milk to cheese destroys the lecithin, the ingredient that digests and emulsifies the fat.
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