Talk:Food combining

message: Some citations would be really nice for this article. I'm trying to find out more information about food combining but it's hard to know fact from fiction in this article. For example: "Many of the assumptions used to justify food combining are not supported by biological and medical science, and there is currently little evidence supporting real-world success for these theories." Is there a source for this statement, or is it just someone biased against food combining making something up? Let's get some citations going. --JRavn 23:13, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: 6/14: That was just a ridiculous statement, along with a couple of others.  First of all, no assumptions are addressed and I'm not sure the person even realizes that they're pointing to people trying to justify the way they eat.  Saying assumptions aren't supported by science is simply remedial.  And then they try to say there's little evidence for success of what theories?  What theories?  Are the theories what they're implying will succeed?  No, they're implying that the technic lacks success, so the sentence isn't even constructed correctly.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.61.180.2 (talk) 18:47, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: No citations, not NPOV?

message: The crux of this entry is that food combining is primarily used as a weight loss tool, which is incorrect. Most people use food combining to battle indigestion, bloating, acid reflux, and other gastrointestinal disorders that society considers "normal" occurences. I have no doubt that this was penned by a member of the deeply indoctrinated medical profession, looking to counterprove something not learned in conventional medical school.
66.64.143.167 19:42, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: ... or maybe "indoctrinated" by titles like The Food Combining Diet: Lose Weight the Hay Way, or the dozens of other food combining weight-loss books being promoted and sold. Wikipedia generally functions on verifiability: do you have a reliable source supporting your statement that "most people" use food combining for GI discomfort, rather than weight loss? MastCell Talk 19:55, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Misleading

message: Yes. These articles should be combined. Timneu22 18:34, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds reasonable, although is Food combining a concept that goes beyond Hay, does food combining happen in other countries that were not directly influenced by Hay?  I don't know, but you should be aware of a potential WP:CSB issue. Perhaps Hay should be subsumed into this article rather than vice versa? FlagSteward 01:14, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. -- Levine2112 discuss 22:36, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  I have now taken some time to beef up the Hay Diet article. I might be able to stand on its own. Perhaps the Hay Diet and the William Howard Hay article can be merged. But now that I have done some preliminary research, I do think that the Hay Diet article should be kept distinct from the food combining article. Food combining may have been an invention of Hay, but others have taken it much further since Hay. -- Levine2112 discuss 19:01, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think they each deserve their own article. Badagnani (talk) 05:12, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge? 

message: As already discussed, there are indeed other nutritonist's who are proponents of food combining for various reasons. Because many different people advocate food combining for different reasons, and on different levels of strictness, I think that it has developed into a very diversified subject on it's own, distinct from whoever may have originated it, and should thus remain its own article.
I have just added an additional paragraph that goes into a bit more detail about the idea behind food combining. I added this information because I think that the information that was already there, while a great start, was brief and only explained part of the idea. I also think that the bit about what is believed to be the ill effects of miscombining food is important because of what the user above points out: that people subscribe to this food combining idea to deal with digestive (detox) issues as much as they do for weight loss. The book that I include in the references is where I learned about food combining from. I do not quote this book at all and so therefore do not include any parenthetical documentation. I am new to editing, so I am not sure if what I have done is a violation of any kind even though I do no quote directly? The book is not in the public domain.
Mrebe (talk) 01:26, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another Addition 

message: It has been shown that eating certain foods together reduces their absorbtion.  The two that immediately come to mind are iron and calcium.  I feel this article should reflect this knowledge as it provides a good basis for empirical evidence of successful food combining.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.59.240.98 (talk) 15:09, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: To include this, you would need a reliable source stating this provides a "good basis of empirical evidence". You are unlikely to find such a source, though, as you are comparing apples (micro nutrients) and orangutans ("types" of foods). - SummerPhD (talk) 02:53, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Basis in nutrition 

message: What happen to the Hay diet sentence on the page? Qwesar (talk) 20:33, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: If you click the "History" tab on any page, it will bring up links to all of the past edits.  removed that one, apparently adding removal of unsourced material to his copy edits. - SummerPhD (talk) 20:40, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hay diet & adding content 

message: Until a more neutral tone can be used, the statement about food combining being quackery has been hidden, as it is not neutral or encyclopedic. Readers to know the reasons it is quackery without saying quackery.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Qwesar (talk • contribs) 07:22, 12 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quackery statement