I have heard that certain foods shouldn't be eaten together such
as meat and starches because they require different types of
enzymes to digest and they would cancel each other out and thus
it takes longer to digest food. Along with this I was told you
should only eat fruit alone as it will ferment in your stomach
as it sits and waits its turn to be digested. Any insight on
this would be appreciated.-- Janet Johnson, Northside At the
risk of dethroning Dan Scanlan as the Times-Union's reigning
King of Puns, this is really some low-hanging fruit. If the
claims about "sequential eating" and "food combining" are to be
believed, eating is a complicated business. Don't drink any
liquids during or after meals, goes one morsel of advice. Stay
away from fruits after consuming any cooked food; they're liable
to get stuck waiting for "slower" foods to digest and begin
decomposing, producing gas and indigestion. Despite what a few
self-anointed nutrition gurus claim, your digestive system has
evolved quite well to proce