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Sacha Bedding, chief executive of the trust, warns of a short-term crisis, with rising prices for heating and food combining with the end of a bigger welfare payment that was provided during the pandemic.

Similarly, dedicated devotees of food combining refuse to eat fruit with a mixed meal because they worried about the meal slowing digestion down, such that the fruit will "ferment" in the gut.

Typically, proponents of food combining warn that fruits must be eaten alone, lest they "rot" and feed "harmful yeasts" in the body.

The rationales employed to advocate for food combining reflect a profound misunderstanding of the basic biochemistry and physiology of human digestion, and are poor pseudo-science at best.

The scientifically unsound rationales for food combining implicitly underestimate the human body's ability to do more than one thing at a time.