Will food combining help me lose weight?

The answer is ‘no’. While the concept of "food combining", or eating certain nutrients at specific times (and excluding others), has fallen in and out of vogue for decades, there are no proven benefits. The theory is that different food types (such as proteins, fats, starches, sugars, and acidic foods) require their own digestive enzymes in order to be metabolized properly.

Some claim that mixing these groups or eating them at the wrong times could cause digestive issues or weight gain. For advocates of this eating style, having orange juice and scrambled eggs at a sitting is forbidden.
To determine if a food-combining diet could confer any health or weight-loss benefits, researchers at University Hospital Geneva in Switzerland put two sets of obese patients on low-calorie diets for six weeks. The first group followed a food-combining plan (eating carbohydrates at one meal and fats and protein at another), while the second ate meals that contained all three nutrients. While both groups took in the same amount of calories, those on the balanced diet actually lost about 1,36 kilograms more than the food-combining group and lowered their blood pressure too!

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