Surgery – Diagnostic testing
Reexamination Certificate
1999-02-01
2001-01-30
O'Connor, Cary (Department: 3736)
Surgery
Diagnostic testing
C705S002000, C128S898000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06179778
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The knowledge accumulated by people on food combining is most systematically reflected and approved by Dr. Shelton: Dr. Herbert M. Shelton “Food Combining Made Easy”, 1951 Dr. Herbert M. Shelton “The Science and Fine Art of Food and Nutrition”, 6th rev.ed. (Hygienic System, v.2), 591pp il pa 1984, Natural Hygiene Press.
Dr. Shelton summed up this knowledge in his famous table which we completely reproduce on the next page as the basis of the invention proposed hereby.
The volume of the knowledge on Food Combining is large enough to be used by an ordinary man in his health prophylaxis going just by the printed materials on the subject, yet we have not encountered any attempts to computerize such health prophylaxis for ordinary people. Hence we are trying to make such a step. We claim a group of three closely connected inventions consisting of the Method and the Technical Facilities developed particularly to implement the said Method as stated hereabove.
Dr. Shelton's “Food Combining Table”
Salad
Non-Starchy
or Raw
Sweet
Sweet
Sour
Vegetables
Green
Acid
Sub-Acid
Fruits
Protein
Starch
Fat
Milk
Milk
(cooked)
Vegetables
Fruits
Fruits
(Dried)
Melons
Protein
bad
bad
bad
bad
bad
good
good
poor*
bad
bad
bad
Starch
bad
good
good
bad
bad
good
good
bad
fair
poor
bad
Fat
bad
good
good
fair
fair
good
good
good
good
good
bad
Sweet Milk
bad
bad
good
poor
poor
fair
fair
bad
bad
Sour Milk
bad
bad
good
poor
poor
fair
fair
fair
bad
Green Vegc.†
good
good
good
poor
poor
good
good
poor
fair
poor
bad
Sub-Acid Fruits†
bad
bad
good
fair
fair
poor
poor
good
good
good
fair
Acid Fruits
bad
bad
good
fair
fair
fair
fair
good
good
poor
fair
Sweet Fruits‡
poor
poor
good
poor
fair
poor
poor
poor
good
good
fair
Melons
bad
bad
bad
bad
bad
bad
bad
bad
fair
fair
good
*Acid fruits are fair with nuts.
†Raw or cooked.
‡Dried
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In order to define the subject of the proposed invention, depict consistently the technical problem of “Health Protection through Food Combining” and outline its solution we should give some brief information from Dr. Shelton's works.
According to Dr. Shelton, Food Combining covers a combination of scientific and practical facts testifying that digestion goes by the laws of physiology and biochemistry, which make it necessary to take into account some known physiological limitations of digestion, enzymes and gastric juice every time we are planning some food combinations for a single meal. The main problem is that people do not get health, strength and benefit from what they are eating, but from what their bodies can digest and assimilate. The correct food combinations for a single meal facilitate an easy assimilation of food in the stomach, while incorrect food combinations for a single meal make obstacles in food assimilation thus increasing time of digestion and assimilation and producing unnecessary fermentation in the stomach and in the intestines. Stomach distress (heart burn), gases, belching (eructation) and mucus flows are the notoriously known signs of such fermentation. Incorrect food combinations at a single meal cause fermentation and putrefaction which produce, as a result of bacterial decomposition, such products as carbonic acid gas, spiritus, ammonia, acids etc. In order to neutralize, insulate and take out these poisons the human body has to waste its vital reserves. Incorrect food combinations not only fail to increase the stock of power and vitamins, but even deprive the organism of the existing stocks. The fact is, when poison accumulation exceeds the body's capability to neutralize it, the body's reserves are wasted on elimination the toxins. The prolonged struggle between the body and the indigestive food combinations or with poisonous products of bacterial decomposition sooner or later weakens the body. It is the incorrect nutrition that causes enormous waste of vital power and physiological reserves, which could otherwise be used later on. These reserves are especially vital for elderly people who are weaker anyway and whose rehabilitation capabilities are hindered. With the body's reserves carefully controlled, according to Dr. Shelton, people could outlive 100 years still preserving a juvenile enthusiasm and energy.
This view of Dr. Shelton, the doctor of 9 sciences, author of 40 research works, is supported not only by pure scientific investigations of famous scientists like the famous physiologist academician I.Pavlov, but also by half a century of his personal non-medicamental experience as a practitioner. Tens of thousands of patients went through his would-famous “Health School”. His works have been translated nearly into all languages of the world.
To this very subject the proposed invention refers. We take into consideration that ordinary people are little concerned about “digestive restrictions” and “physiological reserves”.
Even though Dr. Shelton made a significant step to solve the problem, having compiled a table on the basis of his predecessor and colleague's works, but it did not make the problem easier for ordinary people. The authors of the proposed invention have been personally using this table for many years and got aware of all the problems related to it. It was the amazing results of “Health Prophylaxis Through Food Combining” that made us bear all the difficulties. The main aspects of the problem were: first, each time we had to recollect, for example, which products are proteins and which are carbohydrates, whether they are “concentrated” or not, second, which mark (“good”, “poor” etc.) Dr. Shelton would give to every pair combination of products and, third, which marks he would give the food products cooked for a particular meal, as his table does not include any complicated combinations (3 or more products). Willingly or not, we wished we could pass over all those speculations to the computer, leaving only the final decision for people to be made (deciding whether it was “good” or “bad”), and the amazing results of the prophylaxis.
In ancient times ordinary people unconsciously followed the rules of “Health Prophylaxis through Food Combining” by following the habits and customs of their tribes. Let's take as an example a combination from Dr. Shelton's table. Proteins and carbohydrates make a “bad” combination. Now it is a scientifically proven fact, very often ignored by ordinary people, although in the older times it was strictly obeyed. Dr. Shelton cites a rule that existed in Ancient Greece and said that the warriors were forbidden to take meat and bread at a single meal. A similar quotation was found by him in old Hebrew Moses' Scripture. Dr. Shelton remarks that the very fact of including such a habit into the Holy Scripture, which was equal to sanctifying it by the God, proves that this habit was firmly followed. In the 20th century, though, the old habits of “Health Prophylaxis through Food Combining” are basically forgotten, with very few exceptions.
At present “Health Prophylaxis through Food Combining” is based on the above-shown Dr. Shelton's table, as well as on other printed books and on the numerous recipes from cookery books whose authors do take into consideration the principles of “Food Combining”. In other words, today's technology is a “bookish technology”, with its unavoidable difficulties, especially for ordinary people. The main 2 problems which we are trying to solve with our Method and our Technical Facilities are:
the person who is willing to follow the rules of Food Combining to strengthen his health has either to keep in his memory Dr. Shelton's table along with other recommendations and recipes, or he has to have all these books available every time he lays his dinner table or every time he goes to the restaurant;
Dr. Shelton's table estimates only the combinations of 2 food products, while the combinations of 3 or more food products are not represented in the table. This, again, makes the users either recollect the mathematical combinatory methods, or stick to no more than 2 food products at a me
Leonov Pavel
Leonov Valery
Astorino Michael
O'Connor Cary
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