Unlike most others who have responded to the article, I have had a very remarkable experience with food combining. Suffering from severe arthritis so that I was unable to walk without crutches I was told by an arthritis specialist that I would have to be on cortisone for the rest of my life and have to get used to crutches. He also assured me that "there was no cure" and that nutrition had nothing to do with my condition. With the cortisone pills in my pocket, untouched,  I went to see a Vancouver naturopath which a friend had suggested as an alternative and a "second opinion."  Dr. Joe Boucher's first treatment was to soak my incapacitated foot in water where electric currents performed a miracle and allowed me to leave his office stepping on that very arthritic foot! I then went on his food combining programme and did not combine starches and proteins, and remained painfree for a very long time. Even years later, not combining certain foods is a cure that I can count on.