Alkaline Diet

Over the past few years there has been quite a bit of information available through books, on-line and speakers about the importance of ingesting alkaline foods as a balance for the acid food. Our grandparents knew this, just by a different name. Whether you suffer from heart-burn, kidney stones or sleepless nights, we should all pay attention to consuming alkaline products, water and food. For more information visit our website Folk Herb Wisdom

Principles of Alkalinity

Our blood is slightly alkaline, with a normal pH level of between 7.35 and 7.45. The theory behind the alkaline diet is that our diet should reflect this pH level (as it did in the past) and be slightly alkaline. An alkaline diet is a diet that emphasizes, to a varying degree, fresh fruit, vegetables, roots and tubers, nuts, and legumes. Almost all foods that we eat, after being digested, absorbed, and metabolized, release either an acid or an alkaline base (bicarbonate) into blood.

Tips for alkalinizing your Diet
1. Eat lots of vegetables and fruits. Most are alkalinizing.
2. Drink the juice of half a lemon or lime in water as a beverage.
3. Eat 1 cup of alkalinizing greens daily (dale, collards, mustard greens or rapini) Rapini, is also known as Broccoli Rabe, part of the turnip family.
4. Eat millet and quinoa as an option to the acid forming grains (wheat, brown rice)
5. Learn to make a miso broth (1 tsp of miso dissolved in one cup of hot, not bo8iling, water.
6. Make blender drinks using alkaline juices, green powdered supplements and fruits.
7. Choose fish and lamp over beef and chicken for less acid forming animal protein.
8. Use olive oil as it is less acid forming than other vegetable oils.
9. Use buffered Vitamin C to alkalinze the system.