Alkaline Diet
Principles of Alkalinity
Most people are not aware of the importance of the Alkaline Diet. People take antacids instead of Bio-Enzymes or adjusting what we eat to an Alkaline Diet. 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. Learn to make a miso broth (1 tsp of miso dissolved in one cup of hot, not bo8iling, water.
5. Make blender drinks using alkaline juices, green powdered supplements and fruits.
6. Choose fish and lamp over beef and chicken for less acid forming animal protein.
7. Use olive oil as it is less acid forming than other vegetable oils.
8. Use buffered Vitamin C to alkalinze the system.
In following articles we discuss the history, health benefits and why people try to impletement an alkaline diet.
