This diet change can prevent chronic illness!
What you eat and put in your mouth can have the greatest effect on your health! There are acidic foods and then there are alkaline foods and its important to be a balance between the two, you can’t be too acidic and you can’t be too alkaline. With today’s western diet the majority of us are too acidic and it is down to your diet. When a food is too acidic it is the ash it leaves behind once it goes through the metabolic process, therefore lemons and tomatoes and NOT known as an acidic food because the ash it leaves is an alkaline one. Chronic acidity removes oxygen form the blood and increases the rate of aging and lowers your immunity.
The other types of symptoms you can get from being too acidic are:
- Heartburn
- Acid-reflux
- Kidney stone formation
- Muscle loss
- Back pain
- Gout
- Joint diseases
- Chronic degeneration
- Cancer
- Tired
- Headache
- Fuzzy head
In this past pace society you are combating constant low-grade stress which can cause your body to be acidic. However, food is the major culprit, here is a list of the alkaline forming foods (the ones we should eat) and the acidic forming foods (the ones we shouldn’t eat):
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Alkaline forming foods |
Acid forming foods |
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Alkaline vegetables: Asparagus Artichokes Cabbage Lettuce Onion Cauliflower Radish Swede Lambs lettuce Peas Courgette Red cabbage Leeks Watercress Spinach Turnip Chives Carrot Green beans Beetroot Garlic Celery Grasses (wheat, straw, barley etc) Cucumber Broccoli Kale Brussels Sprouts
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Fruits: Lemon Lime Avocado Tomato Grapefruit Watermelon Rhubarb
Drinks: ‘Green drinks’ Fresh Vegetable Juice Lemon Water Herbal Tea Vegetable broth Almond Milk
Seeds, Nuts, Grains: Almonds Pumpkin Sunflower Sesame Flax Buckwheat Spelt Lentils Cumin Seeds Any spouted seeds |
Meats: Pork Lamb Beef Chicken Turkey Crustaceans Other seafood (apart from occasional oily fish such as salmon)
Others: Vinegar White Pasta White Bread Wholemeal Bread Biscuits Soy Sauce Tamari Condiments (Tomato Sauce, Mayonnaise etc.) Artificial Sweeteners Honey
Convenience Foods: Sweets Chocolate Microwave Meals Tinned foods Powdered Soups Instant Meals Fast Food |
Dairy Products: Milk Eggs Cheese Cream Yogurt Ice cream
Drinks: Fizzy Drinks Tea Coffee Beers Spirits Fruit juice Dairy smoothies Milk Traditional tea
Fats & Oils: Saturated Fats Hydrogenated Oils Margarine (worst than butter) Corn Oil Vegetable Oil Sunflower Oil
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If your diet consists of 80% alkaline forming foods and 20% acidic forming foods then you can restore the balance, to maintain a good balance it should be 60%/40% respectively.
To make yourself acidic try having a teaspoon of bicarb soda mixed with a teaspoon of citric acid.
Resources:
- http://www.rethinkingcancer.org/resources/articles/acid-alkaline-balance.php
- http://www.rethinkingcancer.org/resources/articles/pdfs/acid-alkaline%20Final%20chart1.pdf