An Alkaline Diet is important for cleansing and balancing our internal structure. Our body requires a balanced pH level.  The term “pH” translates into “potential for Hydrogen”. Like all nature, our body requires oxygen and the scale indicates how much the body is consuming. The scale generally ranges from very acid -- 1.0 to 10.0 – very alkaline.  The optimum, or base, is a pH of 7.5.  Scientists realized some time ago that all our internal organs require this. The longer they are deprived the balance, the more likely the body suffers. They proved that the body can heal itself by consuming the correct pH food and liquid.

While our internal organs need the alkaline base, our skin does not require this in the same manner.  There is an acidic mantel covering our skin for protection. Today, using alkaline soaps washes this away. Unfortunately, most of our modern soaps are alkaline depleting this mantel.

Once we begin to understand the differences between alkaline and acidic water, most people begin to pursue the perceived ideal. Every where I have been in North America, there is a proliferation of bottled water. This saddened me because while people feel happy about their choice of bottled water, it was not giving them what the body needed.  I cannot help but wonder when the information will be revealed to them.

Including ideal water  in our   consumption is only a small part of our Alkaline Diet.   Many foods  start off either  alkaline or acidic, or  revert to the opposite during  the digestion process. For more information about this,  check out  our  blogs Cardinal Comments or Folk's Notes.  or get our  free e-book,  Intriguing Tweaking Tips for Complete Wellness.


In the meantime, here are some tips to get you started on your pursuit of the Alkaline Diet.

 

TIPS FOR ALKALINIZING YOUR DIET

 1. Eat lots of vegetables and fruits. Most are alkalinizing.

 2. Drink the juice of half of a lemon or lime in water as a beverage.

 3. Eat 1 cup of alkalinizing greens daily (kale, collards, mustard greens, rapini).

 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 boiling, water).  Experiment with adding cooked daikon radish rounds and a small amount of cooked wakame seaweed to the miso broth.

 6. Make blender drinks using alkaline juices, green powdered supplements and fruits.

7. Choose fish and lamb 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 alkalinize the system.