Alkalizing Your Diet
Sunday, June 7th, 2009
Disease will only live in an acidic body. In order to maintain a normal pH balance, the diet should consist of 75-80% alkaline foods and 20-25% acidic. The large base of your diet will be raw fruits and vegetables, which are alkaline to the body. The acidic part of the diet is as important as the alkaline, but it does have to be moderated. This category includes dairy products, grains, chicken, fish, and eggs. Eating a balanced diet and following some of the following recommendations will ensure a healthy pH balance. 1. Drink the juice of half a lemon or lime in water as a beverage. 2. Eat one cup of alkalinizing greens daily (kale, collards, mustard greens). 3. Eat millet and quinoa as an option to the acid forming grains like wheat and brown rice. 4. Learn to make miso broth: (1 tsp of miso dissolved in one cup of hot water, not boiling water). Experiment with adding cooked daikon radish rounds and a small amount of cooked wakame seaweed to the miso broth. 5. Make blender drinks using alkaline juices, green powdered supplements and fruits. 6. Choose fish and lamb 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 alkalinize the system.
ALKALIZING AND ACIDIFYING FOODS
In order for the body to heal itself, and detoxify itself properly, we need to eat more alkaline based foods, instead of acid forming foods, which tends to make up a large percentage of foods most people eat.
ALKALIZING VEGETABLES:
Alfalfa
Barley Grass
Beet Greens
Beets
Broccoli
Cabbage
Carrot
Cauliflower
Celery
Chard Greens
Chlorella
Collard Greens
Cucumber
Dandelions
Dulce
Edible Flowers
Eggplant
Fermented Veggies
Garlic
Green Beans
Green Peas
Kale
Kohlrabi
Lettuce
Mushrooms
Mustard Greens
Nightshade Veggies
Onions
Parsnips (high glycemic)
Peas
Peppers
Pumpkin
Radishes
Rutabaga
Sea Veggies
Spinach, green
Spirulina
Sprouts
Sweet Potatoes
Tomatoes
Watercress
Wheat Grass
Wild Greens
ALKALIZING FRUITS:
Apple
Apricot
Avocado
Banana (high glycemic)
Berries
Blackberries
Cantaloupe
Cherries, sour
Coconut, fresh
Currants
Dates, dried
Figs, dried
Grapes
Grapefruit
Honeydew Melon
Lemon
Lime
Muskmelons
Nectarine
Orange
Peach
Pear
Pineapple
Raisins
Raspberries
Rhubarb
Strawberries
Tangerine
Tomato
Tropical Fruits
Umeboshi Plums
Watermelon
ALKALIZING PROTEIN:
Almonds
Chestnuts
Millet
Tempeh (fermented)
Tofu (fermented)
Whey Protein Powder
ALKALIZING SPICES & SEASONINGS:
Chili Pepper
Cinnamon
Curry
Ginger
Herbs (all)
Miso
Mustard
Sea Salt
Tamari
So that makes up a great number of alkaline forming foods that people should try and eat more of. Especially great for you if consumed raw, and organic.
Now here is a list of acid forming foods that we should try and largely avoid. Keep in mind that we do need some acid forming foods in our diet, about 20% acid, and 80% alkaline would be ideal, to maintain a healthy balance.
ACIDIFYING VEGETABLES:
Corn
Lentils
Olives
Winter Squash
ACIDIFYING FRUITS:
Blueberries
Canned or Glazed Fruits
Cranberries
Currants
Plums
Prunes
ACIDIFYING GRAINS, GRAIN PRODUCTS:
Barley
Bran, oat
Bran, wheat
Bread
Corn
Cornstarch
Crackers, soda
Flour, wheat
Flour, white
Hemp Seed Flour
Kamut
Macaroni
Noodles
Oatmeal
Oats (rolled)
Quinoa
Rice (all)
Rice Cakes
Rye
Spaghetti
Spelt
Wheat Germ
Wheat
ACIDIFYING BEANS & LEGUMES:
Almond Milk
Black Beans
Chick Peas
Green Peas
Kidney Beans
Lentils
Pinto Beans
Red Beans
Rice Milk
Soy Beans
Soy Milk
White Beans
ACIDIFYING DAIRY:
Butter
Cheese
Cheese, Processed
Ice Cream
Ice Milk
ACIDIFYING NUTS & BUTTERS:
Cashews
Legumes
Peanut Butter
Peanuts
Pecans
Tahini
Walnuts
ACIDIFYING ANIMAL PROTEIN:
Bacon
Beef
Carp
Clams
Cod
Corned Beef
Fish
Haddock
Lamb
Lobster
Mussels
Organ Meats
Oyster
Pike
Pork
Rabbit
Salmon
Sardines
Sausage
Scallops
Shellfish
Shrimp
Tuna
Turkey
Veal
Venison
ACIDIFYING FATS & OILS:
Avacado Oil
Butter
Canola Oil
Corn Oil
Flax Oil
Hemp Seed Oil
Lard
Olive Oil
Safflower Oil
Sesame Oil
Sunflower Oil
ACIDIFYING ALCOHOL:
Beer
Hard Liquor
Spirits
Wine
ACIDIFYING OTHER FOODS:
Cocoa
Coffee
ketchup
Mustard
Pepper
Soft Drinks
Vinegar
ACIDIFYING DRUGS & CHEMICALS:
Aspirin
Chemicals
Drugs, Medicinal
Drugs, Psychedelic
Herbicides
Pesticides
Tobacco
ACIDIFYING JUNK FOOD:
Beer
Coca-Cola
Coffee
