Alkalinizing the Body
The body uses two major groups of substances — acid and alkaline. To be healthy, it needs both. When you have these two in equal amounts, a balance is achieved. The degree of acidity of a substance is measured by its PH. Alkaline foods are more gentle substances. A 7.39 PH is where the body operates in perfection. When alkalinity is too high or when acidity is too high, imbalances are created. Due to poor dietary choices, many people these days are too acidic. You can do simple daily tests to find out where you are in terms of alkalinity. Most health food stores sell PH test strips that use either saliva or urine to indicate PH levels.
How to Become Alkaline
Too much acidity in the body robs the blood of oxygen. Without sufficient oxygen, the body suffers. To keep your body alkaline rather than acidic, eat plenty of high-quality healthful fats (omegas) and focus food choices around green vegetables. It is also important to keep your body sufficiently hydrated with charged water. There are many good brands of water ionizers on the market with new technologies being developed every day. A water ionizer provides high-PH water.
Eating a High-Alkaline Diet
Eating high alkaline foods gives the body more opportunity to be healthy, while high acidic foods do not. Choosing a balance of foods that create an alkaline body will cause a healing atmosphere in the body. Acid Foods are foods that when digested in the body form an acid substance in the system. Alkaline Foods are foods that when digested in the body neutralize acids in the system.
High alkaline foods include:
Apples, apricots, avocados, bananas, beans, beets, bran, broccoli, brussel sprouts, cabbage, cantaloupe, carrots, cauliflower, celery,cherries, coconut, corn, cranberries, cucumbers, dates, eggplant, flaxseed, garlic, grapefruit, lemons, lentils, lettuce, limes, mango,milk, mushrooms, mustard greens, okra, olives, olive oil, onions, parsley, parsnips, dried peaches, peas, pineapple, potatoes, sweet potatoes, pumpkin, peppermint, red radishes, raisins, spinach, squash, raw tomatoes, turnips, vegetable oils, watercress and watermelon.
Some acid foods include:
Barley, beef, blackberries, butter, cashew nuts, cereals, cheese,chestnuts, chicken, chocolate, soda, clams, cocoa, cottage cheese,corn, milk or cream, eggs, flour white and wheat, gooseberries, grapes, halibut, ham, hazelnuts, hominy, honey, horseradish, lamb, macaroni, maple syrup, milk (condensed), molasses, oatmeal, peaches, peanuts, pecans, plums, pork, raspberries, rhubarb, rice, rutabagas, sauerkraut, salmon, scallops, sole, spaghetti, strawberries, sugar (white), syrup, tapioca, tomatoes cooked, turkey, vinegar (cider), walnuts, wheat germ.
