What Foods Cause an Acid State? What Foods Cause an Alkaline State?
How do we Alkalize our bodies to reverse and prevent disease?
As we talked about in Why Alkalize? An over-consumption of acid causing foods such as proteins, grains, sugar, processed and refined foods, coffee and Alcohol and an under-consumption of alkalizing foods leads us to a state of constant acidosis.
This state of constant overabundance of acid in our bodies leads to premature ageing, poor skin, hair and nails, disruption of our digestive system and further bone loss and dis-ease.
So how do we know which foods are causing our bodies the most harm and which foods help? How do we Alkalize our bodies and return to good health?
Acid Forming Foods vs Alkaline Foods
To start out you can view a list of Acid Forming Foods here and you can view a list of Alkaline Forming Foods here.
Each of these lists has three columns which indicate the high, medium and low foods. High Alkaline foods should be eaten in abundance, especially if you are currently in an Acid State. Some of these foods are Blackberries, Strawberries, Watermelon, Kale, Celery, Lemon Juice and Lime Juice and Pineapple.
Foods in the High Acid Forming Column should be avoided or severely minimized. Some examples of these foods are Alcohol, Soda(all kinds), Hamburgers, Hot dogs (meat and vegetarian), English Muffins, Soy Milk, White Bread, Cakes, Sausage, Cheddar Cheese and all fried foods. Check out the entire list of Acid Forming Foods and remove those in the High acid as quickly as possible to improve your healthy significantly.
Foods in the Medium Acid range should also ideally be eliminated or severely minimized in your diet. A few examples of these foods include coffee, aspartame, saccharin, Chicken, Salmon, Rye Bread and Wheat Crackers.
Foods in the Low acid can be consumed if they are consumed with Alkalizing foods, but they should not be the primary foods of your diet.
Once you look over the list of Acid forming foods you will want to substitute those foods with Alkaline Forming Foods. Alkaline Forming foods should be eaten in abundance. These foods should also ideally be eaten in their Raw and unprocessed Form. You can learn about why our diet should be primarily Raw by reading Why are we so unhealthy today?
If you are currently suffering from any sort of chronic dis-ease state, whether that is Cancer, Diabetes, Arthritis, Heart Disease or any other discomfort then I highly recommend moving rapidly to a high fruit diet. Melons, Berries and Citrus fruits are the most cleansing and alkalizing and will assist your body in a rapid return to health.
If you would like to learn more about The Acid/ Alkaline Balance and its effects on health I highly recommend the following books:
If you are interested in seeing what your bodies current PH is you can get these test strips:
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