acid_alkaline

Max Drake MNIMH
medical herbalist

Acid Alkaline Diet

This can cause some confusion. By acid-forming foods we are not referring to acid-tasting foods such as grapefruit and lemons. In fact these 'acidic' foods have an alkaline effect on the body. Acid-forming foods leave an acidic residue in the body The blood has to be kept within a very narrow range of acidity. If we eat too many acid-forming foods, then the body uses up valuable minerals including calcium trying to remove excess acid from the body, This puts a strain on the body generally which can lead to a slowing down of elimination and a build up of acid in the body. This 'over acidity' is implicated in many degenerative illnesses.

The following conditions could benefit from an acid/alkaline balanced diet: Arthritis, Gout, Kidney stones, Osteoporosis and others

A healthy diet should comprise of 70% Alkaline foods and 30% Acid-forming food

Acid-forming foods (30%) :

Wheat, including bread and pasta and biscuits

Cereals including oats and rice and corn

Dairy products including milk and cheese
Eggs
Meat and Poultry
Fish and Seafood
Nuts (except Almonds)
Peanuts

Chocolate
Coffee

Alcohol

Tea
Sugar

Tinned foods

Many proccessed foods
Soft drinks
Fruit: Pomegranates, prunes
Vegetables: asparagus, horseradish
Pulses: eg. lentils

Alkali-forming foods (70%):

Most fruit and vegetables are alkali forming. The exceptions are listed under Acid forming foods,

The following are also alkali-forming:

Potatoes
Almonds

Goats Milk

Millet

Molasses
Seaweeds
Sunflower seeds
Fermented foods:
Live cultured yoghurt

Tofu

Soya sauce