Alkaline Diet Plan

Alkaline diet is not at all complicated as others think; many people have transformed their own health plus their family’s by closely following the principles of the alkaline diet plan.

Use basic knowledge you have learned from your great grandmother or mother – the principle of “less is more”.  The less process a food undergoes like cooking, peeling, steaming, microwaving, frying, etc. the more it preserves the good nutrients it possess.

Stick to fresh and raw green vegetables, drink green juices rather than powdered drinks or ready to drink juice mix; munch on roasted, unsalted nuts rather than those covered in chocolates, caramel or honey; snacks on citrus, fresh fruits without peeling their skin like apple, pears, peaches and avoid canned, chopped, processed fruits.  Decrease your intake of grains, processed white flour, bread, cooking oils as these food types are categorized as highly acidic.  Foods from animal sources are also high in its acid content such as red meat and chicken, likewise some seafood such as fish and prawns are also high in acid content.

Diets rich in this food type can cause acidosis in the human body.  Foods that are capable of retaining their alkali content comes from green drinks from vegetable extract like wheatgrass juice.  Green drinks from these vegetables retain high level of minerals and nutritional properties, it may not be appealing in look and taste but these packs anti-oxidants, omega-3 and are high alkali producing food.

Roots, nuts, legumes and tubers are foods capable of neutralizing the acid-forming foods.  Add to this list all herbal seasonings, a natural sweetener called Stevia are all considered alkali friendly foods.  If you like fruits choose wisely, focus on fruits that are low in natural sugar content.  Fruits having lowest sugar content are raspberries, blackberries, cranberries, lemon, lime and rhubarb while fruits with low to medium sugar content are strawberries, papaya, watermelon peaches, nectarines, blueberries, cantaloupes, honeydew melons, apples, guavas, apricots and grapefruits.

This alkaline diet is rich in alkali retention and producing effects claims to help maintain the balance of the slight alkalinity of blood without stressing the body’s regulators of acid-base homeostasis.