Archive for May, 2009

alkaline food dietary changes

As I progress with my alkaline acid diet it is becoming clear that eating more alkaline foods while at the same time reducing my acid food consumption is going to involve giving up meat. Possibly to the point of becoming a vegetarian. Even though meat is an acid food I love it too much to [...]

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coffee – acid or alkaline food?

The conflicting information available online about the alkaline acid diet means that you might have difficulty determining whether coffee is an alkaline food or an acid food. Despite the fact that I originally believed it was an acid food and actually decided to stop drinking coffee based on various alkaline acid food charts I had [...]

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acid foods

To move away from an acid diet and improve pH balance it is necessary to know which foods are acid foods. A scientific paper by Remer and Manz published in 1995 provides details of foods and food groups and how they affect pH balance. Reading their report is an excellent way to find out about [...]

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acid diet

How scientific is the alkaline acid diet? The main ideas that the acid diet suggests are straight forward. We should increase the amount of fruit and vegetables we eat while also reducing the amount of low quality nutrition acid foods in our diet. So what are these poor acid foods? These are foods that have [...]

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