Alkaline Diet

When we are looking to alkalize our diet one of the most effective options that we can pursue is to drink more fresh fruit and vegetable juice. I use a Magimix le Duo juicer on a daily basis to create things like carrot, orange and ginger juice and apple, spinach and ginger juice. It is easy to consume four, five or even six portions of fruit and veg in one juice. Of course, making a juice actually removes all the fiber. This is the juice pulp that is thrown away. However with it does leave you with is a drink that is dense in nutrients, minerals and vitamins.

So the question becomes, what type of juicer would be best suited to your needs. Personally I am a big fan of centrifugal juicers like the Magimix le Duo and the Breville BJE200XL machine. This is because they can help you to quickly make a great tasting fruit and vegetable juice. On top of this they are also fairly easy to clean up after use.

The main issue regarding purchasing your own juicer is to ensure that you actually use it. It would be a big waste of money to buy one with grand hopes but then just letting it sit in a kitchen cupboard. There are a lot of great points to owning your own juicing machine. These include your own health benefits; economic benefits; and environmental benefits. Some pretty large claims for a simple juicer!

Let me be clear about what I mean. When you own your own juicer you will be able to make your own nutrient rich fruit and vegetable drinks which is good for your health. Once you have purchased your own juicer all you then have to buy is the fruit and vegetables that you want to juice. This can be cheaper than purchasing ready made fruit and vegetable drinks. Further, environmental benefits include the fact that the only waste is fruit and vegetable pulp that can be used in the garden.

The Juice Fiend provides an interesting Magimix le Duo review that you may find interesting.

The alkaline diet is primarily concerned with pH balance of the body and overall well being. By eating a better ratio of alkaline to acid foods than the typical Western diet we are able to keep our body in a better state of balance. As alkaline foods are mainly fruits and vegetables it is apparent that the more of them we eat the healthier we will likely become. However how useful a diet is this for people interested in weight loss?

If you want to know how to lose weight with the alkaline diet this article will provide some suggestions as to how this can be achieved. The alkaline acid diet is not a calorie controlled diet. Rather it focuses on what we eat as opposed to how much we eat. Eating plenty of fruits and vegetables in our diet has  many positive health effects upon our bodies. It helps with digestion and keeping our bowel movements regular. The alkaline diet makes us feel more alive. By eating more living foods we provide our body with abundant nutrients. This diet also helps with our powers of concentration and makes us more able to focus. On top of that, alkalising the body may also help with disease prevention. It has been shown that an alkaline rich diet has beneficial effects upon our bones.

So while the alkaline diet is great for helping us to feel healthier and more alive it is not specifically aimed at helping us to lose weight. Personally my aim is not to actually lose weight but as I am interested in weight training and fitness, I want to put weight on! Again though, this diet does not explicitly help with that either. To gain weight eating more protein is helpful but alkaline foods contain more water, vitamins and minerals than fats and proteins. So to me it is a kind of calorie neutral diet. As in the alkaline diet alone does not promote weight loss or weight gain.

For people interested in feeling and becoming healthier while at the same time lowering overall body weight I am sure the alkaline diet could be used successfully. The same sort of principles used in any calorie controlled diet would need to be followed. Swapping out acid foods like fatty meats and proceed grain products and eating alkaline foods such as healthy fruit and vegetables would increase the amounts of health giving nutrients being consumed while at the same time likely reducing the amount of calories consumed. This would have the double effect of reducing the amount of calories consumed each day and feeling better because the foods eaten are also better for us.

Becoming healthier is also about exercising and this is also a very important factor in losing weight in a healthy fashion. Taking exercise appropriate to existing fitness levels while getting enough sleep and eating a healthy alkaline diet could be a great way to lose weight.