Not exact matches
Plant based
foods are
alkaline and neutralize acid so do your best to consume
less man made stuff and eat more natural, whole
foods.
Have you written about the popular topic in holistic nutrition circles regarding the acid /
alkaline balance and the notion that most people need to consume more alkalinizing / catabolic
foods and
less acid - forming, anabolic ones?
Its roots can be traced through Ayurveda right back to ancient Hindus, while the Hay diet of the»20s (named after physician William Howard Hay) separated
food into categories — acidic and
alkaline — with an emphasis on consuming more of the latter and
less of the former.
In the primitive races I have found practically no difference between the acid balance meat diet of the isolated Eskimos of the far north and the
less acid vegetable and milk diet of other groups as efficient factors in the control of caries... our bodies have a mechanism for maintaining proper acid and alkali balance in the blood and this varies through only a very narrow limit whether the balance of the total
food eaten is acid or
alkaline.»
While it may
less to do with
food mineral acidity itself, maintaining acid /
alkaline balance is, in fact, healthful, because it places you within the boundaries of a generally healthy diet.