That's why I created an adjusted version (Keto - Alkaline ™) of the ketogenic diet, which juxtaposes a ketogenic diet's many benefits with a focus
on alkaline foods.
Whether you're focusing
on alkaline foods or doing a traditional ketogenic diet, these five hacks will optimize and upgrade your plan:
Not exact matches
All recipes here are fairly easy to make, so long as you have a good
food processor, and are focused
on alkaline, rather than strictly vegan,
foods.
The
alkaline diet is based
on the idea that the
foods you eat can affect the acidity or alkalinity (the pH value) of your body.
On the other hand, eating fresh,
alkaline - forming
foods like vegetables, vegetable juice, nuts, seeds, most legumes, water and some fruits, helps to strengthen the body and keep it healthy.
The almond milk is very alkalising (most western diets are way to acid forming bringing our bodies PH level down below 7.0 which causes havoc
on the body) drinking almond milk and eating lots of plant
food helps balance that acid and bring the ph back to its prime
alkaline state of 7.3.
We can increase the percentage of
alkaline foods by choosing to eat them first, and never skipping out
on them when we have the chance.
Start by focusing
on eating the
foods on the «
alkaline» list.
Before shifting dietary focus into ketosis, my patients focus
on alkaline - rich
foods, eliminating many problems ketogenic diets potentially create like bad breath and constipation, helping them easily stay in ketosis.
You don't have to read far into my Teacher's book
on Yogic nutrition to find out that eating
alkaline foods is essential to healing and health.
The
Food & Chemical Effects
on Acid /
Alkaline Body Chemical Balance chart (online at AACHRT.PERQUE.COM) show which foods are acid - forming and which ones are alkaline -
Alkaline Body Chemical Balance chart (online at AACHRT.PERQUE.COM) show which
foods are acid - forming and which ones are
alkaline -
alkaline - forming.
Note that when the body digests
foods, depending
on their mineral and organic composition, their by - products may be acidic, neutral or
alkaline.
Most earlier
food charts report acid or
alkaline based
on the physical mineral «ash» the
foods produce
on combustion in a closed chamber.
In the Diabetic Acid -
Alkaline Food Chart given below
foods are grouped in four categories depending
on their glycemic index GI:
Being our body design the more a product is
alkaline - forming the better it is for our health;
on the contrary the more a
food is acid - producing, the worse it is.
For more details
on the acid -
alkaline properties of the foods, see the Acid - Alkaline Food
alkaline properties of the
foods, see the Acid -
Alkaline Food
Alkaline Foods Chart.
A very important advance and difference in the approach taken here is that the
foods listed in the
Food & Chemical Effects
on Acid /
Alkaline Body Chemical Balance, are based
on the total effects they have
on body chemistry.
Snacking
on nutritious smoothies or juices is an excellent way to increase your fruit and vegetable intake and ultimately increasing your
alkaline rich
food intake as well.
There are also many non-caloric (not energy providing) components of the
food we digest and these also exhibit effects
on the body.An area that has garnered some interest recently, especially in complementary medicine and holistic nutrition fields is that of the acid - base (or acid -
alkaline) balance of the
foods that we eat.
Food can be analysed for its net effect
on the body's acid -
alkaline balance using a measure known as Potential Renal Acid Load or in short it's PRAL score.
The preference for fresh (no preservative) fermented
foods over supplements was highlighted and also, he touched
on alkaline water being beneficial over all.
The truth is that the body naturally leans slightly
alkaline and has a tightly regulated system for maintaining optimal pH. In fact, the
foods (or water) you ingest may have a temporary effect in pH
on urine or saliva, but will have little to no effect
on your blood pH.
What I understand from what I have read is that yes your body does keep the the blood pH value at a very narrow range but if you eat a lot of
foods that are acidic then your body will take minerals such as calcium from bones and teeth to restore the
alkaline balance and over time this has a detrimental effect
on health.
Depending
on the type of
food that we eat the metabolic «ash» will either have a net acidic or net
alkaline effect
on our bodies.
His famous «Dr Hay diet» is based
on awareness of the fact that some
foods we consume require an acidic environment for digestion, while others require
alkaline enzymes.
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.
Our healthy cells thrive
on alkaline, oxygen - rich, plant based
foods including leafy greens, wheatgrass, sprouts, sea weeds, veggies, and fruit.
All
foods that we digest release an
alkaline ash (bicarbonate) or an acid ash into blood and tissues of the body depending
on the mineral compounds that the
foods contain.
Alkaline foods form the basis of any «hair growing diet,» and should be first
on the list of things you eat everyday if you want thick, strong hair all the way into later life.
Putting a larger emphasis
on plant
foods has a tremendous impact
on ensuring that your diet is
alkaline favoring.
Each
food that we eat has a net acidic and
alkaline affect
on our body, because when the
food is metabolised there is a kind of «metabolic ash» that's left over.
According to the molecular structure of its minerals,
food supposedly has either acidic or
alkaline effect
on body fluids.
This makes a diet based
on acid -
alkaline food balance generally (remember, there are always exceptions) supportive of the optimum health.
Opinions
on the importance of acid -
alkaline food balance, from various sources, range from «critically important to health» to «totally irrelevant» and «quackery».
With that in mind, here is how the acid -
alkaline effect of
foods is determined, when based
on their mineral residue alone.
Thus, establishing desirable proportion of
alkaline vs. acidic
foods based
on the mineral residue alone
Funny enough,
on the Bulletproof diet which is full of bad acid forming
foods, I actually was borderline to
alkaline which technically if you believed all the mumbo jumbo about acid
alkaline balance wouldn't be possible.
Re acidity, first I would say that there are many
alkaline forming
foods on PHD, such as most vegetables.
Years of research into the health benefits of an
alkaline diet, combined with expert advice
on how to cook up a super-healthy storm — all without compromising your enjoyment of eating fine
food!
Carrots are a high -
alkaline food that is famous for improving eyesight based
on their vitamin A content.
Kiwi is a high -
alkaline food your cells won't want to miss out
on, because it also contains a plethora of antioxidants, vitamins and minerals.
The recipes are vegan and also focus
on acid -
alkaline balance and raw
foods.
I have seen people who have been
on raw
food approaches for years become hyper -
alkaline by removing all salt from the diet developing digestive difficulties.
The nutrients in
food have either an acidic or
alkaline effect
on the blood.
Anti-inflammatory
foods like those found in abundance
on the «Plant Bases Diet» can help make the body more
alkaline, and this includes pomegranates.
He had put me
on an organic raw
food diet to alkalinize ny system and advised me to drink only
alkaline water.
While this has yet to be proven, she noted, following the rules of an
alkaline diet — going easy
on sugar, salt, processed
foods, and excess animal protein and eating more plant - based overall — is a «natural route to healthier eating.»
Cats
on a vegan diet can develop abnormally
alkaline (high pH) urine due to the more
alkaline pH of plant based proteins in comparison to the acidic pH of meat - based
foods which cats have evolved to eat.