The Alkaline Diet Menu – How It Can Help

by admin on September 9, 2010

Even though there are many factors that can alter your body's acid-alkaline balance, the most important one is an alkaline diet menu. In this article, I will discuss top five foods to steer clear of on the alkaline diet menu.

1. Soft Drinks

Soft drinks are loaded with sugar, which is very acid-producing. These drinks also contain phosphoric acid, making them even more acidifying. Besides, they're full of empty calories, but no nutrition. Although energy drinks, sports drinks, and vitamin waters may have a healthier image than regular soft drinks, they're just as acid-producing.

2. Coffee

Coffee is very acid-producing, partly because it contains caffeine, a substance that has a number of harmful effects on your health. If you drink several cups of coffee a day, you will probably be miserable if you go off of it abruptly. Remember, caffeine is a drug, so withdrawal symptoms are to be expected. But you can make the process easier on yourself by slowly replacing coffee with green tea.

3. Alcoholic Beverages

Nearly all alcoholic beverages are acid-forming. According to one study, the typical American drinks 28 gallons of alcoholic beverages per year. Considering that most people already get too many calories from sugar, white flour, and other nutritionally empty foods, adding alcohol in addition to everything else is just making things worse.

4. Dairy Foods

When you pile dairy products on top of a diet that is already loaded of acid-producing meat, grains, and sugar, you end up making it impossible to create an alkaline body. True, dairy products are loaded with calcium. But there are other sources of this important mineral, including calcium-rich plant foods and mineral supplements.

5. Fast Food

Run through the ingredients in a cheeseburger: There's fatty meat, fatty cheese, a white-flour bun, tomato, and a few shreds of lettuce. Believe it or not, all of those ingredients are acid-forming, except for the lettuce and the sesame seeds on the bun. But those aren't nearly enough alkaline-forming ingredients to make up for all of the acid-forming ones.

As you can see, an alkaline diet menu doesn't have to be overwhelmingly complex. Eliminating or even just cutting back on the five foods in this article will go a long way toward helping you to quickly create an alkaline diet menu.


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