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Friday, August 28, 2009

Food Alkaline, the way to go!

By Anthony Gutierrez

It is hard to tell if a food is acidic or alkaline. For example lemons are acidic but once they are digested they are basic or alkaline. For a balanced raw food diet it is important to eat a significant amount of alkalizing foods.

Spinach, kale, collards, mustard greens and broccoli, the first green leafy vegetables, are great alkalizing agents. Wild edible grasses are also alkalizing.

Fresh herbs (e.g. parsley, cilantro, basil, garlic) as well as grasses (e.g. wheat, barley grass); Sprouts; Sea Vegetables (e.g. kelp, nori, dulse, spirulina, blue green algae). Finally, medicinal mushrooms like shitake maitake and reishi are good to make the body more basic.

Life is all about balance. This universal truth is especially profound when speaking of body pH levels. Body pH is the human bodys need to stay at a certain pH level. Levels of pH are measured on a scale from zero to 14, in which zero is very acidic, 7 is neutral, and 14 is very alkaline.

A slightly alkaline level of 7.35-7.45 in the human body is where the blood must remain. Some of the body's other fluids are maintained at different pH levels to keep you healthy and maintain the blood pH. The cells and organs are constantly working and filtering what is eaten to sustain pH levels throughout the body.

Bacteria, viruses, yeast and other harmful organisms thrive when the blood system is more acidic. It is important that the pH is balanced for your total well being. If the pH balance is on the alkaline end of the scale it creates an uninviting environment for things that make you ill. Consuming more alkaline foods than acid foods is important and beneficial to your overall fitness.

As consumers learn more about nutrition, many are realizing that a specific ratio of alkaline foods to acid foods determines pH balance and overall health. Human blood registers about 7.4 on the pH scale, which means that it is naturally alkaline. In order to maintain this level, the body needs the proper balance of alkaline foods to acid foods. - 17274

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