Reena Gagneja - The Alkaline Diet Guidebook - Boost Your Health and Lose Weight Naturally: Extensive List of 400+ Alkaline & Acidic Foods & 10 Essential Alkalising Tips

In the 19th century, the French biologist Claude Bernard discovered that changing the diet of rabbits from mainly plant (herbivore) to mainly meat (carnivore) changed the rabbits urine to being more acidic. Subsequently scientists built on his findings.

In 1933, the concept of pH imbalance was published by a New York doctor called William Howard Hay in his ground-breaking book, A New Health Era. This New York doctor said that all disease is caused by autotoxication, or self-poisoning, due to acid accumulating in the body. In his words:

Now we depart from health in just the proportion to which we have allowed our alkalies to be dissipated by introduction of acid-forming food in too great amount... It may seem strange to say that all disease is the same thing, no matter what its myriad modes of expression, but it is verily so. - William Howard Hay, M.D.

More recently, in his remarkable book Alkalize or Die , Dr. Theodore A. Baroody basically says the same thing:

The countless names of illnesses do not really matter. What does matter is that they all come from the same root cause...too much tissue acid waste in the body! - Theodore A. Baroody, N.D., D.C., Ph.D.

You can read more about what other doctors have said about pH balance regarding cancer later in this book .

More recently a host of alkaline-related diets emerged (eg the alkaline ash diet and the acid alkaline diet), whose popularity has recently taken off after many celebrities took it up. Many nutritionists are now stating the benefits of this diet for weight loss, and for helping health issues and diseases such as improving energy levels and memory, preventing headaches, bloating, heart disease, arthritis, muscle pain and insomnia.

Despite the growing interest in balancing the bodys pH for good health and disease prevention, the medical profession remains divided about the alkaline diet. Needless to say, you wont do any harm if you are sensible as the alkaline diet is in line with general healthy guidelines eating more green vegetables and less meat and processed food for example. But in order to undertake it properly an understanding is needed of which foods are alkaline and which acidic, as it is not always obvious. For eg, lemons are acidic outside the body but once ingested they become alkaline.

At the same time, some alkaline diet advocates would even go so far as to say that the single most important measurement for your health is the pH more vital even than blood pressure, cholesterol count, blood sugar, hormones and calorie count. Whether this statement is true or not, the fact remains that eating alkalising foods is a key factor in balancing our health. For the alkaline diet is really a common sense diet.

To help you to balance your pH level, this book will guide you through all the information you need in order to become inspired to improve your diet easily and consistently. It will help you make those changes gradually yet powerfully with your eye on your long-term health.

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