Rockridge Press - Essential Alkaline Diet Cookbook: 150 Alkaline Recipes to Bring Your Body Back to Balance

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Cant wait to get started?
Follow these five quicksteps, and youll be on your way to improved health and delicious eating. Cant wait to get started?
Follow these five quicksteps, and youll be on your way to improved health and delicious eating.

QUICKSTEP ONE Get out your blender, food processor, and other fun kitchen gadgets. Youre going to use them! QUICKSTEP TWO Look in the pantry, the refrigerator, and the freezer to see what you already have on hand. Make a list, so youll know what you have and what you need. QUICKSTEP THREE Choose a recipe that appeals to you and also uses ingredients that you have on hand. QUICKSTEP FOUR Make a recipe! Try a smoothie, dessert, or quick snack. Let your taste buds be the judgeyoull see how delicious this food really is.

QUICKSTEP FIVE Go through the rest of this book and identify five recipes you want to try first. Be forewarned, it will be tough to choose only five!

PART ONE
Getting Started CHAPTER 1
Alkaline Diet Basics CHAPTER 2
Thirty-Day Meal Plans PART TWO
The Recipes CHAPTER 3
Smoothies Galore CHAPTER 4
Balanced Breakfasts CHAPTER 5
Baked Delights CHAPTER 6
DIY Snacks CHAPTER 7
Meal-Size Salads CHAPTER 8
Bountiful Bowls CHAPTER 9
Mighty Main Dishes CHAPTER 10
Delightful Desserts CHAPTER 11
Kitchen StaplesCondiments, Sauces, and Dressings T hink of a time when youre woken up in the middle of the night with a bad case of indigestion. It feels like your stomach lining and esophagus are burning. You know the pain is from an overabundance of acid, so you take an antacid. The antacid neutralizes the acid in your stomach by regulating the acid-alkaline balance. The burning pain stops and your body returns to normal.

But what happens if you have an acid imbalance in another part of your bodya part that doesnt give you a painful warning signal? How would you know your body is being damaged? Unlike the burning feeling of indigestion, if your blood or urine is too acidic, you wont necessarily know it. Your body could have too much acid right now, and youd have no way of knowing until it shows up in the form of a disease or illness. Although the human body has an amazing ability to regulate the acid-alkaline balance in the blood through our lungs and kidneys, it takes a toll. If those organs are busy fighting an overabundance of acid in order to keep a normal acid-alkaline balance, then theyre less likely to be fighting off other problems. The human body is designed to be slightly alkaline, and at one time it was. Over the course of human evolution, there have been considerable changes in the acid load in our diets.

Back in the hunter-gatherer days, there was no Starbucks, or fast-food drive-through. We didnt drink wine or beer, or eat triple-meat pizzas and chili-cheese fries. Our modern societies have caused the human diet to become imbalanced. The proportion of potassium to sodium is reversed, and we dont get enough magnesium or potassium. We eat too little fiber, and too much saturated fat and refined sugar. Add that to a diet high in animal protein, and its a recipe for disaster.

These foods cause an overabundance of acid in our bodies, which many health professionals suspect can lead to disease. The Essential Alkaline Diet and Cookbook has two goals: To educate and inform you about which foods in your diet are acidic. To offer 150 recipes demonstrating how easy and delicious it is to reduce or elimi nate acidic foods and switch to an alkaline diet. The Alkaline Diet has a number of health benefits, including improved bone health, lowered cholesterol and blood pressure, improved cardiovascular health, improved memory and cognition, and better-functioning kidneys. People following this diet tend to lose weight, and feel better. Its a low-sodium, low-sugar, low-fat, high-fiber, antioxidant-rich diet that also happens to be delicious.

Plus, you wont be waking up in the middle of the night from acid indigestion!