Sophie Barnes - Eating Alkaline: 50 Easy Recipes for Clean and Healthy Eating to Naturally Trim Excess Fat

Eating Alkaline

50 Easy Recipes for Clean and Healthy Eating to Naturally Trim Excess Fat

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I f you stood in front of my bookcase, you would see a great collection of books across many genres. You would then stumble on the little self-help section and worry about my sanity for a moment or two, I suppose. Finally, you would find the diet book graveyard where good intentions go to die. Like the extra ten or twenty pounds I find it so hard to shake off I cannot seem to let go of those books for some reason as if I will pick them up a month or two down the road and be struck with the realization that I had done that one little thing wrong, and now it all made perfect sense. Um, sorry but no. That is not how any of this works. Fad diets, no matter how nicely they are packaged and no matter which celebrity, pseudo-celebrity or TV quackster they have to endorse it, do not work. They may help you lose a few pounds in the beginning when you are still in the excited, my goodness, this could work phase but then you pass through to reality, and you fail or rather, the diet fails you. Its not your fault.

You see, the human body is complex, far more complex than what it is given credit for. We call it our machine and while on some level we fuel it and it goes like a machine there are other considerations that have to be kept in mind as well. That is the problem with all of these quirky little fad diets. They take one major thing and focus on it and forget about the hundreds of little things that are every bit as important.

I will admit it. From the title of this particular book you are about to read you would think that it is just like all of the rest, preying on your fears and weaknesses, telling you little bits of sciency-sounding stuff and then trotting out weird rules that no one could ever hope to follow in the real world. Sorry to disappoint you but this is not going to be the case at all! In fact, lets dispense with the formalities right here and now:

This is not a diet book per se however once you start incorporating more and more of these recipes in your regular day to day eating you might find that you feel better, and maybe that helps you make some other changes.

This is not so much a book about the actual alkaline diet. You can find a ton of information about the actual acid/alkaline diet online, and it is interesting, but this is just going to hit the main points and then move on.

This book is not about getting the absolute strictest level of perfection going on here. The Alkaline diet has something like 10 levels with 10 being the top tier, the so-called perfect level which I would imagine is for elite athletes and supermodels who depend on being flawless for their livelihood. That level is pretty much vegan, all raw foods all of the time and sounds like one of the rings of hell to me. Lets you and I stick to one of the lower levels, shall we?

I am only going to briefly cover the concept of food combining with you and then I will probably break some of the rules with the recipes I give you. I am saucy like that.

Are you ready to dig in with me?

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I n this chapter you will learn:

The basics of the alkaline diet

The basics of food combining

Y ou might remember from middle school science class that all things are either acidic or alkaline. The interesting thing about the alkaline diet is that foods you would think are acidic may change in composition once they are broken down in the body. For instance, citrus fruits like oranges and lemons are okay because while they are technically acidic, they are alkalinizing in the body.

Some foods break down faster than others. We all probably realize that. You know that a bite of watermelon is pretty much already done for by the time you have swallowed it since it is basically water. Other foods are much more difficult to digest- and some will be already pushed through much of the digestive system before they are processed correctly. That is why some meals make you feel heavy and sluggish for hours after you eat them and why other meals may leave you feeling like you have had nothing at all within minutes of eating.

The body can do a fairly decent job of neutralizing acid in most cases. The problem comes in when there is so much acid in the system that the body is overloaded, and the organs cannot process it all. Unfortunately, the typical Standard American Diet (SAD) is riddled with all of the problems that the alkaline diet is meant to address. For instance, one of the principles is not to eat two animals in a meal which means that a cheeseburger (cheese plus meat) would be a no-no. Food combining rules say that you cannot eat an acid fruit plus a protein so the average breakfast of eggs, bacon, and orange juice would also be ruled out.

Personally, I know of very few people who eat that particular breakfast every day, so it is not likely to be that serious of an issue for most. For the most part, the alkaline diet is the clean diet or the vegetarian/vegan diet or the raw food diet with some minor changes. You minimize or eliminate animal products, change the way that you eat fats and increase the produce dramatically. Its really that simple.

W ithout getting into the fairly complex rules that I mentioned the premise behind food combining can be summarized like this: you eat certain foods together, and you eat certain foods separately and some foods you just completely avoid. Dairy is one of the things that the diet suggests avoiding completely. There are a lot of studies that suggest there is no benefit at all for an adult to be drinking milk while others say that drinking milk is perfectly fine as long as you feel no discomfort. Others suggest that people are lactose intolerant and just do not even know it yet. While science hammers these details out, you decide for yourself if you want a glass of milk or if you would like to make a change to one of the non-dairy alternatives. Here are some of the easier to breakdown rules: