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How to Alkalize your Body 7 Easy Steps for Healthy Digestion & Preventing Disease

Achieving Optimal Health can be as Easy as “Taking Charge” of your Lifestyle Daily Eating Habits!” I am not talking about “fad” diets, there is nothing better for improving your chances for longevity and prevention of disease than implementing changes to increase plant-based foods [also known as Alkaline Diet] such as vegetables, nuts, seeds and fruit that have an alkaline effect on your body’s systems.

It has been discovered by many Health Professionals that Disease is unable to manifest itself in an Alkaline Body.

Choosing a diet that is high in alkaline forming foods this will decrease your Risk of Disease Related Conditions such as heart failure, heart attacks, kidney stones, diverticulitis, arteriosclerosis, arthritis, diabetes & cancer. Let’s take a closer look at Nutrition, helping you to alkalize your body and become more mindful about the benefits of the foods you eat.

Mindful Nutrition

By becoming mindful about the foods you eat, how and when you eat them. Food becomes more than just something you use to overcome hunger.
It becomes your Best Friend by fueling your body with the right nutrients to become and stay well. You will then be able to look forward to a much more positive outlook to Aging.

Keeping your body in a Higher Alkalize state you will improve your PH levels, in doing this you then make it basically impossible for disease to take control. Allow your Body to Heal and Regenerate on a Daily Basis.

7 Easy Steps to Alkalize your Body with the Foods you Eat!

Proper fat metabolism and weight control – when the body is in its natural alkaline state, body weight and insulin production normalize. When you implement the foods that will alkalize your body, this will support your body in dropping excess weight. Many people lose weight just by eating more alkaline foods and adding alkalizing supplements to the diet.
Proper calcium utilization – the body will do ANYTHING to maintain a balanced pH, including leach important minerals like calcium, potassium and sodium from the tissues. To maintain alkalinity, the body first goes for sodium, then potassium, and then calcium. It literally leaches the calcium from your bones, making your bones porous and fragile. This is a major contributor to both osteoporosis and osteoarthritis.
Appropriate cholesterol levels balancing your pH help to maintain proper cholesterol levels so that plaque does not form.
Prevent cancer developing – cancer cells thrive in an acidic environment, and perish in an alkaline one. Cancer cells simply cannot survive in an alkaline environment!
Proper electrolyte activity and efficient heart function – Proper electrolyte activity is crucial to balanced energy levels.
Smooth blood flow – By including foods to alkalize your body this will help to remove plaque from the arteries, veins, and heart tissue.
Healthy oxygen flow – alkalizing the bloodstream flushes toxins from tissues and prevents against premature aging.

Excess Acidity Major Underlying Cause of Chronic Disease & Arthritic Conditions

Excess acidity occurs within the body due to an over consumption acid-forming foods and not enough alkalizing foods.
Some signs or symptoms you may be suffering from over acidity:
Pain, muscle soreness or stiffness, skin problems, indigestion, reflux, lethargy, anxious, headaches, sinus problems, elevated blood pressure, stomach cramps or pain just to name a few.

I want you to keep in mind that just because it is a acid forming food that it is not necessarily unhealthy of course unless it is highly processed and laden with chemicals, it is just that we need to keep the acid forming foods as a small portion of our diet say 20% if we are reducing acidity and 30 % if we are maintaining a healthy balance.

Many of our acid forming foods are vital for optimal health, it is a matter of balance of becoming mindful of what we eat and when. The majority acid forming foods are better for us if eaten between morning and mid afternoon, whereas it is beneficial if the majority of your alkaline foods are eaten mid afternoon to evening.

The reason being is that when you are sleeping your body goes into repair mode and if it is in an alkalize state your body will repair more efficiently when in an alkaline state and evening is when you are looking to retire and go to sleep. Improving your daily eating by incorporating these foods correctly is the beginning of helping your body to function optimally for you.

Here is the chart for you that you will find quite interesting as possibly what you may have thought were acid foods as such or alkaline foods is quite different to their effect within our body.

#Acid-Forming Foods (These can form 20 – 20% of Your Daily Eating Plan)

All meat (beef, pork, lamb, and chicken) and fish
Rice (white, brown, or basmati)
Cornmeal, oats, rye, spelt, wheat, bran
Popcorn
Pastas
Breads and most other grain products, such as cereals (hot or cold), crackers, and pastries
The following beans (unless sprouted, in which case they become alkaline-producing): pinto, navy, mung, lentils, black, garbanzo, red, white, adzuki, and broad
Cheese (Parmesan and sharper cheeses are the worst)
Sunflower and pumpkin seeds
Wheat germ
The following nuts: walnuts, pecans, cashews, dried coconut (fresh coconut is alkaline-producing), pistachios, macadamias, filberts, Brazil nuts, and peanuts
Soft Drinks
Alcoholic drinks
Coffee and other caffeinated drinks
Sweetened yogurt
Most forms of sweeteners (artificial sweeteners, cane sugar, beet sugar, barley syrup, processed honey, maple syrup, molasses, fructose, lactose)
Refined table salt
Dairy especially milk and hard cheeses are mostly acid forming
Soy sauce
Mustard (dried powder and processed)
Ketchup (unless natural and homemade)
Mayonnaise (unless natural and homemade)
White vinegar (apple cider and sweet brown rice vinegar are less acid-producing and preferred)
Nutmeg
Tobacco
Practically all drugs and pharmaceutical medications

Foods that Alkalize your Body (These are to form 70% – 80% of your Daily Eating Plan)

Practically all vegetables
Practically all fruits, except blueberries, plums, prunes, and cranberries. Even citrus fruits such as lemons, which we think of as being acidic, are alkaline-producing in the body. They are rich in organic salts, like citrates, which are converted into bicarbonates.
Beans such as string, soy, lima, green, and snap
Peas
Sweet Potatoes
Arrowroot flour
Grains such as flax, millet, quinoa, and amaranth
Nuts like almonds, pignoli, fresh coconut, and chestnuts
Sprouted seeds of alfalfa, radish, and chia
Unsprouted sesame
Fresh unsalted butter
Almond Milk
Raw Goat’s milk is slightly alkaline forming
Cottage Cheese
Eggs
Whey
Plain yogurt
Sweeteners like raw, unpasteurized honey, dried sugar cane juice (Sucanat), brown rice syrup
Fruit juices
All vegetable juices
Most herbal teas
Garlic
Cayenne pepper
Gelatine
Most herbs
Miso
Most vegetable and unprocessed sea salt
Most all spices
Vanilla extract
Brewer’s yeast
Most unprocessed, cold-pressed oils are neutral or alkaline-forming. (Even margarine seems to be neutral, but I don’t recommend this “liquid plastic.”)

Weekly Sample Menu Plan:

First thing in the morning have one lemon squeezed in warm water, then:

Breakfast:

#Mixed Berry Smoothie – ½ – 1 cup of berries, 1/2 cup Kale, 1 banana, rind of one lemon (full of bioflavonoids antioxidant properties), ½ – 1 cup of Paris Creek or Greek yoghurt

Other fruit you can include: rock melon, pineapple, apple or banana, You can include a tablespoon of LSA for extra fibre
½ cup of Almond milk
A Refreshing inclusion can be fresh mint

#Poached Eggs or Scrambled Eggs: with 1/2 – 1 cup of Spinach, 1 tomato, 1/2 cup mushrooms and some sliced onion on either spelt or gluten free bread

Lunch:

#Roast Vegies or Salad & Protein Stir fry some of your favourite vegetables—such as chopped Spanish onion, pumpkin cook your pumpkin longer than any of your greens, broccoli, zucchini these only need to be heated through,—drizzled with a good quality olive oil; make some whole meal couscous Combine these with a small tin of chickpeas and a handful of pine nuts.

In addition to the vegies, this meal gives you a serve of Complex carbs, these are your healthy carbs: such as whole grains, vegetables and nuts, a serve of protein and a serve of ‘good’ fats . Avoid Refined Carbohydrates these are the dangerous carbs that you are not meant to eat.
Changes to your lunch to alkalize your body, include a fresh dark leafy green salad with some chicken cooked the night before, or some salmon or other fish, other beans that are delicious are butter beans. Preparing your lunch the night before I have found to be the easiest, by say cooking some extra food at tea time. Sometimes I cook up enough Couscous for the week and just add different things to eat. As alternatives I also have wild rice, quinoa and brown rice.

Dinner:

#One serve of protein (portion size of protein-size of the palm of your hand) Non vegetarian choices includes: a portion of lean red meat : duck, kangaroo, pork, scallops, squid, turkey, veal, muscles, oysters, fish, or lean chicken breast. Vegetarian suggestions are 1 cup of Quinoa or Buckwheat, Goats curd, 2 tablespoons Chia, 1/2 cup of firm tofu. Serving these with at least four vegetables such as sweet potato, cauliflower, pumpkin, broccoli, kale, spinach, carrots, peas, cabbage etc.

#Alkalize with these Healthy Snacks during the day: can include non sweetened yogurt with fruit, 1 handful of roasted almonds you can include pumpkin and or sesame seeds. If you haven’t had a smoothie for breakfast then you may like to have an apple, banana or some other fruit during the day. Fruit is great to have between meals as this is better for your digestion.

#Last thing at night: This will alkalize your body whilst your sleep and help with preventing indigestion, heartburn. Either have a tablespoon of Apple Cider Vinegar or Swedish bitters or a teaspoon of Bi Carb in a glass of tepid water prior to bed.

In Addition

#Exercise is Great for Supporting Healthy Acid/Alkaline Balance – Especially getting out in the fresh air amongst the trees everyday for at least half an hour per day.
#Breathe deep from the belly up whilst you are exercising and drink at least 8 glasses or 2 – 3 600ml bottles of filtered water per day.

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How to Alkalize your Body – 7 Easy Steps for Healthy Digestion & Preventing Disease