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Originally Posted by beautyscientist  I thought I had heard it all, but this alkaline diet is a new one on me.
This whole concept really is nonsense. Your body adjusts to maintain itself at the pH it needs to be. We have evolved over millions of years to cope with the food we eat.
If you ever did succeed in altering the pH of your body via your diet, which would take some doing, you would probably kill yourself.
I suggest you drop this notion straight away. |
I suggest you listen better.
It's not about trying to make you body alkaline. You are right the body does regulate the pH very well. But how does it do that? It uses minerals from your bones. Hello, osteoporosis. So, in other words if the food one eats makes one's body work to get pH where it should be, then one is stressing the body and it takes it to a certain degree. But there is a point at which the losses are too great and a casscade of issues start to happen.
I don't think we have evolved to eat the so called "food" we find in the processed food isles. It's mostly dead stuff that hasn't been around us humans long enough for any kind of evolution to tolerate that junk. Did cave men eat Captain Crunch? Canned food that has preservatives? The typical modern food fare is full of acidic producing food, to an imbalance, unless one is eating lots of salad and fruits as the main source, and meats, cheese, processed,preservered, dead things as side dishes. Humans evoled on food that was not so heavy on sodium (acidic for the body), and had way more potassium (potassium is alkaline helping) Now a days the typical diet is way into the salt zone without much potassium to balance that.
The pH Nutrition Guide to Acid / Alkaline Balance page 0 - Introduction
By the way, Steve's Jan 2008 30 day raw food experiement is probably a very alkaline diet. It has a much higher potassium to sodium ratio.