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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 research it further before dismissing it. Here's a simple question. If you're body is "neutral" at this moment, meaning pH balanced, and you drink a neutral substance like pH balanced water, what happens to the body? Nothing, it the body maintains it's neutrality right? Simple.
Now, lets say that you drank a fluid that was acidic, like lets say pH 5.5. Your body would want to maintain balance so what would it do with that? Well it would try to neutralize that pH balanced liquid from 5.5 to 7 right? How would it do that? Well, it would take alkaline particles from it's storage, like lets say calcium or magnesium from the bones and use it to neutralize the acid right? You said yourself that if the body deviates from it's pH balance (which is 7.36 for the blood), it would go into shock and die.
Bottom like is that you can't continue to feed the body acidic foods and expect the body to continue to neutralize them indefinitely with alkaline materials that it doesn't have.
I've been studying the Alkaline diet since 2003, and nutrition for the last 2 years. I totally believe it works and there is a lot of scientific evidence that the diet works. Almost every single one of the text books I got with my nutritionist courses mentions alkaline/acid diet balance in them.
Oh, also, since I've gone on an alkaline diet I lost 4.9lbs of fat in the first 5 days and I feel great, and I don't feel hungry etc.