QuestionHi Good day,
I am female of 24 yrs.
I want to set my body's PH to alkaline.
Pls cnfm which vegetables/fruits or any thing common available on this earth should I use.
Pls guide.
Bst rgds. samin
AnswerDear Samin/Sajid,
I can give you a list of acid/alkaline foods. It is also about combinations and above all the organic processes. Some people only eat chocolate cake and their blood will not measure a high PH. But they will be poorly nourished and develop ailments in the long run.
Know that never using acidic foods would be unhealthy. As always it is about balance. The PH value of your blood is a number. It may reflect what you have ingested, but it is most dependent on the condition of your organs and your processing system. This is not simply made clean and set to tip top shape by selecting merely alkaline foods.
Your body is supposed to keep a right PH level, even when ingesting meat or eggs. But a balanced body will protest against an imbalanced combination: eggs and beans and toast and mashed potatoes all together would be very acidifying (and you'ld feel weary and stuffed after such a meal. But eggs on their own with a slice of brown toast (if butter on toast: boiled egg; if fried egg no butter on toast) you will be eating a very healthy meal that will not tax a fit and healthy body. Just have predominantly alkaline meals around this combined meal.
Muesli with milk, for example, will be listed as acidifying: milk can be heavy on systems otherwise exposed to predominantly acidifying food; but milk is a vitalising and warming, and earthing product. Yoghurt is fantastic and almost foolish to exclude from your diet. But if you are not awake to eat you breakfast, you won't digest it properly and then "acidic" processes will take place. Half the problem lies with people not chewing properly.
When you are ill, your body will naturally veer towards 100% alkaline meals. Really, your body knows what to eat; A healthy body will go 50-50 in a selection from the list. The list is just a guide-line for modern man grown a bit dim by the rat race of becoming anything but himself. Generally steer clear of processed foods, sugar, salt,saturated fats, addititives and chemicals from production(pesticides). Choose wholewheat over refined. Eat lots of fruit, but not smoothies/juices. Berries, apples, kiwis, pommegranate, dried fruits are especially good for building up healthy blood! Just don't overdo it on the very sweet fruit (mango, banana, peaches etc). Citrus fruit is cooling and contains a lot of actual acid (not acidifying) which can damage your teeth (enamel).So don't over do it on the lemon juice, either!
If alkaline/acid awareness can steer you towards healthy eating, than begin to study this grouping below, so as long as you remember to think holistically. Aside the terms alkaline/acidic there are terms of warming, cooling; astralising/etherising/grounding. Know you have three parts to feed, upper and lower pole and middle region. These parts are systems which need a variety of products specific to their predominant roles (resp. thinking, willing, feeling). For this you have to know there is a very marked difference between a carrot and a potato; peanuts and hazlenuts; not just coined by alkaline/acidic.
Smell and taste food properly. Select on colour and different shapes, try to sense their innate qualities, their specific goodness or challenges (tomatoes and peppers may be alkaline, but they emport other challenges to your system). Appreciate methods of seasoning/spicing up and know how different cooking methods alter the foods in different ways (sometimes acidifying/alkalising a product).
Do bear in mind it is a fairly academic table: olive oil (e.g.) listed under alkaline is still a fat, while sunflower oil under acid is a fine poly-unsaturated oil which can be used as happily, if as sensibly as olive oil. Cocunut oil should only be used if it grows locally, because it is not an environmentally friendly product. (There are always more things to consider than at first sight when you think in terms of a number - PH, this as a reminder that your question is a very isolated one).
Good luck with the list below,
with kindest regards, Evelyn
ALKALINE FOODS
Vegetables
Asparagus
Artichokes
Cabbage
Lettuce
Onion
Cauliflower
Radish
Swede
Lambs Lettuce
Peas
Courgette
Red Cabbage
Leeks
Watercress
Spinach
Turnip
Chives
Carrot
Green Beans
Beetroot
Garlic
Celery
Grasses (wheat, straw, barley, dog, kamut etc.)
Cucumber
Broccoli
Kale
Brussels Sprouts
Fruits
Lemon
Lime
Avocado
Tomato
Grapefruit
Watermelon (is neutral)
Rhubarb
Seeds, Nuts & Grains
Almonds
Pumpkin
Sunflower
Sesame
Flax
Buckwheat Groats
Spelt
Lentils
Cumin Seeds
Any sprouted seed
Fats & Oils
Flax
Hemp
Avocado
Olive
Evening Primrose
Borage
Coconut Oil
Others
Sprouts (soy, alfalfa, mung bean, wheat, little radish , chickpea, broccoli etc)
Hummus
Tahini
Drinks
Fresh vegetable juice
Water
Herbal Tea
Vegetable broth
Non-sweetened Soy Milk
Almond Milk
ACID FOODS
Meats
Pork
Lamb
Beef
Chicken
Turkey
Crustaceans
Other Seafood (apart from occasional oily fish such as salmon)
Dairy Products
Milk
Eggs
Cheese
Cream
Yogurt
Ice Cream
Others
Vinegar
White Pasta
White Bread
Wholemeal Bread
Biscuits
Soy Sauce
Tamari
Condiments (Tomato Sauce, Mayonnaise etc.)
Artificial Sweeteners
Honey
Drinks
Fizzy Drinks
Coffee
Tea
Beers
Spirits
Fruit Juice
Dairy Smoothies
Milk
Traditional Tea
Convenience Foods
Sweets
Chocolate
Microwave Meals
Tinned Foods
Powdered Soups
Instant Meals
Fast Food
Fats & Oils
Saturated Fats
Hydrogenated Oils
Margarine (worse than Butter)
Corn Oil
Vegetable Oil
Sunflower Oil
Fruits
All fruits aside from those listed in the alkaline column.
Seeds & Nuts
Peanuts
Cashew Nuts
Pistachio Nuts
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