Weight Loss and Health Care

Alkaline Diet

The alkaline diet is a diet physiological, do not attack the body. Ideally, in life everyday, to strive for this type of diet. Achieving a cure for cleaning the digestive tract, restores healthy desires of the body and facilitates the envy of alkaline food.

The passage of food acid to an alkaline diet will vary according to how each person will more or less time: the goal is not to “change overnight” * all his habits, because in this case would be “a form of regime and shortly after the bad habits come back in force and it would be very damaging to the body.

* In special circumstances, including illness, it may be desirable to drastically change their eating habits.

Which foods are alkaline?

Green vegetables:
They give the body the minerals and trace elements. Their use should be preferred in case of tendency to tissue acidification. These foods contain little or no evidence acids, cons are very rich in alkalizing minerals.

* We must make maximum use of fresh vegetables and season.
* The use raw or cooked (cook steamed sweet “no pressure cooker!”).
* Eat at least 40% raw vegetables.
* Avoid cooking tomatoes in cooking as they become acidic.
* Used in the form of juice, vegetables are highly alkaline (but avoid carrot juice because they are very sweet).

We must differentiate unusual vegetables rich in carbohydrates from those containing many (creating acids during their assimilation). The following vegetables are rich in carbohydrates and it is advisable not to consume more than three times per week:
* Potatoes,
* Winter squash (pumpkin, squash …),
* Yams,
* Sweet potatoes. Read the rest of this entry »

Food acid

The human body has two essential components that enable it to dispose of waste acid resulting from its operation: it is the kidneys and lungs.

* Some acids are difficult to remove, and that the kidney will do so. This work is long and difficult and disposal is limited in quantity. We must therefore avoid overloading.
* Other acids are more easily removed, as they are transformed into a substance which has the property to “evaporate”. This form of disposal is restricted to the lungs. It is a job much easier than the previous one, which is coupled with respiration.

It is important to understand these mechanisms because it is an important key in practice:

* By the lungs are excreted acids called “volatile”, mainly from the degradation of plant proteins.
* Fixed acids “non volatile”, mainly from the degradation of animal proteins are eliminated by the kidneys.

Practical consequences: food meat is acidifying a vegetarian diet.

What foods are acid-producing?

The acid-producing foods are those containing substances whose catabolism leads to the formation of acid:

* This is the case of proteins (providing sulfuric acid, phosphoric acid, uric acid …). There is no question as to delete amino acids that are essential to provide proper functioning of the body but it is important to ensure the amounts absorbed (those provided by our current diet are far too important).
o amino acids from animal protein (meat, chicken, fish …) contain strong acids (sulfuric and phosphoric) and purine providing themselves acidic compounds (uric acid). They are highly acidifying.
o amino acids of plant proteins, including grains (whether complete or refined) are more easily eliminated (the lungs).
* Coffee (caffeine), black tea (caffeine) and cocoa (theobromine) are rich in purine, and are classified as acidifying foods.
* It is the same for white sugar, bleached wheat flour and its derivatives, fats processing … Read the rest of this entry »