Alkaline Ph Diet

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Alkaline Ph Diet
The name Alkaline is misleading because the body needs a balance between acids and alkaline (base).

Blood cells are supposed to have a negative charge on the outside with a positive charge on the inside. When the blood become acid, the outside charge changes and the cells start to clump together. Clumps cannot fit through capillaries. Your blood (plasma) needs to maintain a pH of 7.35 to 7.45 (slightly alkaline) for your cells to function properly.

Ph 7 is neutral (like water); Lower is acid; Higher is alkaline (base). The SAFE LEVEL of food consumption for Humans is pH 5 to pH 9.

Battery Acid has a PH of 1. Colas have a Ph of 2.3 to 3.5 range. You body has to work to prevent your blood Ph from falling too low. That is a simplified way of explaining why your body can get out of balance. But there is more gong on. The phosphoric acid in the soda decreases the amount of the HCl the stomach produces. If the HCl drops too low, digestion degrades and less minerals like magnesium and calcium are absorbed. So things get more unbalanced.

The Alkaline Ph diet is based on the theory that foods, when consumed, leave a residue (ash). Foods are classified as alkaline, acid or neutral according to the pH of the solution created with its ash in water. Proponents suggest adhering to an alkaline diet might prevent cancer, fatigue, obesity, allergies, as well as increase bone health.[1][2][3][4]

Ideal is 80% alkaline foods and 20% acidic foods on a daily basis. Many foods that appear acid become alkaline within the body such as citrus fruits. The Ph value of lemon juice is 2.2 - 2.4 which is very acid but lemons change in the body to alkaline. There are lists of foods according to whether it functions as acid or alkaline within the body.

Ph testing and the Alkaline Diet

worksheets to record your Ph testing This has a food list at the end of the worksheet. Alkaline Chart In all fairness, there are professionals that think the entire concept is flawed because the body in itself will buffer, etc to maintain its acid/alkaline balance. It is true that the body will pull calcium out of the bones to prevent too much acid. Any imbalance, too acid or too alkaline will cause illnesses. See the Book section below.

Blood PH Range
The body regulates the Blood pH to stay within the narrow range of 7.35 to 7.45, making it slightly alkaline.[5][6] Blood that has a pH below 7.35 is too acidic, whereas blood pH above 7.45 is too alkaline. Blood pH, partial pressure of oxygen (pO2), partial pressure of carbon dioxide (pCO2), and HCO3− are carefully regulated by a number of homeostatic mechanisms, which exert their influence principally through the respiratory system and the urinary system in order to control the acid-base balance and respiration. An arterial blood gas will measure these. Plasma also circulates hormones transmitting their messages to various tissues. The list of normal reference ranges for various blood electrolytes is extensive. Bones are especially affected by blood pH as they tend to be used as a mineral source for pH buffering. Consuming a high ratio of animal protein to vegetable protein is implicated in bone loss in women.[7]

The normal saliva pH range 6.4 to 7.4 pH when not eating.

worksheets to record your Ph testing This has a food list at the end of the worksheet.

Alkalizing Minerals:
Calcium: pH 12

Cesium: pH 14

Magnesium: pH 9

Potassium: pH 14

Sodium: pH 14

Green Foods and Green Tea are considered by many to be health tonic, super foods. Chlorophyll makes plants green. Structurally chlorophyll is similar to human blood. Chlorophyll is based on magnesium while red blood cells are based on iron. Magnesium is alkalining (Ph 9) and helps to oxygenate the body. This explains why green foods are alkaline. Mom was right, "Eat your vegetables."

Bioplasma

Some people use Cesium's high alkaline to combat illnesses such as Cancer.

Movements to Raw Foods or Vegen is a variation of the Alkaline Diet.

Books on the Alkaline Diet
Go to Amazon.com and search. There are too many to list and this site does not want to suggest that one is better than the other.

The following book is not the alkaline diet but instead a book written by a doctor who noticed a connection between too acid or too alkaline as health debilitating. It's a free download Google ebook.

Children, acid and alkaline

Outside Source
Jarvis's 1958 book Folk Medicine: A Vermont Doctor's Guide to Good Health (1958). New York: Holt.

Ph testing and the Alkaline Diet

Alkaline Chart

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