All foods, like your body, have a pH balance between acidity and alkalinity. According to Dr. Tim O'Shea, quoted on the website Healing Cancer Naturally, the foods you eat can alter your body's acid-base balance. The lower your pH, he explains, the more acidic your blood is, and subsequently, you have less oxygen available for your body. If your body is in a state of being too acidic, eating alkaline foods can help to restore the delicate balance and allow your body to excrete toxins that have accumulated in the tissues. Check with your doctor before making significant dietary changes.
Vegetables
Vegetables that fall on the alkaline side of the pH scale include cruciferous vegetables like broccoli and cabbage. Mushrooms, celery and eggplant are also considered alkaline vegetables, according to Healing Cancer Nutritionally. In fact, most vegetables are alkaline, rather than acid, so choosing any except white asparagus tips, dried beans, chick peas and lentils will more than likely provide your body with an alkaline vegetable. Seaweeds like kelp and wakame and mushrooms like shitake are alkaline foods that also have healing properties, according to Aklaline Foods Online.
Fruits
Like vegetables, there are far fewer acid fruits than alkaline fruits. In order to avoid acidity, avoid eating fruit preserves, fruits canned in a sugar syrup, fresh, frozen or canned cranberries, dehydrated and sulphured or glazed fruits, olives in brine or vinegar, plums, prunes and blueberries. Dr. Jeffrey Warber, on the website Dr. Jeff Health Center, explains that canned fruits are at the most acidic end of the pH spectrum, with sulphur-free figs and raisins at the alkaline end.
Proteins
Alkaline proteins include almonds, acidophilus milk, buttermilk, whey protein and raw milk. Meats like beef, poultry, fish, shellfish, pork and gelatin are all acidic foods, according to Healing Cancer Naturally. Other dairy products like butter, cream, margarine and cooked, canned or dried milk are also acidic.
Grains and Other Foods
All grains and foods made with grains are considered acidic, according to Healing Cancer Naturally. Amaranth, quinoa, buckwheat and millet are considered to have either a neutral pH of 7 or are alkaline. Coffee substitute that is made from agar, a type of seaweed, is alkaline. For sweetening, honey is an alkaline condiment. Herbal and Chinese teas and egg yolks, but not the whites, are also alkaline.
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