Alkalizing your body can help you improve your health and reach your ideal weight. One of the ways to alkalize your body is to reduce the amount of acidic foods you eat. The best place to start is to reduce or eliminate the amounts of highly acidic foods you eat.
The theory of alkalizing your body was developed by Dr. Robert Young. He maintains that virtually all modern health problems are caused by an acidic diet and lifestyle. One of the ways the body deals with too much acid is to store it in fat cells leading to many people being overweight because of too much acidity in their body.
Your body needs to maintain a pH of 7.35. Acidic foods have a lower pH. Your diet will naturally have foods with higher pH and foods with lower pH, but if you can reduce or eliminate the lower pH foods, your body will be able to alkalize better.
For most people, animal protein (meat) is a big part of their diet. It is also one of the most acidic forms of food you can eat. Reducing the amount of animal protein that you eat will go a long ways towards alkalizing your body. The least acidic form of animal protein is fish.
Dairy products are another common type of acidic food that many people eat. Dairy products contain lactose which breaks down into lactic acid when digested. In general, cheeses are the most acidic while soy milk and goat milk are less acidic.
Sweeteners are very common in almost every food and are also highly acidic. When you eat sugar and other sweeteners like corn syrup, whatever isn
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