thChronic hyperacidity – how can basic diet help.
Alkaline diet or pizza?
Every meal that you eat is broken down in our body. Usable is used Useless knocked out. This is called metabolism. Suppose you eat a pepperoni pizza – a very good example of a highly acid-forming meal.
The pizza consists mainly of flour, cheese, sausage, and tomato sauce. In addition a considerable number of artificial additives such as flavor enhancers, stabilizers, preservatives, acidity regulators, etc.
All of these ingredients are extremely acid-forming. This means when digested in the body it builds a lot of acids.
Unfortunately, these acids can not be easily excreted, they must be neutralized because the corrosive properties would harm the cells.
This is done with the help of the body’s basic buffer substances such as sodium bicarbonate or with alkaline minerals such as calcium, potassium, and magnesium, which our body needs on a daily basis.
We sacrifice a huge amount of these valuable minerals for the metabolism of a pizza!
Acidification leads to mineral deficiencies.
Why an alkaline diet?
Meals and drinks that are acid-forming such as pizza, we eat and drink several times daily. And often are minerals in a modern body in short supply.
The result is a flood of acids in the organism. Large quantities of buffer substances and minerals are needed to neutralize all of the incoming acids. The body tries desperately to keep his acid-base balance.
But with Pizza, we do not get nearly as many minerals, as the organism for the neutralization of these acid needs. Where to take from?
The body needs to plunder its own mineral deposits. From the bones, he gets mineral from the teeth, from the scalp, from the blood vessels, or from the organs.
The risk is long term serious damage such as tooth decay, varicose veins, hair loss, osteoporosis, brittle nails, intervertebral disc disease, arteriosclerosis, etc. But the body has no other choice to keep alive. Our body needs a balanced alkaline diet.
The blood must remain basic, no matter what otherwise it results in acidosis and this may lead to an early death. It needs a basic diet
This is generally the now common diet: coffee, toast, and jam or eggs with bacon for breakfast, pasta and lunch meat and bread with sausage or cheese for dinner, and a lot of carbonated drinks and sugar-rich sweets in between.
Acidification makes you fat
At the same time, the body creates as many fat cells as possible. Grease is great for the storage of acids or their waste products and protects the vital organs from the harmful acids.
So you are possibly not fat, but just too acidic!
And unless you are too acidic, sustained weight loss often remains an unfulfilled desire.
In an overly acidic condition, a diet is not only useless but also not intelligent. You would take your organs Bodyguard away and expose them to the harsh acids.
With a basic diet the pounds often melt away automatically.
Acid overloaded organs
If the acids are neutralized, they have to be eliminated by the kidneys, the skin, the intestine, or the uterus ( with the monthly bleeding). But because of the large amount of acid, this happens often not completely with the usual diet
Without a basic diet, the excretory organs are overloaded and the waste products are stored in the body. Only when we offer the body the opportunity during a detox, for example, the waste can be eliminated.
Acidification and its consequences
If acids remain in the body:
They clog blood vessels ( atherosclerosis), leading to high blood pressure with all its consequences.
Also, they accumulate in the fine vessels of the retina and cause a need for stronger glasses.
They embed themselves in the scalp and let your hair fall out.
In addition,they form kidney, gall, and bladder stones.
They block joints and lead to pain and arthritis, osteoarthritis, gout, and rheumatism.
The skin gets wrinkles and age spots and cellulite can occur.
Acidification attracts bacteria and fungi.
If you are too acidic, it is also just as if you call all the “bad ” microorganisms.
It is not the bacteria or viruses, its us.
Because we made our own acidity. Nowhere, bacteria, viruses, fungi, and other harmful microorganisms feel as comfortable as in an acidic environment.
So you will often have colds and suffer from flu-like infections and inflammation of the sinuses. You will also have skin rashes, allergies, and headaches.
Fungi such as Candida albicans will ensure you bloating, vaginal infections, fatigue, cravings sweets, excessive appetite, and blood sugar fluctuations.
If you are too acidic, your immune system can work only at half strength. Diseases of any kind – infectious diseases, chronic diseases – than are normal.
Health can only develop in a body with acid-base balance from an alkaline diet.
Good acid agents for example :
Millet, cereals like quinoa, amaranth, buckwheat
Organic cereals, for example, spelled, Kamut or barley in small quantities – ideally as a seed sprout.
Nuts, legumes, Cocoa powder in high quality, best in raw food quality,
In reasonable quantities high-quality animal products from organic agriculture, for example, organic eggs or fish from organic aquaculture
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Hi Erika. Thanks for sharing this information. I don’t think I have ever read anything about a basic diet in this way.
Have a great day. Monna
Hi Monna ,
this is why I wanted to write about,
there is too much misinformation out there.
Thank you Monna
Thanks Erika. I knew that foods like Pizza and other highly acidic foods aren’t good for us but I did not know what an impact they have on so many aspects of our long term health. I did not realize that acidic foods are not good when trying to lose weight, even if they don’t contain too many carbs.
Hi Sue ,
there is too much miss information out there
and sometimes it is not easy to find out what is right,
because one day they say fat is bad ,now they say it is
good ,but we never hear something about how the body really
works together and what it does with what we eat .
Most people get to know about ,when they get really sick.
Prevention is easier ,when we know .
Thank you for the comment
I know well the benefits of an alkaline system. I drink Kombucha tea every morning for 20 years now and it has been keeping me healthy. Thanks for sharing this great information.
You do good with this and I think it is not
very difficult to eat right ,what is necessary is
to understand what a balanced diet is and what to avoid.
Thank you Diane
I know my diet is too acidic, and it’s wonderful to think that I can lose weight by changing just that. Thank you for this very helpful series of blog posts!
Hi Willena ,
It really works ,I have not gained weight
and can wear dresses I had years ago.
Only gain a bit over winter ,which I get rid of with my
millet diet .which is easy to do ,I hope to get the book finished soon.
Thank you
As the alkaline diet is becoming more popular so as gluten free, the emphasis on eating more fresh and plant based foods is here stay.
Hi Nate,
yes I think we all should take more care and go for more vegetables
and less fast food and sugary drinks .
This would solve a lot of health problems.
Thank you
All this information is laid out really well Erika … it is important that people see how their diet is directly related to their health, and changes in diet will improve illness and diseases. Thank you
Jacs 🙂
Thank you Jacs ,
it is said we are what we eat 🙂
Erika,
Great article.. I try to watch what I eat because I know throwing the PH balance off in your body can be harmful… great discussion, thank you
Thank you Lesly
we can keep healthy ,if we know how our body works.
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