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snowdrop
05-30-2007, 04:59 PM
:rolleyes:
ok, sarcasm just doesn't suit.
seriously:


http://www.care2.com/greenliving/2238.html

Balance Your Health with Food

Adapted from The Acid-Alkaline Diet for Optimum Health, by Christopher Vasey, M.D. (Inner Traditions, 2003).

Most industrialized societies eat an acid-producing diet, and an overly-acidic system has been blamed for everything from depression, insomnia, and fatigue to cancer. Fortunately, simply making a few dietary changes can balance our acidity and help us toward more radiant good health.

Find out which foods to avoid, and which can help you to feel better, right here:

Eat FEWER of the following ACIDIFYING FOODS:

Meats, seafood
Eggs, strong cheeses, animal fats
Peanut oil, hardened oils (margarine)
Whole grains and refined grains: wheat, oats, millet
Grain products: bread, pasta, cereal flakes
Leguminous plants: peanuts, soybeans, white beans, broad beans
Sweets: white sugar, pastry, chocolate, candy, jellies and preserves
Oleaginous fruits: walnuts, hazelnuts, pumpkin seeds
Commercially manufactured sweet drinks, especially sodas
Coffee, tea, cocoa, wine
Condiments: Mayonnaise, mustard, ketchup

Eat MORE of the following ALKALIZING FOODS

Potatoes
Green vegetables, raw or cooked: salad greens, green beans, cabbage and so on
Colored vegetables: beets, carrots (except tomatoes, which are acidifying)
Corn (kernels or cooked as polenta)
Milk (liquid or powdered form), large-curd cottage cheese, cream, butter
Bananas
Almonds, Brazil nuts, Chestnuts
Dried fruits: figs, dates, raisins (excluding those that are acidic to the taste, like apricots, apples, pineapple)
Alkaline mineral waters
Almond milk
Black olives preserved in oil
Avocado
Cold-pressed oils
Natural sugar

eatyourbroccoli
05-30-2007, 06:07 PM
i have a hard time believing powdered milk is better for you than tea, and that butter/cream are better for you than walnuts/pumpkin seeds :rolleyes:

the articles almost getting it though.

"green vegetables"
"colored vegetables"

apparently green isnt a color. ;)

dreamrawalwz
05-30-2007, 07:01 PM
apparently green isnt a color. ;)

Hehe, that made me laugh :p

Yea, I have a hard time believing milk in any form is alkalizing!
I also thought any sugar was acidifying.

Rossk
09-02-2007, 02:40 PM
Millet is actually alkalizing

StarFire
09-02-2007, 02:45 PM
Snow... thanks for starting my morning off with a chuckle.... Hey... gotta hand it to them... at least they're trying!!!


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Noone
09-03-2007, 07:50 AM
Tomatoes are acidic outside the body but alkalising inside.

Noone