Alkaline Diet

You might have heard of people trying to do an ‘alkaline diet’, here is some info on what that is all about: 

In order to warn off disease, we want to avoid having an ‘acidic’ internal environment in our bodies. e.g. Cancer cells thrive in an acidic environment and die in an alkaline (pH 8+) environment.

What creates acidity in the body? All the usual bad stuff: stress, refined sugars, processed food, living a sedentary lifestyle etc. 

Dairy and meat are alkaline right? No, actually the high sulphur, protein and amino acid content increases sulphuric acid formation in the body, creating a net ACIDIC effect. This sulphuric acid formation lowers the blood pH, so the body draws calcium out of the bones and into the blood to counteract this, and this calcium is excreted in our urine. Again, dairy is NOT a good source of calcium!

Fruit and veg, which are acidic pre-consumption, actually have an alkalising effect on the body - they contain organic acids which are metabolised by the body and our gut bacteria to become alkaline. They also have lots of alkaline minerals like magnesium, calcium and potassium which also contribute to their net alkaline effect.