The Acid-Alkaline Diet for Optimum Health
By Christopher Vasey, ND
The Acid-Alkaline Diet for Optimum Health: Restore Your Health by Creating Balance in Your Diet by Christopher Vasey, ND, which answers -- (1) how to know if you have an acid problem, (2) how to alter your diet to reduce acidity, and (3) how to neutralize and eliminate acids -- is the ideal companion to his book, L' équilibre acido-basique.
Instead of categorizing foods based on their chemical compositions, Vasey accounts for them according to their alkalizing or acidifying effect on the body. To make this point, he quotes from the renowned P.V. Marchesseau, also a French nutritionist and naturopath, who said, "Food has no intrinsic value. The only value it possesses comes from the digestive tract that receives it" (p. 50). He further clarifies this idea with the example that grass is useful for cows but not for humans.
Vasey defines three main ways that acidification stresses and damages the body -- (1) it disrupts enzymatic activity, (2) it causes inflammation and lesions and hardens tissues, and (3) it steals reserves of alkaline minerals from the body's tissues to neutralize acids.
Among the many problems that acidification and its teammate, demineralization, set the stage for are dry skin and wrinkles, weak, dull, falling hair, brittle, splitting nails, bleeding gums and oversensitive teeth susceptible to dental caries, loss of flexibility of joints, osteoporosis, spontaneous fractures, rheumatism, and sciatica, in spite of good hygiene and the belief that one is eating nourishing foods.
The person with an over acidification problem also loses drive and vigor, becomes exhausted easily, and does not bounce back from exertion readily. In addition, the person may be irritable, suffer from insomnia and too many worries, and even depression.
The author details how to determine your acid-alkaline state, describes measures to use to deacidify the body, categorizes foods as -- acidifying, alkalizing, and acid -- according to their "effects on the body rather than their intrinsic qualities" (p. 49). In addition, he sets forth eight rules for an acid-alkaline balanced diet -- four ways to choose foods to be sure of the proper quantities of acidifying, alkalizing, and acid foods -- and four more rules for people whose metabolism of acids is compromised for any reason.
(1) Always include some alkaline foods in your meals.
(2) At each meal, choose proportionately more alkaline foods than acidifying foods.
(3) Those who have heavily acidified internal environments should choose proportionately even more alkalizing foods.
(4) Limit the time of a diet consisting of only alkaline vegetables to one or two weeks, for it is too lacking in protein.
(5) Never eat a meal consisting only of "acid" foods.
(6) Acid and acidifying foods must match the person's abilities to metabolize them.
(7) Avoid consuming acid foods too quickly together at the same meal.
(8) Eat acid foods only "when the body is ready to receive them" (p. 68).
If you are plagued by any of the disorders or discomforts ranging from lack of energy to dry skin or from falling hair to arthritis, which Christopher Vasey, ND -- noteworthy naturopath and detoxification expert -- describes as having their origin in an acidified internal environment; and his list of food selection rules intrigues you, then you will want to dash to read The Acid-Alkaline Diet for Optimum Health at your first opportunity to learn all you can to improve your health.
Linda Davis Kyle, Reviewer
Midwest Book Review
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