Eating healthy in this day and age can indeed be quite difficult
with all of the temptation that is out there today, but it is having the
determination and the will-power to stick to it that will see you
through. As mentioned in the title of this article, there are five types
of acidic foods to stay away from, each of which will be discussed as
followed.
We will be covering each of these types: dairy, meat and
poultry, processed and frozen foods, refined sugar and products made
with refined sugars and beverages. This article provides the latest
information on 5 highly acidifying foods:
Acidic Food # 1: Dairy Products
The different types of acidic dairy foods include butter, cheese, cream, custards, eggs and yogurt.
Dairy
foods are filled with hormones, pesticide residues, microforms,
mycotoxins, and saturated fats. Layer on top of all those goodies milk
sugar (lactose) that breaks down like any sugar and feeds harmful
microforms.
Cheese and yogurt are made by fermentation. And dairy
is the leader of all foods in forming sticky mucus. It is highly
acid-forming. Furthermore, pasteurization destroys the beneficial
enzymes milk starts out with.
Acidic Food # 2: Meat and Poultry Products
Of this category, there is meat, chicken, beef, shellfish, goat, lamb, pork, rabbit meat and turkey.
Meat
and poultry and their by-products are highly acidic foods. The animals
feed on stored grain and pass along all the associated problems in their
meat.
There is a strong correlation between animal protein and
several kinds of cancer, particularly breast, thyroid, prostate,
pancreatic, endometrial, ovarian, stomach, and colon cancers. Studies
show that people who get 70 percent of their protein from animal
products have major health difficulties compared to those who get just 5
perfect of their protein that way. Besides, animal foods are simply
dead.
Acidic Foods # 3: Refined, Processed and Frozen Food Products
Which
is pretty much anything that is frozen, like frozen peas, carrots,
broccoli and also the frozen mixed vegetables, not to mention take out
meals or frozen meals. But it also includes many foods you may not have
considered, such as canned soup, chips, cookies, doughnuts and just
about anything you can get at fat food restaurants. Refined, processed
and frozen foods are loaded with sugar, salt, artificial coloring and
flavoring, additives, preservatives, and butter, margarine, or
hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated (hardened) vegetable oil - and
deficient in fiber. All these types of foods are acidifying.
Acidic Food # 4: Refined Sugar and Artificial Sweeteners
Majority
of people in the US is getting more than the 149 pounds of sugar a
year. Did you know that you body needs only two teaspoons of blood sugar
at any tie in order to function properly? This amount can be easily
obtained through the digestion of unrefined carbohydrates, protein and
fats.
Refined sugar, as tempting as it may be in all those cakes,
candies, and cups of coffee, is, in fact, more of a pharmaceutical drug
than it is a nurturing food. The minerals needed to digest sugar -
chromium, manganese, cobalt, copper, zinc, and magnesium - have been
striped from the sugar during the refining process. This, in turn,
forces that body to deplete its own mineral reserves to process the
sugar.
Acidic Food # 5: Beverages
Alcohol, coffee, black tea, sodas and concentrated juices all have a negative effect on your body's pH level.
All these products produce a lot of acid and a lot of mucus.
All of these acidic foods
can affect the pH balance in your body in a very negative way. A
healthy human body is slightly alkaline measuring 7.4 approximately.
This ideal blood measurement means that it is slightly more alkaline
than acid.
Many people wonder why they lack energy and feel so
sluggish all the time. We wonder why we can not seem to lose the weight
that we want to and why some of us have poor digestion. When our pH
level is out of whack our bodies reflect it like this.
The human
body has to have a balanced pH like any other living thing or it does
not function properly. The alkaline level is important because as
research has already proven, diseases can't survive in an alkaline
state. But they will live in an acidic environment.
An acidic
environment will decrease your body's ability to absorb minerals and
other nutrients. It decreases your body's energy production and limit
it's ability to repair damaged cells. It's ability to detoxify heavy
metals will be limited also. It will also make the body more susceptible
to fatigue and illness.-By
Christina Baker
