Balance Your Health with Food

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Balance Your Health with Food Adapted from The Acid-Alkaline Diet for Optimum Health, by 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. SIMPLE SOLUTION: Find out which foods to avoid, and which can help you to feel better, right here: Eat FEWER of the following ACIDIFYING FOODS: Meats, seafoodEggs, strong cheeses, animal fatsPeanut oil, hardened oils (margarine)Whole grains and refined grains: wheat, oats, milletGrain products: bread, pasta, cereal flakesLeguminous plants: peanuts, soybeans, white beans, broad beansSweets: white sugar, pastry, chocolate, candy, jellies and preservesOleaginous fruits: walnuts, hazelnuts, pumpkin seedsCommercially manufactured sweet drinks, especially sodasCoffee, tea, cocoa, wineCondiments: Mayonnaise, mustard, ketchup Eat MORE of the following ALKALIZING FOODS PotatoesGreen vegetables, raw or cooked: salad greens, green beans, cabbage and so onColored vegetables: beets, carrots (except tomatoes, which are acidifying)Corn (kernels or cooked as polenta)Milk (liquid or powdered form), large-curd cottage cheese, cream, butterBananasAlmonds, Brazil nuts, ChestnutsDried fruits: figs, dates, raisins (excluding those that are acidic to the taste, like apricots, apples, pineapple)Alkaline mineral watersAlmond milkBlack olives preserved in oilAvocadoCold-pressed oilsNatural sugar Suzi What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. health/ http://suziesgoats.wholefoodfarmacy.com/ http://360./suziesgoats

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