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Health is Wealth: The Alkaline Paleo Diet for Prosperity
That, in essence, is the theory of acid and alkaline.
It is simple and straight-forward.
Fruits and vegetables are rich in alkaline elements like potassium, sodium, calcium and magnesium. So fruits and vegetables are actually alkaline-forming or alkaline foods. If we eat a lot of fruits and vegetables, our bodies become more alkaline.
Meat, eggs and other high protein foods produce uric acid when digested. High-protein foods are acid-forming.
What is important is the final outcome – whether a food is acid-forming or alkaline-forming, not whether or not it tastes acidic.
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Acid-forming foods include:
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Alkaline forming foods include:
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We need both categories of foods for good health, with slightly greater emphasis on alkaline-forming or alkaline foods.
One of the best alkaline foods is the Japanese pickled sour plum, umeboshi. It is reputed king of alkaline-forming foods, as it has very powerful alkaline-forming effects. Umeboshi was claimed to cure over a hundred different diseases. This may seem far-fetched if we think of a hundred diseases having a hundred different causes. If we think of them as basically caused by an acidic condition, then umeboshi could well cure all of them.
