Are You Eating Enough Alkaline Foods to Maintain Vital Health?
In the last 200 years since industrialisation of agriculture, there has been a considerable change in the net acid load in the human diet, and a huge reduction in alkaline food consumption. Overall, the human diet contains less potassium (alkaline) than sodium (acidic), and more chloride (acidic) than bicarbonate (alkaline). The ratio of alkaline to acidic foods in the human diet has almost completely inverted. The result is a diet that may induce metabolic acidosis, and for sensitive individuals, this may result in negative health outcomes.
Allergic reactions and other forms of stress also tend to produce acids in the body, meaning that our environments (both internally and externally) can contribute to metabolic acidosis. The presence of high acidity indicates that more of your foods should be selected from the alkaline food groups. NatMed practitioners can assist you with biochemical analysis of your blood to diagnose metabolic acidosis, and can then help you to restore healthy acidity levels through nutrition and supplementation. Reach out to our friendly and professional staff to learn more about how we can help you achieve optimum performance through an alkaline diet.
This chart provides information that shows the contribution of various food substances to the acidifying of body fluids, and ultimately, to the urine, saliva, and blood. In general, it is important to eat a diet that contains foods from both sides of the chart.
People vary, but for most, the ideal diet is 75 percent alkalizing and 25 percent acidifying foods by volume.
