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10 Kick Acid Tips for Great Health
Did you know that too much acidity in your body can cause pain, weight gain, fatigue, and other health problems? Or, that high protein “weight loss” diets can be harmful to your health due to their high levels of acidity? Even glands and organs can be impaired from excess acidity in your diet and lifestyle. Based on my book, The Ultimate pH Solution, here are 10 ways to conquer excess acidity to start feeling great:
1. Buy a Sack of Lemons
If you run only one errand today, make it a trip to your local health food or grocery store to buy a sack of lemons. Yes, a sack. Once you get home, squeeze the juice of half a lemon into a tall glass of water and drink immediately. This one step will help you to quickly reset your body chemistry.
2. Load Up on H2O
Drink at least 8 more cups of water throughout the day, preferably with lemon juice added to each. Lemon juice breaks down acid waste in your body and restores your blood and tissues to slightly alkaline levels.
3. Breathe Deeply
Take a few deep breaths. Oxygen will not only energize your brain but it will quickly help to balance the chemistry of your cells — and healthier cells mean a healthier body.
4. Take a Walk
Boost your oxygen levels even further by bundling up and heading out for a brisk walk. Exercise helps to quickly oxygenate your body. More oxygen in your blood means its better equipped to nourish every organ and tissue, which increases energy, mental clarity and moods.
5. Turn to Peppermint Tea
Instead of reaching for a caffeine jolt from acidic coffee, or cola, drink some peppermint tea. Research shows that peppermint provides a quick boost of energy that won’t send your energy levels plummeting a few hours later.
6. Eat Your Veggies
Make vegetables the focal point of your lunch and dinner meals. If you absolutely hate broccoli, don’t take it out on the entire veggie kingdom. Who wouldn’t enjoy some delicious mashed sweet potatoes or rich guacamole?
7. Take an Almond Break
Snack on raw, unsalted almonds every few hours. Not only are they loaded with calcium, magnesium, protein and other important nutrients, their high fiber and protein content help to stabilize blood sugar levels.
8. Smoothie Nation
Enjoy a delicious smoothie instead of a sugary snack or breakfast. Start with some almond milk and add frozen berries, half a frozen banana and a heaping teaspoon of green powder like barley juice, spirulina, chlorella, wheatgrass, or other green food supplement.
9. Go Green
Eat at least one large salad a day but be sure to avoid store-bought dressings full of rancid oils, preservatives, additives, and sugar.
10. Take a Cue from Vegetarians
Cut back on your meat consumption. Choose beans, fish, or raw nuts or seeds instead of acid-forming meat. Add beans to soups, stew, chili or wraps, or make them into delicious dips for a high-fiber, high-protein, high-nutrition source of energy.
Michelle Schoffro Cook, DNM, DAc, CNC is a best-selling and six-time book author and doctor of natural medicine, whose works include: The Life Force Diet, The Ultimate pH Solution, and The 4-Week Ultimate Body Detox Plan. Learn more about her work at: www.TheLifeForceDiet.com.
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add your comment »This is a good article for those of us who do things with citrus as i love lemons anyway.thanks.
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megan m:
The copy reads "Take a cue from Vegetarians. Cut back on your meat consumption." Then it goes on to recommend other sources of protein. I don't see any part of the article that makes the statement that vegetarians eat fish.
That said, I don't believe the author got anything "wrong". And whereas I appreciate your dissemination of educational information, I believe you would be a more constructive teacher if you taught with more class and less crass. But that's just my opinion. ...or as they say these days, "I'm just saying..."
Michelle Schoffro Cook: Thank you for the article.
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I have rosacea face skin condition. Citrus is one of my "trigger foods", as well as walnuts, red wine, red vinegar -- my face breaks out on the skin and inside my mouth ALMOST always when I eat these foods. My breakout then lasts for weeks -- so I pay a high price for a little trigger food. I can have basalmic, white, or rice vinegar with no problem. Any other suggestions besides lemons to combat my ph level? Thank you!
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i have been starting the day with juice of half a lemon for over 4 years now and check my acidity/akaline ph now and then .. it's better than it was when i started..eat a little meat after 30 years of vegetarian diet..lots of garden greens and fresh veggies .. growing my own. i really feel soy is not a great food..one of the best supplements is CoQ10..expensive but i have found a great source wholesale and direct from japan.. i have not been sick in all this time as well.. the lemon reflux comment should be addressed by someone who knows more than me but i understand when you digest acid like lemon the body reacts the opposite and becomes more akaline to compensate..blessings bob
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calamansi juice is a very good in our body because it help our body to metabolize...
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How does something acidic like lemons reduce acid? Sounds like a recipe for instant reflux to me.
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I put the juice and pulp of one and a half large lemons in a soup mug with some fresh basil leaves and some salad greens and a little sea salt. It stops hunger pangs completely. Tastes great, too. Vitamin C gives tons of energy and is also good for the skin.
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The fish part of the article was simply an error--a part of the article that was cut and pasted from another article. Based on some of the comments, I can only imagine that no one here ever makes mistakes!
Megan M.: Yes, I am familiar with the fact that fish have eyes and brains and don't constitute part of a vegetarian diet!!!!
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Bev,
Thanks for your kind comments! I'm glad you're enjoying The Life Force Diet and my Care2 posts.
Best wishes,
Michelle Schoffro Cook
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