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- Diana Herrington
- February 15, 2012
- 8:07 am
- 52 comments
In my quest for health, the most important thing I learned, in 1996, was the principle of creating a pH balance in my own body. This helped me regain my health more than any other food regime in my entire 39 years of looking for answers.
Doing this one simple thing will solve many of your nutritional worries. What you eat and how you live affects your acid alkaline balance. Here are 10 tips to create that balance in your body.
1. Eat lots of powerfood fruits and vegetables.
This is the one thing you can do that can make all the difference by helping balance out the body.
- Keep vegetables cut up in the fridge and have a big bowl of colorful fruit on your counter to snack on.
- Eat salad with your lunch and dinner; keep a salad made up in advance with all of the greens in it minus salad dressing, cucumbers and tomatoes, which you can add later.
2. Eat 80 percent alkaline foods, 20 percent acid foods by volume daily.
3. Chew your food well.
Saliva is alkaline and you can produce two gallons a day!
4. Drink 2-3 liters of pure water (not tap) per day.
Water alone can make all of the difference as many people are dehydrated keeping in all of the toxins which are acidic.
Drinking Water
5. Bodies function better with more oxygen. Breathe for more energy.
This will also help move the acids out of your body. Learn to breathe deeply into your abdomen. The best place to do this is in a yoga class. So that you can concentrate on your breathing with no distractions, lay down on your bed and breathe into your abdomen deeply and gently. Practice doing this every day till you are doing it naturally all day every day.
Read more: Diet & Nutrition, Eating for Health, General Health, Health, alkaline, alkaline diet, alkalinity
Diana Herrington
Diana Herrington turned a debilitating health crisis into a passion for helping others with healthy, sugar-free, gluten-free, eating and cooking. After testing and researching every possible healthy therapy on her delicate system she has developed simple, powerful principles which she shares in her recent book Eating Green and Lean, and as host to Care2 groups: Healthy Living Network and Healthy Cooking. She is the head chef at Real Food for Life, where she shares recipes and tips. Sign up for the Real Food for Life weekly newsletter or catch her on Facebook or Twitter (@DancinginLife).
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Just don't mix the baking soda and vinegar.
Some good ideas.
Thanks for the great ideas.
It's all in the genes and how they fight off the processed junk food we put in our bodies....
Merci de partager cet article. J'ignorais que certains éléments dénoncés…
52 comments
+ add your ownSo important to get your body in a more alkaline state.
Thanks for sharing!
But this should be one of the FIRST step out of many, we must not let our guard down!
Getting healthier is a lifelong pursuit!
Thank you the information and the great link!
I try to drink water w/lemon every day.
Thanks for all the advice.
glad to have something to do
Very good advice, thank you!
Thank you for sharing.
Having more oxygen doesn't actually affect your acid/base balance. What does affect it is having more or less carbon dioxide, the gas you exhale. Less carbon dioxide means less acid. More carbon dioxide, more acid.
It does, Heidi A. That’s what kidneys are for: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkaline_diet
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