The Alkaline Diet Menu - How Can It Help?

Despite the fact that many factors influence your body's acid-alkaline balance, the most important one is an alkaline diet menu. In this article, I will discuss top five foods to avoid on the alkaline diet menu.

1. Soft Drinks

These sugary beverages are high in sugar, which is highly acid-forming. They also contain phosphoric acid, making them even more acid-forming. In addition, they're full of empty calories, but no nutritional benefits. Although energy drinks, sports drinks, and vitamin waters may have a healthier image than colas, they're just as acid-forming.

2. Coffee

Coffee is exceptionally acidifying, in part because it contains caffeine, a chemical that can have several harmful effects on your health. If you drink several cups of coffee per day, you will likely be miserable if you quit abruptly. Caffeine is a drug, so withdrawal symptoms are to be expected. You can make it easier on yourself by slowly replacing coffee with green tea.

3. Alcoholic Beverages

Practically all alcoholic beverages are acid-forming. According to one study, the average American drinks 28 gallons of alcoholic beverages every year. Keeping in mind that the average person already gets too many calories from sugar, processed flour, and other nutritionally empty foods, adding alcohol on top of everything else just makes things worse.

4. Dairy Products

When you add a lot of dairy foods on top of a diet that is already full of acid-producing meat, grains, and sugar, you end up making it impossible to build an alkaline body. It is true that dairy products are high in calcium. But there are other sources of this essential mineral, including calcium-rich plant foods and bone-building tablets.

5. Fast Food

Think of the ingredients in a cheeseburger: There's fatty meat, fatty cheese, a white-flour bun, tomato, and a few shreds of lettuce. Amazingly, all of those ingredients are acidifying, except for the lettuce and the sesame seeds on the bun. But those aren't nearly enough alkalizing ingredients to compensate for all of the acidifying ones.

As you can see, an alkaline diet menu doesn't need to be overwhelmingly difficult. Eliminating or even just cutting back on the five foods in this article will go a long way toward helping you to rapidly create an alkaline diet menu.