Hi everybody this is Monica Reinagel and you're listening to the nutrition

diva quick and dirty tips for eating well and feeling fabulous today I'm going to

take a closer look at the theory that balancing the pH of

your diet will help keep you healthier. There are several popular diet books based on this

idea and you can even find lists of acid and alkaline

forming foods on the internet.

The acid alkaline theory of health and disease

goes something like this.

Every food you eat leaves a residue in the body

after it's fully digested and that residue or ash is either

acidic or alkaline. Now let me just clarify that this doesn't have anything to do with

whether the food itself is acidic. Lemons, for example, are acidic,

you can tell by their pucker factor,

and yet lemons leave an alkaline residue.

To keep this from getting too confusing,

the preferred terminology is that a lemon is an acidic food but it's not an acid forming food.

Anyway, some people believe that if we eat too many acid forming foods,

our blood or our tissues will become acidic and that this promotes disease.

Therefore, we can balance the pH in our bodies and restore health by eating more

alkaline-forming foods. What are the acid and alkaline forming foods.

What are the acid and alkaline forming foods?

Well, in general, fruits and vegetables

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