Alkaline Foods: An Alkaline Cookbook For Balancing Your pH And Improving Your Health Quickly And Easily (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781522791980)

Have you been trying to improve your heath but you don't know where to start? Do you want to learn how to balance your diet and improve your health quickly? The internal environment of our body is alkaline with a pH slightly above 7.0. Our body organs will be able to work more efficiently at this pH. The immunological and repair mechanisms of our body will be at its best at this pH. However, the metabolic reactions and biochemical process occurring in our body produces different types of acids. We produce acids in our body when we exercise, when we breathe and when we digest the food we eat. The various chemical reactions occurring in our body occur within the specific pH of 7.0. Hence our body tries to maintain the normal pH level by eliminating the acidic products formed by different metabolic processes. Our body needs alkaline mineral salts to buffer or neutralize the acids formed in our body. So, it is necessary to have an alkaline diet, if you want to improve the health. Our body has the blood pH between 7.35 and 7.45. By eating alkaline foods, we help our body to maintain this pH level. This does not mean that one has to avoid acidic foods completely. We have to keep a balance of acidic and alkaline food so that our body will be able to maintain the pH balance with less effort. The diet most of us have contains processed sugars, refined grains, artificial sweeteners, etc. causes the formation of acids in our body. When these foods are combined with psychological stress, lack of exercise, lack of sleep results in various degenerative diseases.

Author: Kai Howe
ISBN-10: 1522791981
ISBN-13: 9781522791980
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 12/17/2015
Pages: 30
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.12lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.06d