Transitioning from Regular Diet to an Alkaline Diet Transitioning from Regular Diet to an Alkaline Diet It may seem like a tough job to transition from a common acidic diet to a more alkaline diet, but in reality it’s not as difficult as you may think. There are three main concerns to keep in mind and that is: • reduce your intake of acidic foods • try to remove acidic foods totally from your daily intake, • begin to introduce more alkaline foods into your daily diet. Below you’ll find a list of alkaline foods and a list of acidic foods. These are the two lists you should keep on your refrigerator in order to remember what you should be eating, and also reminding you what you should be purchasing from the store. There will be some transition time as you finish eating the foods you already have on hand and begin to fill your pantry with more alkaline foods. This transition is natural, and you should not waste hundreds of dollars in food by just dumping them in the trash. This is a lifestyle change and so it is important that you not think of it as just some fad diet or short term thing. As you begin to eat more alkaline foods and your body and mind come back into balance, you will find that you might never want to go back to eating highly acidic foods again. Because this is not a traditional weight loss diet, you should not be concerned with cheating. If you eat some acidic food once in awhile, this does not mean that you have blown the diet nor does it mean that you will become ill. AcidAlkalineDiet.com 2 Transitioning from Regular Diet to an Alkaline Diet It will take a while to come back into balance and become more alkaline, it would take far more than one or two times eating acidic food in order to completely undo all of the positive lifestyle change work that you have already accomplished. Let’s talk about the method by which foods are determined to be alkaline or acidic. Alkalinity in the body refers to your body and bloods Ph level. The Ph level refers to a measurement of balance or imbalance between acidity and alkalinity. By eating alkaline foods or those foods that leave an alkaline ash when incinerated, your body’s Ph will begin to become more alkaline. Acidic foods are also tested by the residue Ph of the ash that it leaves when incinerated. AcidAlkalineDiet.com 3 Transitioning from Regular Diet to an Alkaline Diet AlkAline Foods Vegetables Asparagus Artichokes Cabbage Lettuce onion Cauliflower Radish Swede Lambs Lettuce Peas Courgette Red Cabbage leeks Watercress spinach Turnip Chives Carrot Green Beans Beetroot Garlic Celery Grasses (wheat, straw, barley, dog, kamut etc.) Cucumber Broccoli kale Brussels sprouts AcidAlkalineDiet.com 4 Transitioning from Regular Diet to an Alkaline Diet Fruits lemon lime Avocado Tomato Grapefruit Watermelon Rhubarb Drinks Green drinks Fresh vegetable juice Pure water (distilled or ionized) Lemon water (pure water + fresh lemon or lime). Herbal Tea Vegetable broth Non-sweetened Soy Milk Almond Milk Seeds, Nuts & Grains Almonds Pumpkin Sunflower sesame Flax Buckwheat Groats spelt lentils Cumin seeds Any sprouted seed AcidAlkalineDiet.com 5 Transitioning from Regular Diet to an Alkaline Diet Fats & Oils Flax Hemp Avocado olive evening Primrose Borage Coconut oil Other Foods and Supplements Sprouts (soy, alfalfa, mung bean, wheat, little radish , chickpea, broccoli etc) Bragg Liquid Aminos (Soy Sauce Alternative) Hummus Tahini AcidAlkalineDiet.com 6 Transitioning from Regular Diet to an Alkaline Diet ACidiC Foods Meats Pork lamb Beef Chicken Turkey Crustaceans Other Seafood (apart from occasional oily fish such as salmon) Dairy Products Milk eggs Cheese Cream Yogurt ice Cream Other foods Vinegar White Pasta White Bread Wholemeal Bread Biscuits soy sauce Tamari Condiments (Tomato Sauce, Mayonnaise etc.) Artificial Sweeteners Honey AcidAlkalineDiet.com 7 Transitioning from Regular Diet to an Alkaline Diet Drinks Carbonated drinks Coffee Tea Beers spirits Fruit Juice dairy smoothies Milk Traditional Tea Convenience Foods Sweets Chocolate Microwave Meals Tinned Foods Powdered Soups Instant Meals Fast Food Fats & Oils saturated Fats Hydrogenated oils Margarine (worse than Butter) Corn oil Vegetable oil Sunflower Oil Fruits All fruits aside from those listed in the alkaline chart AcidAlkalineDiet.com 8 Transitioning from Regular Diet to an Alkaline Diet Seeds & Nuts Peanuts Cashew Nuts Pistachio nuts I KNOW IT DOESN’T SEEM LOGICAL It might seem illogical that certain foods that are listed as alkaline might seem to us be acidic and vice versa. I suggest you put your logic aside, trying to determine if a slice of tomato is acidic or that milk should be more alkaline. This is determined by testing these foods that alter your Ph level based upon what they are made up of. Foods that contain: sulphur, chlorine, phosphorous and iodine tend to create a more acidifying effect on the body whereas foods that contain potassium, calcium, magnesium, zinc, silver, sodium and iron tend to be more alkaline. All this information might be confusing and you might be thinking that you are not a biochemist and you don’t want to try to figure out what foods contain what ingredients. So, if you are in a situation where you need to decide whether a food is alkaline or not, then consider the basic rules of good nutrition. AcidAlkalineDiet.com 9 Transitioning from Regular Diet to an Alkaline Diet Foods which are bad for you: • refined foods • foods high in saturated fat and trans fats • meat • dairy • yeast • carbonated drinks • chips • Snack foods • chocolate • alcohol all tend to be more acidic whereas good whole, raw foods that have not been processed are essentially more alkaline. Below is a chart that may help you understand the different foods and their level of acidity or alkalinity based upon being tested by the ash method mentioned earlier. AcidAlkalineDiet.com 10