Eating Alkaline: 50 Easy Recipes for Clean and Healthy Eating to Naturally Trim Excess Fat: Eating Clean

By Sophie Barnes

There are millions of unhealthy diet fads out there- some even tell you that you can eat everything and anything you want as long as you stop eating at a certain time period. The last time I checked, our stomachs cannot tell time so how does that concept even work? It doesn’t. Rather than a strange fad diet, the Alkaline diet takes the way that the body breaks down foods (whether they form acid or are more ph neutral during digestion) and then helps you make decisions that avoid those foods that are harmful and acidic. A special note here: this has nothing to do with their ph before digestion so you can eat citrus fruits.

In this book you will learn the basics of the alkaline diet but even if you choose not to follow that particular diet you will learn some healthy, delicious recipes for foods that your entire family will enjoy. You will also learn the basics of food combining so that you can eat small amounts of the acid foods without derailing your efforts.

You will also learn:

• Quick and easy breakfasts designed to get your metabolism roaring for the entire day, even on your busiest morning
• Snacks that can double as small meals if you would like.
• Interchangeable lunch and dinner items that can be mixed and matched to create your own personal and exciting recipes as you go.

This is clean eating without the guilt. This is great eating without the worry. This is healthy without counting calories, figuring grams of this or that and without eating air and gritting your teeth in starving agony. This is about real food. It’s about bright and vibrant foods for a bright and vibrant life and a happy, healthy you.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Guava Books
• Release date: Feb 14, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386768784

Book preview

Introduction

If you stood in front of my bookcase, you would see a great collection of books across many genres. You would then stumble on the little self-help section and worry about my sanity for a moment or two, I suppose. Finally, you would find the diet book graveyard where good intentions go to die. Like the extra ten or twenty pounds I find it so hard to shake off I cannot seem to let go of those books for some reason as if I will pick them up a month or two down the road and be struck with the realization that I had done that one little thing wrong, and now it all made perfect sense. Um, sorry but no. That is not how any of this works. Fad diets, no matter how nicely they are packaged and no matter which celebrity, pseudo-celebrity or TV quackster they have to endorse it, do not work. They may help you lose a few pounds in the beginning when you are still in the excited, my goodness, this could work phase but then you pass through to reality, and you fail or rather, the diet fails you. It’s not your fault.

You see, the human body is complex, far more complex than what it is given credit for. We call it our machine and while on some level we fuel it and it goes like a machine there are other considerations that have to be kept in mind as well. That is the problem with all of these quirky little fad diets. They take one major thing and focus on it and forget about the hundreds of little things that are every bit as important.

I will admit it. From the title of this particular book you are about to read you would think that it is just like all of the rest, preying on your fears and weaknesses, telling you little bits of sciency-sounding stuff and then trotting out weird rules that no one could ever hope to follow in the real world. Sorry to disappoint you but this is not going to be the case at all! In fact, let’s dispense with the formalities right here and now:

This is not a diet book per se however once you start incorporating more and more of these recipes in your regular day to day eating you might find that you feel better, and maybe that helps you make some other changes.

This is not so much a book about the actual alkaline diet. You can find a ton of information about the actual acid/alkaline diet online, and it is interesting, but this is just going to hit the main points and then move on.

This book is not about getting the absolute strictest level of perfection going on here. The Alkaline diet has something like 10 levels with 10 being the top tier, the so-called perfect level which I would imagine is for elite athletes and supermodels who depend on being flawless for their livelihood. That level is pretty much vegan, all raw foods all of the time and sounds like one of the rings of hell to me. Let’s you and I stick to one of the lower levels, shall we?

I am only going to briefly cover the concept of food combining with you and then I will probably break some of the rules with the recipes I give you. I am saucy like that.

Are you ready to dig in with me?

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Chapter One: Covering the Basics

In this chapter you will learn:

•  The basics of the alkaline diet

•  The basics of food combining

The Basics of the Alkaline Diet

You might remember from middle school science class that all things are either acidic or alkaline. The interesting thing about the alkaline diet is that foods you would think are acidic may change in composition once they