The Alkaline Diet Made Easy: A Beginner's Guide to Dr. Sebi's Approved Herbs and Eating a Plant-Based Diet to Lose Weight, Fight Inflammation, Repair the Immune System and Fight Chronic Diseases

By Faren Garcia

This book will serve as an examination of a diet that has become a trend with celebrities and the main stream public. This book will provide the uneducated with a lot more information regarding the Alkaline diet which should be regarded as a lifestyle. This book will begin with a discussion about the fact

• Language: English
• Publisher: Faren Garcia
• Release date: Jun 11, 2021
• ISBN: 9781087974422

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Introduction

Here is a scenario: The fields are rolling and filled to the brim with fresh fruits and vegetables that were tended by hand. The air smells crisp, and you can pick up on the faint hints of freshly dug soil and manure. You take a bite of an apple and the flavor explodes in your mouth, coating it with sweetness. Does this sound serene? Does it remind you of the way that life should still be? It is sad to say, however, that this world has changed. The days where farmers would tend to their crops with a combination of love and blessing from Mother Earth herself are well behind us. Our food and our way of life have changed to an extent that our ancestors would scratch their heads and wonder where we went wrong. You can admit that after the Industrial Revolution the way we produce our food has changed for the better but at what cost? Our air is filled with so many stray chemicals that we often wonder why we cannot breathe in the cities that we love dearly. Our animal kingdom has lost species after species. Our oceans, the lifeblood of our Earth, are polluted and becoming more acidic by the day. Our trees have been cut down to make way for more factories and human advancements. We have damaged the earth, but what about the wreckage we have done to the home of our bodies?

We can walk on our streets now and find fast-food chains on almost every corner. We love the taste and the convenience of not having to get our engines ready and cook a meal. We love fast food so much and it has become so ingrained in the mind of the Western world that our children, who need all the nourishment that they can get, cling to our arms and beg us for McDonalds. Does this scare you? It should. We have traded food that was good for our health for food that damages our health on a daily basis. The Western world gave up going outside for heart disease and diabetes, to name a couple of the diet-based ailments that plague us on a daily basis. We gave up living long full lives for an increase in mortality rates globally from these diseases that can be managed if not avoided. How do we help ourselves? How do we fix the damage we have done to ourselves after years of treating our bodies like they were never the temples that we should hold in pristine conditions? Well, the answer to that is very simple, and it is thankfully found in this book. The alkaline diet is a diet that aims to heal and strengthen the body by consuming foods that seek to balance the pH levels of the body by forgoing the acid rich meats and aiming to follow a way of life that is good for the planet and good for your bodies. The alkaline diet mainly focuses on foods that have an alkaline basis. Now for the chemistry laymen reading this book, pH is a scale of 0 to 14, where seven is known as having a neutral pH, anything below seven being acidic in nature, and anything above seven being alkaline. The body is composed of various alkaline levels. For example, the skin and stomach are largely alkaline in nature. This is to protect the skin from bacteria and to break down the food that we ingest. On the other hand, blood is regarded as being slightly alkaline in nature and functions to regulate the acid-alkaline balance in conjunction with other organs. The human body is complex in that way.

When it comes to food, there is a difference in the various pH levels of the body that will be addressed in this book. Our guts are the foundation of having a healthy body, so it is not an assumption that the pH level of our bodies depends on what we eat. Diets that are too high in an acid content act to the detriment of the body. Plant-based and alkaline diets, however, affect the body in astounding ways. To get this out of the way, it needs to be known that meat or too much meat is a no. Meat and animal products, except for milk which has a neutral pH and a large amount of calcium, are not necessarily bad when controlled. Yet, the problem with our Western diet is that we put animal products as the main focus of our meals and relegate plants to being secondary. You may be thinking, I need protein! Protein is a building block of the body, but following a plant-based lifestyle does not mean that you never get protein. With the alkaline diet, there is a cornucopia of plant-based proteins, like soy and lentils, to name a couple. This diet works by naturally regulating the pH levels of the human body through the consumption of food. Our bodies are constantly changing and thrown with factors that affect our bodies. To compensate this, the body regulates itself through something called homeostasis. When combined with an alkaline diet, the body regulates and repairs itself at a greater rate than on the common Western diet. This is due in part to how healthy the alkaline diet is; it is because of the focus being on plants which can never be in moderation. Plants are storehouses of the minerals and fiber that we need for optimum health. What makes the alkaline diet so powerful, is that it focuses on intuitive eating and removes a large amount of saturated foods that the common diet has. This has the obvious benefit of making us healthier but also strengthens our immune systems. A strong immune system can fight anything that comes its way, but a weak one attracts the plight of many health problems. The plant-based and alkaline diets do not have to be difficult. They can be as simple as breathing.

Chapter 1:

Need-to-Know Facts About the Alkaline Diet

The alkaline diet has a plethora of health benefits that people who follow this lifestyle and science have touted. Now before you groan and wonder why, the science of the book will be fun to learn and very easy to read. An alkaline diet as stated in the introduction is high in the minerals that we do need, but what are those minerals? Calcium is the first to be discussed. Calcium is one of the "big five’’ minerals that the alkaline diet provides and the body needs for proper function not only for bone and teeth health but also for our well-being. An adequate presence of calcium within the human body ensures that the nerves work, which in case you did not know, carry messages of movement and stimulus to our brains (Newman, 2020). It is a common trend for women who are postmenopausal and people who are of an advanced age to experience a leaching of calcium from the bone mineral density of their skeletal systems which leads to osteoporosis later in life. This dangerous disease causes the potential for fractures and broken bones to occur at a much higher rate (Newman, 2020). Diets that are high in the net acid load have the tendency of seeping away the calcium of the skeletal structure through a process that is known as metabolic acidosis, which will be explained in chapter four of this book.

The kidneys function in order to ensure that the acid-base balance of the body is always at a level that the body can manage, by releasing non-volatile acids in the urine stream and releasing a chemical compound that is known as sodium bicarbonate that is regenerated and reabsorbed continually. When this is left unchecked as a means of compensating for the imbalances, the body takes from the calcium stores of the body which surprisingly not only affects the skeleton but also the heart. The heart needs calcium in order to continue pumping our blood. Science has observed that the modern day diet has a largely acidic composition which when left unmonitored can lead toward an acid bulk load in the human body. This is due to a higher presence of hydrogen ions which caused the pH of the bloodstream to fall from basic to acidic in nature (Rodrigues Neto Angélico et al., 2018). When this is left unchecked, it wreaks havoc with the function of the kidneys. The alkaline diet, when scrutinized by scientists, does not have an acid load that is comparable to a meat centric diet. This is mostly attributed to the nature of alkaline foods which contain a large amount of potassium and calcium which are alkaline in

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