More Misleading Alkaline Diet Advice Found on the Web!

It is no wonder that people have a hard time getting to grips with the alkaline diet when they first look into it as there is so much conflicting and misleading information out there! As many people know, Energise originally started out of mine and Callum’s own frustrations when we tried to learn more about alkalising after going to the Tony Robbins UPW event. Believe me, it took us a long time and a lot of mistake-based-learning!

While I had originally touched upon this idea in my post about which foods are alkaline I am on a kind of mission to try and ensure that myths are dispelled forever more now…and to that end I have just stumbled upon (again, literally with stumbleupon) a website that has some ‘interesting’ insights into the alkaline diet.

This article at Inner Self starts out with the right idea, and actually offers a fairly good synopsis of what the acid/alkaline balance is. However, once it starts to get into the area of which foods increase alkalinity things start to get a bit muddled and shady.

Taken separately, protein and sugar are not so harmful;

Granted, this is a basic principle of food combining here, and yes, protein is not as a rule acidic (depends on the source) – but to say that on its own sugar is not harmful is more than misleading. Sugar is probably the cause of most of the acidity in our diets and is certainly one of the most harmful substances we regularly consume.

The morning after a dinner party where one has overindulged, it helps the system to eat plenty or oranges or fresh fruits to balance the acidity.

Apart from lime, lemon, tomato, avocado and nonsweet grapefruit – most fruits could not be more full of sugar and therefore are highly acidic if consumed in plentiful amounts. I don’t think throwing more acidity at an acidic body is the best idea to be honest. A large volume of freshly juiced vegetables consumed throughout the morning alongside lemon water is probably a much better idea.

However, what concerns me most is that under their alkaline forming foods list they include:

• Fruits (as a unit)
• nonfat milk
• goat’s milk
• all cheeses
• plain yogurt
• soy sauce, and miso
• Coffee/tea
• Honey
• Natural wines and sake

That to me reads like a list of some of the most acidifying foods known to man! Unfortunately this is still one of the least offending articles out there – I have seen much worse!

So beware! If in doubt it is probably a good idea to refer back to our alkaline foods list which is very much at the most conservative end of the alkaline diet theory. Some may say it is quite strict – but at least you know you will not be consuming anything acidic in abundance.

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