Get pH Balanced for Better Health
If you’ve ever had a swimming pool, you understand the importance of the proper pH balance. There a similar delicate balance needed in your body’s pH levels. Certain foods, once digested, leave an acid residue and others leave behind alkaline. For optimum health, experts suggest eating 60% alkaline producing foods and 40% acid producing.
Here are just a few benefits of keeping our body in a pH balanced state:
- increases ability to process vitamins, minerals, and nutrients
- improves restful sleep and energy levels
- improves hydration and oxygen to cells
- provides a highly unwelcome environment for cancer cells
- improves immune system and ability to repair damaged cells
Here are two websites that provide a wealth of information and charts to understand this concept and detail which foods are acid producing and which are alkaline producing, because they are not necessarily what you think. In general vegetables, fruits, beans, herbs, and nuts are alkaline producing. And meats, eggs, grains, coffee, sugar, highly processed foods, artificial sweeteners, and stress are acid producing.
Check out the sites and see how focusing on certain foods can dramatically improve your health. Trans4Mind’s article “Balancing Acid/Alkaline Foods” and Essence-of-Life.com’s article “A List of Acid/Alkaline Forming Foods”.
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