Avoid Fatigue, Improve Your Sleep, & Manage Body Weight
By being aware of two things – 1. That your body has a pH, and, 2. That you should be striving to achieve pH balance – will help your body to avoid and manage stress more effectively while helping you to stay full of energy, have restful nights sleep, and manage your weight.When an acidic environment is sustained in the body (via diet and external stressors), health is affected as deep as the cellular level. Once this becomes the “norm” for your body, daily fatigue will exist. And because an acidic environment is a stressor in and of itself, cortisol levels will then rise and that will impair sleep patterns… so, now you’re fatigued from a poor diet and can’t even get a good night’s sleep. And if all this weren’t enough reasons to make a change, here’s the long-term bad news: acidic diets/bodily environments play a huge roll in America’s obesity problem AND will basically open the door and usher in disease into your body!
What should you do to improve your body’s pH profile? Take a look at this chart and start eating lots of foods from the alkaline-forming columns while making an effort to minimize/reduce/balance-out the acid-forming columns.
Highly Alkaline-Forming
Alkaline-Forming
Neutral
Slightly Acid-Forming
Highly Acid-Forming
Asparagus
Squash
Flax seed
Adzuki beans
Commercial breakfast cereal
Beets
Sweet potatoes
Hemp seed
Black beans
Pasta
Bell peppers
Amaranth
White chia seed
Black-eyed peas
Refined wheat flour
Broccoli
Buckwheat
Coconut oil
Chickpeas
White rice
Carrots
Millet
Macadamia nuts
Lentils
Beef
Cauliflower
Quinoa
Walnuts
Pumpkin seeds
Pork
Celery
Wild rice
Buckwheat flour
Sunflower seeds
Poultry
Chicory
Sesame
Agave Nectar
Brown rice
Shellfish
Cucumbers
Apples
Dried Herbs
Oats
Butter
Dill
Avocados
Miso paste
Spelt
Cheese (all types)
Dulse
Bananas
Spices
Chickpea flour
Cream
Green beans
Berries
Hemp flour
Milk, pasteurized
Leeks
Cantaloupe
Cold-water fish
Artificial sweeteners
Mixed Greens
Cherries
Venison
White sugar
Onion
Dates, Figs
Wild game
Candy
Parsley
Grapes
Milk, raw, unprocessed
Coffee
Peas
Nectarines
Synthetic multivitamins
Margarine
Sea Vegetables
Oranges
Peanuts (roasted)
Zucchini
Peaches
Prescription drugs
Stevia
Pears
Soft drinks
Gingerroot
Persimmons
Soy protein isolate
Green tea
Pineapple
Whey protein isolate
Fresh herbs
Pomegranates
Rooibos
Flax Oil
Yerba mate
Hemp Oil
Pumpkin Seeds
Almonds
Coconut
Peaches
I’ll leave you with a bit of – as a professor of mine always said – “Cocktail Trivia” - Did you know that it is impossible for cancer to form in an alkaline environment? Think about it.
