Exploring the Acid Alkaline Food Chart

Acid alkaline food chart classifies foods according to their ability to produce more or less acid residues and is used to help balance the ph of the overall system.
The table no divides  food as good or bad, as there is no good or bad foods, only more useful or less useful foods, depending on the specific needs at any given time for each individual person.

Today it is normal to live with a huge amount of stressors, in the sense that harm our health  and increase our burdens, collaborating to  create synergy between them to increase acidity.

It is logical and reasonable use the alkaline diet and raise the proportion of intake of  them to achieve a  balance that  our bodies need.

Impotant Note: 
Use the table as a guide and not as a rule. Only  your doctor or nutritionist can really know if your ph is in balance or out of balance.

The following list is of the most common foods and their  potential of acidity (-) and alkalinity (+), present in 30 grams of food approx.
This results are based on acid alkaline food research of Dr. Robert O. Young

 Alkaline And Acidic Foods

Vegetables And Fruits With Low Sugar

Mature peas	+0.5
Asparagus	+1.1
Artichokes	+1.3
Comfrey	+1.5
Green cabbage (harvested in March)	+2.0
Lettuce	+2.2
Onion	+3.0
Cauliflower	+3.1
White radish (Spring)	+3.1
Turnip	+3.1
White cabbage	+3.3
Green cabbage (harvested in December)	+4.0
Col  of curly leaf	+4.5
Canons	+4.8
Fresh peas	+5.1
German Radish	+5.1
Zucchini	+5.7
Cabbage	+6.3
Rhubarb stalks	+6.3
Horseradish	+6.8
Leeks	+7.2
watercress	+7.7
Spinach (harvested in March)	+8.0
parsnip	+8.0
Lima	+8.2
Chives	+8.3
Carrot	+9.5
Lemon	+9.9
Green Beans	+11.2
Fresh Beet	+11.3
Sorrel	+11.5
Spinach (not harvested in March)	+13.1
Garlic	+13.2
Celery	+13.3
Tomato	+13.6
Kind Cabbage lettuce, fresh	+14.1
Fresh endive	+14.5
Avocado	+15.6
Broccoli	+16.2
Red Radish	+16.7
Cayenne Pepper	+18.8
Dandelion	+22.7
Kamut Grass	+27.6
Barley Grass	+28.7
Bean sprouts	+29.5
Radish sprouts	+28.8
Chia sprouts	+28.5
Alfalfa Grass	+29.3
Fresh cucumber	+31.5
Wheat Grass	+33.8
Summer black radish	+39.4
Water
Distilled water (neutral)	0
Fresh coconut water	+9.04
Edible Tubers
Corn	-9.6
Potatoes Stored	+2.0
Meat,Chicken And Fish
Pork	-38.0
Veal	-35.0
Beef	-34.5
Ocean Fish	-20.0
Chicken	-20.0
Eggs	-20.0
Oysters	-5.0
Liver	-3.0
Organ meat	-3.0
Milk And Dairy
Cured cheese	-18.1
Quark cheese	-17.3
Cream	-3.9
Pasteurized milk	-1.0
Milk whey	+1.3
Bread, cookies (stored grains / flours)
white bread	-10.0
Refined flour cookies	-6.5
Wholemeal bread	-6.5
Whole grain bread	-4.5
Rye bread	-2.5
Nuts
Pistachios	-16.6
Peanuts	-12.8
Macadamias	-11.7
Cashews	-9.3
Fats
Margarine	-7.6
Corn oil	-6.5
Butter	-3.9
PH of Fruits
Blueberry	-5.3
Raspberry	-5.1
Yellow plum	-4.9
Dates	-4.7
Sweet cherry	-3.6
Melon	-2.5
Grapefruit	-1.7
Watermelon	-1.0
Fresh coconut	+0.5
Sour cherry	+3.5
Green Bananas	+4.8
Grains And Green Vegetables Not  Stored
White rice	-18.5
Wholegrain rice	-12.5
wheat	-10.1
Oats	-0.5
Millet	-0.5
Spelled	-0.5
Lentils	+0.6
Soybean meal	+2.5
Tofu	+3.2
Lima beans	+12.0
Soya	+12.0
White beans	+12.1
Granulated soya cooked	+12.8
Soy soaked and air dried	+26.5
Pure soy lecithin	+38.0
Nuts And Seeds
Wheat grain	-11.4
Nuts	-8.0
Pumpkin seeds	-5.6
Sunflower seeds	-5.4
Macadamia nuts	-3.2
Hazelnuts	-2.0
Linseed	-1.3
Brazil nuts	-0.5
Sesame	+0.5
Seeds of cumin	+1.1
Fennel Seeds	+1.3
Caraway	+2.3
Almonds	+3.6
Hemp seeds	+7.6
Fats (cold pressed fresh oils, first press)
Sunflower oil	-6.7
Ghee	-1.6
Coconut milk	-1.5
Olive oil	+1.0
Pomegranate oil	+3.1
Borage oil	+3.2
Linseed oil / linen	+3.5
Evening primrose oil	+4.1
Hemp oil	+4.7
Marine Lipids	+4.7
Fish
Fresh fish of  freshwater	-11.8
Sweets
Artificial Sweeteners	-26.5
White sugar	-17.6
Beet sugar	-15.1
Molasses	-14.6
Malt Sweetener	-9.8
Cane sugar	-9.6
Fructose	-9.5
Condensed milk	-9.4
Barley malt syrup	-9.3
Brown rice syrup	-8.7
Honey	-7.6
Condiments
Vinegar	-39.4
Soy sauce	-36.2
Mustard	-19.2
Mayonnaise	-12.5
Ketchup	-12.4
Drinks
liqueurs	-28.6 a –38.7
Sweetened fruit juices	-33.4
Black tea	-27.1
Beer	-26.8
Cafe	-25.1
Wine	-16.4
Fruit juice packaging naturally	-8.7
The fruit Ph
rose hip	-15.5
pineapple	-12.6
tangerine	-11.5
ripe banana	-10.1
pear	-9.9
peach	-9.7
apricot	-9.5
papaya	-9.4
orange	-9.2
mango	-8.7
Clementine	-8.5
raisins	-8.2
ripe gooseberry	-7.7
ripe grape	-7.0
blueberries	-7.0
Granada	-7.0
blackcurrant	-6.1
strawberry	-5.4

Knowing Healthy Benefits Of Olive Oil-Part – II

2.Benefits of  Extra Virgin Olive Oil And Gastroduodenal Diseases.
Olive oil forms a coating around the stomach and preventing duodenal ulcers. For healing, you can use other natural agents, but especially the extra virgin olive oil, because this contain soluble vitamins (soluble in oil) E and A, and olive oil be a transport vehicle within the body. Many researchers around the world are exploring and discovering more about this interesting theme.

 3. Cellular Oxidation.
The cell membrane is prone to oxidation, the olive oil, and especially the Virgin, given its high content of vitamin E and A, and other natural antioxidants that slows this process.

Alpha-tocopherol (vitamin E percusor) functions as an antioxidant in the body, eliminating the free radicals which promote the oxidation of the body's cells, obtaining olive oil delaying this effect. Apparently this is the reason that prevent certain cancers. The most recent publications confirm the relationship between olive oil and prevention of this disease.

Note that the average longevity of the people of the Mediterranean is higher than in Anglo-Saxon countries. The reason is mainly in the type of power based on olive oil, legumes, grains, fruits and vegetables, fish. Furthermore, the synergistic effect garlic and onion accompanying the olive oil in many mediterranean dishes.

Mataix teacher team is studying the effect of olive oil on two aspects: longevity and quality of life, saying that peoples such as Japanese, would surely benefit. It is already the longest living people in the world, but  the diseases that they suffering would be alleviated  with input  of the olive oil  to the Japanese diet, healthy by itself.

4. Fertility.
For the same reason, the high vitamin E content virgin olive oil helps fertility. This aspect was tested, removing of the diet the  vitamin E, male mice became sterile and female mice increased the proportion of fetal reabsorption. This saw Harrow and Mazer. In Spanish centers such as the Institute of Fat, or La Venta del Llano is studied as determining vitamin E.

5. Cosmetics.
Formerly, the best soaps are made with olive oil, for its price moved towards seeds (vegetable oils) but now, it is becoming to origins. Since 1995/96, a Japanese dermo-cosmetics, bought a strong place in the province of Jaén. Currently on the market  there many of these products rich in olive oil. Needless to say, it is used much to heal burns since ancient times, then moved to various creams and currently is getting to use olive oil directly or pharmaceutical products based on it.
There are now several companies based primarily in the production and marketing of these products, mainly in the provinces of Cordoba and Jaen.

6. Extra Virgin Olive Oil Benefits And Other Studies.
It appears that olive oil helps the binding of calcium, although not yet known mechanism of action, this claim is based on publications about olive oil dentists and dental health. Likewise, there are publications that assert that diseases like osteoporosis are benefited by the intake of olive oil.

Conclusions
You have to eat everything, but not excessive, relying on food, healthy, like virgin olive oil, according to  Professor Covián advised. Given its kindliness, we must defend it to the best of our forces. Without passion, but decisively.
These six reasons, we should help us to raise its consumption. Olive oil is not the universal elixir of life but a healthy and natural food, which should be the basis of our food.

Experience shows that populations that take between 50 and 60 g of olive oil on average have better health. The key is that consumption is made within a balanced diet where olive oil in suitable quantities, replace other less desirable fat sources. We must therefore stay on the recommendation of olive oil consumption, but we must go further, attempt to educate on content quality and quantity of various food fat   and in what way that fat, considered unhealthy can be reduced it  and putting in that place olive oil.

We also must  require those responsible, that food labeling must be  increasingly complete and thorough, so that consumers receive the information their need to choose  definitely, we recommend the consumption of olive oil as the fat of choice in optimal amounts, and so will not only help achieve a healthy, prevent many diseases but also to an exemplary cuisine full of flavors and intense flavors.

Knowing Healthy Benefits Of Olive Oil-Part - I

Among the beneficial of olive oil we have that this product protects colon-rectal cancer by acting on bile acids, Extra virgin olive oil lowers the risk of development of the gastrointestinal mucosa to adenoma or carcinoma.Not to mention that by keeping arteries flexible improves circulation and oxygenation of all tissues.
That the Mediterranean diet is one of the healthiest in the world is a fact unquestionable endorsed by many medical studies. We did not know yet is that one of its pillars, the extra virgin olive oil, contains natural chemicals that produce an anti-inflammatory effect in the body. It is therefore a reason to consume this beneficial product, rich in heart-healthy essential oils and anticancer properties.

Anti-cancer and heart-healthy. Being a pure natural product, simply the juice of the olive, olive oil, or extra virgin, is full of very healthy properties.
For example, it is no secret that this product is one of our greatest allies in the fight against cholesterol. Its high content of oleic acid, a monounsaturated fat, helps to reduce bad cholesterol level and prevent cardiovascular disease, so it is very advisable to consume raw.

In addition, extra virgin olive oil is rich in vitamins A, D, K and E especially very beneficial for tissues, and protect against certain tumors, heart disease and atherosclerosis, Its antioxidant improves the quality of the body, that everything works correctly, prevents aging .

Antioxidants are the fountain of youth. Although more studies are still required to embody the anticancer olive oil, some scientists point  in this direction in their work. For example, many experts in oncology showed that oleic acid is an important asset in curbing the activity of a gene involved in 20% of breast tumors more dangerous. Statistics also insist that relationship: in Spain, where olive oil is the basis of the diet, breast cancer and colon cancer are 28% and 42% less frequent compared to the European Union on an average.

Consider that this is due to the salutary effects of extravirgin olive oil. As contributes to improved health status may indirectly be anticarcinogenic. For example, fights constipation and improves digestion, which is used to fight colon cancer. But, as with virtually all foods should be consumed in good  proportion.

Overview
The rationale underpinning the olive oil consumption  are:

1. Prevents cardiovascular diseases, arteriosclerosis.
2. Is useful for the prevention of gastric ulcers and helps to  Omeprazole in healing thereof.
3. Retards oxidation of the cell membrane.
4. Help the fertility of mankind and the  animals.
5. It is advisable in dermo-cosmetics.
6. Other studies.


1. Cardiovascular diseases.

Arteriosclerosis.
The lipid moieties (fatty residues) are deposited on the walls of arteries  leading to obstruct them and causing  myocardial infarction. It is related directly to the content of total cholesterol, with HDL High lipoprotein density (good cholesterol) and the L.D.L.
 Low density lipoprotein (bad cholesterol). Olive oil lowers total cholesterol and bad cholesterol while increasing good cholesterol. In clinic, is considered to be highly indicative of the ratio total cholesterol and good cholesterol.

As decreases slightly the total and greatly increases the good, the ratio decreases. Value is taken as acceptable under 5.There be stated that was Jacotot, French researcher, a pioneer in this knowledge and Grande Covián Spanish researcher, became its important popularizer.
Given the goodness of olive oil, has spent much time and money to get similar products, but the olive oil, besides having a fatty acid profile most suitable with oleic acid, which has a single unsaturation, has some minor components  which are in small proportion and it seems that they are responsible for the beneficial properties of the same component.

This has not yet been able to emulate. Seems that the olive oil acts on two other risk factors for atherosclerosis: content blood glucose and blood pressure. The research by Professor Perez Jimenez (and others) indicate that it is likely that consumption olive oil regularize the blood glucose concentration and also seems to lower blood pressure slightly.There is still much research, lots to see about  the minor components, but we must to  say that olive oil is optimal for the prevention of these diseases.

It's good, on the other hand, taking fish oil blue, like sardines, for its high content of Omega-3 and consumption of olive oil and fish blue, is optimal. However, excessive intake of oily fish, can cause bleeding, as Eskimo population.
Vegetable oils such as corn, sunflower, rapeseed, etc.. are intermediate in quality , while animal fats are not advisable for the heart, Because they increase total cholesterol, as researchers have found.

In the next article (Knowing Healthy Benefits Of Olive Oil-Part-II) we will continue talking  about extra virgin olive oil and the other important reasons to use this  wonderful product of nature.

Illness And Relation To Body Ph Balance

In terms of  body ph balance, blood can not go down much of that Right pH -7.38 or so. If it´s go below this figure we would die. However, we are still living and eating poorly, and the body continues. To avoid death, if not give the body the right nutrients through feeding or alkaline nutritional supplements, our body will look for ways to survive, and one of those ways is stealing alkaline minerals calcium, magnesium, potassium, sodium  from another body parts for balance as necessary.

Bones and teeth are the main source of alkaline minerals (calcium and magnesium) that help maintain that balance lost. Now we understand why so many people today suffer from bone and osteo-articular problems.Yes, your osteoporosis  is saving your life. Our bodies harbor a lot of bacteria and fungi that live, grow and survive in harmony when we are eating and living healthfully. But they can become highly harmful when the environment they live in is altered.

This alteration of this environment is fostered by diets high in sugar or carbohydrates, also by contaminated water and air, or the destruction of our intestinal flora because of the use of antibiotics or other medications (chemotherapy).

Bacteria and fungi feed on the same substances that feeds the brain. When we eat too much, foods rich in glucose, also are feeding too much bacteria and fungi to grow and multiply disproportionately.
Substance use by that excessive disproportionate population causes the brain does not receive enough food, and how the brain is in charge, immediately issued orders demanding their ration.

There is when we feel the urge to run to eat something SWEET, or carbohydrates (glucose become) or alcohol. And so the vicious cycle begins: to eat more, the provision of sugar growing, and with it grows the multiplication of bacteria and fungi, and the growing population demands more food and feel the need to eat more, and more, and more ...

But it happens that just as bacterias and fungi get their food from our blood, they also dumped their waste, toxins that become increasingly more acidic medium and that eventually come to "poison" the tissues. In order to process the toxins, the liver converts them into alcohol (acid) and the excess of alcohol in our body, produces a sensation like being drunk ... dizzy, disoriented, mentally confused.

The excessive accumulation of bacteria and fungi provision reduces potassium and magnesium from the body with the consequent reduction of cellular energy that causes excessive fatigue, reduction of the strength and clarity of thought, removes the enthusiasm, ambition, stamina; cause the release of free radicals which contribute to the aging process. Many scientific studies have agreed that bacteria and fungi can actually cause disease  when allowed to develop in healthy unimproved like acid.

Other symptoms of accumulation of bacteria and fungi are panic attacks of  anxiety, depression, irritability, headaches, joint pains, inflammation in respiratory tract, sinusitis, glandular stress and menstrual problems. Through various scientific studies , analyzing living cells of the blood, there have been forms of bacteria that live in our body , some even work by helping the body.
The bacterias that depending on the environment in which they developed, sometimes growing and  stretched becoming pathogenic. In some cases, mutating from "bacteria" to  "mushroom".

Few know it, but the acidity in the pH of the tissues of our body is usually the hallmark of cancer and other health imbalances such as cardio vascular disease, brain vascular problems, kidney diseases, inflammatory disorders and diseases lung.
The researcher Sang Whang, with 50 years of experience in the study of acid-alkaline balance, argues that: "It is the excess acid in our body that cancer grows."

And makes the following assumptions:
1) healthy cells are alkaline and need the alkalinity of  their environment.
2) An acidic environment contains less oxygen than an alkaline environment.
3) healthy cells die in an acidic environment, while cancer cells die in an alkaline environment.
It suggests that all cancer treatment should start changing the acidic environment to an alkaline environment.
Dr. Robert O. Young, currently the most recognized microbiologist global match many scientists that: "The disease is the expression of an excess of acid in the human body".

Robert O.Young is Doctor of Medicine, Microbiology and Nutrition. It takes 30 years performing analysis of live blood  and dry, and his cancer research has been validated by a study.

Daily caters for 14 patients in the Center "pH Miracle" located near San Diego, CA. Their protocol "Alkaline Lifestyle" has a 100% success rate in those who have applied and have managed to reverse a countless number of metabolic diseases.

Dr. Young, creator of the concept of the "New Biology",the ph balance is recognized bestselling author of "The pH Miracle", and more:

• The pH Miracle for Diabetes.
• The pH Miracle for Weight Loss
• The pH Miracle Revised

Other books he has authored include Herbal Nutritional Medications

• One Sickness, One Disease,
• One Treatment (1992), Sick and Tired
• Back to the House of Health
• Back to the House of Health 2.

Like every day more scientists, Dr. Robert O. Young argues that: "Our human body manufactures  baking soda and use sodium as a natural system to maintain the alkaline design to prevent tissue degeneration. "
(Remember the characteristic  bicabornato´s  flavor often feel in the mouth prior to vomit) "The hyper-alkalinization of body tissues with sodium bicarbonate is the safest, effective and natural way to curb any cancerous condition and many diseases and processes inflammatory.

For years, Dr. Tullio Simmoncini, Italian oncologist, has been treating cancer and destroying tumors by using sodium bicabornato.
Dr. Simmoncini says, "The bicabornato soda is a safe choice, cheap and undeniably  extremely  effective when it comes to cancer tissues.
Most of us start our lives as healthy beings, as we age, and largely because of our unhealthy lifestyles, bacteria and fungi are constantly accumulating in our bodies  breaking the  healthy balance and generating a vicious circle increasingly serious.

Bacteria and fungi poisoning, stress and weaken our immune system, and it is proven that the majority of immunological diseases and infectious conditions are caused or worsened by the presence of bacteria and fungi.
To slow aging and restore health is necessary to reverse the damage of acid into the cells by alkalizing diet.
It's time to make the necessary changes in our lifestyle so that our body come back to a new state of balance and harmony through our body ph balance.

How To Increase The Ph Balance In The Body

Before to explain the importance of ph balance in the body,we have to understand that our body is a microcosm, an amazing engineering feat. However, the foods you eat can play a role in increasing or decreasing the pH of the body, and certain foods may be more alkaline than others. An acid body is a center or focus for disease conditions such as cancer and aging. Eating more alkaline foods helps shift the pH of the body and oxygenates the system, keep your body healthy and functioning correctly, preventing cancer and many other diseases.

One of the most important functions of this Sitema-human body is its ability to regulate its own acidity levels on a very subtle level. The body regulates its pH by constantly adjusting physiological processes,it is called body ph balance such as respiratory function or  kidney and blood circulation. Cells normally operate only within a limits relatively narrow of pH.
To better understand, we begin with the body : The first thing we'll see is basically how our body works, we will see very basic because  all part of this root.
Pure water has a pH of 7
The arterial blood has a pH of 7.35 to 7.45.
The human body by various mechanisms will keep the pH between 7.35 and 7.45 the body will use all resources at its disposal for this to be so, otherwise it would not work well.

Constantly the blood is in autoregulation for not to enter metabolic acidity, thus ensuring the proper functioning of cells, optimizing metabolism. The human body should obtain from food bases minerals to neutralize the acidity of the blood of metabolization, but almost all the food we consume contribute little, in return demineralizating the body (especially refined). We must  taken note that in the modern lifestyle, acidifying foods are consumed on average 5 times per day, 365 days a year!

Our body is not designed to digest all that food mountain with these levels of acidity (Potato chips in bag, spins, ice cream, jelly, chocolate, etc. ..).


Now let's see which is acid and alkaline.
Acid: An acid (from latin acidus, meaning sour) is traditionally regarded as any chemical compound that, when dissolved in water, produces a solution with an activity of hydronium cation higher than pure water, that is, a pH below seven. This approximates the modern definition and Martin Johannes Nicolaus Bronsted Lowry, who defined independently an acid as a compound that donates a hydrogen cation (H +) to another compound (hereinafter base).
Alkalinity: The basicity or alkalinity is the ability acid neutralizing of a chemical substance in aqueous solution. This alkalinity of a substance is expressed as equivalents of base per liter or equivalent calcium carbonate.
Since the alkalinity of the majority of natural waters is composed almost entirely of bicarbonate ions and carbonate,the alkalinity determinations can give accurate estimates of the concentrations of these ions.

Alkalinity is a measure of the buffering capacity of an aqueous solution, or what is the same, this ability to maintain the pH stable against addition of an acid or a base. Wherefore call to acidic foods that have a pH less than 7,  examples of these foods, sugar, coffee, alcohol, etc
And call the alkaline foods that have a high alkalinity, which are able to neutralize acid acid foods, examples of these foods are: fruits, vegetables, etc.

Acid, alkaline and hydrogen potential (pH)
Like everything that constitutes the universe, water also is energy.The amount of energy occurs through the hydrogen potential (pH). In pure water, whenthe water has a ratio of 2 hydrogens for each oxygen, pH = 7, neutral: Neither acidic nor alkaline.
This reflects the same amount of hydroxyl ions (H +) and hydroxyl ions (OH-).If we add mineral acids such as sulfur (S) or chlorine (Cl) the number of H + increases, because the hydrogen atoms lose electrons to mineral acids. When there is a greater amount of H + OH-the water is acidic. If the opposite occurs will be alkaline.

We conclude that alkaline water has less than H + OH-, therefore, more oxygen. While the water acidic has  more H + OH-, therefore, has less oxygen.
Lets see  the comparison of oxygen over a drink of 350 milliliters:

 

The human body contains about 40 liters of water slightly alkaline. A glass of cola with a pH of 2.5 added to 40 liters of water with a pH of 7.4, down this pH to 4.6. Fortunately, our body's ability to maintain homeostasis of blood, prevents that a glass of cola may acidifies the blood to 4.6, would be fatal. The pH of a liquid is measured by a litmus paper or a special tester that changes color.

In another article will discuss the effects of drinking liquids of different pH for the human body and expand more the knowledge about alkaline effects .
However, before proceeding with the subject, let's take a conclusion of the above. All types of soft drinks are very acidic, particularly colas. To neutralize a glass of cola, it takes approximately 32 glasses of alkaline water with high pH.

The ability of the human body to maintain homeostasis of blood pH from 7.3 to 7.4 when we drink a highly acidic cola, is a wonderful fact.
We measure the pH of a liquid solution with a pH meter with litmus paper or a special tester that changes color in the pH changes.
If we had a special lens that showed all these colors, depending on the pH values, the world would be a different colorfully:

We can see this in the following  results and values:

Ph                                 Color
4                                     orange
5                                     yellow
6                                     green light
7                                     green
8                                     blue
9                                     dark blue
10                                   purple

We could find some spots with uneven coloring that could help diagnose the physical problem that a person have in particular.


Body                           Ph
Stomach Juice              1.5
Skin                             4.7
Saliva                           7.1
Cell                              7.1
Blood                           7.4
Pancreatic juice            8.8

In the next article we will continue  with this theme and  we are going to see how is the human body's efforts to maintain blood pH balance.