Alkaline diet

Millie

HI all,

I have been advised to change my diet to an Alkaline diet but am struggling to be honest.
Does anybody have any experience, tasty and easy receipes and suggestions for snack/treat foods.

Thanks

sweet-rasmus

This might be best moved from the Vegan and Vegetarian forum to the Nutrition & Diet Forum.

sweet-rasmus

El_Dangeroso

The Alkaline diet works OP, but only because it makes you do what pretty much every diet makes you do: eat fresh food, cut out junk and watch portions, there really isn't anything else magical about it.

The acid-base theory of nutrition is total psuedoscience, as in completely made up. We know this because different people accross the world who eat radically different diets have a wide variety of net acidity in their diets, there's just no pattern.

One thing the alkaline diet probably has going for it is that foods that are supposedly base-yielding are that way because they are high in minerals such as magnesium and potassium. But supposed acid-yielding foods have other properties that are nutritious and healthy too, so don't feel like you have to cut whole foods out of your diet unless you have an intolerance or don't like them.

Basically don't make your diet harder than it has to be.:)

joanmul

The Sunday Times Style supplement of last weekend has an article on an alkaline diet. One of the things recommended is to take juice of a lemon in a pint of warm water first thing in the morning. I've been doing this for years with 1/2 a lemon and no sugar. The lemons in Lidl are cheaper. There is quite a lot of useful information in it.

--Kaiser--

joanmul wrote: »

The Sunday Times Style supplement of last weekend has an article on an alkaline diet. One of the things recommended is to take juice of a lemon in a pint of warm water first thing in the morning. I've been doing this for years with 1/2 a lemon and no sugar. The lemons in Lidl are cheaper. There is quite a lot of useful information in it.

Except as above, it's complete nonsense, no basis in scientific fact.
It was in the Style section ffs!

corkcomp

joanmul wrote: »

The Sunday Times Style supplement of last weekend has an article on an alkaline diet. One of the things recommended is to take juice of a lemon in a pint of warm water first thing in the morning. I've been doing this for years with 1/2 a lemon and no sugar. The lemons in Lidl are cheaper. There is quite a lot of useful information in it.

drinking a pint of water every morning is great for a number of reasons.. TBH I dont think the temperature of the water or the added lemon would make any difference.

Doolee

Millie wrote: »

HI all,

I have been advised to change my diet to an Alkaline diet but am struggling to be honest.
Does anybody have any experience, tasty and easy receipes and suggestions for snack/treat foods.

Thanks

I try to pay heed to this myself but like another poster said, it's just cutting out the junk! Some foods are acidic but become alkaline once eaten so maybe check up on these.
Millet flakes are very alkaline and great instead of porridge for a change for brekkie. Also raisins and spinach are some of the highest alkaline foods on the scale so get them down ya!
It's not that bad a diet in fairness. Eat healthy and you'll be eating alkaline foods without really trying!