The pH Diet
Recharge Your Energy Regain Your Figure Restore Your Health
Bharti Vyas and Suzanne Le Quesne
Contents
CHAPTER ONE: Getting Started – the Principles of The pH Diet
Level 1 – Reducing the Toxic Load
Level 2 – Increasing Alkaline Reserves
Level 3 – Maintaining the Balance
CHAPTER TWO: The Best Foods for the Diet
Free Radicals and Antioxidants
The 80 Top Alkaline-forming Foods
The Best of the Acid-forming Foods
CHAPTER FOUR: How to Test Your pH Levels
CHAPTER FIVE: The Benefits of The pH Diet
Preventing and Reversing Osteoporosis
Alleviating the Symptoms of Arthritis
The pH Diet does exactly what it says on the cover. By following our programme, you’ll recharge your energy, regain your figure and restore your health.
Does it sound too easy? If you’re a diet aficionado, you may think so. There are countless weight loss and dietary programmes out there that you might have already tried – from lose-a-stone-in-two-weeks to high-protein or more conventional high carbohydrate/low fat diets. If you’re reading this, maybe these diets haven’t worked for you. They may have been too difficult to incorporate into your lifestyle, or made you feel deprived, so you lost your motivation to keep going. You need an eating plan that’s easy and will work – and that’s what The pH Diet delivers.
How does the pH diet work?
The pH Diet works by getting your body back to its naturally alkaline state. In three steps, or levels, you gradually cut down on acid-forming food and drinks, and eat more alkaline-forming foods.
Most of us have an inkling that too much coffee, red meat, sugar, dairy and processed foods, for example, are bad for us. In the pH Diet, these foods are discouraged because they’re acid-forming. This means that when we’ve digested them, they leave an acidic residue in our bodies. All the food we eat ‘burns’ with oxygen in our cells to produce energy – our fuel. This digestion process generates an internal ‘ash’ that’s acidic, alkaline or neutral. An alkaline or neutral ash is okay (our bodies are designed to be alkaline, not acidic). However, when acidic residue accumulates internally, it slows the body down – causing low energy, poor health and weight problems.
How does it benefit me?
By eating and drinking alkaline-forming foods, you release your body from the drudgery of coping with residual acid build-up. Rather than expend energy on fighting acidic toxins, your body can get back to its real job: fine-tuning your health and balancing