Does the alkaline diet help prevent osteoporosis? Many claims have been made for the alkaline diet, but not all of them are supported by sound scientific research. Osteoporosis is different. Several studies have supported the claim that an acidifying diet promotes osteoporosis, and that conversely, an alkaline diet can help to prevent this devastating condition. [...]
December 2009
One of the questions that I get about the alkaline diet is exactly how alkaline do you want to be. Does the alkaline diet mean that you need to eliminate all acidifying foods in order to make your body as alkaline as possible? The answer is no. By themselves, acid and alkaline are neither harmful [...]
What can you eat on the alkaline diet? This is probably the single most common question about the alkaline diet. It makes sense, doesn’t it? After all, the only difference between the alkaline diet and, say, the Atkins diet or the Pritikin diet is which foods you are encouraged to eat, and which ones you [...]
