In order for your diet to alkalize your body, it must be rich in nutrient-dense foods, in clean water, in lean healthy protein, and it’s also got to be free of most toxins. And I say “most toxins” because in today’s environment, it’s very difficult to avoid all toxins because there are toxins in everything around us.
Foods that promote a strong, healthy looking, energy-rich, alkaline body are raw, preferably organic, vegetables, and this is the single most important step that you could take today to alkalize your system, eating fresh, raw, preferably organic, vegetables allows your body to actually use the live enzymes, the life inside of those vegetables, and the energy from those vegetables, to energize and build your health from within you.
So you’re building health and you’re helping reduce signs of aging from the inside out.
Eat raw vegetables, preferably organic, all day long. Juice them at least one or two times a day if you can. If you can’t juice them or you don’t like eating vegetables on a regular basis, then get yourself a greens drink and drink that at least one or two times a day.
If you don’t know a lot about greens drinks or you don’t know how to juice or what juicing is all about, that’s fine. We’re going to get a little more in depth with that when we get to the supplements section in a few weeks.
But that’s it. That’s the whole list. An alkaline diet consists of loads of fresh, raw, preferably organic, vegetables, lean sources of poultry in each meal like fish or chicken and turkey (and if you’re getting chicken and turkey, try to make them organic or free-range because that means that you’re avoiding the toxins in there), and egg whites.
And also fresh water, preferably distilled water because the distilled water is going to help pull out any of the impurities that are in your system.
If you don’t want to get that strict yet, then at least begin taking out all the foods from the acid list, especially those loaded with preservatives and other chemicals, and then slowly work your way into adding the really nutrient-dense foods like the organic vegetables, the lean sources of clean protein and the fresh water.