The Alkaline Diet

It's not very often I stumble across something that completely changes one of my perspectives on life. Last week this happened. For the past 8 months, I've been going to the gym religiously and on a very strict high protein diet. I've had a lot of positive results gaining 20 pounds.

Last term my roommate was in class with a guy who's brother has severe multiple sclerosis. His brother had been going for treatment, but his condition continued to deteriorate. He finally got fed up and started doing some of his own research online. What he found was called the alkaline diet. Since starting the diet, he has not had a single symptom of MS.

The whole premise of the diet is that our bodies are naturally composed of 80% alkaline and 20% acid. Accordingly, our diet should consist of foods that maintain this balance. If our bodies are at this ratio of alkaline to acid, nothing can survive - bad bacteria, viruses, even cancer.

After hearing this story, I was naturally curious. So I did a bit of research and was completely blown away. There are literally pages and pages of people saying this diet has reversed the effects of numerous diseases, including cancer. As well, many experts in this diet attribute many common ailments; such as headaches, dandruff, muscle pain, and osteoperosis, to our bodies being out of balance. The acidity/alkalinity of a food is measure after it is metabolized in our bodies. So foods like lemons and watermelon are actually high in alkaline, where foods like milk are high in acidity. To me this all made a lot of sense because the foods recommended are the foods our bodies were designed to eat. Naturally coke, processed foods and animal fats are very bad.

After all this evidence, I was sold. So I decided to slowly start integrating some aspects of the diet into my own. I only started yesterday, but I feel the difference already. One of the symptoms these pages talk about, which I had, was excess flegm and mucous. This morning when I woke up my nose and throat were clear for the first time in months.

Very excited to see how this turns out. Here are a few links:

http://altmedicine.about.com/od/popularhealthdiets/a/alkalinediet.htm
http://www.thewolfeclinic.com/warningsigns.html
http://www.energiseforlife.com/list_of_alkaline_foods.php