The Benefits of an Alkaline Diet

The Benefits of an Alkaline Diet
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An alkaline diet is not a fad, but rather a healthy eating lifestyle choice. It is a diet that is plant-based and pH-balanced, which can transform your overall health for the better. The idea is that you’ll work in harmony with your body, maintaining an acid to alkaline balance with a pH of 7.365. When you eat a lot of acidic foods, your body has to work harder to keep your blood in that range of its necessary, healthy pH level.

Straying from this necessary pH can be harmful to your body, so if you focus on maintaining a harmonious balance, you’ll have more energy and feel better because your body won’t be having to work so hard to try to stay in the healthy pH zone. You’ll eat a lot of alkaline foods and avoid the acidic ones. Download a helpful chart like this one while you’re still learning what is classified as what!

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Here are (just some of) the benefits of transitioning to the alkaline diet and lifestyle.

Have more energy

When your body is balanced, you’ll naturally feel more energized. Eating in the alkaline diet style also means you’re cutting down on meat, dairy, and processed foods. These are the culprits of clogging your body with unwanted toxins and putting your entire digestive system into an unhealthy state. So when these are eliminated, you’re getting more of what your entire body needs and craves to feel good. You’ll start looking less to coffee and find it easier to work out on a daily basis.


Prevent disease

When you have a highly acidic diet, you’re basically creating the most favorable environment for yeast, fungus, and other bacteria. Many diseases and some cancers thrive in an acidic body, so maintaining a healthy pH through the alkaline diet can prevent a lot of this from taking place. Once the body is in the ideal pH state, you’ll be able to remove more toxins and better avoid any future diseases and illnesses occurring. Overall, you just feel better!

Lose weight

Because an alkaline diet is just naturally balanced and full of healthy foods, it can be a relatively effortless way to lose weight and then sustain that fat loss. And you’ll have more energy so working out will seem easier too. As was said before, this is more a lifestyle than a fad diet. You’ll change your relationship with your daily intake of food, focusing much more on what exactly you’re putting into your body.

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Gain more focus

When you’ve achieved wholeness and wellness in your body, you’ll achieve the same in your mind as well. Your body will be in balance and won’t have to work as hard to remove toxins and stay healthy. All of this promotes a focused mind that can think clearly! Plus, your newfound energy will totally help you feel more alert. Eliminate the fog that always depending on coffee can create.

This post was originally published on Laila Ali Lifestyle