The Acid Alkaline Food Guide: A Quick Reference to Foods and Their Effect on pH Levels

Am trying to eat more alkaline foods partially for weight loss, and partially for health. I think anyone will lose weight eating as this book recommends because you are basically eating a low carb, low fat protein diet with a lot of fruits and vegetables, using herbs and spices to accent taste. The reference in the back is great. I checked all the foods I regularly eat, and decided which ones I can eliminate easily, and which ones I will have to gradually phase out. I have lost weight after only trying it for one week, but as I said above, it would be hard not to. This book has good info in the front that is pretty easy to read and understand, but the food guide in the back is the best part. It is a smaller book and would be easy to carry as a handy guide. Would recommend.

This is an easy-to-understand, yet comprehensive introduction to the NEED for all of us to offset our acidic foods consumption with buffering alkaline foods. Following the very informative introduction are page after page of foods that are listed to show their degree of acidity. I have often bought extra copies to share with others who suffer from autoimmune disorders related to inflammation. This knowledge has totally changed my life, my eating habits, caused me to lose 20 lbs., taken my blood pressure back to normal, and cleared up my psoriasis and eczema. This information IS on the internet, but you'll need to search several websites to gather it all, print it out, etc., etc. This soft-cover, almost pocket-size book makes it easy to have quick reference when looking up ways to balance your diet pH-wise.

I found this eating guide easy to read and informative. I am a vegan and am interested in continuing to learn how to use food as medicine. The only flaw I found was the message that "for every ten foods you eat, you should make six of them vegetables, with a special emphasis on leafy greens; two of them fruits; one of them protein; and one a high starch alkalizing food, such as yams or potatoes." For some reason, the author emphasizes that the majority of your diet should consist of several servings of fresh fruits, root crops, miso or seaweed, some grains, fresh green vegetable juices, alkalizing green vegetables, and lentils, then considers those foods not sources of protein in the diet - this runs counter to modern nutritional science studies which confirm a plant-based diet provides plenty of protein and the addition of meat, fish, etc. should only be an infrequent, small portion if added to your diet at all. She does recommend utilizing alkalizing supplements as needed, but that doesn't seem necessary unless you have been advised by a specialist to remedy an imbalance asap. The only other problem is with the Kindle edition itself - it is very difficult to read the A-Z Food Guide at the end of the book. All in all, a very good basic book to learn about the benefits of an alkalizing diet, what it is, how to do it, how to measure your pH, and the history of this eating theory.

Superlative health resource. A copy of this book should probably be in most peoples homes if, as I have heard said (and I believe), the western diet is an acid-based diet. I have also read (and I believe) that ALL degenerative diseases are caused by acidic blood. As a general rule, roughly 80% of the foods we eat should be alkaline. That means, when we go shopping, we need to do a calculation about which foods are alkaline and which foods are not. That means we need to know whether each and every food we consider purchasing and eating is alkaline or not, and the degree to which it is alkaline. This book helps you make those shopping and eating choices. Unless you take this book with you to the grocery store, you will need to have memorized which foods are alkaline, and to what degree. Particularly appreciated are this book's "Acid-Forming" and "Alkaline-Forming" charts which indicate the degree of a food's alkalinity or acidity, as being "high," "medium" or "low." We cannot stop at knowing whether a food is alkaline or acidic, we also need to know the degree to which it is so - good, or bad. I would like to see this book expanded, to have its food listing chart to be more comprehensive, by adding more foods (starting with green vegetables), to this book's chart listings, and (perhaps) to have the book's textual essays more numerous. My one disappointment in this book is that it is inexpensively printed. The binding of my first copy of this book disintegrated from the manner of my use, and my making notes in the text. I would also enjoy a larger format.- even notwithstanding my age and my eyesight. When I use this book, I do so in conjunction to utilizing - when I could - Elizabeth Schneider's book entitled VEGETABLES FROM AMARANTH TO ZUCCHINI; THE ESSENTIAL REFERENCE, to familiarize myself with vegetables which are listed in THE ACID ALKALINE FOOD GUIDE as being alkaline, but with which I was unfamiliar. I wish the very best for the future and long life of THE ACID-ALKALINE FOOD GUIDE.

This is honestly the only book you need to stick to a alkaline diet !! VERY INFORMATIVE and give a large and VERY detailed easy to read/understand graph of what you can and cannot eat!! It also tells you what being on an alkaline diet will do for your body, what not being on one does to your body, and all kinds of benefits. I bought a whole bunch of books to understand the alkaline diet before I bought this one. Wish I would have got this one first!!

For the last 8 years, I *thought* I was a very healthy person. 5'11" - 145 pounds - ran half marathons in the top 1% of finish times... everything was great... Then in Feb of last year, I started to experience "weird" symptoms... felt like a fever, but temp was fine. Slight urgency to urinate. That is how it started. That progressed to a loose stool every day and feeling very fatigued every once in awhile for no good reason. I found this book on Amazon, and thought I found the magic bullet. For some time, my symptoms got a *little* better. That said, my pH was consistently inconsistent. I would range from 7.5 to all the way down in the 5 range at times; despite eating tons of leafy veggies, drinking mineral water, and minimizing meat intake. Then my symptoms got even worse, and my thyroid numbers started to get out of line. What the heck? I thought... I am following the Acid/Alkaline guidelines... Well my friends - and this is going to t-off some of my vegan friends - the key messages I took out of this book were only part of the solution. There is nothing incorrect in this book, it does caveat and mention that inflammation is a key driver of acidity... However, I can tell you from personal experience, inflammation is the KEY driver of not only acidity, but many other health factors. Additionally, the key to minimize inflammation is to nurture a healthy gut, and that includes lots of protein. I found this by reading The Thyroid Connection by Amy Meyers after my thyroid numbers came back bad and my Dr. said I may have an Auto Immune issue. For the last 5 months, I have been on an Auto Immune Protocol diet. If it inflames anyone (gluten, dairy, nightshades, alcohol, etc.)... I don't eat it. That probably sound like too tough of a pill for many folks to swallow, but that is the ONLY thing that has worked for me. BTW... this diet includes LOTS of meat (grass fed, non-GMO of course) which runs contrary to Dr. Brown’s book. Needless to say, about two weeks after starting this AIP diet, my acidity stabilized at around 7.0 - 7.5... and has consistently stayed there ever since. My thyroid numbers are back within range, and I continue to trend better. I am not completely out of the woods... but at least I have found true hope. The Acid Alkaline food guide started me on the right path, but I had to find additional assistance to find the true path that seems to be working for me.

I'm the ripe age of 47 and have read 100s (no exaggeration) of nutritional books and/or researched every diet imaginable (even studied angstrom levels in food/fluid) and must say this little book hit the top of my list. If you have any dis-ease, this book is for you. Look into Dr. Otto Wurburg (Nobel Prize Winner) who said, "No disease, including cancer, can live in an alkaline state". Other scientists have also stated no parasites can live in an alkaline state. Balance is key of course and this book helps explain it. Even better (which I have yet to find in another book), there's a long nutritional list that separates ph levels. Being nerdy, I'll be purchasing a ph meter w various probes. Note: there are some who disagree with this approach but in my opinion, all things connect. This also ties into but is different than PRAL (nutrition approach some doctors use for kidney failure). Hope this helps.

This is an easy to understand and inexpensive book. It lists just about everything I eat and drink and provides a simple rating system of where the food or drink is on the acid/alkaline scale. There are some good tips on how to move to a more alkaline diet and reasons on how an acidic diet affects your health. Good book for first timers who do not want a 'heavy' read.

I will recommend this book to anyone interested in learning about the acid-alkaline balance diet.

Quel plaisir de parcourir les pages de cet ouvrage, très complet et bien structuré dans ses explications. Un des meilleurs lus sur le sujet. Je le recommande vivement!

Good. List If all alkaline food

Ein wichtiges Thema über das jeder bescheid wissen sollte. Einige wichtige Informationen sind verständlich beschrieben. Was mich verärgert hat ist das eine Liste von tausenden Lebensmitteln versprochen wird. Diese Liste ist sehr unübersichtlich und seltsam sortiert. Beispielsweise steht Quinoa 5x in der Liste, mehrere Lebensmittel sind mehrmals genannt und das sie so sortiert sind, (Beispielsweise ist eine Spalte mit Alkohol und dann steht 3 Seiten weiter wieder eine Art von Alkohol zwischen Thymian und Basilikum..) das ist schon sehr merkwürdig!

Worth the purchase