The Acid–Alkaline Diet for Optimum Health: Restore Your Health by Creating pH Balance in Your Diet, Edition 2

Christopher Vasey

Jul 2006 · Sold by Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

With more than 50,000 first-edition copies sold, this expanded second edition provides the latest information on restoring your body’s acid-alkaline balance

• Discusses the role of enzyme supplements, prebiotic and probiotic complexes, and antioxidants in neutralizing and eliminating acids

• Addresses the relationship of proper hydration to essential enzyme activity and acid elimination

• Outlines a sample alkaline detoxification diet

Most people consume an abundance of highly processed foods that acidify the body. As a result, they are afflicted with health problems ranging from minor skin irritations, chronic fatigue, back pain, and depression to arthritis, ulcers, and osteoporosis. To enjoy optimum health, the body needs balanced quantities of alkaline and acid substances. In The Acid-Alkaline Diet for Optimum Health, naturopath and detoxification expert Christopher Vasey shows how a simple change in diet to restore your acid-alkaline balance can result in vast improvements in health.

With two new chapters, this updated and expanded second edition provides the latest information on proper hydration and deacidification, important alkalizing supplements, and how to eliminate the body’s accumulated acids through intestinal cleansing. It also includes a new, detailed example of an alkaline detoxifying diet. Rather than organizing alkaline and acid foods based on their chemical composition, Vasey categorizes foods by their effect on the body, explaining that some foods, such as fruits, can have either an alkalizing or an acidifying effect, depending on who eats them. He describes how to determine your acid levels and how to design a diet best suited for your particular health needs.

Ratings and reviews

I am blown away by this book!! I wish I'd read it twenty years ago, but at age 60 nothing is stopping me from living at my optimum health! Perhaps I was too busy raising my child alone and struggling on my teacher's salary to have the energy to notice how run down I was feeling over the years, but I believe this book will answer many peoples' questions, yet today on their health and possible solutions to metabolic mysteries no doctor has bothered to discuss with them. I certainly never had any physician seriously discuss these matters as contained in this book. We have to seek information in America to survive the predatory culture of the medical, phamaceudical and food industries -- who all seem destined to watch us self-destruct physically while probably in cahoots with the insurance industry to make it all pay them out, rather than care about our people living healthy, happy lives. I appreciate doctors today such as this one who want to share what they know and give possession of it to the people who need it most....because we've been lied to for 50 years. Buy it, you will not be disappointed.

About the author

Christopher Vasey, N.D., is a naturopath specializing in detoxification and rejuvenation. He is the author of The Water Prescription, The Whey Prescription, and The Detox Mono Diet. He lives near Montreux, Switzerland.