12 Steps to Whole Foods
Achieving an Alkaline Inner Terrain So what I provide in the following table is a list of the most alkaline-forming foods, for you to increase in your diet—and the most acid foods, for you to reduce or eliminate. Many foods aren’t on the list because they’re either uncommon to our diet (see similar foods in the chart) or only very slightly acidic or alkaline. Even for those who try to eat right every day and study nutrition rigorously, the pH issue can put some off and confuse many. I recommend putting the issues here in perspective: unless you are ill with cancer or another serious disease, just eat more alkaline and less acidic, and stay away from highly acidic refined foods like soda, coffee, meat, dairy, and refined oils. Worry less about acidic foods that are also whole plant foods (especially raw). If you have serious health challenges, you would be wise to consider eating as close to 100% alkaline as possible. Food Category Alkalizing Foods (eat more) Bread none white, whole-grain Condiments/Spices raw apple cider vinegar, sea and Celtic salts, tamari, chili pepper, miso, dried mustard, curry, cinnamon, ginger, herbs Acidifying Foods (eat less) MSG, prepared mustard, vinegar, ketchup, jam/jelly, yeast, cocoa, malt, carob, soy sauce, black pepper, refined salt, nutmeg, vanilla, mayonnaise Drinks alkaline water, distilled water fruit juice, alcohol, beer, tea, coffee, wine, soft drinks Fruits very slightly: lemon, lime, grapefruit, coconut, sour cherry, date, plum, currant, fig, nectarine, orange, peach, apricot, all melons, all berries, avocado dried fruit, blueberry, cranberry, prune, ripe banana Grains millet, quinoa, buckwheat, spelt (mildly) barley, corn, rye, oats, wheat, all rice types, all pastas, kamut, amaranth Legumes lentil; soy, lima, kidney, white bean chick pea, black beans, split pea Meats none pork, veal, beef, chicken, eggs, organ meats, ocean and farm fish, shellfish, wild freshwater fish Milks goat milk, human breast milk, fermented milk products soy milk; rice milk; dairy (cow milk) products including milk, cheese, ice cream Nuts/Seeds almond, pumpkin seed pistachio, peanut, cashew, walnut, sesame seed Oils olive, coconut, flax, cod liver corn, canola, sunflower; butter and margarine Sweeteners Vegetables (non-root) Vegetables (root) stevia, chicory (sweeteners), blackstrap molasses spouts, broccoli, cauliflower, cucumber, spinach, kale, collard greens, mustard greens, zucchini, leek, pumpkin, radish, garlic, pea, cabbage, celery, tomato beet, radish, turnip, carrot, sweet potato, parsnip sugar, aspartame, saccharin, corn syrup, maple syrup, fructose, honey, rice syrup, dried cane juice mushroom, olive potato (stored) Note: A food item in italics means it is either highly alkaline or acidic, respectively. 330 12 Steps to Whole Foods © Copyright Robyn Openshaw
Achieving an Alkaline Inner Terrain Should I Buy a Dehydrated Greens Product? It would be hard to read this book without coming away with a clear picture that greens are critical for excellent health. Ounce for ounce, green foods have the most powerfully healing properties of any food. Packed with chlorophyll, they are the plant equivalent of hemoglobin in the human body’s red blood cells. Countless studies document that green foods protect human beings against cholesterol, high blood pressure, cancer, and much more. They strengthen our immune system, mop up free radicals, and neutralize odors and bad breath. They’re the most alkaline, highest-micronutrient, lowest-calorie foods you can eat. Green foods are the most critical components of our diet, and they are in scant supply in the modern diet. The megahertz of energy in green foods can be found nowhere else. Dried, powdered greens can have up to 60 MHz of electrical energy, compared to chicken and beef’s energy of 2 MHz (which is the same measured energy of a cancerous tumor, according to Dr. Young’s research). A really great greens-food product has so much energy it literally jumps off the measuring spoon. I think that adding organic, finely powdered greens to one’s daily drinking water (or taking it in capsule form with water) is a fantastic and simple idea that will improve your goal of getting more alkalinity and more greens into your diet. Many companies now manufacture greens products, and I spent many hours looking at their ingredients and comparing prices for my GreenSmoothieGirl.com readers. I bought and used many brands for years. I hoped to clear the confusion for those wanting to (a) put more greens in their diet easily, and (b) store raw, power foods against emergencies. Many issues arose in my research. Many people complain that they hate the taste of greens products, especially spirulina. Some products are not finely ground and therefore settle to the bottom of the water and cause you to gag on them. Some products are very expensive (especially those that are network marketed). But my biggest issue with almost all the products I tried was the quality and, in particular, the inexpensive “filler” additives that add little or nothing nutritionally. I wanted to recommend a product that does not taste unpleasant, is finely ground so it isn’t noticeable in water, is affordably priced, is dehydrated at low temperatures, is bottled in amber glass with a long shelf life, and has nothing in it but the very best ingredients. I wanted only young cereal grasses (wheat grass, barley, Kamut grass, etc.), and freshwater algae and sea vegetables like high-protein, high-chlorophyll broken-cell-wall chlorella and spirulina, as well as dulse and kelp that nourish depleted thyroids. The last requirement—only the best ingredients—eliminated all but two products! I didn’t want sweeteners, apple pectin, stevia, FOS (fructo-oligosaccharides, which is a sweetener that some like to say has health benefits which I think are dubious), lecithin (a soy derivative), chia, or flax seeds. Chia and flax are nutritious, but they cost pennies (unlike dehydrated greens), and they also go rancid quickly on the shelf. My favorite greens product is in the GreenSmoothieGirl.com store. It has all pure, organic ingredients grown in ormus-rich volcanic soil in Southern Utah. The ingredient list is simple, which I prefer to elaborate herb or greens products as I think the body is confused and overwhelmed by complexity. Also, unlike another highquality greens product I used for several years, I actually like the taste of Ormus Greens because it is very lightly sweetened with stevia (an herb that has no impact on your blood sugar) and peppermint leaf extract. © Copyright Robyn Openshaw 12 Steps to Whole Foods 331
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Achieving an Alkaline Inner Terrain<br />
Should I Buy a Dehydrated Greens Product?<br />
It would be hard <strong>to</strong> read this book without coming away with a clear picture that greens are critical for excellent<br />
health. Ounce for ounce, green foods have the most powerfully healing properties of any food. Packed with<br />
chlorophyll, they are the plant equivalent of hemoglobin in the human body’s red blood cells.<br />
Countless studies document that green foods protect human beings against cholesterol, high blood pressure,<br />
cancer, and much more. They strengthen our immune system, mop up free radicals, and neutralize odors and<br />
bad breath. They’re the most alkaline, highest-micronutrient, lowest-calorie foods you can eat. Green foods are<br />
the most critical components of our diet, and they are in scant supply in the modern diet.<br />
The megahertz of energy in green foods can be found nowhere else. Dried, powdered greens can have up <strong>to</strong> 60<br />
MHz of electrical energy, compared <strong>to</strong> chicken and beef’s energy of 2 MHz (which is the same measured<br />
energy of a cancerous tumor, according <strong>to</strong> Dr. Young’s research). A really great greens-food product has so<br />
much energy it literally jumps off the measuring spoon.<br />
I think that adding organic, finely powdered greens <strong>to</strong> one’s daily drinking water (or taking it in capsule form<br />
with water) is a fantastic and simple idea that will improve your goal of getting more alkalinity and more<br />
greens in<strong>to</strong> your diet.<br />
Many companies now manufacture greens products, and I spent many hours looking at their ingredients and<br />
comparing prices for my GreenSmoothieGirl.com readers. I bought and used many brands for years. I hoped <strong>to</strong><br />
clear the confusion for those wanting <strong>to</strong> (a) put more greens in their diet easily, and (b) s<strong>to</strong>re raw, power foods<br />
against emergencies.<br />
Many issues arose in my research. Many people complain that they hate the taste of greens products, especially<br />
spirulina. Some products are not finely ground and therefore settle <strong>to</strong> the bot<strong>to</strong>m of the water and cause you <strong>to</strong><br />
gag on them. Some products are very expensive (especially those that are network marketed). But my biggest<br />
issue with almost all the products I tried was the quality and, in particular, the inexpensive “filler” additives<br />
that add little or nothing nutritionally.<br />
I wanted <strong>to</strong> recommend a product that does not taste unpleasant, is finely ground so it isn’t noticeable in water,<br />
is affordably priced, is dehydrated at low temperatures, is bottled in amber glass with a long shelf life, and has<br />
nothing in it but the very best ingredients. I wanted only young cereal grasses (wheat grass, barley, Kamut<br />
grass, etc.), and freshwater algae and sea vegetables like high-protein, high-chlorophyll broken-cell-wall<br />
chlorella and spirulina, as well as dulse and kelp that nourish depleted thyroids.<br />
The last requirement—only the best ingredients—eliminated all but two products! I didn’t want sweeteners,<br />
apple pectin, stevia, FOS (fruc<strong>to</strong>-oligosaccharides, which is a sweetener that some like <strong>to</strong> say has health<br />
benefits which I think are dubious), lecithin (a soy derivative), chia, or flax seeds. Chia and flax are nutritious,<br />
but they cost pennies (unlike dehydrated greens), and they also go rancid quickly on the shelf.<br />
My favorite greens product is in the GreenSmoothieGirl.com s<strong>to</strong>re. It has all pure, organic ingredients grown in<br />
ormus-rich volcanic soil in Southern Utah. The ingredient list is simple, which I prefer <strong>to</strong> elaborate herb or<br />
greens products as I think the body is confused and overwhelmed by complexity. Also, unlike another highquality<br />
greens product I used for several years, I actually like the taste of Ormus Greens because it is very<br />
lightly sweetened with stevia (an herb that has no impact on your blood sugar) and peppermint leaf extract.<br />
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