Should I eat fruit?

Initially, as you commence your alkaline life-journey, you may choose to exclude fruit from your diet for a period of time, perhaps three months.  If your body is highly acidic it is possible that you may suffer from candidiasis and other microform overgrowth.  Limiting natural sugars in your diet essentially starves the candida so that your body can regain control.  Fruit is loaded with nutritious enzymes, minerals and vitamins, so it is unwise to exclude it from your diet for an extended period.

Which 'green drink' is best?

We are often asked this question.  The answer is: the one that you can drink easily.  Wheat grass, barley grass, chlorophyll and  spirulina are all highly nutritious and offer wonderful and different health benefits.  However, if the taste is so foul for you that you struggle to get the stuff down your gullet, try something else.  Many people find barley grass easy to drink, and there is a brand of chlorophyll on the market that has a little mint in it, making it taste quite pleasant.  If all of them taste okay to you, then maybe go for a mixture or rotate your greens for optimum benefits.

Note that both barley grass and wheat grass are gluten free.  Some greens are available in tablet form for those of you who really struggle to drink greens.  Tablets are also easily transported when you are on the go.

Parties & how to survive without ruining your health

When you're going out, it is worth considering some strategies for reducing the acid load on your body. Have a good time and enjoy...but remember the consequences and make an effort to re-alkalise yourself.

Consider the following options:

• Keep up the green drinks to nourish your body
• Have a large green salad with olive oil and lemon before going out for a big meal, you'll be less likely to eat too much acid-forming food if you don't arrive starving
• Have lemon juice in water whenever you can to help you alkalise
• If you drink alcohol, go for the purer varieties like scotch with soda, vodka or an organic wine.  Avoid the sugary mixers, diet drinks and colorants
• Station yourself away from the food buffet at the party
• Offer to bring something to a party; and take a plate of fresh crudite veggies and some good hummous (and eat it yourself!)
• Opt for fresh fruit desserts
• If you over-do it, the homeopathic remedy Nux Vom may be particularly helpful.

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Are there supplements that can help me be more alkaline?

Apart from green powders, such as barley grass, wheat grass, spirulina and chlorophyll; you can take bicarb of soda to quickly help you become more alkaline.  Yes, ordinary bicarb of soda from the supermarket...

Dosage: up to 3 teaspoons per day, dissolved in water.  Preferably do not take with a protein meal, as it can hinder protein digestion.

There are many alkalising supplements available at health food stores and online.  Bicarb is useful to help you overcome illness but should not replace healthy alkaline eating.

Flu and what you can do to help yourself recover

Being in a healthy alkaline state should improve your resistance, but sometimes it can still happen that you down with the 'flu or a bad cold.  Remember to keep hydrating with good alkaline water and 'green drinks'.  Your body might need an alkalising boost, so you can take up to 3 teaspoons of bicarb of soda per day, in separate doses and not with protein foods.  Vitamin supplements can be of help too: particularly vitamin B,C and zinc.  Garlic, horseradish and echinacea can be of benefit too.  There are many homepathic remedies which can reduce the duration and severity of the 'flu and colds.  It is essential to get professional advice to ensure you take the correct remedy for your particular symptoms.

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