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.