Eight rules for pH balanced diet

There are four elementary principles for selecting foods to ensure the proper quantities of acidifying, alkalizing, and acid foods in the diet. These are accompanied by four additional rules to be followed by people who are unable to metabolise acids properly.

Rule one: a meal should never consist solely of acidifying foods, but should always contain alkaline foods.

A meal of meat with pasta, or fish and rice, with cake and coffee for dessert is not a recommended menu because it consists entirely of acidifying foods; the same applies to a meatless meal of pasta with tomato sauce followed by a dessert sweetened with white sugar. By adding vegetables to this meal in the form of salads or raw or cooked vegetables, the alkaline intake at least partially compensates for the acids. Vegetables are typically included with meals, but often in such small quantities that their effect is negligible.

Rule two: the amount of alkalising foods should be greater proportionately than the amount of acidifying foods at anyone meal.

The proportion of foods that produce alkaline elements should always be greater than that of foods that produce acids. Eating in this manner ensures the acids are neutralised at the intestinal or tissue level without any need for the body to draw from its reserves.

Rule three: the proportion of alkalising foods should be even greater proportionately when there is pronounced acidification of the internal environment or when the individual is unable to metabolise acids properly.

The more the body is weakened or exhausted, the less alkaline reserve it has for its buffer system, and the less capable it is of oxidising acids. Putting less acid into the body makes it easier for the body to maintain its acid-alkaline balance.

Rule four: a diet consisting solely of alkaline vegetables and plant-based food is possible, but only for a limited period (one to two weeks).

An exclusively alkaline diet, consisting solely of vegetables, potatoes, bananas, almonds, and so forth, cannot be continued indefinitely because it is seriously inadequate in protein. Such diets are useful when acidification is very significant and the disorders it has caused are acute, intense, and painful. The abrupt, complete elimination of all acids allows the body to recover more rapidly and return to a normal acid-alkaline balance. An exclusively alkaline diet should remain a short-term therapeutic action so as not to compromise health.

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