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bdrunner79
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8's pretty darn good. SounRAB like you're doing all the right things!
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purity dee
Guest
hmm, I have no problems with watermelon, nectarines, cantaloupe, limes which I love sucking on with light salt!!! There may be something good to this list, I do have acid reflux symptoms with the fooRAB on the acid list 
thanks for posting it.
thanks for posting it.
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Acidaway
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Bumping this up for any newbies and providing a quick update on my diet. I'm starting to branch out a bit into a larger variety of fruits and vegetables. After eating a very high alkaline diet for nearly half a year, I feel that my body has mostly replenished it's alkaline stores. When I measure the pH of my urine I am usually testing 6.8 or higher.
So I now feel like I can eat a wider variety of Lowest Alkaline and Low Alkaline fruits and vegetables. I've recently added organic red potatoes, beets, oranges, and bananas to my diet. I plan to get a vegetable steamer and will likely add even more vegetables after I get that since eating steamed vegetables is generally much easier than eating raw vegetables.
I've found that I still cannot eat most acidic fooRAB by themselves. For example, I tried to eat some carrots (from the More Acid) category the other day and immediately developed a film in the back of my throat. The same is true for sardines in water and chicken. I will generally eat fresh, raw, organic green kale with sardines and with chicken to balance out the acidic affects.
That being said, I think I am also starting to get to the point where I need to balance out the alkaline fooRAB with acidic fooRAB. My right hip has been hurting and I believe I've traced it to too much alkaline fooRAB because I cut back on alkaline fooRAB yesterday and it feels much better today. So I believe I've healed my body to the point where I need to focus on eating an alkaline-acid balanced diet as opposed to eat mostly fooRAB from the Most Alkaline or More Alkaline categories.
Here's my typical daily diet as of now. I try to eat all organic if I can find it:
Breakfast:
Usually starchy vegetables like boiled red pototaes, baked or boiled sweet-potatoes/yams, maybe some green kale and some oranges or watermelon
Lunch:
1/2 chicken
approximately 10 cups of organic green kale
Afternoon snack:
boiled red potatoes or baked sweet-potatoes/yams
1/8th to 1/4 cup of molasses
Evening:
1 cup of ground flaxseed
1 tin of wild-caught sardines in water
Variety of fruits and vegetables (potatoes, yams, beets, oranges, bananas, kale, watermelon, etc)
Unsweetened green tea is still my main beverage.
Acid reflux is no longer my main concern as I now rarely get it and know how to stop it if I do get it. My main concern now is figuring out healthy meals that are easy to prepare and that I like to eat.
So I now feel like I can eat a wider variety of Lowest Alkaline and Low Alkaline fruits and vegetables. I've recently added organic red potatoes, beets, oranges, and bananas to my diet. I plan to get a vegetable steamer and will likely add even more vegetables after I get that since eating steamed vegetables is generally much easier than eating raw vegetables.
I've found that I still cannot eat most acidic fooRAB by themselves. For example, I tried to eat some carrots (from the More Acid) category the other day and immediately developed a film in the back of my throat. The same is true for sardines in water and chicken. I will generally eat fresh, raw, organic green kale with sardines and with chicken to balance out the acidic affects.
That being said, I think I am also starting to get to the point where I need to balance out the alkaline fooRAB with acidic fooRAB. My right hip has been hurting and I believe I've traced it to too much alkaline fooRAB because I cut back on alkaline fooRAB yesterday and it feels much better today. So I believe I've healed my body to the point where I need to focus on eating an alkaline-acid balanced diet as opposed to eat mostly fooRAB from the Most Alkaline or More Alkaline categories.
Here's my typical daily diet as of now. I try to eat all organic if I can find it:
Breakfast:
Usually starchy vegetables like boiled red pototaes, baked or boiled sweet-potatoes/yams, maybe some green kale and some oranges or watermelon
Lunch:
1/2 chicken
approximately 10 cups of organic green kale
Afternoon snack:
boiled red potatoes or baked sweet-potatoes/yams
1/8th to 1/4 cup of molasses
Evening:
1 cup of ground flaxseed
1 tin of wild-caught sardines in water
Variety of fruits and vegetables (potatoes, yams, beets, oranges, bananas, kale, watermelon, etc)
Unsweetened green tea is still my main beverage.
Acid reflux is no longer my main concern as I now rarely get it and know how to stop it if I do get it. My main concern now is figuring out healthy meals that are easy to prepare and that I like to eat.
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Acidaway
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Bumping to the top for newbies.
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Acidaway
Guest
I thought I'd update this thread with my current daily diet:
Fresh, raw green kale (28-56 cups) (More Alkaline)
1-2 medium-sized watermelons (Most Alkaline)
1/2 cup of ground flax seed (Lowest Alkaline)
6-10 egg whites from Vital Farms eggs (Lowest Acid)
1 sweet potato or yam (Most Alkaline) with Kerrygold butter (Acid)
1-2 cups of molasses (More Alkaline)
1/4 chicken or 1 pork chop (More Acid)
green tea - drink all day as main beverage (Low Alkaline)
Other fooRAB I mix in occasionally: onions, limes, lemons, egg yolks, tangerines, cantaloupe, broccoli, apples, blackberries, blueberries, almonRAB, oranges, grapes, beer, wild salmon, sardines in water
Miscellaneous notes:
(1) As near as I can tell, the fresh, raw green kale has made me more regular than I have ever been in my life. This is somewhat surprising since it only has 1 gram of fiber and 121 mg of Omega-3 (to 92 mg of Omega-6). I had previously thought that fiber and Omega-3 were the only things that mattered as far as being regular goes.
However, 1 cup of ground flaxseed has 38,325 mg of Omega-3 and 46 grams of fiber. On days when I eat 56 cups of fresh, raw, green kale, I'm only getting ~7000 mg of Omega-3 and 56 grams of fiber. Eating multiple cups of ground flaxseed never helped me as much as eating the fresh, raw green kale has even though two cups of ground flaxseed provides way more fiber and Omega-3 than 56 cups of fresh, raw green kale. So I think there is more to being regular than just fiber and Omega-3.
(2) I've tried red kale and dino kale and don't like either one as much as fresh, raw, green kale. I find fresh, raw green kale very easy to eat raw as it is soft and has a very nice texture. I find that eating 28 cups of fresh, raw green kale fairly easy to do which is surprising as I never ate leafy, green things prior to a few weeks ago when I tried fresh, raw green kale and discovered that I really liked it.
(3) I recently discovered Vital Farms eggs and they are awesome! They come from pasture-raised chickens and taste much better than normal store-bought eggs. Sometimes I eat the yolks. However, I've read that the yolks have some type of acid in them (arachadonic?) so I usually tend to avoid the yolks.
(4) I can no longer find organic watermelon, but I can still find conventional watermelon. At some point, I suspect that I won't be able to find watermelon and will have to switch to some other food for those calories. Maybe I'll start eating more sweet potatoes/yams.
(5) The first few times I tried molasses I didn't like it. However, the taste has since grown on me and I now eat it to satisfy my sweet tooth. It's been a few weeks since I've eaten any candy bars and I feel fairly confident that I may never eat another candy bar or any other type of acidic sweetener/candy again.
(6) I still drink beer (Most Acid) 1-3 times per month on weekenRAB. I put limes in the beer to help kill the acid. When I get home, I'll eat a watermelon before going to bed. I might also eat a tupperware container (14 cups) of green kale. It's amazing how much less thirsty I am in the morning after a night of drinking now that I make sure to eat a lot of alkaline fooRAB at night after drinking but before going to bed.
(7) I'd like to cut out the chicken and pork chops completely. However, I've only been able to find one vegetarian source of protein that I can eat (ground flaxseed). Other sources I've tried have a bad Omega3:Omega6 ratio (lentils, avocados) or just don't seem to agree with me (kidney beans).
I'm going to keep searching though. I feel like this is the last part of my diet that still causes me problems. I can only eat about 2-3 bites of chicken or pork before I feel the acid building in my stomach and have to eat something alkaline like green kale. I'm fairly certain I'd be better off without chicken and pork. Chicken and pork is the only regular item left in my diet that is in the More or Most Acid category.
(8) I'm eating a veritable metric ton of carbs. I'm probably eating 2-4x as much carbs as I need. When I started eating alkaline fooRAB early last summer, I weighed around 200 pounRAB. Now I'm weighing in between 210 and 215. I'd like to get down to 190.
I think the key losing weight is finding one more source of low-carb, low acid protein in addition to the Vital Farms egg whites and ground flaxseed. I have to eat a lot of alkaline fooRAB to balance out the chicken and pork. Maybe I'll try replacing the chicken and pork with more egg whites a couple of days a week to see how that works.
(9) If you haven't tried fresh, raw green kale before I highly recommend it. I consider it to be a superfood. In addition to being in the More Alkaline category, it has just slightly more Omega3 than Omega6, has as much Vitamin C per 1 cup serving as an orange, has 2x the RDA of Vitamin A and 6x the RDA of Vitamin K per cup, and basically no carbs.
Kale is a form of cabbage and is considered to be closer to wild cabbage than most domesticated forms. It's close relationship to wild cabbage is probably what makes it so nutritious.
Fresh, raw green kale (28-56 cups) (More Alkaline)
1-2 medium-sized watermelons (Most Alkaline)
1/2 cup of ground flax seed (Lowest Alkaline)
6-10 egg whites from Vital Farms eggs (Lowest Acid)
1 sweet potato or yam (Most Alkaline) with Kerrygold butter (Acid)
1-2 cups of molasses (More Alkaline)
1/4 chicken or 1 pork chop (More Acid)
green tea - drink all day as main beverage (Low Alkaline)
Other fooRAB I mix in occasionally: onions, limes, lemons, egg yolks, tangerines, cantaloupe, broccoli, apples, blackberries, blueberries, almonRAB, oranges, grapes, beer, wild salmon, sardines in water
Miscellaneous notes:
(1) As near as I can tell, the fresh, raw green kale has made me more regular than I have ever been in my life. This is somewhat surprising since it only has 1 gram of fiber and 121 mg of Omega-3 (to 92 mg of Omega-6). I had previously thought that fiber and Omega-3 were the only things that mattered as far as being regular goes.
However, 1 cup of ground flaxseed has 38,325 mg of Omega-3 and 46 grams of fiber. On days when I eat 56 cups of fresh, raw, green kale, I'm only getting ~7000 mg of Omega-3 and 56 grams of fiber. Eating multiple cups of ground flaxseed never helped me as much as eating the fresh, raw green kale has even though two cups of ground flaxseed provides way more fiber and Omega-3 than 56 cups of fresh, raw green kale. So I think there is more to being regular than just fiber and Omega-3.
(2) I've tried red kale and dino kale and don't like either one as much as fresh, raw, green kale. I find fresh, raw green kale very easy to eat raw as it is soft and has a very nice texture. I find that eating 28 cups of fresh, raw green kale fairly easy to do which is surprising as I never ate leafy, green things prior to a few weeks ago when I tried fresh, raw green kale and discovered that I really liked it.
(3) I recently discovered Vital Farms eggs and they are awesome! They come from pasture-raised chickens and taste much better than normal store-bought eggs. Sometimes I eat the yolks. However, I've read that the yolks have some type of acid in them (arachadonic?) so I usually tend to avoid the yolks.
(4) I can no longer find organic watermelon, but I can still find conventional watermelon. At some point, I suspect that I won't be able to find watermelon and will have to switch to some other food for those calories. Maybe I'll start eating more sweet potatoes/yams.
(5) The first few times I tried molasses I didn't like it. However, the taste has since grown on me and I now eat it to satisfy my sweet tooth. It's been a few weeks since I've eaten any candy bars and I feel fairly confident that I may never eat another candy bar or any other type of acidic sweetener/candy again.
(6) I still drink beer (Most Acid) 1-3 times per month on weekenRAB. I put limes in the beer to help kill the acid. When I get home, I'll eat a watermelon before going to bed. I might also eat a tupperware container (14 cups) of green kale. It's amazing how much less thirsty I am in the morning after a night of drinking now that I make sure to eat a lot of alkaline fooRAB at night after drinking but before going to bed.
(7) I'd like to cut out the chicken and pork chops completely. However, I've only been able to find one vegetarian source of protein that I can eat (ground flaxseed). Other sources I've tried have a bad Omega3:Omega6 ratio (lentils, avocados) or just don't seem to agree with me (kidney beans).
I'm going to keep searching though. I feel like this is the last part of my diet that still causes me problems. I can only eat about 2-3 bites of chicken or pork before I feel the acid building in my stomach and have to eat something alkaline like green kale. I'm fairly certain I'd be better off without chicken and pork. Chicken and pork is the only regular item left in my diet that is in the More or Most Acid category.
(8) I'm eating a veritable metric ton of carbs. I'm probably eating 2-4x as much carbs as I need. When I started eating alkaline fooRAB early last summer, I weighed around 200 pounRAB. Now I'm weighing in between 210 and 215. I'd like to get down to 190.
I think the key losing weight is finding one more source of low-carb, low acid protein in addition to the Vital Farms egg whites and ground flaxseed. I have to eat a lot of alkaline fooRAB to balance out the chicken and pork. Maybe I'll try replacing the chicken and pork with more egg whites a couple of days a week to see how that works.
(9) If you haven't tried fresh, raw green kale before I highly recommend it. I consider it to be a superfood. In addition to being in the More Alkaline category, it has just slightly more Omega3 than Omega6, has as much Vitamin C per 1 cup serving as an orange, has 2x the RDA of Vitamin A and 6x the RDA of Vitamin K per cup, and basically no carbs.
Kale is a form of cabbage and is considered to be closer to wild cabbage than most domesticated forms. It's close relationship to wild cabbage is probably what makes it so nutritious.
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jonnstar
Guest
The organic aciRAB in fruit and veggies (citric, tartaric) actualy become alkaline during their metabolisum by the body.
It is stomach acid that causes GORD, not the small amount of acidity in fooRAB you eat.
It is stomach acid that causes GORD, not the small amount of acidity in fooRAB you eat.
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Acidaway
Guest
Another update -- My current diet is something like the following:
Breakfast:
1-2 personal watermelons or 1-2 baked sweet potatoes
Lunch:
1/2 chicken
~10 cups of fresh raw green kale
Try to eat another 10 cups of fresh raw green kale throughout the afternoon
Afternoon snack:
1-2 baked sweet potatoes
1/8th to 1/4 cup of molasses
Evening:
1 cup of ground flaxseed
1 tin of sardines
watermelons
sweet potatoes
kale
unsweetened green tea is still my main beverage
I've mostly cut out the eggs as they didn't seem to agree with me, but I still eat eggs occasionally. I've also found that I wasn't eating anywhere close to 1-2 cups of molasses per day. I measured it out the other day, and my daily intake is probably around 1/8th cup with up to 1/4 cup somedays. I've also found that pork causes me more problems than chicken, so I only eat pork occasionally now.
I've noticed that as I've added alkaline fooRAB to my diet (like watermelon, sweet potatoes, kale) that I rarely if ever ate before that I would crave them tremendously for a couple of months and would then scale back. I think that was because my body was correcting nutritional deficiencies that I've had for years.
It's great to be able to eat without anxiety now that I know which fooRAB cause me acid reflux and which fooRAB stop/prevent it.
I've also recently started to add back some of the sugary fooRAB I used to eat. For example, this weekend I had some powdered donuts. I'm thinking that I will let myself indulge in whatever I want 2-3 days per month and just take Cal-Mag-Zinc supplements on those days to prevent acid reflux.
Edit: I try to only eat only organic, but organic watermelon is tough to find now and the chicken I usually get from a local fast-food joint. However, the chicken is cooked over an open flame and I don't believe there is any oil used when cooking it.
Breakfast:
1-2 personal watermelons or 1-2 baked sweet potatoes
Lunch:
1/2 chicken
~10 cups of fresh raw green kale
Try to eat another 10 cups of fresh raw green kale throughout the afternoon
Afternoon snack:
1-2 baked sweet potatoes
1/8th to 1/4 cup of molasses
Evening:
1 cup of ground flaxseed
1 tin of sardines
watermelons
sweet potatoes
kale
unsweetened green tea is still my main beverage
I've mostly cut out the eggs as they didn't seem to agree with me, but I still eat eggs occasionally. I've also found that I wasn't eating anywhere close to 1-2 cups of molasses per day. I measured it out the other day, and my daily intake is probably around 1/8th cup with up to 1/4 cup somedays. I've also found that pork causes me more problems than chicken, so I only eat pork occasionally now.
I've noticed that as I've added alkaline fooRAB to my diet (like watermelon, sweet potatoes, kale) that I rarely if ever ate before that I would crave them tremendously for a couple of months and would then scale back. I think that was because my body was correcting nutritional deficiencies that I've had for years.
It's great to be able to eat without anxiety now that I know which fooRAB cause me acid reflux and which fooRAB stop/prevent it.
I've also recently started to add back some of the sugary fooRAB I used to eat. For example, this weekend I had some powdered donuts. I'm thinking that I will let myself indulge in whatever I want 2-3 days per month and just take Cal-Mag-Zinc supplements on those days to prevent acid reflux.
Edit: I try to only eat only organic, but organic watermelon is tough to find now and the chicken I usually get from a local fast-food joint. However, the chicken is cooked over an open flame and I don't believe there is any oil used when cooking it.