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The premise of an alkaline diet is that nutrients found in supplements, alkalizing foods, and water can bring the body into balance. These vitamins, minerals and herbs infuse the body with new energy, vitality and better health.

Alkaline food and water should be consumed in order to provide nutrients the body needs to neutralize acids and toxins in the blood, lymph, tissues and cells.

When the pH balance within the body is ‘off-balance’ the body tries to correct this delicate balance of pH. This process is presented as symptoms of discomfort, such as colds, flues, allergies, diseases, viruses and bacteria.

When the pH level in our body is unbalanced, almost any area of the body can be affected. For example, when the nervous system occurs as the result of unbalanced pH balance is in the form of depression. When the cardiovascular system is made we could have heart disease or experience other heart problems, including the thickening and hardening of the arteries, coronary heard disease, pain or chest discomfort, stroke, hypertension and heart failure. When muscles are effected we often feel fatigue and lack of energy. When the skin is effected by improper pH balance age faster than normal.

When the pH level of the body is in balance, the body reaches ideal weight and corrects negative health problems naturally.

Transition to a more healthy alkaline diet requires a change in attitude toward food. The important point to remember is that small changes go a long way. Add more alkaline foods to your diet gradually.

7 sure-fire way to make alkaline diet benefit you:

1) Reduce consumption of sugar and products made from sugar, including soft drinks, pies, ice cream, jello, jams and jellies, artificial juices, puddings

2) Avoid processed foods and condiments including ketchup, salad dressings, pickles, luncheon meat, canned fruit, bread, seasonings, cheese dips, peanut butter, prepared seafood, frozen vegetables, crackers, canned soups, sausages, sausages, sweetened yogurt.

3) Avoid cooking and heating food and beverages in the microwave.

4) Avoid dairy products, meat, fried foods and fast foods.

5) Increase your consumption of raw vegetables and raw fresh fruit (without sugar). You should include raw vegetables in every meal. If your breakfast is so small that you just eat toast or cereal, stop eating toast and take fresh fruit or vegetable juice instead. If your lunches usually consist of sandwiches, try to replace it with a raw salad or vegetable juice.

6) Grains form the base of a balanced diet and are important for maintaining the alkaline balance in the body. Barley is a great source of vitamins, minerals and nutrients, including folic acid, fiber, carbohydrates, antioxidants and phytoestrogens.

7) Don’t forget to hydrate. Drink at least half of your body weight in grams of good quality water each day. Add liquid minerals to improve the quality of the water.

If you follow these simple step 7, you will be able to create the proper alkaline balance in the body.

Creating the right base balance in the body leads to increased quality of life. You’ll start to see immediate improvements in your health. Your energy will increase, your concentration will become stronger. You’ll build strength, endurance and resistance to disease. Your whole body will function more effectively as it was meant to do.

During the last decades there has been a change towards mechanization and homogenization of farming, which uses pesticides, additives, herbicides, synthetic fertilizers and mass-production techniques. All this is clearly affecting mankind’s health, and new diseases are spreading rapidly amongst humans and animals (bird’s flu being the most recent one).

The World Health Organization produces reports to show how the use of chemicals and other products on food, coupled with the manufacturing processes involved, are actually a threat for our health.

If you have space for a few pots or even a small piece of land, it is a wise decision to grow your own organic vegetable garden. Today I’m presenting you with seven reasons for doing this:

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You will have no additives in your vegetables. Research by organic food associations has shown that additives in our food can cause heart diseases, osteoporosis, migraines and hyperactivity.

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There will be no pesticides or synthetic fertilizers used. These chemical products are applied to obtain crops all the time regardless plagues or weather conditions, and affect the quality of the vegetables. Besides, pesticides are usually poisonous to humans.

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Your vegetables will not be genetically modified (GM). Antibiotics, drugs and hormones are used on vegetables to grow more and larger ones. One of the consequences of this practice are vegetables which look all the same and are usually tasteless. Besides, we end up consuming the hormones that have been used on the vegetables, with the potential risks for our health.

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Eating your own organic vegetables will be much more healthy for you. They will not contain any of the products or chemicals named above, and they will be much more natural than any ones you would find at the supermarket. Your health will not be at risk because you will then know that nothing has been added to your vegetables.

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Your own organic vegetables will be much more tasty. The use of pesticides, synthetic fertilizers, hormones and antibiotics make vegetables grow unnaturally and take the taste away from them. With organic vegetables, your cooking will be enhanced as their flavour will show fully.

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Organic farming is friendly to the environment. Because you won’t use pesticides or other equally harming products on your vegetables, you will not damage the soil or the air with the chemical components.

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When you grow your own organic vegetables you are contributing to your own self-sustainability and the sustainability of the planet. Small communities have been founded where members exchange products that they grow naturally, thus contributing to create a friendly and better place for us all.

In the end, eating organic products only means that we do not add anything else to them than they would naturally have. As you can guess, additives, fertilizers, pesticides or hormones are not components of naturally grown food. To better care for your health, grown your own organic vegetables -and a few pots is all you need.

Since my diagnosis with diabetes at the age of eleven, my own diet has changed dramatically.  I maintain my current healthy weight with a great diet/eating plan. If you do plan on losing more than about a stone in weight then I would visit your doctor for more tips on how to do this without risk.

I’ve had diabetes for seven years now, but to tell you that how I maintain weight is perfect would be totally wrong of me.  However, I can advise you to follow my steps because I know what works and what doesn’t. Before I really begin I must also say that I have been brought up by great parents who taught me to eat everything, and so I do! If there is something that you don’t like, there are loads of other diabetic recipes and ideas that you will eat and appreciate.

I am a university student and I like to buy fresh and organic produce from where I live. I believe that this is important because it can be the most good for your body and contain more nutrients and vitamins than most supermarket produce. I like to source food from my fortnightly farmers market in town, which sells amazing meat and dairy produce and fresh in season fruit and vegetables. This is another important thing to remember, that eating fruit and vegetables in their season means that they will taste better as well as doing you good. I have a lot of influence from Western European cuisine (mainly France and Italy) as you will tell, but I do not profess to be a chef and everything is easy to make and very convenient.

I have read countless diet books and diabetic recipe/diet books, and I came to a conclusion that I think really works. I fused all the good things from the diets (but not from every diet) and sort of put together my own one. I call this my Juvenile Diabetes Healthy Diet!

The “rules” that I would lay down are as follows:

1. Cut back on snacks and then change the type of snacks you eat.
Certainly my biggest downfall although it wasn’t really apparent to me. When I first started at University, I had little or no routine which meant that filling my day was difficult and popping into the kitchen for a snack, no matter how healthy it felt, was a regular occurence. This is one of the hardest things to do for some people, but establishing a great routine is essential to great diabetes care. The types of snacks to be eating are unsalted nuts, dried unsweetened fruit, fresh fruit, fresh vegetables (I love fresh red pepper and cucumber), dark chocolate (richer and nicer and you only want 2 squares usually).

2. Cut back on white flour and embrace wholemeal carbs.
This is the most essential part of your diet, and the thing that can show the biggest increase in loss of weight. Some diets in fact jsut focus on this point, and are very successful. Wholemeal (especially stoneground wholemeal) is so good for you and has so much more flavour in it that switching is much easier than you think. Most people are really surprised at the ranges you can get in you supermarket, again remember that the bread that is best for you is the one that is freshest with least perservatives or added ingredients. Also, brown or basmati rice is great with a lovely nutty texture. Wholemeal pasta is great and for your potatoes I would totally recommend the smaller new potatoes.

3. Stop drinking cocktails, start drinking wine.
Cocktails are full of sugar, colourants and preservatives. As a student I have had loads of practice at going out and not drinking cocktails, so my drink of choice is Malibu and Diet Coke if I feel I have to drink something and I make it last all night. I can then top up with Diet Coke (which has almost no sugar in it) and it looks as though I am drinking Malibu, who is to know. If you are out at a restaurant, red wine is much better than anything else you can order, (except water of course!) and it has been proven that the anti-oxidants in red wine are great for keeping a healthy heart. The recommended amount is one glass a day with your evening meal.

4. Start cooking more vegetables and fruit.
Fresh fruit and vegetables are a great way to get all the vitamins and minerals you need. And there are so many different ways in which to cook vegetables, but I find that raw is the best followed closely by steamed. Both of these ways preserve all their natural goodness as well. I will follow this post with another diabetes recipes post.

5. Drink more water.
I know you have heard people say this many times before, but the benefits of drinking more water are endless. A few tips on how to get more water into your day are firstly to put bottles of water at all the places you go in the house or work. So keep one in your desk, on your desk, a glass in the kitchen, the bedroom, the sitting room, etc. Try and drink all these glasses up and you will be well on your way to 8 glasses a day. The trick is to add a glass every few days or so, if you try to drink all that water in one go you won’t be so inclined to drink 8 glasses again, trust me! Have a go, it’s amazing how great you will feel.