[.ca] The Acid Alkaline Balance Diet (ISBN 0658016954)

Very Informative Health Book With Great Healthy Advice:
The Acid Alkaline Balance Diet was a revelation to me. It's a book which should be read by everyone who is interested in main-taining or improving their health. I became interested in the acid alkaline ph balance when I developed acid reflux. I tried remedies recommended in other books,such as eating foods high in alkaline minerals and avoiding acid-forming foods. Nothing worked. And then I read The Acid Alkaline Balance Diet,and I knew I had hit upon a book that spoke the truth. One of the truths in this book is that diet should be suited to the digestive type of the individual. I took the simple self-test recommended in the book, found outthat I was a meat eater, and began eating the foods listed in the book for my metabolic type. My acid reflux vanished within two weeks. I then tried the author's semi-raw potato recipe because I needed to scale down my appetite so I could stay on the diet. It worked! I no longer get a craving for food at night so I don't binge out. This book is not only full oforiginal thinking and good information, but very readable, with fascinating case histories of individuals who have healed themselves by following Kliment's dietary suggestions. It should be required reading in all of the educational institutions in this country.

All You Need For Better Health:
This is the best book I've ever read on the impact of diet on health. The author targets the real cause of degenerative disease: acid waste from inappropriate diet. She outlines a simple self test which reveals what foods are appropriate for the individual. Her diets include all types of foods but in different proportions depending on your metabolic type. Each metabolic type (grain eater and meat eater) is allowed a small amount of foods assigned to the opposite metabolic type. For example, she recommends that the grain eater eat a lot of fish and poultry but that the meat eater eat fish and poultry in much smaller increments. Another example of this is her proposal that the grain eater should consume a lot of green leafy veggies while she emphasizes root vegetables for the meat eater. I like this approach because, by eating all types of food you get the whole range of nutrients the body needs to function properly. Kliment's book, along with Sang Wang's book, Reverse Aging, which provides good background information on acid alkaline pH factors-- is all the reader needs to take control of his/her body and attain a good state of health and mental well being.

Alkalize or Die... It's True!!!:
I have read and re-read this book until some of the pages are tattered! What Dr. Baroody is telling us is to clean up our act. If we all took as good a care of our bodies as we do our automobiles we could probably live to be 120 like the Hunzas. I have Crohn's disease and this book is my 'bible for health'. All of us, every human being on earth, must get their bodies alkaline! Cancer cells CAN'T live in an alkaline environment! All kinds of ailments are chewing away at our insides and we just keep feeding our body acids. Get this book NOW, and use it!!

not a good read:
I felt that there was no evidence to back any of this writer's claim and therefore, no reason to believe any of it is valid.

The Acid Alkaline Balance Diet:
As nasty as it may seem, our bodies are virtual garbage dumps. When we eat too much, or eat processed foods that our organs find hard to break down, our bodies can't work fast enough leaving waste within the body. Bacteria thrive in such environments. So begins the process of acidic waste collection in the body. The end result includes a wide range of medical problems from arthritis through insomnia to kidneys disease. The Acid Alkaline Balance Diet looks to rebalance the system and remove this acidic waste from our system. The process is fairly complicated, mostly because each person's needs are different. Some individuals have a more acidic system while others have a more alkaline system. In each case, different diets and vitamin treatments are used to remove excess waste and bring the system back into stasis. Various tests that the reader can do for him or herself are included within the text enabling them to understand their particular issues and start to reduce these factors. Readers are also encouraged to see their homeopathic specialists for more in depth workups. I am not really a vitamin person as I tend to like natural/organic alternatives. Therefore, I couldn't see myself sticking to this diet for any length of time. Nonetheless, I learnt a great deal from this book particularly the sections on ancestral diets and food allergies.