Balanced
diet.
Our diet should be 80 % base-producing and 20 % acid-producing.
A basic principle is that fruit and vegetables give a basic reaction
while an acid reaction is the consequence of other food. The research
of Doctor Ragnar Berg has proved that certain aliments are acid-producing
and base-producing respectively.
Examples of acid-producing food:
Meat, fish, eggs, pasta, porridge oats, coffee, soft drinks,
cocoa, ketchup, pepper, mustard, sugar, white cheese, soy beans,
certain leguminous plants, asparagus, alcohol, medicines, tobacco
and wine vinegar.
Examples of base-producing food:
Avocado, lemon, grapefruit, fresh fruit and berries in general,
raisins, maize, vegetables, root vegetables and raw food in
particular.
When adding sugar raw fruit becomes acid-producing,
like other food containing
sugar.
Consumption of base-producing food in a stressed state,
may result in acid-producing substances.
Many of our most effective healing herbs, e.g. stinging
nettle,
ose hip flour and field
horsetail, are strongly base-producing.
Inorganic acids, in this connection the most important,
are not affected by cooking but
remain unchanged provided
you do not throw away the cooking
water, leach or cause
similar losses. Bases in particular
escape to the cooking
water or leachate, while acids remain
in the cooked food.
When water is thrown away from
cooked vegetables the
water may become acid-producing
although the original
product was base-producing.
When vegetables are grown on inappropriate
soils with
unsuitable fertilisers
a change occurs not only in vitamin or
protein content, but also
in the mineral composition and thus
acid-base. Biologically
cultivated vegetables usually become
more basic.
By eating much vegetables and fruit you could repair the acid-base.
Concentrated green "superfood" like alfalfa, barley grass or algae
will help the body become more basic. It is also healthy to drink
water containing plenty of freshly squeezed lemon juice, as lemons
are base-producing. Consumption of products containing bicarbonate
is also an effective way of adding bases. It is also important
to improve digestion. Bad digestion gives a sour body - even if
you consume base-producing food.
