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The Acid Alkaline Balance Diet : An Innovative Program for Ridding Your Body of Acidic Wastes

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The "Acid Alkaline Balance Diet" is a great source of useful information, filling many of the gaps left by other authors of books on nutrition. Felicia Kliment gives a balanced discussion of other approaches, and demonstrates why her program works. She presents her encyclopedic knowledge in a way that is easy and enjoyable for the reader to absorb.

This book goes well beyond what the title would suggest. It gives us an informative overview of how individual needs should determine diet. It also gives detailed directions in how to accomplish this. There are different metabolic types, possible food allergies, etc. We get to understand the inner workings of our bodies. For example, the discussion about enzyme activity in the digestive process, cuts through the confusion that I had in this area.

In Part II, we get an analysis of various ailments and diseases, with suggestions on how to treat these conditions by the intelligent intake of the proper foods for each individual case. We are also taught how to prevent and cure the toxicity in our bodies, which is the primary cause of degenerative disease.

I was pleasantly surprised at the scope and the detail of this book. I also found helpful the summary/list of clear suggestions that she included in various sections. Vitamins, minerals, herbs, and other modalities are listed in an easily accessible format. I highly recommend this book to anyone wanting a balanced and useful approach to healing diets.

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.

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.

In the review: "Buyer Beware! Raw meat kills..."Reviewer Shani most likely has not read this book, as what Kliment says is not to drink raw milk, rather to look for organic milk that has been safely pasteurized with different techniques to retain important enzymes. She writes:

Milk Raw,p. 24-24: "It was common for physicians in the early part of the twentieth century to use raw milk and butter made from raw milk for therapeutic purposes... Federal and state laws requiring pasteurization of dairy products, however, make raw milk almost impossible to come by. Most agribusiness dairies heat their milk to 212 degrees. Louis Pasteur discovered that milk heated to 140 degrees for one-half hour was enough to kill bacteria. The purpose of boiling the milk at 212 degrees is not to keep the public safe from bacteria that causes disease but to extend the shelf life of the product... I buy a brand of organic milk called Organic Life that hasn't been heated to such a high temperture that all the enzymes have been destroyed and will spoil in two days if not used. A brand of milk that seems to last forever in the refrigerator, even if it is labeled organic, should be avoided."

Kliment addresses other raw foods (meat, eggs...) in the same safe and insightful manner as she discusses milk. Even an improperly balanced vegetarian diet can potentially lead to degenerative diseases, and Kliment discusses those diets as well, providing many safe and effective dietary plans.

There are so many different dietary recommendations in this book that if one doesn't suit your style, then there are others that are equally effective.

Berthe Gerard

This is an excellent book on the subject of acid/alkaline balance in the body. The author obviously has many case studies and experience to draw on in dealing with patients using the "alkalizing" cure. The chapters deal with different ailments and provide remedies for each. Best of all, she's not trying to market her own line of nutritional products throughout the book. There are dozens of recommended supplements, foods and other products, and a list of where to obtain them. I definitely recommend this book to anyone looking for a cure, not for the symptoms but for the disease. Any student of natural health needs this book on the bookshelf. Especially nice is how some folk remedies are explained so that you understand how they actually function in the body. By the way, I took the niacin test and I'm a meat eater, not surprising for a Blood Type O.

I took the Niacin Test suggested by the author and found out that I was eating the wrong foods and I switched from grains to meats. As the test indicated I should and have felt much better ever since. there is more good information packed into this book than in any other alternative health book I've read.

This is a good and useful book. I recommend readers see for themselves -- and don't believe reviewers who are over-excited by the word "raw". They've got the wrong end of the stick.

For example, one such reviewer swipes the book for recommending raw milk. The book doesn't do this. It says to look for organic milk that's pasteurized (140 degrees F) but not boiled (212 degrees F). Pasteurized organic milk is not raw milk. See pages 23, 24.

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!!

I will be forever grateful to the author for all the time she put into researching and writing this book. Because of my acidic problem, I have kidney stones. The medication did not help, and am now in Stage 4 kidney failure. With this alkaline diet, and low protein, I have been able to maintain my stage 4. If doctors would only make everyone more aware, we could follow the balanced diet and live healthy.

First, I take issue with alarmist generalizations in the "Buyer Beware: Raw Meat Kills" review. It looks as if the reviewer hasn't read the book. If he or she had read it, they'd have seen it is well-researched and well-reasoned. Who needs more scare tactics these days?
My main point is how good the Acid Alkaline Balance Diet book is. I've wondered about acidic wastes and how harmful they are to one's health, but I'd not read about this before. The range of illnesses the book covers is impressive. It also explains things in a way that makes sophisticated material easy to understand. It's interesting. I also appreciate --and will use -- its down-to-earth suggestions to pursue my own greater health and well-being. Thank you, Ms. Drury Kliment.