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

by Felicia Kliment (Author) "Detoxification is even more important to longevity than good nutrition..." (more)
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Balancing the body's acid alkaline pH factor to improve health is the hot new treatment in alternative medicine. The Acid Alkaline Balance Diet clarifies for you this cutting-edge option with an easy-to-follow food combination program and herbal therapy regime that redefines the notion of a "well-balanced diet." By balancing the body's acidity levels, this simple plan can help toward curing various medical conditions, including arthritis, hepatitis, insomnia, alcoholism, and kidney disease. With information organized by affliction, you can quickly find the help you need. Anecdotal success stories offer inspiring evidence that this dietary/lifestyle change really works.

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Uncover the Secret to Better Health and Wellness

Modern agriculture and food-preservation methods have done serious damage to the human diet. The detrimental effects on the human body caused by acidic wastes from processed food and chemical additives are myriad. Byproducts of the foods we eat, acidic wastes are the common denominator in all degenerative diseases. When acidic wastes accumulate, they can cause organs to malfunction and degenerate. Balancing the body's acid-alkaline pH factor is a dynamic way to improve health. The Acid-Alkaline Balance Diet explores this exciting new treatment in alternative medicine.

Based on Eastern medicinal practices, The Acid-Alkaline Balance Diet advocates a sensible food-combination program in conjunction with herbal medicine therapies to balance the positively charged acidic particles in the body with the negatively charged particles. This simple plan can aid in curing a wide range of medical problems including arthritis, insomnia, alcoholism, lung disorders, kidney disease, and much more. Organized by medical condition, this book makes it easy to quickly find the help and advice you need. There's also a practical test you can administer to help determine your metabolic type: grain eating, meat eating, or balanced.

Forget the traditional notions of a well-balanced diet; for many, this well-balanced diet is the cause of various illnesses. Here at last are alternatives for those who have used the "four food groups" strategy of nutrition but still ended up with health problems. Discover how The Acid-Alkaline Balance Diet will help you lead a healthier, longer life.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (June 24, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0658016954
• ISBN-13: 978-0658016950
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #38,509 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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159 of 163 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You Are what you Eat, August 4, 2002

By	Ron Cohen (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews

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.

129 of 132 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars All You Need For Better Health, March 2, 2003

By	Lisa McCullough (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews

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.

70 of 70 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Informative Health Book With Great Healthy Advice, April 2, 2004

By	Cathy Fenton (New York, New York (USA)) - See all my reviews

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.