Title: Alkaline diet – An answer to most modern lifestyle diseases

Biography:

Vidushi Agrawal has completed DHMS, HMD and MSc DFSM from IGNOU, India. She is a registered homeopath, dietician & nutritionist by qualification. She is actively and dedicatedly practicing dietetics & nutrition only, since 2008. After years of practice of homeopathy, she realized there was a maintaining cause always which would slow down or create an obstacle in the healing process. Hence, through observation and clinical trials, she came up to a strong belief that the maintaining cause was none other than lifestyle & food. After that there was no looking back and today, she is practicing the concept of “alkaline diet” for her patients, which have given 100% results with those patients who follow it as per her instructions.

Abstract

Alkaline diet is to prevent the body from going into a more acidic state. The alkaline diet first detoxifies the body, then creates and maintains a more alkaline environment in which the body can heal itself. While following the alkaline diet, one must ensure that he / she must consume about 80% of alkaline foods to achieve a correct health balance (80/20 ratio). The alkaline diet isn't to undertake and raise the pH of the blood. The entire reason of the alkaline diet is to anticipate the body from having to do the directing! So that the minerals stay where they are, they are not leached out into the blood to make blood alkaline. We know the pH of blood is 7.35 – 7.45 (slightly alkaline) & healthy pH of urine is 7.00 – 8.00 (slightly alkaline). The biggest misconception is that the alkaline diet is trying to raise the pH of the blood or urine. However, the fact is alkaline diet is trying to neutralize the extra acid that is produced on account of different activities in the body like breathing, metabolism, walking, running, mental activities, polluted environment around, acidic foods etc, hence preventing the leaching out of minerals into the blood to maintain the level of pH. This in turn prevents various metabolic disorders in the body as whatever is required in their specific place, stays there. Example: calcium in bones. It not only prevents, but in my clinical practice I have experienced that when alkaline diet is followed, there are even reversal of non–surgical diseased conditions like diabetes, osteopenia, osteoporosis, female hormonal issues and in a certain conditions, the alkaline diet has also prevented operations & amputations, which I would like to prove by case presentations.