the acid death from within diet

It is the scenario from Hell. According to a plausible theory, fruit and veg. are actually good for you - but for a strange reason.

Hard cheese, meat and fish cause blood acidity to rise. Guess what? Yer veg 'n' fruit reduce it. (Oddly, even acidic fruit like oranges, enough, reduce blood acid.) Revolting leafy veg, like spinach are the best of all. (Groan).

Why is a high blood acidity bad? Because you are eaten away from the inside. In a desperate attempt at neutralising the acid, the body plunders bone mineral and breaks down muscle. This is reversible, BUT... if your diet is perpetually acid causing, then over the months and years muscle and bone loss is the result. Blokes increasingly get hip fractures too, this isn't just a girlie problem.

Paradoxically hard cheese is the worst blood-acid food of all, so the calcium it contains is useless. (But milk is OK, it's the cheese making process makes hard cheese blood-acid nightmare.) Grain, (pasta, bread, rice etc) makes the acid problem worse, which dovetails perfectly with my diet theory.

Soft drinks like coke, pepsi - anything fizzy - are loaded with phosphorous along with the usual crap. The resultant phosphoric acid in the blood corrodes bone faster than HR Giger's Alien spit. And this toxic shit is pushed by huge corporations onto unsuspecting "users" and no one is doing anything about it.

So there you have it, meat and fish are fine but you need lots of fruit and veg if you don't want to dissolve into a pathetic, fragile wreck. Life really isn't fair.


Update: Until recently I routinely suffered mild aches and pains in my muscles. After hard exercise, lactic acid causes the sensation of stiffness and soreness, but I felt like that even when I hadn't exercised. High acid levels in my blood may have been having a similar effect to the lactic acid. Soon after I increased my relative intake of fruit & veg, the everyday aches and pains have unexpectedly gone away (well, mostly). I love serendipity.
Newer Update: According to Walter C. Willett and Meir J. Stampfer, nutrition scientists, writing in the letters section of the Scientific American (May 03): "Several studies find that high calcium intake, from dairy products or supplements, is associated with a higher risk of prostate cancer; preliminary evidence also suggests a link with ovarian cancer. We recommend consuming dairy products in moderation". I imagine the moral of the story is that it is better to stick to natural foods we evolved to eat, and avoid the mega-tasty, modern, high blood acid stuff.

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