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  How to naturally remove Acid and create an Alkaline Environment in the body:   The key is to eat a whole food plant-based diet, not a processed vegan version. Many processed foods can be vegan, but won’t support your health as well as eating simple whole foods and using them to create tasty meals.    Giving your body whole food sources of nutrients - like calcium, fiber, B vitamins, magnesium, protein, Vitamin D, essential fatty acids, and potassium - will keep your cells functioning exactly as they were designed.    Our cells recognize whole foods as sources of energy. Man-made foods require your body to use its energy to decipher what it's supposed to do with them, use what it can, and then try to detoxify the rest. A diet heavy in animal-based and processed foods makes your body work harder internally, which makes you tired after eating that type of meal.   Here are some top recommendations of whole foods that will assist your body to remove acid. These alkalin

Does your Body need to be Alkaline? Recently, this was a topic of discussion during a Facebook Live I was watching.  It inspired me to do some research on this subject, which I thought I'd share with my friends:   Proponents of an alkaline diet claim that the diseases of modern civilization, including cancer and osteoporosis, result from eating a diet with too high an acid load. Acidic foods are meats, poultry, dairy, fish, eggs, grains and alcohol. If you eat too much of these foods, according to some claims, your blood and bodily fluids become more acidic too. If you consume alkaline foods, including fresh produce and nuts, your blood becomes more alkaline, which in turn, prevents major health risks — or so say the proponents of the diet.   But a steady pH level is not normal for your entire body. Your blood level hovers around 7.4, but other pH levels in your body vary greatly. The Journal of Environmental and Public Health article notes that the stomach has a pH of 1.35