TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Alkaline diet is mainly a diet that consists of consuming foods that cause the body to produce less acid. Alkali is essential to optimize energy and important for a correct body function.

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Alkali foods are the ones that contain less sugar and higher water content and more minerals such as magnesium, potassium, and phosphor. The following are six ways to make your alkaline diet run smoothly as published by getoffyouracid.com.

1. Keep it simple.

It doesn’t need to be complicated. Use the 80/20 rule in favor of alkaline to acidic foods. Stay hydrated and eat more raw organic greens, healthy fats, nuts, seeds, green drinks, and minerals. Eat less sugar, trans-fats, dairy, meat, processed foods, soda, and coffee and you will be amazed at how quickly you can reclaim your health and energy.

2. Start a healthy lifedata-style.

Deprivation never works. By slowly adding healthy foods and habits into your lifedata-style, eventually the good will outweigh the bad and the body will sustain itself.

3. Reduce the 3 P’s

Packaged, Prepared, and Processed foods.

4. Know your pH

Monitor the pH levels of your urine and saliva on a daily basis. This is how you can determine if you are acidic OR alkaline. And once you know, this is how you can determine if what you are doing is working or not.

5. Begin a daily exercise routine

Sweat excretes toxins from the body. As your blood is pumping oxygen at a greater rate of increased activity it’s carrying away toxins from your muscles and other areas of your body, too.

6. Action is Power

There is a saying – knowledge isn’t power, its potential power. Having a solid action plan is important, but it’s what you do with that information that will really change your life.

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