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Thread #64204   Message #1048103
Posted By: katlaughing
04-Nov-03 - 07:47 PM
Thread Name: BS: Treatment for v high blood pressure
Subject: RE: BS: Treatment for v high blood pressure
Here's the info from my acu. (PLEASE NOTE, this is NOT medical advice.):

This is only a basic list of Acid and Alkaline foods.

The best way to create a meal is to choose 80% alkaline and 20% acidic. That's it! You can still eat acid foods but now you know how to neutralize them with alkaline foods.


For breads and pasta is use sprouted grain breads like Ezekiel and pastas made from spelt, buckwheat or soy.

For replacing meat try using Boca brand soy products.
If you are not used to using Tofu, an Asian soybean product, it can be sliced and browned in a skillet and it makes for a great main course with vegetables.

For snacks use almonds. Drink water with fresh squeezed slices of lemon or lime. For a sweetener use Stevia, a natural product that has no calories or carbohydrates. Stevia can be found at any health food store. Always try to have a good baby mixed green salad daily. For dessert trv soy ice cream or soy pudding.

Obviously, this is not the end all be all of eating but it is a good place to start to get your health back. Be creative and have fun.

Acid Foods:

All meats: beef, pork, lamb, turkey, chicken and fish.
All refined white flour and wheat products: bread, pasta, pancakes, cookies, cakes.
All dairy: cheese, eggs, yogurt, butter, cream
Coffee, Alcohol, Juice.
Grains: brown rice, white rice, barley, wheat, oats, rye
Nuts: peanuts, cashews, walnuts, pecans, macadamia nuts
Sugars: brown sugar, white sugar, milk sugar, cane sugar, high fructose com syrup, maple syrup, molasses.
Beans: Lentils, navy, kidney.
Oils: lard, crisco, margarine

Alkaline Foods:

All Vegetables including potatoes and tomatoes.
All fruit including lemons and limes.
Soy milk, rice milk, almond milk, homogenized and non-fat milk
Grains: millet, buckwheat, spelt, quinoa, sprouted grains.
Nuts & Seeds: almonds, sesame, sunflower, flax.
Beans: soybeans, lima, sprouted beans.
Sugar: honey.
Oils: olive oil, sesame, sunflower, corn, safflower.