Acidic Foods and the High Glycemic Sugars

Any list of acidic foods will have sodas at the top of the list. These drinks are high glycemic and fat storing drinks! As hard as it is, if YOU want to be slim and healthy you've gotta give up your cokes, even your diet cokes. Don't be sad there are great alternatives!

With the exception of a few sodas made with low glycemic sweeteners, sodas are acidic foods that cause fat storage. Even the low glycemic ones should be consumed only occasionally because there are other health risks to bones and teeth associated with the acid in carbonated beverages.

In fact, sodas and sugary foods are the acidic foods you need to be concerned about. Others that could cause a problem if you consume too much of them are alcohol, coffee, meat, tea and vinegar. All vegetables, especially when they are eaten raw will balance the acidity and alkali levels in the blood. Normal ph for the human body is 6.8 if you are inclined to check with litmus paper purchased in a health food store. Your body takes care of it's ph when you eat a balanced diet including lots of greens and other fresh vegetables, fruits and wholegrains.

The high glycemic sugars below are at the top of any list of acidic foods. These are sugars that cause fat storage. Period. Especially if you eat them with any type of fat, the glucose goes straight to make more fat cells! They are in commercial sodas and sports drinks. You really have to read the labels carefully and AVOID drinks with these sugars or any added additives that you don't recognize from our "good sugars" list.

Avoid

All sodas are highly acidic foods and the carbonation causes dental erosion. The acid eats away the enamel in your teeth over time. Yipes, that's a disturbing thought. With a soda habit, you'll not only be fat but you may lose your teeth! Because of the high amount of acid in sodas, your body has to take alkaline minerals (including calcium) from your teeth and bones to neutralize it. When bones are weakened by depletion of calcium they are susceptible to arthritis, osteoporosis and fracture.

Highly acidic foods are a strain on your kidneys which have to filter the acid. That's what happened to me as a matter of fact, as a coffee drinker. As I got into my fifties I started getting back aches over my kidneys. A health care practitioner told me to give up my 3 cups of coffee a day habit and voila! The back aches went away.

Acidic foods are hard on your stomach too because the acid makes it impossible for your body to digest food. Your body needs to make it's own acids to break down foods. Soda is the worst drink to consume with a meal! It contributes to bloating and other digestive problems. Stay away from sodas which are acidic foods as well as being full of high glycemic sugars and caffeine.

Seriously limit or better yet eliminate sodas and all the high glycemic beverages below. If you are a coffee lover, fresh ground coffee in moderation should not be a problem. It probably depends on your sensitivity to caffeine. Limit yourself to 1 or 2 cups a day and don't put anything high glycemic in it. Decaf coffee is low glycemic.

Avoid

I believe that the health benefits of fresh green tea with it's high antioxidant content outweigh the high glycemic effects of caffeine and the fact that it is an acidic food. Again it depends on your sensitivity and whether you drink it in moderation and with a low glycemic sweetener like agave syrup. If you add cinnamon you will reduce the glycemic affect!

The natural sweeteners, honey, maple syrup, blackstrap molasses, turbinado sugar, date sugar are also high glycemic. Molasses is a low acid food and will help to alkalinize your ph. They may be healthier for you than the "bad sugars" but they will raise your blood sugar and must be eaten sparingly. If you eat them with protein as in ice cream it will lessen the glycemic impact.

* Many commercial foods became high glycemic foods when they became low fat. While reducing the fat in products, manufacturers often replaced the fat with high glycemic sweeteners to make up for the taste of the fat. You have to read labels. Many of the fat free foods are much more fattening now than before they had the fat removed. They have also become acidic foods. *

Any time you add a high glycemic sweetener to a meal, whether it's natural or not you have increased the amount of fat the body absorbs after a meal.

Sodas, sugar, high glycemic sweeteners and sports drinks are the acidic foods on any list of acidic foods that are best avoided on the low glycemic eating plan.

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