what is alkaline food?

Answer 1

If you go to this link you can see a huge list of what foods are considered alkaline.
http://www.essense-of-life.com/info/foodchart.htm

Answer 2

Alkaline food is a euphemism for vegetarianism. It's a totally fraudulent belief that you can somehow cure/prevent disease by shifting the pH of your body by eating certain foods. The truth is that shifting one's pH is inimical to life. It's not possible and if you did it, you would immediately die.

Also, the truth is that vegetarianism is extremely unhealthy. You can survive on that diet if you had to and were rigid in following certain rules for which specific foods you ate. But, 90%+ of vegetarian are pot smoking hippies with no clue as to how to eat correctly. To say they are unhealthy is an understatement. Even the rare person who knows what to do will never have as healthy of a diet as someone who eats meat (assuming a healthy diet that is....not the average twinkees and beer for a meal diet that lots of people eat).

Eating healthy is easy. Avoid all processed, fast, and junk foods. Get most of your calories from meat and most of your diet's bulk from raw fruits and vegetables. Eat only whole grains and those in strict moderation (there are problems with eating grains). Avoid most fish because it is contaminated (a pharmaceutical grade fish oil supplement is very useful). Drink only water and make sure that water is clean (distilled, reverse osmosis etc.) and don't store it in plastic if possible. Absolutely no sugar, flour, pasta, processed vegetable oil (palm oil, coconut oil and virgin olive oil are good though), MSG, Aspartame, or other chemicals.

That's a healthy diet.

Answer 3

What Panacea said is absolutely correct. Our bodies must maintain a constancy of internal environment to be alive, this is called Homeostasis. What this means is that no matter what happens on the outside, the body must compensate to maintain the inside. pH of the blood and body tissues is critical, if our pH goes even slightly out of range the body can quickly die because our enzymes are extremely sensitive to pH ranges. If enzymes slow down we die. So there are many systems in place that the body uses to maintain pH, including buffer systems in the blood, getting rid of carbonic acid through respiration, and getting rid of base or acid in the urine. There is no food that will change your body pH, nor would you want this to happen.

Answer 4

Non-acidic.

Answer 5

food with starch, like spaghetti, potato. Also milk, chocolate.