Product Description

Balancing the body's acid alkaline pH factor to improve health is the hot new treatment in alternative medicine. The Acid Alkaline Balance Diet clarifies for you this cutting-edge option with an easy-to-follow food combination program and herbal therapy regime that redefines the notion of a "well-balanced diet." By balancing the body's acidity levels, this simple plan can help toward curing various medical conditions, including arthritis, hepatitis, insomnia, alcoholism, and kidney disease. With information organized by affliction, you can quickly find the help you need. Anecdotal success stories offer inspiring evidence that this dietary/lifestyle change really works.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #93660 in Books
• Published on: 2002-06-24
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

From the Back Cover

Uncover the Secret to Better Health and Wellness

Modern agriculture and food-preservation methods have done serious damage to the human diet. The detrimental effects on the human body caused by acidic wastes from processed food and chemical additives are myriad. Byproducts of the foods we eat, acidic wastes are the common denominator in all degenerative diseases. When acidic wastes accumulate, they can cause organs to malfunction and degenerate. Balancing the body's acid-alkaline pH factor is a dynamic way to improve health. The Acid-Alkaline Balance Diet explores this exciting new treatment in alternative medicine.

Based on Eastern medicinal practices, The Acid-Alkaline Balance Diet advocates a sensible food-combination program in conjunction with herbal medicine therapies to balance the positively charged acidic particles in the body with the negatively charged particles. This simple plan can aid in curing a wide range of medical problems including arthritis, insomnia, alcoholism, lung disorders, kidney disease, and much more. Organized by medical condition, this book makes it easy to quickly find the help and advice you need. There's also a practical test you can administer to help determine your metabolic type: grain eating, meat eating, or balanced.

Forget the traditional notions of a well-balanced diet; for many, this well-balanced diet is the cause of various illnesses. Here at last are alternatives for those who have used the "four food groups" strategy of nutrition but still ended up with health problems. Discover how The Acid-Alkaline Balance Diet will help you lead a healthier, longer life.

About the Author

Felicia Drury Kliment is an adjunct professor at City College in New York and an alternative health consultant. She has published numerous articles on alternative health and healing.

Customer Reviews

Very Informative Health Book With Great Healthy Advice
The Acid Alkaline Balance Diet was a revelation to me. It's a book which should be read by everyone who is interested in main-taining or improving their health. I became interested in the acid alkaline ph balance when I developed acid reflux. I tried remedies recommended in other books,such as eating foods high in alkaline minerals and avoiding acid-forming foods. Nothing worked. And then I read The Acid Alkaline Balance Diet,and I knew I had hit upon a book that spoke the truth. One of the truths in this book is that diet should be suited to the digestive type of the individual. I took the simple self-test recommended in the book, found outthat I was a meat eater, and began eating the foods listed in the book for my metabolic type.

My acid reflux vanished within two weeks. I then tried the author's semi-raw potato recipe because I needed to scale down my appetite so I could stay on the diet. It worked! I no longer get a craving for food at night so I don't binge out.

This book is not only full oforiginal thinking and good information, but very readable, with fascinating case histories of individuals who have healed themselves by following Kliment's dietary suggestions. It should be required reading in all of the educational institutions in this country.

All You Need For Better Health
This is the best book I've ever read on the impact of diet on health. The author targets the real cause of degenerative disease: acid waste from inappropriate diet. She outlines a simple self test which reveals what foods are appropriate for the individual.
Her diets include all types of foods but in different proportions depending on your metabolic type. Each metabolic type (grain eater and meat eater) is allowed a small amount of foods assigned to the opposite metabolic type. For example, she recommends that the grain eater eat a lot of fish and poultry but that the meat eater eat fish and poultry in much smaller increments. Another example of this is her proposal that the grain eater should consume a lot of green leafy veggies while she emphasizes root vegetables for the meat eater. I like this approach because, by eating all types of food you get the whole range of nutrients the body needs to function properly.
Kliment's book, along with Sang Wang's book, Reverse Aging, which provides good background information on acid alkaline pH factors-- is all the reader needs to take control of his/her body and attain a good state of health and mental well being.

Controversial, sort of.. but sound advice 4 seekers of truth
This book is very similar to "Biobalance" by Rudolph Wiley and a few other popular acid/alkaline books. Although, this book is different in that the author has a much more easy to understand approach to laying out the ideas. This was a very pleasant book to read.

Now, onto the diet. The author recommends a few tests you can take to determine which foods you should be eating to balance the acidity and alkalinity in your body, which is fine. My problem with her approach is she considers a "vegetarian" diet to consist of mostly grains, which is insane. Most people who adopt a strictly grain diet develop serious digestive problems and a host of other ailments. I've seen it happen time and time again. The best vegetarian diet is no doubt a raw food vegan diet, which will balance both acidity and alkalinity. This isn't mentioned in the book, so this book is already outdated. The latest shows the Raw Food diet to be ideal for everyone.

But, if you absolutely refuse to give up your comfort foods like meat, this book will be of much value to you. I heard this woman on Gary Null's show just last week, and of course, Gary instantly shot her recommended diet down in flames, and had many valid points to which this author couldn't think of a good reply. So she means well, and this diet WILL be better for you than going at it blindly, but there's better ways.