Diet trends come and go, with some proving to have merit, and others maybe not so much. Just now, alkalizing, with a highly alkaline diet is all the rage and proposed as a cure-all and body regulator par excellence. Health professionals are in agreement that the ingredients proposed by this diet, which tends to favor fruits and vegetables over heavy grains, is probably a good choice for many people with a host of health needs and conditions. So, it probably would not hurt to follow it.

With that said, many also suggest that the science behind it is flawed and not backed up by modern analysis. In point of fact, although newly hip again, the alkaline diet has been around and under the radar for decades. When it was instituted the hypothesis went that an undue amount of alkalinity in the body would leach calcium from the bones. Modern scientific analysis has debunked this theory.

Key Takeaways:

• Although alkaline diets are a prominent trend just now the regimes have been around for decades, existing around what is now considered a debunked fallacy.
• It was presumed that an excess of acidic elements in the body would leach calcium from the bones, an assumption that has been proven erroneous by modern science.
• However, many health proponents do consider the ingredients of an alkaline diet, which pushes fruits and vegetables over heavy carbs, to be good for many people.

“When we’re talking about acid ash or alkaline ash here, we’re talking about the residue left over if the food is burnt in laboratory conditions — the residue these foods are supposedly leaving in your body after your body has metabolised the food.”

Read more: https://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2018-08-01/alkaline-diet-health-fact-or-fad/10055714