Alkaline Diet Menu

Breakfast
Fruit –any kind.

Lunch
Monday, Wednesday, Friday
One or two kinds of fresh fruit in season (see “Alkalizing Fruits” list), apricots, figs, or currants
(dried fruit may be soaked)

Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, Sunday
Small raw vegetable salad (must have romaine lettuce and sprouts, plus two or three other vegetables)
and avocado, rice cakes or 3 ounces of raw nuts (almonds, filberts, walnuts, pecans)

Dinner
Monday
Large raw vegetable salad and baked potato or lentils or chickpeas and, if needed, one steamed vegetable
(see “Alkalizing Vegetables” list)

Tuesday
Large raw vegetable salad and baked yam or avocado.

Wednesday
Large raw vegetable salad and baked potato or corn or lentils and, if needed, one steamed vegetable.

Thursday
Large raw vegetable salad and avocado or beans (garbanzo, fava, mung).

Friday
Large raw vegetable salad and baked potato or corn or lentils and, if needed, one steamed vegetable.

Saturday
Large raw vegetable salad and brown rice and beans and lightly steamed diced vegetables.

Sunday
Large raw vegetable salad and 6 ounces of ricotta cheese or pot cheese or cottage cheese and, if needed,
one steamed vegetable.

Dressings: Lemon juice and oil and dulse or kelp.

The following list of foods will help you get the proper nutrition for the mouth and what ails it. You might notice citrus fruit on the list. Despite its acidity, citrus fruit helps reduce cavities by stimulating saliva.

Fruits and vegetables such as blueberries and broccoli, along with nuts, seeds, and certain proteins, are excellent alkalizing foods. They help the body assimilate bacteria-fighting vitamins, phytonutrients, and minerals.

Increase Intake of Alkalizing Foods

Fruit		Vegetables		Seasonings	Sweetener	Nuts & Seeds	Protein	Beverages
Apple Fig Apricot Grape Avocado Melon Banana Nectarine Blackberry Peach Blueberry Pear	Apple Fig Cherry Pineapple Citrus fruit Raspberry Currant, black & red Strawberry Date	Asparagus Kohlrabi Beets Lettuce Broccoli Mushrooms Brussel sprouts Mustard greens Cabbage Onions Carrot Parsnips Peppers	Asparagus Cauliflower Asparagus Celery Pumpkin Chard Rutabaga Collard greens Sea vegetables Cucumber Sprouts (all kinds) Eggplant Squashes Kale Tomatoes	Apple cider vinegar Herbs (all) Chili peppers Mustard Cinnamon Salt Curry Garlic Ginger	Stevia	Almond Chestnut Flaxseed Millet Pumpkin seed Squash seed	Egg Chicken breast Cottage cheese, fat-free Tofu Whey protein powder Whey protein powder Yogurt	Fruit juice, fresh and unsweetened Herbal tea Vegetable juice Water

I prefer getting my vitamins and minerals from whole foods, (preferably organic) rather than supplements, because whole foods contain many factors not found in commercially produced multivitamins.But in situations where your diet has been poor, or you are trying to reverse gum disease naturally, the following supplements may help you to do so.

• Vitamin C, 2-4 g per day (taken as 500mg every few hours)
  
• Calcium, 800 mg (take in a formula that comes with magnesium)
  
• Vitamin E, 200-400 IU per day
  
• Zinc picolinate, 30 mg per day
  
• Magnesium, 600 mg per day
  
• Beta-carotene complex, 2500 IU per day
  
• Coenzyme Q10, 200 mg per day
  
• Vitamin B complex, 15-25 mg per day
  
• Multivitamin/mineral, one per day

TEN TOP FOODS FOR DENTAL HEALTH

*Asparagus* Beets* Broccoli* Carrots* Celery* Cauliflower* Lettuce* Kale* Onions* Spinach*

Checking Your Saliva pH

Now let’s find out how we can check the pH of your saliva and urine to see what your acid/alkaline levels are. This is quite easy to do. We are trying to keep a careful eye on these levels to make certain that your body fluids aren’t too acidic giving a boost to harmful dental bacteria.

The pH is a scale from 1 to 14, and provides a convenient measurement of acidity/alkalinity levels. Neutral pH (neither too acidic nor too alkaline) is 7, which is the level we should be striving for.

Acid Neutral Alkaline
pH: 1-1.69 7.0 7.1-14

To check your saliva pH, you must purchase litmus paper test strips, which are available at most drugstores. These tests strips often come with a color-coded pH chart, and by matching the colors, you’ll discover your saliva’s level of acidity. Your saliva should be neutral or very slightly acidic. If you test below 6.9, you probably have too much acidity in your saliva.

Acidity can also be tested with urine samples, but saliva is a better indicator of your acidity level. If your saliva is acidic but your urine is not, you still should consider yourself acidic.

Also test yourself after eating, when your saliva pH rise, it’s clear signal that you need to abstain from eating acidifying foods.

Always remember, your saliva or urine pH is a reflection of the foods you are putting in your body. In the absence of a medical problem, changing your diet will change your saliva or urine pH.

If you have been following this diet for a while and keep on having an acid pH (the paper is too yellow), try using cell salts. The homeopathic remedy Natrum Phosphoricum is excellent for producing alkaline shifts. Natrum Phosphoricum helps change lactic acid to carbonic acid and water, and is also necessary for dissolving uric acid in the blood.

If, on the other hand, you become too alkaline while on the Fast-Alkalizing Diet (the paper is too green), try eating some more acidifying foods.