<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>bgchastain</b></i>
What kind of changes? I mean how do you know if your too acidic? And what kind of foods counter balance it? Sorry for all the questions, I've just not heard a lot about this and it seems very interesting, especially if you have great results. Thanks</end quote></div>
I avoid some oils, like peanut oil, canola oil and soybean oil, and cook with organic butter, organic coconut oil, and organic olive oil. I eat a lot of alkalinizing foods like corn, lettuce, apples, apple juice. I make sure I don't go too heavy on acidifying foods like meat. Some grains and potatoes can by acidifying but I find I do fine with those if I cook with sea salt and the right oils and makes sure to include an alkaline food. Like I thicken potato soup with a lot of corn starch and since I started doing that I quit having heartburn after eating it.
I've got kind of a basic overview of how to do this here:
<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://healthgazelle.org/howto.shtml">http://healthgazelle.org/howto.shtml</a>
I can feel it when my stomach is too acid and at some point I realized that when my stomach is too acid, my lungs are more inflamed. So I began working on getting my system less acid instead of reaching for more anti-inflammatory drugs all the time. The story about my AHA! moment is here:
<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.cfnutrition4life.com/cfnu/readarticle.php?article_id=16">http://www.cfnutrition4life.co...icle.php?article_id=16</a>
Some folks use PH strips to check themselves, like you would use in chemistry class in high school.