Is alkaline water healthier? The "acid-base body theory" is completely pseudoscience!

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The "acid-base body type theory" is a complete pseudoscience that confuses right and wrong and confuses right and wrong.

Foods are classified by acidity and alkalinity.

Generally speaking, plant foods are alkaline foods.

Human body fluids also have different pH levels.

But the human body has a sophisticated regulatory system and generally does not change much.

The acidity and alkalinity of food has little effect on the pH of human body fluids.

Alkaline foods are not healthier, nor will they help you have a boy.

A healthy diet should include diverse foods and balanced nutrition.

If you pay attention to dietary health, you may have more or less heard of the "acid-base constitution theory", which generally says that the root cause of all diseases in the human body is the acidic constitution. In order to cure and prevent diseases, you have to drink weak alkaline water and eat alkaline food. Some people even say that if you want to have a boy, you have to eat alkaline food.

Recently, CCTV exposed the chaos in alkaline water marketing and found that there are still many companies in the market promoting the therapeutic effects of alkaline water.

Are alkaline foods and alkaline water really healthier? Is the acid-base theory credible? Today, let's talk about alkaline water and alkaline foods.

1. The acid-base body theory is a complete lie

In fact, the "acid-base body type theory" is complete nonsense. Many scientists, doctors and science popularizers at home and abroad have been emphasizing that this statement is not true.

The acid-base theory was first established by Robert O. Young.

Robert O. Young is a Utah man in the United States. In the 1970s, he went to the University of Utah as a sports student, but he did not graduate. Instead, he forged a bunch of degrees and wrote a book "The pH Miracle". He also deceived people everywhere and practiced medicine illegally, using his acid-base theory to treat cancer, which resulted in a patient's cancer condition worsening.

Because of this, he was recently fined $105 million in the United States and admitted to the scam in court: the claim that acidic body constitution causes cancer is a pseudoscience that does not understand cause and effect and confuses right and wrong.

2. Do alkaline foods really exist?

It is true that food has acidity and alkalinity. In food chemical analysis, if the ashes left after burning food contain more phosphorus, sulfur, and chlorine, they can form an acidic solution when dissolved in water; if the ashes contain more potassium, sodium, calcium, and magnesium, they can form an alkaline solution when dissolved in water. This is the origin of the acidity and alkalinity of food.

Generally speaking, high-protein foods such as meat and eggs and high-starch foods such as rice and noodles contain more elements such as sulfur and phosphorus, which will produce acidic substances after metabolism; while vegetables, fruits, milk and other foods contain more minerals such as potassium and calcium, and their metabolic products are more alkaline.

Therefore, most fruits and vegetables are alkaline foods, while most meats are acidic foods.

3.Is there an acidic or alkaline basis in the human body?

The human body has a variety of body fluids, including intracellular fluid, blood, lymph, digestive fluid (saliva, gastric juice, intestinal juice and bile, etc.), urine or sweat, etc. The pH of these body fluids does vary. For example, the pH of gastric juice is acidic (pH 1.0-2.0); urine is weakly acidic (pH5.0-7.0); intestinal fluid is alkaline (pH7.55-8.55). The pH of human blood is generally between 7.35-7.45.

There is no such thing as "acidic constitution" or "alkaline constitution" in medicine.

Moreover, the human body has a stable system that maintains acid-base balance - the acid-base buffer system. This system automatically adjusts the pH of the human body and usually maintains it within a stable range. If it cannot be adjusted normally, you still have to worry, because it is very likely that you are sick. For example, if the pH value of a person's blood is lower than 7.35, acidosis is very likely to occur.

4. Will the acidity and alkalinity of food affect the acidity and alkalinity of the human body?

In fact, the pH value of our body will not change greatly due to the different foods we eat. Whether we eat acidic or alkaline foods, the human body will automatically adjust and repair. Moreover, whether it is acidic or alkaline food, that little acidity or alkalinity is just a drop in the ocean compared to the human body, and may have little impact.

Therefore, for healthy adults, the impact of the "acidity and alkalinity" of food on the human body is almost negligible.

5.Are alkaline foods healthier?

Many businesses claim that alkaline foods are healthier and can prevent cancer, and even say that eating alkaline foods can help give birth to sons.

In fact, these are all without any scientific basis.

The food we eat actually has very little effect on the body's acidity and alkalinity. Of course, generally speaking, all kinds of fruits and vegetables are alkaline foods. Eating more fruits and vegetables is good for health because these foods contain nutrients, such as vitamins, minerals and dietary fiber. However, this does not mean that alkaline foods are healthier than other foods. It is also completely a lie to say that eating alkaline foods can give birth to a boy.

The daily diet recommended by my country's dietary guidelines includes a variety of foods, including alkaline foods and acidic foods.

In fact, nutrition science recommends that we should have a balanced diet every day and ensure food diversity. In addition to fruits and vegetables, we should also eat meat, eggs, milk and other foods every day to ensure nutritional balance, which is more beneficial to our health. This includes both alkaline foods and acidic foods, so it is not recommended that we only eat alkaline foods.

In general, the acid-base body type theory is completely a scam deliberately fabricated by some people, so we should stop believing in it.

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Written by Nguyen Quang Phong

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