The 80 - 20 Ratio?!

The best way to have a healthy diet is to make sure we eat 80 percent alkaline-forming foods and only 20 percent acid-forming foods. The truly alkaline foods are mainly ripe fruits and vegetables (excluding starchy ones like potatoes). 
Here is a list of alkaline-forming foods:

- Most ripe FRUITS including: 

 Apple
Apricot
Avocado
Banana (high glycemic)
Berries
Blackberries
Cantaloupe
Cherries, sour
Coconut, fresh
Currants
Dates, dried
Figs, dried
Grapes
Grapefruit
Honeydew Melon
Lemon
Lime
Muskmelons
Nectarine
Orange
Peach
Pear
Pineapple
Raisins
Raspberries
Rhubarb
Strawberries
Tangerine
Tomato
Tropical Fruits
Umeboshi Plums
Watermelon

Non Starchy VEGETABLES

Alfalfa

Barley Grass

Beet Greens

Beets

Broccoli

Cabbage

Carrot

Cauliflower

Celery

Chard Greens

Chlorella

Collard Greens

Cucumber

Dandelions

Dulce

Edible Flowers

Eggplant

Fermented Veggies

Garlic

Green Beans

Green Peas

Kale

Kohlrabi

Lettuce

Mushrooms

Mustard Greens

Nightshade Veggies

Onions

Parsnips (high glycemic)

Peas

Peppers

Pumpkin

Radishes

Rutabaga

Sea Veggies

Spinach, green

Spirulina

Sprouts

Sweet Potatoes

Tomatoes

Watercress

Wheat Grass

Wild Greens

ORIENTAL VEGETABLES

Daikon

Dandelion Root

Kombu

Maitake

Nori

Reishi

Shitake

Umeboshi

Wakame

Beauty Rule # 6

Fats should be eaten moderately with protein (both animal and fat) but are okay to eat with carbohydrates. 

Even if you are eating a raw meal, it is best that you do not mix fats with proteins. One example is a salad that has avocado (plant fat) with nuts (plant protein). This complicates digestion, and could prevent efficient weight loss.


Please note that many ideas in this blog are taken from Kimberly Snyder's The Beauty Detox Solution 

Beauty Rule # 5

Mixing two different types of protein is a BIG NO NO!

Protein is already difficult to digest and takes longer than other types of food. Mixing two types will just make digestion more complicated! avoid mixing plant protein (such as seeds, nuts, and sea algae) and animal proteins in the same meal, and worse... do not mix two types of animal proteins together! like fish and meat or chicken!