Nutrition guides often speak of the "acidified body", which tends to diseases such as high blood pressure and diabetes. Acid-base cures are supposed to remedy this.
- The lifestyle industry is booming. In the area of wellness and health, too, there are always new trends on the market, including diets.
- Acid-base cures have been advertised in nutrition guides for a long time because of their promised health-promoting effects.
- But what is the theory that you have to deacidify your body ?
Acid-base treatment: From a medical point of view, not necessary for healthy people to deacidify regularly
There are actually foods that predominantly form acidic compounds in the body . These include cheese, meat, bread and coffee. On the other hand, if fruits, nuts, herbs and vegetables are metabolized, basic compounds are formed. But what does that mean in practice?
It has long been assumed that people who feed predominantly "acid" are more likely to develop diseases. Acidosis - also called acidosis - is associated with increased blood pressure and inflammation values *, the development of diabetes, obesity or other diseases . If a person eats a balanced diet and his metabolism works normally, a healthy body can compensate for an acid-base imbalance without problems.
The body of healthy people is very well able to maintain a healthy acid-base balance even without expensive purification and acid-base treatments. From a medical point of view, there is no need to regularly deacidify the body. The science magazine Quarks quotes the doctor Roswitha Siener, who points out in the magazine Nutrition Review that a propagated "detoxifying" and "detoxifying" effect of various fasting methods, such as base or therapeutic fasting, cannot be scientifically justified. And the German Society for Nutrition (DGE) also advises against the complete elimination of acid-forming foods: " Because vital nutrients could be supplied in too small amounts in the long term, the DGE advises against long-term base fasting, " says the institute.There would simply be no scientific evidence as to how base fasting actually benefits.
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Acid-base cure: "Studies that suggest that we get better from fruit and vegetable-rich nutrition"
However, the general rule is that a healthy and balanced diet has been shown to prevent many diseases - including cancer, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. Anyone who eats predominantly plant-based foods * - i.e. acidifiers such as meat, sausages or other animal products such as cheese only rarely eat - actually have a lower risk of certain kidney stones than someone whose diet tends to be acidic. And also with regard to the development of high blood pressure * and thus heart attack or stroke, a predominantly basic diet - as also described in the usual nutritional recommendations - has a protective effect . Bone health and cholesterol levels should also benefit from a basic diet. However, there is no definitive evidence from long-term intervention studies, as Quarks reported.
According to the current state of knowledge, a cure with basic foods is unnecessary for people who eat a balanced diet. The same applies to detoxification courses - against the background that there is no evidence for the existence of slag. A balanced diet primarily comprises plant-based foods : "There are enough studies that suggest that a fruit and vegetable-rich diet is better than one that consists primarily of meat products and the like," says nutritionist Thomas Remer .
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