Is It Available for PKD Patients to Take Alkaline Foodstuff

For diets, we usually hear that too much acid food can cause disease, and alkaline food is helpful to our health. But few people have a clear recognition about acid and alkaline food. So many people take some improper foods which cause some unexpected consequences.

Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) patients not only need to take foodstuff with high vitamins and rich iron, but they should take more alkaline diets. The experts recognized that cysts can be restrained to grow if PKD patients eat more alkaline food which can play a function of assistant treatment. But many patients do not know how to distinguish acid food and alkaline food in reality. Hence we make an explicit distinction about them as below:

In normal cases, blood and body fluid presents slight alkaline and Ph value keeps amid 7.35-7.45, which is the optimum status of human body. There is a system to regulate acid-base balance in human body, and this system can assure the acid-base balance on condition of normal diet. People should eat more alkaline food in daily diet. Below are the common acid food, alkaline food and neutral food.

Alkaline food means it contains more metal elements like Potassium, Sodium, Calcium, and Magnesium. For instance, the vegetable belongs to alkaline food, i.e., white gourd, tomato, pumpkin, cucumber, radish, spinage, Chinese cabage, cabage, rape, celery, lotus root, onion, eggplant and potato. Fruits are also alkaline food like apple, pear, banana, peach, strawberry, plum, persimmon, grape, citrus, shaddock and lemon. Beans and its products are also alkaline food, like bean curd, pea, soybean and mung bean. In addition, mushroom, bamboo shoots, chestnut, tea leaf coffin and grape etc. especially marine algae, like sea-tangle and nori, they contains more mineral materials than vegetable and fruit.

The organic acid in these food take part in metabolism in human body. And they can produce oxygen, carbon dioxide and water after they are oxidized in human body. These metabolic wastes can be discharged out of human body and metal iron left in human body can increase Ph of human body.

Acid food: We say one food is acid or alkaline, which is dependent on the metabolic product after food get digested, absorbed and, generally, food containing Fluorin, Chlorine, Sulphur, Phosphorous and other non-metallic elements are called acid food. Let’s say, eggs, fish, grain, peanut, white sugar, beer etc. These food contain higher Sulphur and Phosphorous which becomes into Sulfuric Acid and Phosphoric Acid so that the acidity of human body increases.

Neutral Food means there is equivalent metallic and nonmetallic element in food. And the metabolic product keeps an acid-base balance, for instances, milk and asparagus etc.

It is advisable to take adequate alkaline food in daily life, which can keep acid-base balance of human body and make the body stays in the optimum status. Taking proper alkaline food is a good assistant treatment.


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