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A blood pH of 6.9, which is slightly acidic, can induce coma/death.
The reason acidosis is more common in our society is mostly due to the typical American diet, which is far too high in acid producing animal products like meat, eggs, and dairy, and far too low in alkaline producing foods like fresh vegetables. Additionally, we eat acid producing processed foods like white flour and sugar and drink acid producing beverages like coffee and soft drinks. We use too many drugs, which are acid forming, and we use artificial chemical sweeteners like NutraSweet, Spoonful, Sweet ‘N Low, Equal, or Aspartame, which are poison and very acid forming. Also on the list, you may see honey as very low acidic (not that bad) instead of alkaline, but the benefits of honey largely compensate. One of the best things we can do to correct an overly acidic body is to clean up the body, adopt a healthy diet/lifestyle, and alkalize your body.

Very Low Acidic
amaranth, black-eyed peas, brown rice, butter, canola oil, chutney, coconut, cream, curry, dates, dry fruit, fava beans, figs, fish, gelatin, goat cheese, grape seed oil, guava, honey, kasha, Koma, coffee, maple syrup, millet, organs, pine nuts, pumpkin seed oil, rhubarb, sheep cheese, spinach, string beans, sunflower oil, triticale, venison (deer), vinegar, wax beans, wild duck, zucchini

Low Acidic
adzuki beans, aged cheese, alcohol, almond oil, balsamic vinegar, black tea, boar, buckwheat, chard, cow milk, elk, farina, game meat, goat milk, goose, Kamut, kidney beans, lamb, lima beans, milk, mollusks, mutton, navy beans, pinto beans, plum, red beans, safflower oil, seitan, semolina, sesame oil, shellfish, soy cheese, spelt, tapioca, teff, tofu, tomatoes, turkey, vanilla, wheat, white beans, white rice

Moderately Acidic
barley groats, basmati rice, bear, casein, chestnut oil, chicken, coffee, corn, cottage cheese, cranberry, egg whites, fructose, garbanzo beans, green peas, honey (pasteurized), ketchup, lard, maize, mussels, mustard, nutmeg, oat bran, olives (pickled), other legumes, palm kernel oil, pasta (whole grain), pastry, peanuts, pecans, pistachio seeds, pomegranate, popcorn, pork, prunes, rye, snow peas, soy milk, squid, veal

Highly Acidic
artificial sweeteners, barley, beef, beer, Brazil nuts, breads, brown sugar, cocoa, cottonseed oil, flour (white), fried foods, fruit juices with sugar, hazelnuts, hops, ice cream, jam / jelly, liquor, lobster, malt, pasta (white), pheasant, pickles (commercial), processed cheese, seafood, soft drinks, soybean, sugar, table salt, walnuts, white bread, white vinegar, whole wheat foods, wine, yeast, yogurt (sweetened)

Please check out our course on Internal Cleansing if you would like to learn more about how the food we eat affects us.