When UK’s leading beauty therapist gets together with a leading clinical nutritionist, you can expect a book that is revolutionary and effective. Bharti Vyas runs the famous London Salon and her clients are popular celebrities like Cherie Blair, Cher and Belinda Carlisle. Suzanne Le Quesne teaches Optimum Nutrition courses all around the world, and is frequently on radio. Together, they have come up with a strategy to lose weight and gain health.
According to the authors of the PH Balance Diet, everything we eat is either acidic or alkaline forming. Eating a surplus of acidic food exhausts energy levels. It leads to lifelines skin and hair. It causes flatulence and contributes to weight gain and indigestion. This is because the human body is naturally alkaline, but when we eat acidic foods, it results in the formation of acidic waste in the body which can cause serious health problems.
Dairy, wheat, certain kinds of fruits, meat and sugar are all highly acidic, according to the book.
The aim of the pH Balance Diet is to reverse the ill effects of acidic foods by implementing a diet that is alkaline. It achieves this in 3 phases.
In the first phase, special attention is paid to liquid intake. This phase recommends the intake of water every hour. This helps you shrug off bad habits like drinking tea, coffee or carbonated drinks.
In the second phase, the acidic components in food are cut out. Dietary imbalances are overcome by decreasing wheat and dairy. Simultaneously, the intake of vegetables is increased. This increases the mineral and calcium content in the body.
In the last phase, the intake of raw or half cooked vegetables is encouraged. This gives impetus to the alkaline component. At this stage, you are allowed to take in more fruit juices even though these are acidic in nature.
The pH Balance Diet Review
Obviously, the kind of diet the book propagates is very healthy and nutrient rich. Thus, it is a surefire way of losing weight. The book is not really about weight loss. It has more to do with a healthy way of living.
The PH Balance Diet elaborates on a pH test kit that can help people assess the pH level of the body and help correct imbalances. The book also contains a number of helpful recipes. There is a special section dedicated to fruit juices called the ‘juicing for superhealth’ program. Also included is a tear-out chart that contains an exhaustive list of alkaline and acid foods. All immensely helpful in implementing the program precisely.
PH Balance Diet Pros and Cons
Pros:
- Inculcates healthy food habits
- Propagates the intake of raw and half cooked vegetables
- Recommends the intake of healthy drinks like herbal teas and lemon juices
- Recommends the increased intake of water
- Contains an exhaustive list of alkaline and acidic foods
- Contains approximately 80 recipes
- Contains detailed recipes for healthy drinks
- Advocates a change in lifestyle
Cons:
- Does not speak about exercises at all
- May be difficult to follow
- Severely restrictive
- The recipes require some amount of work
In conclusion:
The diet plan can help followers lose weight effectively and quickly as it does away with all kinds of processed and fattening foods. It could reduce problems associated with indigestion like flatulence and stomach disorders. However, people who are used to non-vegetarian food might find the diet plan severely restrictive. But, if the recommendations of the book are followed to a large extent, followers can expect a healthier life. Weight loss is of course the big, fat bonus for all the hard work!
