Acid and alkaline foods in the pH miracle diet

The main concept behind the pH miracle diet is to maintain a balance of pH in the foods that you eat. The human body is slightly alkaline and therefore it is better for your health to eat a diet composed of alkalizing foods. When you eat too many acidic foods, your system becomes unbalanced and it can cause a whole host of problems, including weight gain, poor concentration, fatigue and depressed immunity that can lead to more serious conditions.

Sugar’s Role in Diabetes

From Harvard Medical School – Diabetes mellitus is a common disorder marked by elevation of the blood sugar. Diabetes develops most commonly because the pancreas is injured and is unable to produce enough insulin (type 1 diabetes) or because the body’s tissues become resistant to insulin and the pancreas releases too little (type 2 diabetes). Although the majority of patients with type 1 diabetes develop this disease in childhood or early adulthood and the majority of patients with type 2 diabetes are well into adulthood when they develop the disease, the terms juvenile-onset diabetes (for type 1) and adult-onset diabetes (for type 2) have fallen out of favor — either type may occur at any age. In addition, either type of disease may or may not require insulin therapy, though it is typical of Type 1 – therefore, the terms “insulin-dependent” and “non-insulin-dependent” have also been retired.