Moderation and Vigilance Will Improve Your Digestive Health
Actually, coffee and tea acids can do damage to the pH balance of your body and are classified as acidic drinks. Foods and drinks that have high acidic content are hard for your body to digest properly. Because the acid content causes problems with digestion, it is best to drink coffee by itself and not along with any kind of foods. This will help your body to properly digest the coffee you do drink.The main problem with ingesting drinks and foods that have a high acidic content is that when your body cannot properly digest your drinks and foods, then absorbing the nutrients, vitamins and minerals in the foods you eat or even the supplements you take is compromised.
You can eat healthy foods with good fiber content and plenty of necessary nutrients all day long but if your body cannot break them down so they are absorbed into your system they will do you no good. In fact, foods that are not properly digested have to go somewhere and the body will most likely store the unprocessed foods as fat. Even worse, if the body cannot absorb the nutrients necessary for proper function it will steal what it needs from vital organs and the bones. This is what causes a situation where the body is susceptible to disease.
Acidic Foods to Avoid for Digestive Health
The list of acidic foods is extensive and can be classified in three categories; slightly acidic, acidic, and highly acidic. Obviously the most important group of foods you need to avoid is the ones that are full of acid. The following is a complete list of these foods:Very Acidic Foods to Avoid
- Artificial sweeteners
- Aspartame
- Bagels
- Baked goods
- Biscuits
- Bread, white
- Cakes
- Candy
- Brownies
- Chips
- Chocolate
- Cookies
- Corn chips
- Couscous
- Crackers, white-saltines
- Custard
- Donuts
- Equal/aspartame
- Flour-white, soy, white rice
- Gravy
- Hazelnuts
- Ice cream
- Macadamia nuts
- Matzoh
- Noodles, egg
- Pasta, white flour
- Pie
- Potato chips
- Processed foods
- Pudding
- Saccharin
- Salt, idolized table
- Splenda
- Tortillas, white (flour)
- Cranberries
- Cranberry sauce
- Fruit juice - sweetened
- High fructose corn syrup
- Cheese, hard
- Corn syrup
- Cottonseed oil
- Macaroni and Cheese
- Bacon
- Beef
- Beer
- Bologna
- Carp
- Cold cuts
- Corned beef
- Crab
- Deli meats
- Ham
- Hot dogs/frankfurter, coneys
- Lobster
- Lunch meat
- Pastrami
- Pork
- Salami
- Sausage
- Shrimp
- Swordfish
- Coffee-espresso
- Liquor
- Milk, homogenized
- Soda
Eliminating these foods is not necessary but you need to be aware of the foods that contain high quantities of acid. Limiting the consumption of the highest rated acidic drinks and foods and being aware of the effects of acidic foods on digestion should help to improve your overall health. The body needs to have a pH neutral range in order to function properly. Constant consumption of high acidic drinks like coffee will in time damage your health. An occasional cup of coffee now and then should be no problem but drinking a pot of coffee every day is just a really bad idea.
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