pimg class=”alignright” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202012/meat22.jpg” alt=”meat22″ width=”320″ height=”250″ title=”Dear Mark: Does Dietary Acid/Base Balance Matter?” /For today#8217;s a title=”Dear Mark” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/category/dear-mark/”Dear Mark/a, I#8217;m covering just one topic: the relevance of acid/base balance to health. Anyone wading through the morass of Internet diet information has come across the idea than an excess of acidity derived from our diet overloads the body#8217;s ability to balance it with alkalinity. A diverse group invokes it, including strict paleo dieters, vegans grasping for straws to indict meat, and web sites featuring HTML from the 1990s that sell alkalizing water tablets. And because acidity sounds caustic and vaguely negative, lots of people buy into it. So, does it matter?/p
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blockquotepI often hear about the acid-alkaline properties of foods in the comments and forums. However, I am not sure if this has any scientific merit. You don#8217;t seem to have any posts about it so would you care to shed […]

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