The diet dogma pervades, this time it’s with the alkaline diet that promotes eating “alkaline” foods to help prevent the blood from becoming too acidic.

I recently listened to an online webinar given by a so-called nutrition “expert” who has studied many nutrition modalities and was promoting the notion of eating alkaline foods, mainly fruits and vegetables and some grains and legumes, in order to keep your blood pH healthy. Although she didn’t explicitly say this, her message was quite clear that she was not a fan of eating meat, dairy, or fermented foods because they are very “acidic.” She also mentioned that studies have shown that cancer cells grow in more acidic environments.