The alkaline acid diet is a diet that promotes balancing your body's pH levels. As Western diets are typically high in acidic foods, this is achieved by eating more alkaline foods. An alkaline breakfast is a great way to start the day, promoting vitality, giving you energy and provides a launchpad to allow you to make the most of the day ahead.

Sounds good, but what exactly is an alkaline breakfast?

It's interesting that an acid alkaline diet is pretty much what most of us would consider a healthy diet. Eating less processed foods, less meat and drinking less alcohol as these are considered to be acid foods. While at the same time eating more vegetables and drinking home made vegetable juice, e.g. spinach juice.

If you do a google search for alkaline food chart you will find details of suggested foods that you could include as part of your alkaline breakfast menu.

Examples include vegetable juices, scrambled eggs, grapefruit or miso soup. Personally I usually make a homemade fruit and vegetable juice and scramble 2 or 3 eggs. After a pint or so of juice containing all manner of nutrients I feel totally hydrated and ready for the day ahead. The eggs fill me up and usually see me through to lunch time. If not I always keep a banana handy just in case!

So really, an alkaline breakfast menu is simply what we would all consider healthy eating. Although there's a difference between knowing what to do and doing what needs done. Starting the day well is so important as it gives us greater potential for the day ahead. It is possible that eating an alkaline breakfast could help avoid acid reflux symptoms although I haven't done a great deal of research into heartburn.

An alkaline breakfast is not a diet fad. Rather it's a simple common sense breakfast.

Some of the healthiest breakfast cereals are things like museli. These can be full of fruit like raisins which are highly alkalizing. Ideally drinking a fruit juice along with cereal containing fruit will give the best pH balancing effect. Covering cereals with chopped fruit e.g. bananas or blended fruit like a strawberry puree are other ways to increase breakfast fruit content.