Should you
drink lemon water
every day
all right you’ve heard all about it and
you’ve seen it everywhere the lemon
water trend and if you’ve hopped on
board i’m here to tell you you’re
wasting your time
and your lemons
that’s right lemon water is not all it’s
cracked up to be
so where does this idea come from well
the idea started out that lemon water is
actually really good for you
because of a one of the oddest and quite
frankly most unfounded diets there is
out there the alkaline diet
now interestingly enough
lemons are acidic they contain citric
acid
but they are associated with alkaline
effects
what the heck does that mean
well the body operates at a very
very very tightly controlled
ph level a fine balance between
acids in the body
and alkaline effects in the body
and while it is absolutely true
that most
vegetables
have
an alkaline effect they trend towards
the alkaline side of the ph scale
and many
animal products
tend towards the acidic effect
there really is no evidence that eating
a slightly alkaline diet or drinking a
slightly alkaline water
has any effect on your body’s ph balance
this became very trendy and still trendy
because you see all the alkaline waters
for sale now
and normally the normal ph is
.
we our bodies operate on a ph between
. and .
so a very very narrow band
interestingly enough italian waters
italian sparkling waters by law required
to have a balanced ph of . or or
higher
so you would think that if you’re kind
of trying to get rid of acids in your
body or you’re eating a lot of
acid-containing foods that you ought to
balance that
with
alkaline water with alkaline foods the
problem is there is so
little
available bicarbonate
in alkaline water or in these foods that
you would actually have to eat
tons of these foods to have any effect
on your ph even your stomach ph
and you would have to drink
untold
thousands of gallons of lemon water a
day to have any effect on your alkaline
status.
