I have a particular interest in any book with “diet” as part of its title so I was more than happy to receive a review copy of Felicia Drury Kliment’s The Acid Alkaline Balance Diet: An Innovative Program for Ridding Your Body of Acidic Wastes, published by McGraw-Hill.

Kliment is an adjunct professor at City College in New York and an alternative health consultant. She has published numerous articles on alternative health and healing.

Quoted from the back cover:

Modern agriculture and food-preservation methods have done serious damage to the human diet. The detrimental effects on the human body caused by acidic wastes from processed food and chemical additives are myriad. By-products of the foods we eat, acidic wastes are the common denominator in all degenerative diseases. When acidic wastes accumulate, they can cause organs to malfunction and break down. Balancing the body’s acid-alkaline pH factor is a dynamic way to improve health. The Acid-Alkaline Balance Diet explores this exciting new treatment in alternative medicine.

Based on Eastern medicinal practices, The Acid-Alkaline Balance Diet advocates a sensible food-combination program in conjunction with herbal medicine therapies to balance this positively charged acidic particles in the body with the negatively charged particles. This simple plan can aid in curing a wide range of medical problems including:

• arthritis
• insomnia
• alcoholism
• lung disorders
• kidney disease
• and much more

Organized by medical condition, this book makes it easy to quickly find the help and advice you need. There’s also a practical test you can administer to help determine your metabolic type: grain eating, meat eating, or balanced.

I haven’t taken the test to find out if my metabolic type is grain, meat or balanced yet. My “best guess” would be that my metabolic type is “meat eating” since I’ll take a steak any day over pasta, but I’ll take the test to find out. I’ve already learned some interesting information about hypothyroid issues and dieting that I’ll be putting into practice.

I like the way the way information is easily found in this book. If you have a specific medical issue you don’t have to read the whole book to find the information that you need. That doesn’t mean you should go to your local bookstore and flip through to the chapter that interests you and not buy the book.

There are a lot of good nuggets of information through the book that will benefit anyone who takes the time to read The Acid Alkaline Balance Diet: An Innovative Program for Ridding Your Body of Acidic Wastes.