Alkaline Diet Plan

What is an Alkaline Diet?

Before discussing what an Alkaline Diet is, let’s briefly discuss what alkaline is.

Alkaline is the term used to describe substances with a pH greater than 7. pH is a unit of measurement used to measure the degree of acidity and alkalinity. The pH scale ranges from 0 to 14, with 7 being neutral, 0 to 6 being acidic, and 8 to 14 being alkaline/basic. Something referred to as alkaline has hydroxide ions and alkali metals (potassium and sodium).

An Alkaline Diet is a dietary pattern that follows the belief that eating foods that leave alkaline residues in the body is beneficial for our health. Alkaline residues remain after digesting alkaline-rich food, and these residues will help balance the pH in our bodies and work to build resistance against potential health issues.

An Alkaline Diet primarily consists of fruits and vegetables. Common fruit choices for this diet include peaches, pears, apricots, avocados, bananas, blueberries, and mangoes. Common vegetable choices for this diet include kale, spinach, carrots, broccoli, and tomatoes.

This diet has become popular with certain famous people and, by extension, people who follow these celebrities. Examples of famous people who follow Alkaline Diets include the legendary quarterback Tom Brady and actors like Gwyneth Paltrow and Kirsten Dunst.

What does an Alkaline Diet Plan look like?

Alkaline Diet Plans usually take the form of a chart or schedule. They showcase the particular food a person has to eat for each major meal of the day. Some examples include sections for snacks and suggestions on what exercises to do.

Our Alkaline Diet Plan template comes in the form of a schedule, and it’s easy to use! The template contains several segments to account for each day of the week, and before these segments, there is a section detailing the health goals a person wants to achieve by taking on an Alkaline Diet Plan.

Each segment is structured as such:

• Breakfast
• Mid-morning Snack
• Lunch
• Afternoon Snack
• Dinner

A person using our template simply needs to indicate the food and drinks they will consume for each meal time per day. If you’re a nutritionist or dietitian, you can use this template to create a customized meal plan for your client. Whatever you put should serve your or your client’s health goals.

At the end of this template is a Notes box. This is where you can write down anything you or your client need to know about the diet plan and make recommendations beyond what’s listed for each day. You can even write down recommended exercises that align with the listed health goals.

Alkaline Diet Plan example:

Now that you know the basic gist of an Alkaline Diet and have become acquainted with our Alkaline Diet Plan template, we’d like to show you what our template looks like when it’s filled out.

This template can be printed and filled out with a pen. If you want to go paperless, simply write your meal plans in the PDF file! All of its sections are interactable.

If you like what you see, download our free Alkaline Diet Plan PDF template! We hope it helps you plot your Alkaline Diet meals for as long as you want to follow this diet!

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When is it best to use this Alkaline Diet Plan template?

Everyone has their reasons for adopting particular diet plans. The best times to adopt an Alkaline Diet Plan, particularly our template, would be the following:

You want to try out a new meal pattern.

Some people who adopt Alkaline Diet Plans do so because they want to add a bit of variety to their meal palette. Those bored with their current diet are always free to try other diets, including Alkaline Diets. If you’re fed up with your diet, you can download our sample Alkaline Diet plan and try it out!

If you’re at risk of specific health problems.

If you’ve been told by healthcare professionals that you’re at risk of having particular health problems, or if you’re handling a client who is confirmed to be at risk for specific issues, adopting an Alkaline Diet is a good choice. Since it’s made up primarily of fruits and vegetables, all of which provide antioxidants, embracing this diet will help lower the risk of a person having specific health problems they were told they’re at risk of getting down the line.

If you need to involve your overall nutrition.

Suppose you’ve only been eating meat. You’re not necessarily getting all the nutrients that you need. Adopting a balanced diet, like an Alkaline Diet, will give you the nutrients your body needs to stay healthy and function well. You will get a lot of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants from fruits and vegetables. If you add legumes and meat substitutes like tofu to the diet, you’ll still get the proteins you need.

What are the benefits of adopting an Alkaline Diet?

The supposed benefits of adopting an Alkaline Diet include the following:

It can maintain bone health.

An Alkaline Diet is believed to maintain bone health and wellness by preventing calcium loss. A person can avoid bone-related problems such as osteoporosis by ensuring that bones remain healthy.

It can manage chronic pain and inflammation.

Alkaline Diets can help people manage any chronic pain they’ve been feeling, mainly if their chronic pain is caused by inflammation. By adopting an alkaline diet, once it’s confirmed that you have underlying health issues that cause chronic pain and inflammation, you will benefit from healthy foods that can lower your pain.

It can help people lose weight.

By consuming alkaline foods, those who adopt Alkaline Diets will benefit from gradual weight loss and maintain a healthy weight over time. Alkaline foods can make people feel full and satisfied with what they’ve eaten, even if they didn’t eat a lot. By feeling less hungry, one will eat less.

Since Alkaline Diets are mainly fruits and vegetables, one will consume fewer calories. Remember that having more calories and not burning them will result in the calories being stored as fat. Having fewer calories makes it easy to burn them and prevent fat from building up.

How can Carepatron help with diet planning and nutrition-related work?

If you’ve been meaning to learn about alkaline diets, we hope this mini-guide gives you the gist. If you plan on adopting an Alkaline Diet soon, we recommend seeing a dietitian and/or nutritionist first, and if you push through with it, we hope it improves your overall health. You can even use our sample template to kickstart your alkaline diet journey.

While we still have you, we’d like to ask you for your time to check more of the Carepatron platform. We have enough cool features to convince you to consider us your number-one diet planning and nutrition app, clinical documentation, and general practice software. We won’t get into each feature here; we’d like to highlight one related to this guide and template: our resource library. 

Our resource library is a treasure trove of clinical resources. It houses over a thousand resources that cover numerous healthcare fields, topics, and practices, including diet planning and nutrition!

Besides this guide about alkaline diets and our Alkaline Diet Plan template, we have others for vegan, plant-based (which doesn’t necessarily do away with animal-based products), low cholesterol, pescetarian, military, and even Tom Brady’s diet plan!

You can read all our guides for free, so read as much as you want and need! The templates tied to those guides are also free. We recommend downloading our samples and see if they work for you or your client!