Alkaline diet, what it is and why it’s a hoax

There are many diets dictated by fashions. For some years now we have been talking about alkaline diets: diets that promise not only to lose weight, but to prevent and “cure” many diseases. And even slow down the aging process. It looks like the elixir of life. But is it really?

Given that everything is based on the real fact that what we eat can somehow affect the body’s acid-base balance, are we really to believe that this is another arbiter of our health? Because an alkaline diet (i.e. basic, the two terms are the same thing) would make you lose weight,…