Diet Composition - Alkaline Diet
Recommendations and Evidence
Content
INTERVENTION
- High Dietary Acid Load and Bone Health
- Alkaline Diet and the Risk, Prevention or Treatment of Chronic Diseases
- Alkaline Diet and Cancer Prevention or Cure
1. High Dietary Acid Load and Bone Health
Recommendation
Recommendation
Fair evidence from a meta-analysis of RCTs suggests that acidic diets, such as high protein diets (not consistently defined), increase the amount of acid and calcium excreted in the urine but have no effect on bone mineral density (BMD). Alkaline supplements