Alkaline Diets

What Can I Eat While Cleansing with Arise & Shine?

Health-enhancing, natural, pure food and water are the best partners for an optimal cleanse. While the recommended foods may be very different from your current diet, it is exceedingly important that you consume these foods while cleansing for the most beneficial results.
Your body functions at its ideal when your eating habits predominately consist of what are defined as alkaline-forming foods as opposed to acid-forming foods. Alkaline-forming foods are those that leave an alkaline ash when metabolized, contributing to the body's mineral reserves. Acid-forming foods dramatically slow down the cleansing process, yielding lessened results. Raw alkaline-forming foods are recommended because of their high enzyme and electrolyte mineral content.

Cleansing is more comfortable for those who feed their bodies with the adequate and proper nutrients. Transitioning from a typical high protein, Western diet of cooked and processed foods to a largely raw vegetarian diet can be a difficult adjustment, so it is important to take small steps instead of jumping right in. You may wish to start by eating more steamed or baked vegetables. AriseNzyme or other high quality digestive enzyme formula can be helpful in assisting with the breakdown of cellulose from raw foods while you transition your eating habits. Raw soups are also a great way to incorporate delicious and easily digested foods into your diet.

Find recipes for dishes that you may have while cleansing in our Resource Center.
Alkaline-Forming Foods 
(Note: All of the below foods should be organic or grown without pesticides and herbicides whenever possible!)
All fresh fruits, including grapefruit and other citrus
All fresh salad greens
All sprouts
All vegetables (raw or cooked)
Almonds and sunflower seeds, soaked*
Apple cider vinegar (raw and organic)
Berries, fresh
Corn on the cob, fresh*
Dark leafy greens, lightly steamed
Dates and other dried fruits, organic and unsulphured* with no added sugar
Fresh or dried seasoning herbs and blends that contain no added salt
Fresh raw fruit juice
Fresh raw vegetable juice
Goat whey* (raw)
Green foods (grasses, spirulina, chlorella)
Herbal teas (caffeine free)
Honey (raw)
Lemons
Lima Beans*
Maple syrup, organic
Melons
Millet*
Molasses
Onions
Potatoes*
Quinoa*
Raisins
Raw organic olive and flaxseed oils, to be added after cooking
Sauerkraut (unsalted)
Sea vegetables (well-rinsed)
Vegetable broth
Vegetable soups
Wheat grass juice
* Eat no more than 3 times per week, as these foods significantly slow the cleansing process. If you experience cleansing reactions, you may wish to consume more of these foods, or if you wish to speed up the cleansing process (not recommended for inexperienced cleansers), we recommend eating less of these foods.

Alkaline Diet - Raw Food Diet
 By: John Rohrbach
We had been in Kauai only two days. We were running in the morning and swimming and snorkeling throughout the day. We were also planning to hike the famous Napali Coast Trail which is 11 miles each way of very rugged and dangerous hiking. John keeps himself in better condition than either Chris or I. He is solid muscle, runs, lifts weights or water ski's everyday. It never occurred to us that he was having any trouble.

One evening during dinner, John suggested that we all go on a total raw food diet. This was a rather unusual request for John, and I thought something must be going on and I wanted to find out what, so I resisted. "John" I said, "This is my first time in Hawaii and I want to enjoy all it offers. Let's do raw food when we get back home!" "But Rich, look at all this great fruit, papayas, mangoes, exotic bananas, fresh coconuts, guavas and even more. It will be good for us, I think we should do it." "Well we can eat all we want of those items, no problem, but let's enjoy other things too." "Rich, think about how much better off we all will be if we discipline ourselves right now and eat what nature really intended for us to eat." "John, no one could agree with you about that more than I, but why not do this at home and enjoy our vacation to the maximum?"

On and on we went, Chris watching and listening, wondering what the heck was going on, and enjoying the obvious debate this turned into. John became more stubborn and so did I. Finally John gave in and admitted why he was so persistent."Rich I have had to almost give up water skiing, I have been getting more and more pain when ever I do." I listened carefully. "The pain is sometimes intense in my back and especially my arms. It gets so bad when I water ski that I'm forced to stop. My hands have been getting more and more stiff and sore in the mornings. I'm in pain right now especially in my back." I'm so concerned that I question doing the hike to Kalalau valley. I want to try your alkaline suggestions. I asked a few more questions and said, "About a year ago as I recall, we talked about some soreness you were having and I said you were just too acid. I suggested that you stop eating all those acid foods your incredible wife cooks for you and I sent you some Goat Milk Whey to help alkalize your system, did you do these things?" "Well, I fed the Whey to my dog." "So, now you have an alkalized dog and an over acid body your stuck with."

OK, if Chris is willing, lets go on raw foods, then you will soon know the truth about alkaline and acid. In about two days his pains began to lessen. About a week later it was time to hike the Napali Coast Trail. His pain was gone from his arms and the pain and stiffness in his hands had totally left him, even in the mornings he was free of any concerned symptoms. He only had just one little spot left in his back.

We spent 3 days of rugged backpacking. On the way back we raced a tough Swede from Sweden for 11 miles with full packs. Then we went swimming. The pain was even less. On the plane home, John, said that pain in his back was only noticeable when he moved in certain positions. "So John, now you know for sure what has been bothering you all these long months.

For 8 days we had only alkaline food and most of it was raw. Do we all feel better or what?" Chris and John both felt that they not only felt better but had learned a lesson that was indeed very valuable. We fall apart eating acid foods and heal on alkaline foods.