This is a great book for getting started in understanding true nutrition, how food works in your body, what to eat and not to eat, and how to think about food in a more quantitative and scientific way. This book is a broad overview, and lacks some key detail in a few places, so it is best read with a notepad and Google at hand. Breaking food into either acid or alkaline is the first step in creating a balanced and diverse diet, so that you will not be fooled by schemes promising whatever people are buying. You can think of food like money, eating alkaline foods to build up your reserve holdings, and acidic foods when you want to spend some of your stored reserve. Thinking of fat in terms of buffered acids in the body as opposed to some kind of excess of energy draws the natural conclusion that exercise is not the means to lose weight, but that balancing the stored acids with alkaline foods will eliminate the toxic build up naturally. This is a very helpful book for vegetarians and vegans, many of whom may end up gaining weight from too many simple carbs and sugars in the diet. In the end, it's what grandma always said, eat your greens. A salad a day keeps the doctor away. ( )

Okay, so I was wrong about this book. It's not complete nonsense, but it isn't complete for someone with problems involving candidiasis. For that, I recommend reading The Body Ecology Diet by Donna Gates. ( )