News. 1  Teen Craft: Haunted Candy Houses. 2  Thereâs still time to register for our Teen Craft: Making Haunted Candy Houses at the Valley Community Library. 3  Student volunteer information. 4  Student volunteers: Please stop in the Valley Community Library to see what hours are available.
Alkaline Foods. Alkaline foods should really be referred to as alkaline forming foods. Food is considered alkaline forming if food forms alkaline in the body's blood and urine. This does not mean that the food itself is alkaline: it may well be acidic. Orange juice for instance is highly acidic due to its high citrus acid content, but after being metabolized it will cause urine to become alkaline.
An acid-ash diet is a diet that creates acid in the process of its metabolism. The average American diet, which is high in protein and low in fruits and vegetable, can generate over 100 mEq of acid daily, mainly as phosphate and sulfate (Remer and Manz 1994). Acid generated by diet is excreted in the urine. Foods such as fish and meat have a high potential renal acid load (PRAL) (Table 1 ).