The benefits of a highly alkaline diet are well known in health circles and have been the focus of numerous health books. This is because our blood pH is naturally alkaline (7.4). If we eat too many acid-forming foods, we will throw our blood pH into an overly acidic state, which is devastating to the whole system.

But the other reason that alkaline-forming foods are so helpful is that they actually help to magnetize waste matter out of the cells.