Weight loss diets usually focus on healthy calories, which doesn't address the issue of heartburn and how to cure it, even though both are closely related and can benefit each other. The benefit comes from the way we look at how food functions in the body.

The problem with heartburn is about acidic foods. While these are often the same ones that are fat builders there is a difference. There is acid in almost every food and acid content doesn't appear on food package labels and of course not on fresh produce. This makes it difficult to judge how well a diet plan is doing as a cure fore heartburn. Except, of course, by pain of heartburn. But it would be helpful to have more definitative information when trying to set a cure for heartburn.

The nice thing is that it is possible to use these two diet plans to achieve both once you understand that it's more than stomach acid at work with common heartburn. Each food has an acidic or alkaline value. The category is by far the largest, so it's necessary to do some digging in order to find the good foods but this is not as difficult as it sounds.

Meats are definitely acidic by nature, most packaged foods have acids added as preservatives, taste enhancers and carbonation. What's left are the most powerful foods on the planet - fresh fruits and vegetables. This is where you can find all the minerals and enzymes that the body needs to build a healthy body.

As you know, some of these, like tomatoes, grapefruits and oranges, can cause heartburn. The problem is even though foods like these are loaded with healthy nutrients, some people just can't tolerate them. These fall into the category of acid or alkaline, depending on how a persons body metabolizes them. Milk is another one of these.

For the rest of these fruits and vegetables, it's a matter of eating as much as you want - cooked or raw.

Useful points for a successful diet:

• Include as much fresh produce as you can
• Make plant foods a part of every meal
• Reduce intake of meat and carbs
• Drastically reduce intake of packaged foods
• Look for foods high in calcium

Although curing heartburn, or at least bringing it under control, is a prime concern there are other issues just as important. If you've experienced heartburn for a while there is a good chance that your mineral reserves are low. Poor food choices will do it. It's important to start rebuilding these reserves right away. Rebuilding bone loss beyond middle age is very difficult. This is where good diet play an important role.

The same principles apply to weight loss and curing heartburn. Eating more plant foods will be a big help here for it contains almost all the nutrition you need with less calories and more calcium. The importance of this one mineral should not be overlooked. Using herbals and supplements is a good way to help out and reach optimum health.

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