Long-term drinking of alkaline water can cause alkalosis, which can range from anorexia, nausea, headache, convulsions to coma in severe cases. This is especially true for the elderly and patients with kidney disease. Long-term use is more likely to cause alkalosis. In addition, alkaline water will also dissolve tooth enamel, easily cause calcium loss, and increase the risk of obesity by 1.6 times.

Drinking alkaline water and eating alkaline food cannot prevent tumors or change a person’s physique. The body will adjust itself to keep it in the most appropriate state, and it is difficult to change the body’s acid-base through diet. Environment, so people should still eat a balanced diet, rather than being too acidic or too alkaline, otherwise it may cause acidosis or alkalosis.

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Suitable people for drinking alkaline water:

1. People with too much or too little stomach acid

Food Drinking an appropriate amount of warm natural soda water 1 -1.5 hours before the meal can inhibit gastric acid secretion.

2. People with diabetes

The zinc and magnesium contained in alkaline water can promote the improvement of immune function and help improve diabetes.

3. Patients with rheumatic diseases such as gout, shoulder disease, and low back pain

100 mg of ordinary tap water can dissolve 11.7 mg of uric acid, while 100 mg of weakly alkaline water can dissolve 21.3 mg of uric acid. , is 2 times that of the former, and the dissolution rate is 1.8 times that of the former. Therefore, regular drinking of weakly alkaline water can effectively excrete uric acid and relieve patients from pain.

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