This discussion aims at providing targeted information, with respect to the concept of alkalinity and acidity, and how it relates to the food that we consume, and how the body metabolizes these foods. As a listener, you will be able to gain the importance of why counting calories and reducing food portion size, give relatively minimal benefits to the body. Instead the body requires a diet that is composed of alkaline and acidic foods that are compatible with one another to facilitate proper digestion and elimination of food.