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Many thanks to our member Minia for this information!

 

HELP YOUR BODY- Information on PH Balance- Alkaline/Acid Foods...

 

(( Many THANKS to JOE FROM HEALTHFULLY ORGANIC MARKET )).

 

Human blood pH should be slightly alkaline ( 7.35 -

7.45 ). A pH of 7.0 is neutral. A pH below 7.0 is

acidic. A pH above 7.0 is alkaline. An acidic

pH can occur from, an acid forming diet, emotional

stress, toxic overload, and/or immune reactions or any

process that deprives the cells of oxygen and

other nutrients. The body will try to compensate for

acidic pH by using alkaline minerals. If the diet

does not contain enough minerals to compensate, a

build up of acids in the cells will occur.

 

An acidic balance will: decrease the body's ability

to absorb minerals and other nutrients, decrease the

energy production in the cells, decrease it's

ability to repair damaged cells, decrease it's ability

to detoxify heavy metals, make tumor cells thrive, and

make it more susceptible to fatigue and illness.

 

The reason acidosis is more common in our society is

mostly due to the typical American diet, which is far

too high in acid producing animal products like meat,

eggs and dairy, and far too low in alkaline producing

foods like fresh vegetables.

 

Additionally, we eat acid producing processed foods

like white flour and sugar and drink acid producing

beverages like coffee and soft drinks.

 

We use too many drugs, which are acid forming; and, we

use artificial chemical sweetners like NutraSweet,

Spoonful, Sweet 'N Low, Equal, or Aspartame, which are

poison, and, extremely acid forming.

 

One of the best things we can do to correct an overly

acid body is to clean up the diet and lifestyle.

 

To maintain health, the diet should consist of 60%

alkaline forming foods & 40% acid forming foods.

 

To restore health, the diet should consist of 80%

alkaline forming foods & 20% acid forming foods.

 

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ACID SYMPTOM CHECKLIST

 

(Source: Dr Thoedore A. Baroody, " Alkalize or Die " ,

1991)

 

To help determine your current level of acidity, these

are listed as beginning, intermediate and advanced

symptoms.

 

Beginning Symptoms:

 

1. Acne

2. Agitation

3. Muscular pain

4. Cold hands and feet

5. Dizziness

6. Low energy

7. Joint pains that travel

8. Food allergies

9. Chemical sensitivities to odors, gas heat

10. Hyperactivity

11. Panic attacks

12. Pre-menstrual and menstrual cramping

13. Pre-menstrual anxiety and depression

14. Lack of sex drive

15. Bloating

16. Heartburn

17. Diarrhea

18. Constipation

19. Hot urine

20. Strong smelling urine

21. Mild headaches

22. Rapid panting breath

23. Rapid heartbeat

24. Irregular heartbeat

25. White coated tongue

26. Hard to get up in the morning

27. Excess head mucous (stuffiness)

28. Metallic taste in mouth

 

Intermediate Symptoms:

 

1. Cold sores (Herpes I & II)

2. Depression

3. Loss of memory

4. Loss of concentration

5. Migraine headaches

6. Insomnia

7. Disturbance in smell, taste, vision, hearing

8. Asthma

9. Bronchitis

10. Hay fever

11. Ear aches

12. Hives

13. Swelling

14. Viral infections (colds, flu)

15. Bacterial infections (staph, strep)

16. Fungal infections (candida albicans, athlete's

foot, vaginal)

17. Impotence

18. Urethritis

19. Cystitis

20. Urinary infection

21. Gastritis

22. Colitis

23. Excessive falling hair

24. Psoriasis

25. Endometriosis

26. Stuttering

27. Numbness and tingling

28. Sinusitis

 

Advanced Symptoms:

 

1. Crohn's disease

2. Schizophrenia

3. Learning disabled

4. Hodgkin's disease

5. Systemic lupus erythematosis

6. Multiple Sclerosis

7. Sarcoidosis

8. Rheumatoid arthritis

9. Myasthenia gravis

10. Scleroderma

11. Leukemia

12. Tuberculosis

13. All other forms of cancer

14. Obesity

15. Diabetes

 

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Shifting Your pH Toward Alkaline...

 

This chart is for those trying to " adjust " their body

pH. The pH scale is from 0 to 14, with numbers below

7 acidic ( low on oxygen ) and numbers above 7

alkaline. An acidic body is a sickness magnet.

 

This chart is intended only as a general guide to

alkalizing and acidifying foods.

 

ALKALINE FOODS

 

ALKALIZING VEGETABLES

Alfalfa

Barley Grass

Beet Greens

Beets

Broccoli

Cabbage

Carrot

Cauliflower

Celery

Chard Greens

Chlorella

Collard Greens

Cucumber

Dandelions

Dulce

Edible Flowers

Eggplant

Fermented Veggies

Garlic

Green Beans

Green Peas

Kale

Kohlrabi

Lettuce

Mushrooms

Mustard Greens

Nightshade Veggies

Onions

Parsnips (high glycemic)

Peas

Peppers

Pumpkin

Radishes

Rutabaga

Sea Veggies

Spinach, green

Spirulina

Sprouts

Sweet Potatoes

Tomatoes

Watercress

Wheat Grass

Wild Greens

 

ALKALIZING ORIENTAL VEGETABLES

Daikon

Dandelion Root

Kombu

Maitake

Nori

Reishi

Shitake

Umeboshi

Wakame

 

ALKALIZING FRUITS

Apple

Apricot

Avocado

Banana (high glycemic)

Berries

Blackberries

Cantaloupe

Cherries, sour

Coconut, fresh

Currants

Dates, dried

Figs, dried

Grapes

Grapefruit

Honeydew Melon

Lemon

Lime

Muskmelons

Nectarine

Orange

Peach

Pear

Pineapple

Raisins

Raspberries

Rhubarb

Strawberries

Tangerine

Tomato

Tropical Fruits

Umeboshi Plums

Watermelon

 

ALKALIZING PROTEIN

Almonds

Chestnuts

Millet

Tempeh (fermented)

Tofu (fermented)

Whey Protein Powder

 

ALKALIZING SWEETENERS

Stevia

 

ALKALIZING SPICES & SEASONINGS

Chili Pepper

Cinnamon

Curry

Ginger

Herbs (all)

Miso

Mustard

Sea Salt

Tamari

 

ALKALIZING OTHER

Alkaline Antioxidant Water

Apple Cider Vinegar

Bee Pollen

Fresh Fruit Juice

Green Juices

Lecithin Granules

Mineral Water

Molasses, blackstrap

Probiotic Cultures

Soured Dairy Products

Veggie Juices

 

ALKALIZING MINERALS

Calcium: pH 12

Cesium: pH 14

Magnesium: pH 9

Potassium: pH 14

Sodium: pH 14

 

Although it might seem that citrus fruits would have

an acidifying effect on the body, the citric acid they

contain actually has an alkalinizing effect in the

system.

 

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ACIDIC FOODS

 

ACIDIFYING VEGETABLES

Corn

Lentils

Olives

Winter Squash

 

ACIDIFYING FRUITS

Blueberries

Canned or Glazed Fruits

Cranberries

Currants

Plums**

Prunes**

 

ACIDIFYING GRAINS, GRAIN PRODUCTS

Amaranth

Barley

Bran, oat

Bran, wheat

Bread

Corn

Cornstarch

Crackers, soda

Flour, wheat

Flour, white

Hemp Seed Flour

Kamut

Macaroni

Noodles

Oatmeal

Oats (rolled)

Quinoa

Rice (all)

Rice Cakes

Rye

Spaghetti

Spelt

Wheat Germ

Wheat

 

ACIDIFYING BEANS & LEGUMES

Almond Milk

Black Beans

Chick Peas

Green Peas

Kidney Beans

Lentils

Pinto Beans

Red Beans

Rice Milk

Soy Beans

Soy Milk

White Beans

 

ACIDIFYING DAIRY

Butter

Cheese

Cheese, Processed

Ice Cream

Ice Milk

 

ACIDIFYING NUTS & BUTTERS

Cashews

Legumes

Peanut Butter

Peanuts

Pecans

Tahini

Walnuts

 

ACIDIFYING ANIMAL PROTEIN

Bacon

Beef

Carp

Clams

Cod

Corned Beef

Fish

Haddock

Lamb

Lobster

Mussels

Organ Meats

Oyster

Pike

Pork

Rabbit

Salmon

Sardines

Sausage

Scallops

Shellfish

Shrimp

Tuna

Turkey

Veal

Venison

 

ACIDIFYING FATS & OILS

Avacado Oil

Butter

Canola Oil

Corn Oil

Flax Oil

Hemp Seed Oil

Lard

Olive Oil

Safflower Oil

Sesame Oil

Sunflower Oil

 

ACIDIFYING SWEETENERS

Carob

Corn Syrup

Sugar

 

ACIDIFYING ALCOHOL

Beer

Hard Liquor

Spirits

Wine

 

ACIDIFYING OTHER FOODS

Catsup

Cocoa

Coffee

Mustard

Pepper

Soft Drinks

Vinegar

 

ACIDIFYING DRUGS & CHEMICALS

Aspirin

Chemicals

Drugs, Medicinal

Drugs, Psychedelic

Herbicides

Pesticides

Tobacco

 

ACIDIFYING JUNK FOOD

Beer: pH 2.5

Coca-Cola: pH 2

Coffee: pH 4

 

** These foods leave an alkaline ash but have an

acidifying effect on the body.

 

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TROPHOLOGY - THE SCIENCE OF FOOD COMBINING

 

Trophology introduction

 

" Compared to Taoist concepts of balance, the Western notion of a

'balanced diet' is simplistic and superficial.

 

Western physicians advise everyone to take 'a little of everything at

every meal', jumbling together such disparate

ingredients as meat, milk, starch, fat and sugar.

 

Such indiscriminate consumption of food is no different than pouring a

combination of gas, oil, alcohol and sugar into the

gas tank of your car. These blends will not burn efficiently, will

provide little power and will quickly clog up the engine

so badly that the entire system grinds to a halt.

 

The following advice given to the founding Emperor of the Ming

Dynasty on the occasion of the authors 100th birthday,

clearly reflects the fact that the ancient Chinese were well aware of

the importance of the science of food combining.

 

'Food and drink are relied upon to nurture life. But if one does

not know that the nature of substances may be opposed

to each other, and one consumes them altogether indiscriminately, the

vital organs will be thrown out of harmony and

disastrous consequences will soon arise. Therefore, those who wish to

nurture their lives must carefully avoid doing such

damage to themselves.'

 

[Chia Ming, Essential Knowledge for Eating and Drinking, 1368 AD].

 

In plain English, the Yin and Yang of diet boils down to 'Trophology',

a term which you and no doubt your doctor, have probably never heard before.

 

Modern medical training in the West, especially in America, is

notoriously deficient in nutritional science, although there

are a few enlightened nutritional scientists in America and Europe

today who, despite sneers from their peers in the

medical establishment, are making great medical strides through the

science of Trophology.

 

The Western scientific equivalent of Yin/Yang balance in food

combinations is something we all learned in elementary high

school chemistry: acid/alkaline balance, or 'pH'. We all know that if

we did add a measure of alkaline to an equal measure

of acid, the resulting chemical solution is as neutral as plain water.

That's the principle behind reaching for bicarbonate

(a strong alkaline) to relieve 'acid indigestion'.

 

It is an established scientific fact in Western medicine that, in

order to initiate efficient digestion of any concentrated

animal protein, the stomach must secrete pepsin. But it is also a

well-known fact that pepsin can function only in a highly

acidic medium, which must be maintained for several hours for complete

digestion of proteins.

 

It is equally a well established fact of science that when we chew a

piece of bread or potato or any other

carbohydrate/starch, ptyalin and other alkaline juices are immediately

secreted into the food by saliva in the mouth. When

swallowed, the alkalized starches require an alkaline medium in the

stomach in order to complete their digestion.

 

Anyone should be able to figure out what therefore happens when you

ingest protein and starch together. Acid and alkaline

juices are secreted simultaneously in response to the incoming protein

and starch, promptly neutralizing one another and

leaving a weak, watery solution in the stomach that digests neither

protein nor starch properly. Instead, the proteins

putrefy and the starches ferment owning to the constant presence of

bacteria in the digestive tract.

 

This putrefaction and fermentation are the primary cause of all sorts

of digestive distress, including gas, heartburn,

cramps, bloating, constipation, foul stools, bleeding, piles, colitis,

and so forth.

 

Many so-called 'allergies' are also the direct result of improper food

combinations: the bloodstream picks up the toxins

from the putrefied, fermented mess as it passes slowly through the

intestines, and these toxins in turn cause rashes,

hives, headaches, nausea, and other symptoms commonly branded as 'allergies'.

 

The same foods that cause allergic reactions when improperly combined

often have no ill-side effects whatsoever when

consumed according to the rules of Trophology.

 

The final fact of the matter is this: when you immobilize your

stomach and impair digestive functions by consuming

foods in indiscriminate combinations, the bacteria in your alimentary

canal have a field day. They get all the nutrients

and thrive, while you get all the wastes and suffer. "

 

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Protein and Starch

 

" This is the worst possible combination of foods to mix together at a

single meal, and yet it is the mainstay of modern

Western diets: meat and potatoes, hamburgers and fries, eggs and toast, etc.

 

When one consumes protein and starch together, the alkaline enzyme

ptyalin pours into the food as it's chewed in the

mouth.

 

When the masticated food reaches the stomach, digestion of starch by

alkaline enzymes continues unabated, thereby

preventing the digestion of protein by pepsin and other acid secretions.

 

The ever-present bacteria in the stomach are thus permitted to attach

the protein and putrefaction commences, rendering

nutrients in the protein food largely useless to you and producing

toxic wastes and foul gases, including such poisons as

indol, skatol, phenol, hydrogen sulphide, phenylpropionic acid, and others.

 

If that is the case, you may well wonder, then why does the stomach

have no trouble handling foods that naturally contain

both protein and starch, such as whole grains?

 

As Dr. Shelton points out, " There is a great difference between the

digestion of a food, however complex its composition,

and the digestion of a mixture of different foods. "

 

To a single article of food that is a starch-protein combination, the

body can easily adjust its juices, both as to

strength and timing, to the digestive requirements of the food. But

when two foods are eaten with different, even opposite,

digestive needs, this precise adjustment of juices to requirements

becomes impossible. "

 

THE RULE: Eat concentrated proteins such as meat, fish, eggs and

cheese separately from concentrated starches such as

bread, potatoes and rice.

 

For example, eat toast or eggs for breakfast, the hamburger patty or

the bun for lunch, meat or potatoes for dinner.

 

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Protein and Protein

 

" Different proteins have different digestive requirements. For example

the strongest enzymatic action on milk occurs during

the last hour of digestion, whereas on meat it occurs during the first

hour and on eggs somewhere in between.

 

It is instructive to recall the ancient dietary law which Moses

imposed on his people [the Jewish people], forbidding the

simultaneous consumption of milk and flesh.

 

Two similar meats such as beef and lamb, or two types of fish such as

salmon and shrimp, are not sufficiently different in

nature to cause digestive conflict in the stomach and may be consumed together. "

 

THE RULE: Eat only one major type of protein at a single meal.

 

Avoid combinations such as meat and eggs, meat and milk, fish and cheese.

 

Insure the assimilation of the full range of vital amino acids by

varying the types of concentrated proteins taken at

different meals.

 

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Acid and starch

 

" Any acid taken together with starch suspends secretion of ptyalin, a

biochemical fact of life upon which all physicians

agree.

 

Therefore, if you consume oranges, lemons and other acid fruits, or

acids such as vinegar's, along with starch, no ptyalin

is secreted in the mouth to initiate the first stage of digestion.

Consequently, the starch hits the stomach without the

vital alkaline juices it needs to digest properly, permitting bacteria

to ferment it instead.

 

A single teaspoon of vinegar, or its equivalent in other acids, is all

it takes entirely to suspend salivary digestion of

starch in the mouth. "

 

THE RULE: Eat acids and starches at separate meals.

 

For example, if you eat toast or cereal for breakfast (starches), skip

the orange juice (acid) as well as the eggs

(concentrated protein).

 

If you're eating a starch-based meal of noodles or rice, avoid vinegar

as well as concentrated protein (meat, chicken).

 

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Acid and protein

 

" Since protein requires an acid medium for proper digestion, you'd

think that acid foods would facilitate protein

digestion, but that's not the case.

 

When acid foods enter the stomach they inhibit the secretion of

hydrochloric acid, and the protein-digesting enzyme pepsin

can work only in the presence of hydrochloric acid, not just any acid.

 

Therefore orange juice inhibits the proper digestion of eggs, and a

strong vinegar dressing on salads inhibits the

digestion of steak. "

 

THE RULE: Avoid combining concentrated proteins and acids at the same meal.

 

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Starch and sugar

 

" It has been established that, when sugar enters the mouth along with

starch, the saliva secreted during mastication

contains no ptyalin, thereby sabotaging starch digestion before it

reaches the stomach.

 

Furthermore, such a combination blocks passage of sugar through the

stomach until the starch is digested, causing it to

ferment.

 

The by-products of sugar fermentation are acidic, which in turn

further inhibits digestion of starches, which require

alkaline mediums for digestion.

 

Bread (starch) and butter (fat) is a perfectly compatible combination,

but when you spread a spoonful of honey or jam over

it, you introduce sugars to the blend, which interferes with the

digestion of the starch in bread.

 

The same principle applies to breakfast cereal sprinkled with sugar,

heavily frosted cakes, sweet pies, and so forth. "

 

THE RULE: Eat starches and sugars separately.

 

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Melon

 

" Melons are such a perfect food for humans that they require no

digestion whatsoever in the stomach. Instead, they pass

quickly through the stomach and move into the small intestine for

digestion and assimilation.

 

But this can happen only when the stomach is empty and melons are

eaten alone, or in combination only with other fresh raw

fruits.

 

When consumed with or after other foods that require complex digestion

in the stomach, melons cannot pass into the small

intestine until the digestion of other foods in the stomach is complete.

 

So they sit and stagnate instead, quickly fermenting and causing all

sorts of gastric distress. "

 

THE RULE: Eat melons alone or leave them alone.

 

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Desserts

 

" One should avoid any sort of sweet dessert after a big meal, for this

type of food combines poorly with everything.

 

Even fresh fruit should be avoided right after a big meal because it

will back up in the stomach and ferment instead of

digest.

 

If you really have a 'sweet tooth' and crave cakes, pies and pastries,

indulge your habit occasionally by making a whole

meal of them.

 

They are still not good for you but at least taken alone they will not

cause as much gastric distress and toxic by-products

as when taken after meals. "

 

THE RULE: Avoid sweet starchy desserts, as well as fruits, after large

meals of protein or carbohydrates.

 

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Milk and dairy

 

" Now we come to one of the most controversial and misunderstood items

in the Western diet.

 

Orientals and Africans have traditionally avoided milk- except as a

purgative. But in the Western world, people are told to

drink milk everyday throughout their lives.

 

If we look at nature, we see that the young feed exclusively on milk

until weaned away from it with other foods. The

natural disappearance of the milk-digesting enzyme lactase from the

human system upon reaching maturity proves that adult

humans have no more nutritional need for milk than adult tigers or chimpanzees.

 

Though milk is a complete protein food when consumed raw, it also

contains fat, which means that it combines poorly with

any other food except itself. Yet adults today routinely 'wash down'

other foods with cold milk. Milk curdles immediately

upon entering the stomach, so if there is other food present the curds

coagulate around other food particles and insulate

them from exposure to gastric juices, delaying digestion long enough

to permit the onset of putrefaction. Therefore, the

first and foremost rule of milk consumption is, 'Drink it alone, or

leave it alone.'

 

Today, milk is made even more indigestible by the universal practice

of pasteurization, which destroys its natural enzymes

and alters its delicate proteins.

 

Raw milk contains the active enzymes lactase and lipase, which permit

raw milk to digest itself. Pasteurized milk, which is

devitalized of lactase and other active enzymes, simply can not be

properly digested by adult stomachs, and even infants

have trouble with it, as evidenced by colic, rashes, respiratory

ailments, gas and other common ailments of bottle-fed

babies. The lack of enzymes and alteration of vital proteins also

renders the calcium and other mineral elements in milk

largely unassailable.

 

During the 1930's, Dr. Francis M. Pottenger conducted a 10-year study

on the relative effects of pasteurized and raw milk

diets on 900 cats. One group received nothing but raw whole milk,

while the other was fed nothing but pasteurized whole

milk from the same source.

 

The raw milk group thrived, remaining healthy, active and alert

throughout their lives, but the group fed on pasteurized

milk soon became listless, confused and highly vulnerable to a host of

chronic degenerative ailments normally associated

with humans, including heart disease, kidney failure, thyroid

dysfunction, respiratory ailments, loss of teeth, brittle

bones, liver inflammation, etc.

 

But what caught Dr. Pottenger's attention most was what happened to

the second and third generations.

 

The first offspring of the pasteurized milk group were all born with

poor teeth and small, weak bones- a clear cut sign of

calcium deficiency, which indicated lack of calcium absorption from

pasteurized milk.

 

The offspring of the raw milk group remained as healthy as their parents.

 

Many of the kittens in third generation of the pasteurized group were

stillborn, while those that survived were all sterile

and unable to reproduce.

 

The experiment had to end there because there was no fourth generation

of cats fed on pasteurized milk, although the raw

milk group continued to breed and thrive indefinitely.

 

If that is insufficient proof of the ill effects of pasteurized milk,

take note of the fact even that newborn calves fed on

pasteurized milk taken from their own mother cows usually die within

six months, a fact which the commercial dairy industry

is loathe to admit.

 

Despite such scientific evidence in favor of raw milk and against

pasteurized milk, and despite the fact that until the

early twentieth century the human species thrived on raw milk, it is

actually illegal to sell raw milk to consumers in all

but a few states in America today.

 

It is far more profitable to the dairy industry to pasteurize milk to

extend its shelf-life, though such denatured milk

does nothing whatsoever to extend human life.

 

Furthermore, pasteurization renders milk from sick cows in unsanitary

dairies relatively 'harmless' by killing some, but

not all, dangerous germs, and this too cuts costs for the dairy industry.

 

It required only three generations for Dr. Pottenger's pasteurized

milk fed cats to become sterile and enfeebled. That's

about how many generations of Americans and Europeans have fed on

pasteurized milk. Today, infertility has become a major

problem for your American couples, while calcium deficiency has become

so rampant that over 90 percent of all American

children suffer chronic tooth decay.

 

To make things worse, milk is now routinely 'homogenized' to prevent

the cream from separating from the milk. This involves

the fragmentation and pulverization of the fat molecules to the point

that they will not separate from the rest of the milk. But it also

permits there tiny fragments of milk fat to easily pass through the

villa of the small intestine, greatly increasing the amount of

denatured fat and cholesterol absorbed by the body. In fact, you

absorb more milk-fat from homogenized milk than you do from pure

cream!

 

Women worried about osteoporosis should take note of these facts about

pasteurized milk products. That such denatured milk

does not deliver sufficient calcium to prevent this condition is

abundantly evident from the fact that American women, who

consume great quantities of pasteurized milk products, suffer the

world's highest incidence of osteoporosis.

 

Raw cabbage, for example, supplies far more available calcium than any

quantity of pasteurized milk, yogurt, cottage

cheese, or any other denatured dairy product.

 

Recent studies at the Human Research Centre in Grand Folks, North

Dakota, indicates that the element boron is also an

essential factor in absorbing calcium from food and utilizing it to build bones.

 

Even more noteworthy, the level of estrogen in the blood of women

given sufficient quantities of boron more than doubled,

eliminating the need for estrogen replacement therapy, which is a

common stopgap measure against osteoporosis in the West.

And where do we find boron? In fresh fruits and vegetables, especially

apples, pears, grapes, nuts, cabbage, and other

leafy vegetables, where we also find calcium. Nature has already

provided abundant sources of all the vital nutrients we

need in synergistic form, but man insists on cooking and processing

them to death, and then wonders why his diet doesn't

'work'.

 

Adults should seriously reconsider milk as a constitute of their daily

diets, unless they are able to obtain raw certified

milk, which is an excellent food.

 

To stuff children with pasteurized milk in order to make them grow

'strong and healthy' is sheer folly, because they simply

cannot assimilate the nutrients.

 

Indeed men, women, and children alike should eliminate all pasteurized

dairy products from their diets, for these denatured

dairy products only gum up the intestines with layer upon layer of

slimy sludge that interferes with the absorption of

organic nutrients. "

 

THE RULE: Eliminate pasteurized and homogenized milk entirely from your diet.

 

If raw certified milk is available consume it as a whole food in

itself, not in combination with other foods.

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While acid alkaline balance is important it is also very complicated.

 

I try to keep to mostly alkaline food. However there are some very healthy

acidic foods such as blueberries, in fact all of the berries are loaded with

antioxidants, phytonutrients and other good stuff and are also very acidic.

 

Almost all grains are acidic. The acceptations are Quenua (spelling) and Millet

Most beans are acidic

All animal products are acidic

Most protein is acidic

 

Sticking to a good balanced acid alkaline diet is not easy!

 

Also

The charts of acid alkaline do not agree!

Take a good look at the available charts/books/articles and you will see many

contradictions

 

 

 

What to do?

 

One of the secrets to good acid/alk balance is getting plenty of calcium. Yes,

regular every day calcium. Calcium helps to balance Ph in the body.

 

Find several alk foods that you like in the various categories, grain, beans,

fruit, etc and try to stick to them 80% of the time.

 

Deep breathing is very alkalizing.

Do some vigorous exercise or deep breathing every day

 

 

Create a alk drink and have it often,

Wheat grass juice

Lemon aid…just lemon and water, no sugar!

Veg juice

 

 

 

Worry is acidifying….don't worry

Rich

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I just try to eat as much raw uncooked veggies as possible, you cant go wrong,

green is always a good colour, then add whatever proteins you need, lots of

fresh mineral water (check the ph value, take the highest one you can find, my

one is 7.5-8) and don't drink coffee often or COKE EVER.

Coke is one of the most acid forming drinks you can ingest, taking up

to 32 glasses of high alkaline water to balance its effect. YUCK.

 

I stopped white flour things and pasta dishes , also very acidic. Wholemeal

YEAH!

 

Richard gave good advice by the way! Calcium YES! Blessings.

 

elektra x x x ever alkaline :-))

 

 

 

 

 

 

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yes, there is a reason they clean battery cables with coke, and diet coke is

chemical soup!! But cofee????? I have to draw the line somewhere!!!

 

Happy munching and crunching!!!

 

Julie

 

--- On Mon, 6/1/09, Elektra Fire <elektra.fire wrote:

 

Elektra Fire <elektra.fire

Re: Re: HELP YOUR BODY- Information on

PH Balance- Alkaline/Acid Foods

 

Monday, June 1, 2009, 7:02 AM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I just try to eat as much raw uncooked veggies as possible, you cant go

wrong, green is always a good colour, then add whatever proteins you need, lots

of fresh mineral water (check the ph value, take the highest one you can find,

my one is 7.5-8) and don't drink coffee often or COKE EVER.

 

Coke is one of the most acid forming drinks you can ingest, taking up

 

to 32 glasses of high alkaline water to balance its effect. YUCK.

 

 

 

I stopped white flour things and pasta dishes , also very acidic. Wholemeal

YEAH!

 

 

 

Richard gave good advice by the way! Calcium YES! Blessings.

 

 

 

elektra x x x ever alkaline :-))

 

 

 

 

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