If you can remember back to your days in Chemistry 101, you learned the concept of alkaline and acid. There is a Ph scale from 0 to 14. Pure acid is 0 and 14 is pure alkaline. So things like battery acid would be a 1 and Sodium hydroxide would be a 14. It takes 20 parts of acid to neutralize one part of alkaline.
One number that we are all aware of is our body’s temperature. It is around 98.6 degrees. There is another number that most people are not aware of. That number is 7.36. That is the Ph level of our blood. Unlike our body temperature, our blood has to keep that constant rate or we would enter a condition called acidosis. Acidosis is a condition in which there is excessive acid in the body fluids. The acid would eventually burn holes in our arteries and we would die.
So why does all this matter to us? To answer that, I have to use the following saying, “We are what we eat” If I can add to that saying, I would say, we are also what we think. I will explain that in a bit. Let’s start with what we consume. All foods have different minerals in them which make them fall somewhere in the 0 to 14 Ph level. For example, take a good old can of Coke. The Ph level is about 3.4 on the scale. It is very acidic. Asparagus is about 8.5. It is Very alkaline. So when you eat these foods, the stomach starts to digest the food and the vitamins, minerals and acids start to be absorbed in the stomach, with most of the nutrients being absorbed in the small intestine. Now, our bodies need to absorb some acid. Without it, we would not be healthy. Unfortunately, we consume a typical Western diet that is very highly acidic. We drink coffee and soda all day. We constantly test our body’s ability to get rid of all this acid. Your body tries to keep up by using the alkalinity in the foods we eat. That is where the problem lies. We eat very little alkaline foods. If your body does not get it from our foods, your body will take it from the alkaline reserves that we store in our body fluids. If that becomes depleted, your body will start to steal from your calcium based organs like your bones and brain. Sounds bad, doesn’t it. You would be correct.
If all this fails, your body keeps trying to fight back. It starts to produce massive amounts of Cholesterol to surround the acid and remove it from your blood stream. And by the way, I thought I would add that it takes that acid as far away from the internal organs as possible. Places like the Hips, butt, thighs, stomach and the back of your arms become the final resting place. Your blood vessels can only remove so much of the acid. After a while, Cholesterol starts to accumulate on the side of the walls and forms plaque. As the acid builds up in your blood, it starts to attack the blood cells. These cells have a positive charge on the inside and a negative charge on the outside. If your cells are healthy, the negative charges are pushing other cells away. It is very much like putting 2 magnets that are negatively charged together. They repel each other and flow freely. The acid starts to strip the negative charge away from the cell and they start to attract to each other. This is what they call blot clotting. You start to feel lethargic and tired all the time. The clots keep much needed oxygen from flowing through the system. The clot grows and eventually finds its way to the heart or your brain. That can spell lights out.
If all of that is not bad enough, we have the concept of disease. The wonderful world of germs. We have been told that germs cause sickness. Louis Pasteur was to thank for that. I am writing a blog entry that will put a kybosh on that theory. Let me give you an analogy. Have you ever been to the city dump? Well, if you have, one thing that you will see other that the endless trash is thousands of rats. These rats feed off the food and waste. They multiply at a feverous rate. They break the food down, but create their own waste in the process. Your body works in the same way. Look at the acidic environment in your body as the trash and the rats are equivalent to the germs. The germs try to break the acid down. They too start to multiply and create their own waste. The environment gets worse and worse.
Let’s throw some common sense into the mix here. If we had a problem of rats or mice in our house, what would we do? We would spread poison or set traps to kill the rodents. That would work for a while, but what would happen? They would eventual come back. Why? Because we took care of the problem, but not the cause. The problem is the rats, but the cause is the trash and mess that we have at the house. Here is a novel idea. Why not get rid of the trash and mess? Hmmmm. No mess, no rats. Modern medicine works like the rat principle. They try to kill the rats with procedures and drugs. Those rats just keep coming back. The problem is the rats bring their vulture buddies to join in on the feast.
I know you are staying to yourself, “What do I do?” The answer is to take care of the cause and get rid of the trash. It is that simple. Disease cannot live in an healthy alkaline body. It can however live in an acidic environment. There are several ways to become more alkaline. Today we are going to focus on food and drink. The first things we have to do are learn what foods are acidic and what foods are alkaline. Before I go any further, I am going to ask you to be open and to not discount what I am going to say. Just take in what I say and then do your own homework. Don’t just take my word for it. This is where change comes in. We all just love to change. Yea right…
I have a list of foods that are alkaline and foods that are acidic. You can view that list... Alkaline food List. You will notice this about the list. On the acidic side, you have Meats, dairy, seafood, and sugar. On the Alkaline side, you have vegetable, some fruits, grains, and legumes. So what are you saying? Should I become a vegetarian? No I am not saying that. Currently, most people have an 80/20 diet. 80% acidic and 20% alkaline. I am just telling you to flip that. Eat 80% alkaline and 20% acidic. I will tell you this. When I first saw this, my answer was probably the same as yours. I said to myself, “There is NO WAY I could do this”. I ate meat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I drank Coffee all day. I ate so much cheese, they called me Fedda. Fetty/Fedda, Get it? Anyway, my answer was to transition my toxic diet to a healthy one very slowly. I started to introduce more alkaline vegetables to my diet and reduced the acidic ones. It did not take long for me to get to the 80/20. My cravings for acidic foods just faded away.
So why did I do this in the first place?
In a few words, I was a mess. My weight was starting to get out of control. My health was starting to dwindle. I had bad headaches, horrible reflux disease, my joints were sore and cracking when I got up or went up the stairs. I was dealing with sinus problems, allergies and lower back pain. I was always tired. I was depressed and taking depression medication. I was always fighting off acne, colds and all types of sickness. You’re not supposed to have acne at 40. I needed to do something and I felt like I needed to do it fast. I am the kind of person that will devour information on a subject. I set out to learn how to be healthy. My goals were easy. It had to be common sense. I did not want to go on a diet, and it had to be from God. Since I was always into fitness, it did not take me long to accomplish my goals. After I reached an alkaline way of living, I started to notice my issues fading away. For a few months I was eating 100% alkaline foods. I was starting to lose weight at about 2 pounds a day. I lost 45 pounds in no time. I even started to worry that I was going to waste away to nothing. That did not happen. I stopped at about 180 and have been there ever since. All my pains and problems are gone. I don’t get sick. I don’t take any medication. I feel wonderful. I will admit that it was a little tough in the beginning. I was not a big vegetable eater. My tastes have changed drastically. I have no cravings for the sugar laden processed foods. I will never go back. I have more energy and stamina. I feel better now than I did when I was twenty. My suggestion to you is to try this for a month. After a month I am willing to bet that you will never go back.
People ask me if I cheat at all. Of course I do. I am not fanatical about this. I do not stress about what I eat. Stress creates more acid in your body. More than any food you could eat. If I want to have a cup of coffee or a piece of cake every once in a while I will. Also keep in mind, people will look at you funny. You will not be the norm. It is a shame that being sick, overweight, and popping pills have become normal. God gave me this body to take care of. In the bible, it says that our bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit. I can at least give the spirit a clean place to live.
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