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How Acidity is Effecting You

Ever wonder how your body naturally combats acidity? The number one way for our bodies to neutralize acidity is by leeching calcium from our bones or by us eating alkalizing foods. The countries with the most animal product intake have the highest rates of osteoporosis. An increase in acidity in the body can also lead to increased body fat, reduced levels of human growth hormone, kidney stones, and loss of muscle. When we increase acidity we decrease cellular health making our immune systems weak.

Research shows that cancers can’t develop in an alkaline environment—that alone is a pretty compelling reason to take control of your pH. Raw green veggies are one of the best foods for making our bodies more alkaline. pH test strips do not test adequately because your body goes to combat the second acid enters your body by leeching the calcium from your bones to neutralize.

Alkaline-forming food choices that will help you achieve your optimal pH are listed below; you will notice that some of these foods are naturally acidic—citrus fruits, for example. “Alkalizing” here refers to the effect foods have once digested (not their pH level outside the body).



What Causes Us to be Acidic?

What you eat directly causes our body to be alkaline forming or acidic. 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 sweeteners like NutraSweet, Equal, or aspartame, which are 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. The overall pH of the body and blood normally must be maintained within a narrow range of alkalinity pH 7.30 - 7.45 www.alkaline-alkaline.com

To test this by using pH strips in our saliva or urine are not very accurate. We would die if our acid got too strong and therefore our bones leech calcium in order to start neutralizing quickly every time we eat acidic foods.



Every animal product (whether organic or not) you consume over time makes you acidic and lines your internal organs with plaque slowly. The animal fat we consume gets stuck in our blood and forms internal clots eventually too.



Why pH Balance and Acidity are so Important

Most of what we drink and eat in the normal American diet is making our bodies into an acidic environment which makes cancer cells grow at the fastest rate imaginable, not to mention tanking our immune systems. Your partner may be squealing at your possible acidic breathe while kissing you, or you might experience heart burn pain (GERD) if it gets bad enough. Coffee, alcohol, animal products, processed sugar, many cooked foods, etc….makes us acidic among many other horrible effects, and is not good for us even though marketing may try to spin it another way.

Your body is able to assimilate minerals and nutrients properly only when its pH is balanced. It is therefore possible for you to be taking healthy nutrients and yet be unable to absorb or use them. Most people who suffer from unbalanced pH are acidic. This condition forces the body to borrow minerals—including calcium, sodium, potassium and magnesium—from vital organs and bones to buffer (neutralize) the acid and safely remove it from the body. Because of this strain, the body can suffer severe and prolonged damage due to high acidity—a condition that may go undetected for years. Even if you just did a pH test and it showed normal, chances are that your body has already pulled the calcium from the bones to neutralize. Try eating more neutralizing foods in the charts below.

Mild acidosis can cause such problems as:

· Cardiovascular damage, including the constriction of blood vessels and the reduction of oxygen.

· Weight gain, obesity and diabetes.

· Bladder and kidney conditions, including kidney stones.

· Immune deficiency.

· Acceleration of free radical damage, possibly contributing to cancerous mutations.

· Hormone concerns.

· Premature aging.

· Osteoporosis; weak, brittle bones, hip fractures and bone spurs.

· Joint pain, aching muscles and lactic acid buildup.

· Low energy and chronic fatigue.

· Slow digestion and elimination.

· Yeast/fungal overgrowth.



Antacids: If you take antacids…really listen up. There is no reason to be acidic if you eat properly and flush your body with plenty of water. Foods that neutralize are important to consume such as greens and bananas are two examples. Our bodies have a hard time breaking down meat in our stomach, and when it sits for a while it becomes painful as it is rotting and not passing.



We need to be aware of what our bodies are telling us. Heartburn or burping excessively, etc. can mean that you have an excess build up of acid. If you get this after eating certain foods….stop eating them. Your body is screaming help and telling you it raises your acid levels to a point your body cannot handle. Masking the process by pills will not help your future. An ulcer is formed when we have ignored your body’s signs over and over, yet not wanting to change you’re eating patterns. Remember, when we are acidic we catch more diseases and flu’s. Acidity weakens our bodies if we cannot neutralize it.



Introducing as many new raw plant based foods into your consumption will be rewarding to your body. Health was made to be quite simple. Mother earth provides us with minerals, nutrients, plenty of digestible protein, and vitamins in raw nuts, seeds, legumes, grains, vegetables, and fruits. Of course being careful of what we put on our skin or soak in as well because our skin is the largest organ in our bodies that absorbs most anything we put on it.



Ghandi-"I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced plant based diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut people open and put them on cholesterol-lowering drugs for the rest of their lives."

Your posting is very informative ,my wife is fighting , for more than 20
years now by watching her diet to be balanced , a few conditions,like,
Deprecion-R.A.-fybromyalgia. I believe she did the right think.
Thanks for your post.

Hi there thanks for your post. Negative emotions are also a huge factor in affecting your pH levels. A positive attitude is extremely important - love, support and good friends in life. It is the absence of these in the first place which often causes us to make poor nutrition choices, become addicted to mood-elevating food and drinks. Taking MMS and changing your diet is a whole change in lifestyle at every level. How often do you laugh and smile - make changes here too alongside alkalising your body.

I want to make a comment here based on something that happened in my own personal environment - this may not apply to anyone on this forum, in fact, I hope it doesn't - but I know of a man who had congestive heart failure - he was on meds for that (not MMS) - and bought an alkalinizing water machine - he drank the alkaline water often - in fact, he was so assured of its benefits that he became a distributor for them. What he didn't know was that his heart medication was affected when he took it with the alkaline water - (apparently it required either a neutral or acid environment in the body - I don't know the exact details) - and he died of a heart attack. I have an alkaline water machine, and the icons on the front of it state to take any medications with just filtered water, not with alkaline water. I know that if I were on meds, I would be aware that too much alkalinity can have a negative effect for those meds.

I know that religion, politics and food beliefs are the three things that come closest to causing all out wars on the various sites I've been a member of. I actually like a book called "Deep Nutrition: Why your genes need traditional food " by Catherine Shanahan
www.amazon.com/Deep-Nutrition-Your-Genes-Traditional/dp/0615228380

This is the blurb on her credentials:
Catherine Shanahan, MD trained at Cornell University's Molecular Biology program where she learned how nutrients direct physiologic growth. In medical school, she found that older patients raised on traditional foods tended to be the healthiest in their family, endowed with attractive features, strong joints, and sturdy bones. Applying her experience in genetics, she identified which traditional foods optimize gene expression. While lecturing around the Pacific, Dr. Shanahan has revolutionized how fellow medical professionals think about nutrition and health. Luke Shanahan, MFA graduated from University of Iowa where he attended the prestigious Writers' Workshop as an undergrad. Since graduate school, he has taught and lectured around the country and continued to pursue his interests in literature, art, and cooking.

Now, I know she's an MD - and I don't have a lot of faith in traditionally trained MDs - but her focus was molecular biology - so I think she comes at it from a very different perspective than the traditionally pharma focused background. She looks at lots of different cultures - from the Masai to the Eskimos - the Japanese to the Italians

i do not believed in alkaline foods concept at all.... this new trends does not see reducing case in cancer..

balance foods with land meat enough to prevent hunger together with right amount of sunbath will prevent bone calcium difficiency...

too much alkaline stuff will effect stomach acid and promote diseases....

I think it really depends on the case. If you are suffering from cancer, especially cancer in its advanced stages, your body will be so highly acidic that pH rebalancing will be extremely helpful for supporting MMS action. If you are less seriously ill or just using MMS as a cleanup, more likely your system will be more balanced and pH adjustment not so critical. There is scientific proof that cancer cannot continue to grow in alkaline conditions. Even if you have stage 4 cancer and it has metastasised to the bones. So in these cases alkalising your system is critical. Also, there are many studies showing how alkalising the blood removes the hard plaque layer in the intestines. Removing this layer restores the system to full digestion of all the nutrients you are putting in it. Many people take buckets of supplements but it all goes straight through the system because the body cannot absorb them properly. Finally alkalising the system supports the liver which strongly influences how well your organs work and how quickly you can eliminate toxins and therefore recover from any disease. In my experience the liver is crucial in recovering from any disease and alkalising the blood if you are seriously ill is essential. I used Arm & Hammer sodium bicarbonate and molasses instead of drinking the expensive Kangen water (which I would still love to have if I could afford it) and it worked a treat.

Hi blackbird
Are you using SB for maintenance ? And if one is consstipated for a long time
could be benefited by taking SB?

Hi Rainbow Fighter

No not using bicarb of soda for maintenance now but did use it to help support my recovery after taking MMS for lepto. Longterm constipation I think holds a lot of miraculous keys and clues to your wellbeing and the answers change and the issues resolve incrementally as you go along. I think suppressed emotions are a big factor in constipation, also an inbalance in the gut bacteria. Someone close to me had big problems with constipation. They used Brandon Bays' Journeywork to deal with their emotional issues all the way through and a self-assertiveness workshop because they found it very difficult to speak up. They were a real "nice guy" who bottled things up. Alongside they took alkaline pH drops in their drinking water for 3 months and then later used MMS for 12 months (building up to 3 drops twice a day). Then they took a very expensive probiotic to rebalance the intestinal flora. There was a major major mprovement. Then they used Chinese medicine and were told to avoid "cooling" foods, especially in winter which apparently cause the gut to seize up a bit. Finally they started cooking more (they were into raw foods and salads a lot) to rebalance and used a Western herbalist. Constipation disappeared after a period of about 2.5 years.

PS They found ordinary enemas to help from time to time but on the whole these were supportive rather than core to recovery ...

Acid Alkaline Food Chart


Food consumption in the most advanced countries of the world has changed from nutritious raw foods to highly processed foods very low in nutritional value. New chemicals have been introduced to our foods, air, and water, which have put even greater stresses on our system's ability to control the chemistry of our body fluids, and therefore functionality of our inner biological terrain is at risk. As a result, we see huge increases in the incidence of life-threatening or chronic diseases. That’s why it is of utmost importance to our healthiness to finding the ideal balance of alkaline and acid forming foods.

Have a look at the table below to identify various foods' pH-level. Each one is assigned a number which mirrors its approximate relative potential of alkalinity (+) or acidity (-) existent in one ounce (28.35g) of food. The higher the number, the better it is for you to eat.


Healthy Alkaline Foods
- Eat lots of them!



Vegetables
Alfalfa Grass +29.3
Asparagus +1.3
Barley Grass +28.1
Brussels Sprouts +0.5
Cabbage Lettuce, Fresh +14.1
Cauliflower +3.1
Cayenne Pepper +18.8
Celery +13.3
Chives +8.3
Comfrey +1.5
Cucumber, Fresh +31.5
Dandelion +22.7
Dog Grass +22.6
Endive, Fresh +14.5
French Cut Green Beans +11.2
Garlic +13.2
Green Cabbage December Harvest +4.0
Green Cabbage, March Harvest +2.0
Kamut Grass +27.6
Lamb's Lettuce +4.8
Leeks (Bulbs) +7.2
Lettuce +2.2
Onion +3.0
Peas, Fresh +5.1
Peas, Ripe +0.5
Red Cabbage +6.3
Rhubarb Stalks +6.3
Savoy Cabbage +4.5
Shave Grass +21.7
Sorrel +11.5
Soy Sprouts +29.5
Spinach (Other Than March) +13.1
Spinach, March Harvest +8.0
Sprouted Chia Seeds +28.5
Sprouted Radish Seeds +28.4
Straw Grass +21.4
Watercress +7.7
Wheat Grass +33.8
White Cabbage +3.3
Zucchini +5.7

Root Vegetables
Beet +11.3
Carrot +9.5
Horseradish +6.8
Kohlrabi +5.1
Potatoes +2.0
Red Radish +16.7
Rutabaga +3.1
Summer Black Radish +39.4
Turnip +8.0
White Radish (Spring) +3.1

Fruits
Avocado (Protein) +15.6
Fresh Lemon +9.9
Limes +8.2
Tomato +13.6

Non-Stored Organic Grains And Legumes
Buckwheat Groats +0.5
Granulated Soy (Cooked Ground Soy Beans) +12.8
Lentils +0.6
Lima Beans +12.0
Soy Flour +2.5
Soy Lecithin (Pure) +38.0
Soy Nuts (soaked Soy Beans, Then Air Dried) +26.5
Soybeans, Fresh +12.0
Spelt +0.5
Tofu +3.2
White Beans (Navy Beans) +12.1

Nuts
Almonds +3.6
Brazil Nuts +0.5

Seeds
Caraway Seeds +2.3
Cumin Seeds +1.1
Fennel Seeds +1.3
Flax Seeds +1.3
Pumpkin Seeds +5.6
Sesame Seeds +0.5
Sunflower Seeds +5.4
Wheat Kernel +11.4

Fats (Fresh, Cold-Pressed Oils)
Borage Oil +3.2
Evening Primrose Oil +4.1
Flax Seed Oil +3.5
Marine Lipids +4.7
Olive Oil +1.0
Foods you should only
consume moderately



Fruits
(In Season, For Cleansing Only Or With Moderation)
Apricot -9.5
Bananna, Ripe -10.1
Bananna, Unripe +4.8
Black Currant -6.1
Blueberry -5.3
Cantaloupe -2.5
Cherry, Sour +3.5
Cherry, Sweet -3.6
Coconut, Fresh +0.5
Cranberry -7.0
Currant -8.2
Date -4.7
Fig Juice Powder -2.4
Gooseberry, Ripe -7.7
Grape, Ripe -7.6
Grapefruit -1.7
Italian Plum -4.9
Mandarin Orange -11.5
Mango -8.7
Orange -9.2
Papaya -9.4
Peach -9.7
Pear -9.9
Pineapple -12.6
Rasberry -5.1
Red Currant -2.4
Rose Hips -15.5
Strawberry -5.4
Tangerine -8.5
Watermelon -1.0
Yellow Plum -4.9



Non-Stored Grains
Brown Rice -12.5
Wheat -10.1



Nuts
Hazelnuts -2.0
Macadamia Nuts -3.2
Walnuts -8.0



Fish
Fresh Water Fish -11.8



Fats
Coconut Milk -1.5
Sunflower Oil -6.7
Unhealthy Acidic Foods
- Try to avoid them!



Meat, Poultry, And Fish
Beef -34.5
Chicken (to -22) -18.0
Eggs (to -22)
Liver -3.0
Ocean Fish -20.0
Organ Meats -3.0
Oysters -5.0
Pork -38.0
Veal -35.0



Milk And Milk Products
Buttermilk +1.3
Cream -3.9
Hard Cheese -18.1
Homogenized Milk -1.0
Quark -17.3



Bread, Biscuits (Stored Grains/Risen Dough)
Rye Bread -2.5
White Biscuit -6.5
White Bread -10.0
Whole-Grain Bread -4.5
Whole-Meal Bread -6.5



Nuts
Cashews -9.3
Peanuts -12.8
Pistachios -16.6



Fats
Butter -3.9
Corn Oil -6.5
Margarine -7.5



Sweets
Artificial Sweetners -26.5
Barley Malt Syrup -9.3
Beet Sugar -15.1
Brown Rice Syrup -8.7
Chocolate -24.6
Dr. Bronner's Barley
Dried Sugar Cane Juice -18.0
Fructose -9.5
Honey -7.6
Malt Sweetner -9.8
Milk Sugar -9.4
Molasses -14.6
Turbinado Sugar -9.5
White Sugar -17.6

Condiments
Ketchup -12.4
Mayonaise -12.5
Mustard -19.2
Soy Sauce -36.2
Vinegar -39.4



Beverages
Beer -26.8
Coffee -25.1
Fruit Juice Sweetened
Fruit Juice, Packaged, Natural -8.7
Liquor -38.7
Tea (Black) -27.1
Wine -16.4



Miscellaneous
Canned Foods
Microwaved Foods
Processed Foods


Table: pH scale of alkaline and acid forming foods
(Source: "Back To The House Of Health" by Shelley Redford Young)