Alkalize or Die

ALKALIZE OR DIE

Is "acid stomach" one of your frequent complaints? It has been stated that all illnesses come from too much acid waste in the body. Although it is possible to measure body fluid as being alkaline or acid, it is impossible to evaluate the state of body tissues (skin, glands, organs, muscles, ligaments, etc) based solely on blood, urine, or saliva tests.

Unfortunately, acid wastes that are not eliminated when they should be are reabsorbed from the colon into the liver and put back into circulation. Then they are deposited into the tissues, and it is in these tissue residues that sickness or health is determined. You get stiff or achy or develop pain somewhere in your body. Do you believe you are destined to suffer these aches and pains because your parents had them and they were always popping pills to relieve the symptoms, so it is normal for you to do the same?

You probably know about low pH (potential hydrogen) and high pH foods. Low pH is acid and high pH is alkaline. Acid wastes attack the joints, muscles, tissues, organs and glands causing minor or major dysfunction. If they attack the joints you might develop arthritis. If they attack the organs or glands, illnesses such as cancer, ulcers, or heart disease may occur. On the other hand, alkaline forming substances and situations lead to superior health.

The big question is - how do you maintain your body on the alkaline or health promoting side? Will taking antacids such as Tums or Alka-Seltzer do it? The answer is-

"absolutely not." Your stomach depends on a good supply of hydrochloric acid (HCL) to digest your food and to maintain a proper alkaline/acid balance and then it becomes alkaline after its vital job in the digestive process is done. If you take antacids frequently there will be insufficient HCL to digest your food and you will suffer from indigestion.

Your body's bank account is its great alkaline reserve. The body can call on it any time to release alkaline elements to neutralize the acid. The alkaline reserve acts as a buffer to maintain proper balance in the blood. Sickness quickly results if it gets out of balance.

Some drugs, or even foods that you are allergic to, can cause a quick acid reaction which may even result in death, as happened in many of the Vioxx cases, where the heart rhythm was altered by acid wastes, causing the drug Vioxx an anti-inflammatory drug, to be taken off the market. In the US. more than 700,000 deaths occur annually as a result of prescription drugs. Isn't that amazing? An alkaline body is ideal for proper heart function.

If there is insufficient hydrochloric acid in the stomach to break down food, the improperly broken down foods become too acidic. Instead of reaching for an antacid, you probably should be taking Betaine Hydrochloride tablets (HCL) and digestive enzymes to aid in the digestive process.

The best solution is to change your diet to 80% alkaline foods and 20% acid foods.

Most people nowadays are doing just the opposite.

In general, most fruits and vegetables create alkalinity in the body - we call them

"alkaline forming." The acid forming fruits are blueberries, cranberries, plums and prunes. Most grains, especially wheat and white rice, are acid forming Breads and pastries and all flour products are acid forming. Other acid forming foods are: meats, poultry, milk and eggs. Most sugars are acid forming. Soft drinks are very acidic.

Vegetable juices are alkaline forming, as are herbal teas made from plant leaves. Liquor, wine, beer, and coffee are acid forming.

We Americans are eating out more and more in fast food restaurants. How could you eat 80% alkaline foods at McDonalds? The bun, meat, cheese, ice-cream and the Coke are all acid forming. The only way we can improve our diet and eat the right foods is to cook at home. Are we willing to do that? There would not be nearly as many overweight people around if we did that.

If you must eat out and you are not able to eat enough vegetables and fruits, you could drink a fruit "smoothie" for breakfast, and carry a vegetable "smoothie" to work, This is made with fresh fruit or vegetable juice (which you can buy at the grocery store) blended in a blender with dark green leafy vegetables such as spinach, Swiss chard, or kale, a stick of celery (cut up) and half an apple (chopped), and add 2 tablespoons of whey powder or soy protein, and 2 teaspoons of olive oil.

If we are unwilling to change our eating habits, we will be paying the price with degenerative diseases such as cancer, arthritis, hypertension, and heart disease occurring at an early age, which is already happening. America spends more on health care than any other country in the world, but we are becoming sicker and sicker. The drug companies with all their advertising are creating a sick society with people looking for drugs to cure them instead of going back to eating the right foods and taking a good nutritional supplement to make up for the nutritional deficiencies in modern food.

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Easy and satisfying lunch smoothie

EASY and SATISFYING LUNCH SMOOTHIE

Blend, in blender:

6 oz. carrot juice (fresh, bottled, from grocery store)

1/2 cup fresh spinach leaves., or 2 Swiss Chard leaves

1 stalk celery, cut in pieces

1/2 small, raw apple, cut in pieces

2 1-oz scoops of micro-filtered whey powder

1 tsp. extra virgin olive oil

Side dish: 2 sesame seed crackers spread with 1 tsp. peanut, almond, or cashew butter.

For dessert: 2 slices of candied dried ginger, served with hot or chilled herb tea.

This meal will not stimulate an insulin rush, followed by hunger and snacking on and off throughout the afternoon, because it provides to the body a good portion of a complete protein, some carbohydrate, and a small amount of fat to keep you from getting hungry. You will not need to snack. The raw vegetables and fruit provide needed vitamins and micronutrients.

Lunch at home for many women can be the least nutritious meal of the day - like 2 slices of bread with a slice of cheese or ham between, or both, a Coke, and a piece of pie or cake. Or it may be just a piece of pie or cake with a Coke. This meal stimulates an insulin rush. In an hour or two you will be hungry and you will start snacking throughout the afternoon, and you won't be getting slimmer!

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Oils

OILS - THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE VERY BAD

Saturated fats, unsaturated fats, trans-fats, and rancid fats - are you confused? Fat free, moderate fats, solid fats, oily fats, butter, margarine, cream, milk. -- what is good for you?

Finally, after years of discussion, the trans-fats , which are the very bad fats, are being removed from packaged foods and from restaurants. BUT, are they being replaced, as I heard on the news, by fats that are almost as bad --soy oil, an Omega 6 oil? You need to wear your reading glasses to the grocery store. You will be surprised to find soy oil and soy protein in many if not most packaged foods. That is because it is a very inexpensive oil that quietly has found its way into many, many foods. Another big problem is that vegetable oils, which should be refrigerated, when they have been opened, sit for months on pantry shelves gradually turning rancid.

70 years ago, The Omega 3 oils and the Omega 6 oils were at a 1 to 1 ratio. The Omega 3 oils come from fish oils and flaxseed oil, and the Omega 6 oils come from seed oils. Omega 3's are called essential fatty acids. They are essential to good health, and are anti-inflammatory. Doctors now are recommending them for all who want to be healthy.

But the Omega 6 fatty acids cause inflammation and now that they are being used more and more in foods, they are causing many illnesses. Unfortunately, the public, in general, is uninformed about the Omega 3's and the Omega 6's. The Omega 9's are found in avocado and certain safflower oils.

Butter and margarine will be discussed in my next articles. Any fat that is solid at room temperature is suspect to being a trans-fat. Butter is not a trans-fat, nor is lard, but shortening that is used in baking is. Any oil can become rancid when exposed to air and is not refrigerated. It tastes bad and is loaded with free radicals. Oils that are used over and over again in deep fat frying are full of free radicals,. "Fries" are reputed to be the most commonly ordered vegetable. Does anyone worry about the fat they are cooked in?

Butter is back on the table again. It is slightly higher in saturated fats at 8 grams, compared to 5 grams for margarine. It should be used sparingly. It does increase the absorption of many nutrients in other foods, and it enhances the flavor of foods. Butter has been used for centuries whereas margarine has been around for less than 100 years.

Butter must be kept refrigerated to prevent rancidity.

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fats that heal

FATS THAT HEAL, FATS THAT KILL

Are you eating the right fats? The good ones are the Omega 3 Essential Fatty Acids (EFAs) They are called essential because your body does not make EFA's and they must be supplied in the diet. EFA's are critical for good health and without them your body cannot be healthy. They are important for heart and cardiovascular health, for neurological health, for joint health and fighting inflammation, for eye health, and for weight management. The Omega 3's come primarily from fish oils.

The Omega 6 EFA's are the fats from pressed seed oils like soy, corn, cottonseed, that, when they are out of balance and are can promote disease. The Omega 3's and the Omega 6's, until the last 100 years were in a ratio of 1 to 1. But with the commercialization of our foods, the ratio is now 1 to 10, 1 to 20, and up to 1 to 50 in favor of Omega 6's. When they are out of balance like this, the result is all kinds of mental, neurological and physical illnesses.

The average American diet is exceptionally high in Omega 6 EFA's, and it is very low in the health benefiting Omega 3's, and even lower in the most important components of the Omega 3's, DHA and EPA.

Unfortunately, unless people are convinced of the importance to their health of daily ingestion of fish oils they may stop taking them because they are turned off by the taste and odor and the oily consistency. Many fish oils turn rancid quickly. Rancid oils can be hidden inside of softgels and capsules, only to be discovered when the person starts burping up rancid fish oil. I had that happen to me 25 years ago, and I stopped taking Omega 3's. I did not know then how important they were to my health.

Fish oils that are not rancid when ingested can turn rancid in the body. To prevent this from happening it is important to take a high potency liquid antioxidant product along with the oil to prevent it from becoming rancid which is bad because it releases free radicals into the body.

Highly concentrated fish oil in softgels from reputable companies are available. After swallowing it you should not experience burping up of fish; in fact, you should be able to chew the softgel and not experience an unpleasant taste. This is probably the most important food supplement for your health you will take, and it must be taken in sufficient quantity twice a day and consistently. It is as important as food.

The American Heart Association has recommended that all adults and children should supplement with at least 1000 mg. of Omega 3's a day in the form of EPA and DHA. Many products claim they provide a lot of Omega 3's, but the question you should ask is: "How much EPA and DHA is in them?"

For more information about Omega 3 products, go now to my Resource Box.

My next article will discuss oils and fats that are not Omega 3 and 6.

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fat belly

FAT BELLY

The number of men and women walking around with abnormally large bellies is increasing at an alarming rate. It sometimes is called "beer belly" but more and more of them are from other causes. Not only is fat belly disfiguring, but it is also life-shortening. The fast food industry can be blamed for much of this -- satisfying a person's hunger by serving a piece of meat inside a large bun ( made from white flour), and accompanied by a side dish of French fries and a large soda or Coke (containing high fructose corn syrup), and a dessert of pie or ice cream. All in all, it is a very high calorie meal with very little nutritional value except for some protein in the meat. It is severely lacking in vitamin and mineral content.

One's body can handle only a limited amount of carbohydrate. Carbohydrates stimulate the pancreas to secret insulin into the blood to take care of the sugar by turning it into adipose (fatty) tissue which tends to settle in the midsection of the body, and it is the most difficult fat to get rid of, giving rise to the fat belly.

Another factor that enters into our seeing more than normal numbers of fat bellies is that we do not cook at home as much as we used to. For a meal, instead of food with high vitamin and mineral content we reach for the bread to make quick sandwiches, or we cook spaghetti. Or we put some potatoes into the microwave, and we eat cake or pie or ice cream for dessert. And we serve soft drinks for the beverage. None of it is very nutritious. I forgot to mention the bagel or doughnut we had for breakfast.

Food should be chosen to rebuild and regenerate the billions of cells that need replacing every day. Cells need a constant supply of minerals and vitamins and protein to do their work. The American Medical Association has told us that the soils where our food is grown are depleted of minerals, so everyone should be taking a vitamin-mineral pill every day to supply the body with essential micronutrients. If we eat nutrient depleted food the big belly will just get bigger.. The vitamin-mineral supplements that are sold most places, are manufactured with the "bottom line" in mind. They often are covered with a coating to keep them from breaking down in the containers in which they are sold, and they more often than not do not dissolve in the digestive tract. Tons of them are found whole in sewage systems. They solve no problems for the big belly.

It would be better to use an all -in -one liquid nutritional supplement that has everything in it that the body needs.- where the particles are broken down into angstrom size giving them access into the blood stream and into the cells of the body in seconds for 98% absorption without having to be digested by the GI tract. For more information on where you can get this type of nutrient, click on the link below.

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death

DEATH FROM THE KITCHEN

It takes brains now to make wise food decisions for yourself and your family. You'd better take your eye glasses or a magnifying glass to the food market to read labels on the prepared foods that you buy. Big business has taken over the food supply. Without much fanfare or notice, soy oil and soy products are in most prepared foods that you buy. They are not there for your health -- they are there because they are cheap. Soy oil is an Omega 6 oil, and it is in so many commercially produced foods that it contributes strongly to disease. 90% of soy in this country is produced by Monsanto and most of it is genetically modified. This has changed soy to a protein and oil that may have adverse effects on the body. I grew up in China, years ago, when soybean sprouts and soy tofu were about the best protein that the average Chinese could afford and they survived on that in addition to rice and bread and a few vegetables like cabbage and celery. Chicken and pork were treats. A fat Chinese person was a rare sight.

Omega 6 oils, when they are out of balance, contribute to heart disease, arthritis and other inflammatory diseases, neurological diseases like Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer, depression, postpartum depression, ADHD, eye diseases, behavior problems, and violent behavior.

Our concepts about good and bad fats and oils have changed considerably in the past 60 years. From the beginning of time animal fat has been an important part of man's food, starting with his eating of raw animal flesh. His vegetable fats came from eating raw vegetables and nuts. Today we get in our diet 3 times the amount of vegetable fat and only 50% of the animal fat that was consumed by early man. I can remember the days when we worried most about saturated and unsaturated fats. Saturated fats came from meat, milk and butter, and unsaturated fats came from vegetable oils. Coronary heart disease was a fairly new disease back in the 1930's. Saturated fats were then blamed for coronaries, and margarine was substituted for butter. Margarine was a new kind of fat, but it was man made. I remember when it was first white, and it looked like lard. Then a food coloring was added to make it look more like butter. It was a hydrogenated fat, which is now called a trans-fat. And trans-fats are being removed from restaurants and packaged foods, because they are clogging the arteries of those who eat them. Be watchful now to see if soy oil is not substituted for the transfats. In spite of all that man has done supposedly to make food more heart healthy, heart disease is still the #1 killer.

Margarine tripled the risk of coronary heart disease, and increased total cholesterol and LDL, lowered HDL (the good cholesterol), increased the cancer risk by five fold, decreased the immune response and insulin response, and margarine is only one molecule away from being PLASTIC. And we obediently ate the stuff for years, and many institutions and people are still eating margarine because it is cheap, or they are poorly informed..

Gradually we are going back to natural foods and normal eating. Do you remember the Fat Free Diet? It supposedly was good for losing weight, for diabetics, and for people with heart disease. People could not stick to it because they stayed hungry. From the beginning of time, fats have been an essential food. The fats and oils that you eat are made a part of the membrane of each cell in your body. In order for the cells to function properly, you must provide them with high quality fats and oils, not man made fats.

For cooking, do not use vegetable oils in plastic bottles, nonrefrigerated cooking oils, soy oils and other cheap cooking oils, margarine, and shortening -- since they contain trans-fats and large amounts of Omega 6 oils and will lead you on the road to disease. Instead, use a good virgin olive oil or virgin coconut oil, or butter, or Omega 9 oil.

To be healthy you need to increase the Omega 3 fatty acids, decrease the Omega 6's so that they are in a 1 to 1 ratio to the Omega 3's, use monounsaturated oils as in olive oil, coconut oil and avocado oil and certain safflower oils, and nuts and their oils. Butter in small amounts is acceptable again, as are bacon and lard.

What about no-fat salad dressings? Don't use them. Many of the most potent cancer-fighting nutrients in vegetables and fruits cannot be absorbed well without some fat accompanying them - specifically carotenoids and lycopene. You will be unable to absorb many of the nutrients in the salad without the fat, so you are wasting your time making fancy salads that cannot be absorbed properly. You will have a hard time finding salad dressings that do not contain soy oil, so make your own salad dressings, using good ingredients. Use small amounts of olive oil or nut oils or butter on your cooked vegetables so that the fat-soluble nutrients won't go unabsorbed. One good salad oil is Omega 3-6-9, and a good cooking oil is an Omega 9 oil which has been called "Queen of All Oils". It contains avocado and safflower oils.

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Vaughn Early

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