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“As scientific
techniques to observe the cells of our bodies have improved over the
past several decades, researchers have discovered that health and
disease have very different chemistries in the human body. This
why a doctor often recommends a blood test be done when a patient is
not feeling well.”
“The overall
chemistry of a healthy human is slightly alkaline. Dr. Ted
Morter, in his book, Your Health…Your Choice explains it this
way: ‘Your body is alkaline by design and acid-producing by function.’
When a person’s overall chemistry becomes more acidic, he gradually
loses his vitality and health. Realizing this, the
medical/pharmaceutical world has looked for ways to restore alkalinity
to the body. Most of today’s medicines are in fact very alkaline
substances that when taken in small doses do temporarily adjust the
body’s chemistry. This includes antacids and aspirin, two of the most
commonly consumed over-the-counter products available.
Unfortunately, their effects are short-lived and have side effects
that often compound the health issue being addressed.”
“Changing your diet
and introducing an abundance of living foods provide a much safer
alternative than medicine in restoring the body’s alkalinity.”
“Consider any cell
in your body to function lie an alkaline battery. That is to
say, there are areas in your cells that are designed to collect
positive charges and areas that collect negative charges. Now,
you might remember from your high school chemistry or physics class
that opposite charges attract, or more specifically that the negative
charges rush toward the positive charges. This is what we call
electricity. So your body’s cells in a healthy state produce
steady minute pulses of electricity. It’s always happening as
long as these opposite charges exist in the body.”
“Now the question:
why do these areas of opposite charge exist? For life to go on,
of course. But is there a condition in the cell that allows this
to happen? Yes. The cells in our bodies can be compared to
an ocean of chemical elements. Some of these elements are
alkaline in nature; others are acidic. The most common alkaline
elements in the body are calcium, sodium, potassium, magnesium, and
iron. The common acidic elements include chlorine, iodine,
sulfur, and phosphorus. The significance of this is that the
alkaline elements attract the negative charges referred to above and
the acid elements attract the positive charges. As long as these
elements are available to hold these charges, electrical impulses are
created, life goes on, and you’re healthy and enjoying life.”
“When we become
sick, it indicates that the cells in our bodies have become low in the
alkaline elements, meaning there are fewer places in our cells to hold
the necessary negative charges that create the electrical impulses of
life. How this happens is simple. The source of all the
elements in our body is…our diet. Admittedly, some come through
the air we breathe, most importantly oxygen, but the majority come
through the food we eat.”
“Years ago, studies
were done to determine the composition of various foods and their
overall acid-alkaline balance. You can find this information in
many health books available today. What you’ll find is simple
and very eye-opening: with few exceptions, all raw vegetables and
orchard-ripened fruits are alkaline; all other foods are acidic.
Fruit that has been forced to ripen off of the tree can be acidic.
It’s the tree-ripening process that turns the fruit from acidic to
alkaline.”
“The truth is that
so many of us have grown up on a diet that is predominantly
acid-forming in the body. Over the years, this has eroded the
alkaline foundation that we were all born with. This has
contributed greatly to our slow energy decline and the eventual health
challenges that face us.
When you commit to
changing your diet and adding living and raw foods to your meals, you
will reverse this imbalance. A goal to set if you want your diet
to provide you with the greatest health benefit is 80% alkaline, 20%
acid. That is 80% uncooked vegetables, nuts, seeds, beans, and
grains and tree-ripened fruit, 20% other. Even though this seems
like a daunting task when you first start out, you can think of it as
a millionaire once said: you become a millionaire one dollar at a
time, but you have to have the goal to achieve it. So you
gradually change your diet one food and recipe at a time with the
80-20 ratio as your goal.
Raw living foods
are so powerfully rejuvenative because they contain the elements to
rebuild the alkaline reserves in our cells. They are loaded with
calcium, sodium, potassium, magnesium, and iron. Even the nuts,
seeds, grains, and beans that we use are either soaked in water for a
determined amount of time or sprouted. This converts them from
acid-forming to alkaline-forming when metabolized in the body’s cells.
Another thing to
note is that cooking your food makes it more acidic. In
actuality, when you cook your vegetables or fruits, you lose some of
their alkaline properties due to the chemical changes that occur
during the cooking process.”
“Enzyme activity is
directly related to the chemistry of your cells. Is it any
surprise that enzymes perform best when your cells chemistry is
slightly alkaline? When your cells’ alkaline reserves diminish
due to food choices, the enzymes slow down and you become tired.”
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