ALKALINE WATER AND ALKALINE FOOD

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Beloved Friends,

 

Greetings in love and light.

 

I have a wonderful message to share today. 

Three days ago I met a wonderful lady who had come to visit my neighbor who is her friend.  She brought to me an important message about alkaline water.  

Dr. Otto Warberg received the Noble Prize for discovering the cause of cancer - this being lack of oxygen due to low alkaline pH.  He says that no disease can exist in an alkaline environment.   Japanese medicine has proven this over the last 15 years. 

 

The message this lady brought to me was that water can be made alkaline,I went into the internet to find more about alkaline foods and water.   There are many products on the internet which convert tap water to alkaline water and the testimonials are amazing.  The most important message dear friends is to keep you body alkaline to have the most energy and health.

Below is a chart about acid and alkaline foods  from the US Health department.:

  

Acid / Alkaline Food Chart

Balanced body chemistry is of utmost importance for the maintenance of health and correction of disease. Acidosis, or over-acidity in the body tissues, is one of the basic causes of many diseases, especially the arthritic and rheumatic diseases.

All foods are "burned" in the body--more commonly called "digested"-- leaving an ash as the result of the "burning", or the digestion. This food ash can be neutral, acid or alkaline, depending largely on the mineral composition of the foods. Some foods leave an acid residue or ash, some alkaline. The acid ash (acidosis) results when there is a depletion of the alkali reserve or the diminution in the reserve supply of fixed bases in the blood and the tissues of the body.

It is, therefore, vitally important that there is a proper ratio between acid and alkaline foods in the diet. The natural ratio in a normal healthy body is approximately 4 to 1 -- four parts alkaline to one part acid, or 80% to 20%. When such an ideal ratio is maintained, the body has a strong resistance against disease. In the healing of disease, when the patient usually has acidosis, the higher the ratio of alkaline elements in the diet, the faster will be the recovery. Alkalis neutralize the acids. Therefore in the treatment of most diseases it is important that the patient's diet includes plenty of alkaline-ash foods to offset the effects of acid-forming foods and leave a safe margin of alkalinity.

A healthy body usually keeps large alkaline reserves which are used to meet the emergency demands if too many acid-producing foods are consumed. But these normal reserves can be depleted. When the alkaline-acid ratio drops to 3 to 1, health can be seriously menaced. Your body can function normally and sustain health only in the presence of adequate alkaline reserves and the proper acid-alkaline ratio in all the body tissues and the blood.

For optimum health and maximum resistance to disease, it is imperative that your diet is slightly over-alkaline. The ideal ratio, according to the world's foremost authority on the relationship between the acid-alkaline ratio in the diet in health and disease, Dr. Ragnar Berg, is about 80% alkali-producing foods and 20% acid-producing foods.

Below are tables of common foods with an approximate potential acidity or alkalinity, as present in one ounce of food.

Alkali-Forming Foods

Figs

30.0

Potatoes

2.0

Soy Beans

12.0

Pineapple

2.0

Lima Beans

12.0

Cabbage

1.8

Apricots

9.5

Grapefruit

1.7

Spinach

8.0

Tomatoes

1.7

Turnip/Beettops

8.0

Peaches

1.5

Raisins

7.0

Apples

1.0

Almonds

3.6

Grapes

1.0

Carrots

3.5

Bananas

1.0

Dates

3.0

Watermelon

1.0

Celery

2.5

Millet

0.5

Cucumber

2.5

Brazil nuts

0.5

Cantaloupe

2.5

Coconuts

0.5

Lettuce

2.2

Buckwheat

0.5

Watercress

2.0

Neutral (near/neutral) Ash Foods

Milk

Vegetable oils

Butter

White sugar

Acid-Forming Foods

Oysters

5.0

Rice

2.5

Veal

3.5

W.Wheat/Rye bread

2.5

Most Fish

3.5

Most nuts (X-almond/brazil nut)

2.0

Organ meats

3.0

Natural Cheese

1.5

Liver

3.0

Lentils

1.5

Chicken

3.0

Peanuts

1.0

Fowl

3.0

Eggs

3.0

Most Grains

3.0

 

 

Most grains are acid-forming, except millet and buckwheat, which are considered to be alkaline. Sprouted seeds and grains become more alkaline in the process of sprouting.

All vegetable and fruit juices are highly alkaline. The most alkali-forming juices are: fig juice, green juices of all green vegetables and tops, carrots, beet, celery, pineapple and citrus juices. Vegetable broth ( HERE ) is an extremely alkalizing drink.

 

Health Dept

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Remember dear friends the message is to keep your body alkaline and the benefits are amazing!!!!!!!!!

Be blessed with a most wonderful day!

Love and Peace,

Premlatha/Goddesslove