“The obvious clue is right there in the top three killers: cancer, heart disease, and diabetes. All are directly linked to diet. Not to mention that diet is obviously the cause of the obesity of 60 percent of Americans.
Forget cholesterol counts. Forget calories and fat grams. Forget blood pressure, blood sugar, hormone levels, or any of the other markers of health you’re used to at the doctor’s office. It turns out that the single measurement most important to your health is the pH of your blood and tissues – how acidic or alkaline is it.
The pH level of our internal fluids affects every cell in our bodies. The entire metabolic process depends on an alkaline environment. Chronic overacidity corrodes body tissue, and if left unchecked will interrupt all cellular activities and functions, from the beating of your heart to the neural firing of your brain. In other words, overacidity interferes with life itself. It is at the root of all sickness and disease.
If that’s not enough to get you interested in balancing your body pH naturally, and nondestructively, keep this in mind: Overacidity is also what is keeping you fat.
Overacidification of the body fluids and tissues underlies all disease and general “dis ease” as well. For one thing it is only when it is acidic that the body is vulnerable to germs – in a health base balance, germs can’t get a foothold. Further more, acids are the expression of all sickness and disease. In short, good health requires a body in proper acid/base balance. Proper diet is the only way to ensure that.”
“The most important aspect of menu planning is maintaining alkaline balance.”
– Dr. Thedore A. Baroody, from the book, ‘Alkalize or Die’
Note: Water, unrefined sea salt, cayenne pepper, garlic and green drinks are all alkalizing to our bodies. Sugar and artificial sweeteners (Except Stevia, which is neutral to slightly alkalizing) are very acid producing.