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 it is. Different areas of the body have different
ideal pH levels, but blood pH is the most telling of all.
Just as your body temperature is rigidly regulated, the blood
must be kept in a very narrow pH range - mildly basic or alkaline.
The body will go to great lengths to preserve that, including
wreaking havoc on other tissues or systems.
The pH level of our internal fluids affects every cell in
our bodies. The entire metabolic process depends on an alkaline
environment. Chronic over acidity corrodes body tissue, and
if left unchecked will interrupt all cellular activities and
functions, from the
beating of your heart to the neutral 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 balacing your body
pH naturally, nondestructively, keep this mind: Overacidity
is also what's keeping you FAT!
The
goal then - and what this program allows you to do - is to
create the proper alkaline balance within your body. The way
to do that is by eating the proper balance of alkaline and
acid foods. That means 80 percent of your diet must be alkalizing
foods, like green vegetables. (That percentage will go down
somewhat once you've successfully rebalanced yourself.) In
addition, high quality supplements will help you achieve and
maintain pH balance.
"The
pH Miracle"
Dr. Robert O. Young and Shelley
Redford Young, Warner Books; (May 2002)
