Public recognition of the importance of eating an alkaline diet is
growing quickly, but it still has a long way to go. The professionals
in the nutrition industry understand the importance of eating a healthy
diet because they are faced with the consequences of poor dietary
choices of their patients every day. Even the public knows that eating
your fruits and veggies is something we should all do, but many of us
continue to ignore the warnings.
Maybe the government should start to regulate the fast food industry
in the same way that they have forced tobacco companies to put warnings
on their packaging, and stopped them from advertising. Can you imagine
Ronald McDonald with a sign around his neck informing us that eating a
Big Mac and fries increases the risk of getting arthritis or diabetes or
cancer?
Why is eating a healthy diet important?
Food and beverages provide fuel for our bodies. Humans are
omnivores, which means that our digestive systems can break down and
absorb the nutrients from both plants and animals, and eliminate the
waste products. Despite the fact that we are omnivores, our bodies work
far more efficiently when we consume plant materials. The reason for
this is that our bodies are meant to be slightly alkaline (a pH of about
7.3 to 7.4) and raw fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts, and seeds are
alkaline. Meats and dairy products and the myriad of fast foods that we
consume are all acidic in varying degrees. The nutrients found in
meats and dairy are also important to our nutritional uptake, but we can
survive and in fact thrive on far less of the acidic foods and drinks
than most of us consume.
It is generally accepted in the health industry that the ideal diet
should be 80% alkaline. Nowadays, average person
consumes a diet of 97% acidic foods and beverages. That means our
bodies are being fed the wrong fuel. While our bodies have an amazing
capacity to process and eliminate excess acid, over time, our bodies
become acidic and nasty health issues start happening. For many, the
side effects begin with acid reflux and then proceed to diabetes. If
left unchecked, the acidic state of our bodies becomes the breeding
ground for cancer. It is well documented that cancer and other diseases
can not survive in an alkaline environment. If you don’t believe me,
or virtually every professional in the nutrition industry and you can
afford ten minutes of your time, watch the video of a segment of The
Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, who interviews Bill Clinton and the
medical doctors who helped change or perhaps even saved his life. Mr.
Clinton’s doctors say that a proper diet can prevent and even reverse
major diseases such as heart disease, cancer, high blood pressure, and
high cholesterol. You can watch the video here:
Why does neglecting a proper diet increase our chances of getting sick?
We eat and drink because our bodies need fuel… or at least we should.
Our society has created tasty treats which are advertised endlessly in
an effort to convince us that we should eat the tasty products.
Unfortunately, eating those tasty foods and drinks makes your body
acidic. When you are acidic, your body has less ability to “reduce” the
potentially damaging free oxygen in your body. Here is where it gets
kind of tricky. Let me explain.
Your body obviously needs oxygen to survive. However, up to 2% of
the oxygen in your body can and does become free oxygen. That means
that the oxygen atoms are unstable and are in search of electrons
(negative charges) to make the oxygen stable. If your body doesn’t have
negatively charged hydrogen available to provide the electron hungry
oxygen atoms with electrons, the free oxygen atoms will scavenge healthy
cells in your body. According to the world famous work of Dr. Hayashi,
when negatively charged hydrogen is available in your body, it will
combine with the free oxygen and convert it to harmless water.
Others scholars such as Sang Whang and Dr. Robert Young claim that
alkaline foods or beverages cause the cells in the stomach to produce
acid (HCl or hydrochloric acid) and the bi-products of producing the
acid are alkaline (negatively charged) buffers that enter the blood
stream.
Now matter which theory is correct, it is well known that creating
negative charges in the body by consuming alkaline foods or beverages
helps reduce the harmful effects of free oxygen, thereby preventing or
reversing disease.
Do alkaline foods and alkaline drinks do the same thing? Yes and No
Yes, both alkaline foods and alkaline beverages
produce the negative charges that act as powerful and effective
antioxidants that can counteract the harmful effects of free oxygen in
your body. The food people use ORAC (Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity) as a measurement of the antioxidant capacity of a specif food. The water people use ORP
(Oxidation Reduction Potential) to measure the antioxidant capability
of water. I have done some preliminary research, but once again, I
honestly don’t know how the two measures correlate. I hope to put more
research into the comparison of ORAC and ORP in the future… just not
today.
No, food provides nutrients that water doesn’t
provide, so you can’t live without food. On the other hand, water makes
up 70% of your body and acts as your internal transportation system, so
you can’t live without water. Survival is not possible without both
food and water.
Is either alkaline food or alkaline water better for you than the other?
I don’t think anyone can provide a definitive answer to the question.
Both work and both contribute to maximizing your health. I think the
right answer is a matter of personal choice. Some people
love their “greens” and don’t care for most forms of processed or junk
food. Other people love their junk food and find the taste
of many “greens” unpleasant. People that eat properly
don’t require alkaline water as much as people like who “cheat”
more than we should. Therefore, I believe alkaline water is more
important to people who take less of alkaline food. The fact that the water produced much
faster and dramatic results.
Can your body survive without alkaline food or water?
Of course it can, as we see evidence of that every time we look at
the people around us. However, we also see that as the world has moved
away from wholesome nutritious food and water, people are getting sick.
Whether we as individuals choose to do something about it up to each
and every one of us.
The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and are not intended as medical advice.
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