Why should
we be concerned about pH levels?
It has
been stated that, if the condition of our extra cellular fluids,
especially the blood, becomes acidic, our physical condition will first
manifest tiredness, proneness to catching colds, etc. When these fluids
become more acidic, our condition then manifests pains and suffering
such as headaches, chest pains, stomach aches, etc.
According
to Keiichi Morishita in his Hidden Truth of Cancer, if the Blood develops
a more acidic condition, then our body inevitably deposits these excess
acidic substances in some area of the body such so that the blood will not
be able to maintain an alkaline condition which causes these areas such as
the cells to become acidic and lowers in oxygen. As this tendency
continues, such areas increase in acidity and some cells die; then these
dead cells themselves turn into acids.
However,
some other cells may adapt in that environment. In other words, instead of
dying - as normal cells do in an acid environment - some cells survive by
becoming abnormal cells. These abnormal cells are called malignant cells.
Malignant cells do not correspond with brain function or with our own DNS
memory code. Your body's pH level is a large indicator of your alkalinity.
Why should
we be concerned about pH levels? Since most of the body is water-based
(50-60%), the pH level has profound effects on all body chemistry, health
and disease. All regulatory mechanisms (including breathing, circulation,
digestion, hormonal production) serve the purpose of balancing pH, by
removing caustic metabolized acid residues from body tissues without
damaging living cells. If the pH deviates too far to the acid side or too
far to the alkaline side, cells become poisoned by their own toxic waste
and die.
Just as
acid rain can destroy a forest and alkaline wastes can pollute a lake; an
imbalanced pH corrodes all body tissue, slowly eating into the 60,000
miles of veins and arteries like corrosives eating into marble. If left
unchecked, an imbalanced pH will interrupt all cellular activities and
functions, from the beating of your heart to the neural firing of your
brain. The body is largely made up of water, a medium that is biologically
useful in allowing nutrients, oxygen and bio-chemicals to be transported
from place to place. This water-based medium can have either acid or
alkaline properties that are measured by a graduated scale called pH (for
potential hydrogen), wherein 1.0 to 6.9 is considered acidic, 7.0 is
neutral and 7.1 to 14.0 is alkaline.
what is the
pH of some popular drinks?
Colas 1.0
Soft drinks
artificially sweetened 1.0
Sugar 1.0
Liquor
1.0-2.0
Coffee 1.5
Salt
Refined 1.5
Wheat
Refined 1.5
White Rice
1.5
Cereal Corn
2.5
Meat 2.5
Fried
Potato Chips 3.0
Chicken &
Fish 3.0
Prescribed
drugs are normally highly acidic
Melons 7.0
Asparagus
6.5
Pineapple
6.5
Fresh Fruit
Juices 6.5
Avocados
6.0
Citrus
Fruits 6.0
Most
Vegetables 5.0-6.0
Potatoes
with Skin 5.5
Almonds 5.0
Even the
experts, who acknowledge that a neutral or slightly alkaline pH is good,
disagree on what this means with regard to body fluids. For example, some
researchers consider a slightly acid urine pH to be normal (healthy)
because it might indicate that the body is eliminating acids that are a
natural product of metabolism. Other experts maintain that the urine
should be close to neutral or slightly alkaline. Acid/alkaline balance is
extremely important to normal physiology.
For
example, the blood will maintain a slightly alkaline range of 7.35 to
7.45. Extended pH imbalances of any kind are not well tolerated by the
body. The management of the pH factor is so important that the body's
primary regulatory systems (especially breathing, circulation and
eliminations) closely regulate acid-alkaline balance in every cell and
system of the organism. Some researchers believe that high acidity can
deplete bones because the body has to steal alkalizing minerals
(especially calcium) from bones to keep the blood from dropping into the
acid range.
Thus
acid/alkaline balance may be relevant to diseases such as osteoarthritis
and osteoporosis. Alkalinity can be increased by consuming less meat and
sweets and more vegetables and fruits. Although eating fruit to increase
alkalinity may seem to be a contradiction because some fruits (especially
citrus) are acidic outside the body, digestion uses up their acidic
components, leaving an alkaline residue (ash). Thus the net effect is
alkaline-producing in the system.
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