Acid-Alkaline Health Made Easy

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Acid-Alkaline Health Made Easy

 

Following are the easy basics for understanding and applying

Acid-Alkaline Health principles:

 

1. In a healthy state, the human blood and the fluid around most of

the body's cells are slightly alkaline.

 

2. Modern lifestyle factors, including diet, add extra acid-forming

factors to the blood and fluid around the cells.

 

3. When the blood has more of an acid load to deal with, the organs

that eliminate it, the kidneys and lungs, and the internal system

that neutralizes the acid, the blood buffer system, all become

overworked.

They try their best to eliminate the acid and neutralize it, but

their capacity to do this is limited.

 

4. When acid builds up in the blood and fluid around cells, a

healthy alkaline state is difficult to maintain. Over time, acid

builds up subtly but surely and weakens all the organs and immune

system, causing changes in the internal environment that allows

infection, inflammation and other symptoms to arise. A key sign of

acid build up is fatigue.

People who are always fatigued, usually have acid accumulation in

the tissue and joints.

 

5. Protein, fats, simple sugar and refined carbohydrates are

acid-forming. Therefore, foods and drinks concentrated in these will

be very acid forming. Of course, we need protein, fat and

carbohydrate, but consuming excessive amounts and poor quality

foods, brings an acid load to the blood and the fluid around cells.

 

6. Most of the diseases such as cancer, diabetes, heart disease,

arthritis, etc., have their roots in chronic acid presence in the

blood,

tissue and organs. Immune system disorders, mental illness, and many

other health conditions that plague the modern world, have their

beginnings in chronic acid build up.

 

7. The most practical way to maintain healthy alkaline blood and

alklaine fluid around the cells is through the selection and

preparation of alkaline-forming foods. A macrobiotic diet, wisely

and simply done, is an excellent way to maintain an alkaline

condition.

 

Contrary to popular opinion, whole organic grains are not acidifying

when properly prepared, chewed, and complimented with foods such as

vegetables, condiments, organic miso soup, pickles, sea vegetables

and other alkaline-forming macrobiotic foods.

 

Learning to apply the acid-alkaline principles to your own health

will add a new dimension to a macrobiotic practice.

 

http://www.macroamerica.com/articles/CanAMacroGetOsteo.pdf