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Natural Healing

Natural Healing, The Bottom Line

 by DR. RICHARD SCHULZE

Natural Healing is a style of healing in which you assist your body increasing its powerful self-healing ability.
This is done by creating a lifestyle where you eliminate those things that create disease,
and increase those things that create powerful health. When your body is healthy and strong,
it can and will heal any disease, and repair and rebuild itself.

The sign in my clinic read:

You Can Heal Yourself of ANYTHING and ANY DISEASE.
Just STOP doing what makes you sick and
START doing what Creates Powerful Health!

An old Chinese proverb says, “Focus on the good to eliminate the bad.”
In the same way, Natural Healing is about focusing on creating powerful health and letting your body do what it knows how to do better than any doctor, and what it does best, which is repair and heal you of anything and everything.

What is Natural Healing?

This is easily seen with a cut. You cut your skin and you bleed. Your blood eventually clots and you form a scab.
Your tissue and skin then starts regrowing. Eventually, the scab falls off and you are miraculously healed!
Even though we take this basic healing function for granted, no medical doctor and no hospital can ever do this for you.

On a microscopic level, your body may be invaded and infected by foreign pathogens such as bacteria, viruses, fungi or parasites.
Your body has numerous organs, systems and blood cells to take care of any unwanted visitors.
You have white blood cells like macrophages and certain T cells that work to kill the invader immediately,
and immune chemicals like interleukin and interferon that help speed up these cells.
Other cells create chemical poisons to kill off the invaders in the same way your B cells use immunoglobulin
to create specific antibodies that attack foreign pathogens.

Without a doubt, our bodies are amazing repair machines ready to take on any illness or disease.
But eventually, because of genetics, lifestyle and just plain aging, your body may not be up to the task of healing or repairing you.
This is usually when a person seeks out outside help, usually from a medical doctor.

A medical doctor’s approach is to take on the healing themselves, fighting and killing the disease with a barrage
of chemical drugs and often getting the body functioning again by performing surgical procedures.
This form of healing can work, but can be very dangerous. Medical intervention is so harsh and extreme
it often hurts other organs and causes other diseases. It can also leave you with irreversible surgical impairment
when it involves your organs being altered or removed. It is the best form of healing for those people who absolutely
will not take any responsibility for their health and refuse to make any healthy lifestyle modifications.

On the other hand, Natural Healing is for people who are willing to make healthy and positive lifestyle changes.
As a Natural Healing doctor, I help my patients to dramatically raise their overall level of health, which in turn,
dramatically increases their body’s ability to heal and repair itself. Doing this is simple!
As the sign in my office says, “You can heal yourself of anything, just STOP doing what is making you sick and
START doing what will Create Powerful Health.”

Natural Healing is simply helping your body to become stronger and healthier,
so it becomes a more powerful and effective healing and repairing machine.

In my clinic, I discovered that with most people, it doesn’t take much to get their body to heal illness or disease.
I usually just had to get them to STOP killing themselves. Most of my patients’ diseases were caused by what they were doing to themselves.
In other words, their body was trying to heal itself, but it was too weak, or running into too much resistance, or both.
his could simply be a lack of nutrition caused by a bad food program, all the way to a buildup of sludge in the body,
causing everything from constipation and coronary-artery blockage to dementia.
Most of my patients just needed a good cleanup and a new, healthy lifestyle, and they were on their way to health.
However, my patients who had spent years damaging their bodies, ignoring their ill health and disregarding
their many disease warning signs were now in a serious disease crisis and they needed more aggressive health programs.

Regardless of the level of my patients’ illnesses and diseases, even in the worst stages of degenerative diseases,
I always saw Natural Healing work as powerful as medical intervention. My patients were always able to regain their health,
and in fact, create powerful health by simply leading a very healthy lifestyle. Often the healing results are in balance
with how many positive healthy changes a person is willing to make. Sure, for some, it took a lot of work,
but when you compare it to the drama, trauma, pain, torture and expense of medical intervention,
for most people with good common sense, it’s a no-brainer.
In fact, when you look at it this way, it is obviously the only real healing.

To sum all this up, Natural Healing is a style of healing where you assist your body in charging up its powerful self-healing ability
by creating a lifestyle in which you eliminate things that create disease and increase those things that create powerful health.
When your body is healthy and strong, it can heal, repair and rebuild anything.

An old Chinese proverb says: “Focus on the good to eliminate the bad.” In the same way,
Natural Healing is about focusing on Creating Powerful Health and letting your body do what it knows how to do
better than any doctor, and what it does best, which is repair and heal you of anything.

I hope this information gives you a few more insights into your understanding of Natural Healing.

Thank you for spreading the Natural Healing gospel!

— Dr. Schulze

Dramatic Omega-3 Discovery
A critical genetic variation rules our ability to make essential omega-3s from plant foods; this may explain why rates of disease vary by ethnicity and diet
by Craig Weatherby

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A landmark study shows that people’ genetic profiles greatly influence the impact of the omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids they consume.
 
The findings hold serious implications for each person’s own risk of cardiovascular disease, cancer, dementia, diabetes, depression, and other major disorders.
 
Before we review the dramatic report, it’s important to describe its context, which explains why the findings matter so much.
 
Omega 3 & 6 fatty acids: The basics
To survive and thrive, humans need to consume small amounts of two kinds of polyunsaturated fat, called omega-3 fatty acids and omega-6 fatty acids.
 

Key Points
  • Landmark study reveals the powerful health impacts and ethnic distribution of genetic variations that affect the conversion of short-chain, plant-source omega-3s and omega-6s into their long-chain, animal-source forms.
  • People who possess one gene variant may be at higher risk for cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, and dementia.
  • People who possess the opposite gene variant get more benefit out of diets lacking fish and shellfish, but would be harmed more by diets high in omega-6 fatty acids from vegetable oils.
  • The authors propose genetic testing to fine-tune diet advice, and their finding highlights the value of blood testing to monitor and optimize the omega-3/omega-6 balance in people’s cells.
Both are essential to the structure and function of our cells, and regulate critical aspects of brain function, metabolism, and immune-system health.
 

We cannot make omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids in our bodies, so we have to get them from foods or supplements.
 
Omega-3s come in two basic forms, with distinctly different health impacts:
  • Short-chain omega-3 ALA from plant foods
  • Long-chain omega-3s (EPA and DHA) from seafood and fish oil
The body only needs EPA and DHA, which it can make from plant-source ALA … but only in small amounts.
 
This conversion rate ranges from one percent to 10 percent, and varies by gender, pregnancy/nursing status, and overall diet.
 
The biggest dietary influence on this rate is your intake of short-chain omega-6 fatty acids, which compete with short-chain omega-3 ALA for the body’s limited capacity to convert them into their long-chain forms.
 
On average, less than 0.5% (one half of one percent) of dietary ALA gets converted into DHA … the omega-3 most critical to human health.
 
The average American gets too many omega-6 fatty acids, primarily from the vegetable oils used in home kitchens and in almost all restaurant, take-out, prepared, and packaged foods.
 
In fact, most Americans consume omega-6 fatty acids to unhealthful excess … a subject covered in our summary, “America’s Sickening Omega Imbalance.”
 
Importantly, omega-3s moderate inflammation – low levels of which underlie and drive most major diseases – while omega-6s tend to promote inflammation.
 
(Admittedly, this is an oversimplification … for a fuller picture, see our sidebar, “How do omega fatty acids affect health?”.)
 
In contrast, most Americans don’t get enough omega-3 fatty acids to enable and maintain optimal health …in part because of their over consumption of competing omega-6 fatty acids.
 
But the new findings show that people with a particular genetic profile get much less benefit from the short-chain omega-3s found in a few plant foods and oils.
 
And they show that people with the opposite genetic profile suffer more harm than most from excess intake of short-chain omega-6 fatty acids … an eating pattern that typifies the average American diet.
 

How do omega fatty acids affect health?
Long-chain omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids exert their most important effects in two ways:
  1. The body uses them to make ephemeral, hormone-like compounds called eicosanoids (eye-koss-uh-noyds), and it uses omega-3s to make resolvins and protectins. Among other effects, these agents are used to activate, moderate, or end inflammation.
  2. The omega fatty acids we consume influence a mechanism called cell-signaling, which in turn yields “nutrigenomic” effects on the expression of working genes in our cells.
Omega-3s are invariably used to make inflammation-moderating or inflammation-ending eicosanoids, resolvins, and protectins.
 
In contrast, omega-6s typically form the basis of pro-inflammatory eicosanoids. (The situation is not entirely black-and-white … under certain conditions, some omega-6s are used to make inflammation-moderating eicosanoids.)
 
In addition, our cells sense certain food constituents – including omega fatty acids and the carotenes and polyphenols in plant foods – as signals that affect gene “switches.”
 
These switches are proteins (e.g., transcription factors, cytokines, and kinases) that affect the expression of working genes in charge of key functions such as inflammation and food metabolism.
 
For example, omega-3 fatty acids influence two key gene transcription factors – nuclear factor kappa B (NF-kB) and peroxisome-proliferator-activated-receptor-gamma (PPAR-γ) – in ways that moderate inflammation and enhance sugar metabolism, respectively.
International team looks for suspected gene variations
The new findings come from an international scientific team that includes researchers based at Harvard and major universities in Sweden, Germany, Holland, and Italy (Ameur A et al 2012).
 
They examined DNA profiles and omega fatty acid levels in 6,612 people in five European countries, as well as genetic data from ethnic groups worldwide, Neanderthals, chimps, and other primates.
 
As we explained, humans must either get the long-chain omega-3s they need (DHA and EPA) from fish or shellfish, or convert plant-source omega-3s (ALA) into long-chain omega-3s.
 
This conversion is a several step process that requires specific enzymes … especially certain “rate-limiting” enzymes.
 
You can think of these enzymes as “metabolic bottlenecks” that limit the amounts of long-chain omega-3 fatty acids and omega-6 fatty acids we make from the short-chain forms in our diets.
 
The body’s production of these rate-limiting enzymes is governed by genes called FADS1 and FADS2.
 
The international team knew about existing evidence for differences in people’s ability to convert short-chain omega fatty acids to long-chain ones.
 
Their suspicions led them on an exhaustive hunt for DNA variations that might affect these two critical rate-limiting genes.
 
And they struck pay dirt, in the form of a genetic discovery with dramatic implications for our understanding of diet, health, and disease.
 
Landmark findings change the omega-3/omega-6 story
The team found two variants – called haplotype A and haplotype D – in the genes that govern production of the enzymes needed to turn short-chain omega-3s and omega-6s into their long-chain forms.
 
More accurately, there are three gene variants: haplotype AA (“A” for short), haplotype DD (“D” for short), and haplotype DA.
 
Haplotype DA is much less common than A or D. Its effects on the omega-conversion process fall in between those of the other two variants, and can be considered neutral.
 
The focus falls on A and D because they are more common and produce, as the researchers put it, “dramatically” different impacts on the levels of long-chain omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids in people’s blood and cells.
 
People who possess the haplotype D variant easily convert short-chain omega-3 ALA and omega-6 LA into their long-chain counterparts: omega-3 DHA and EPA and omega-6 AA.
 
In contrast, people who possess the haplotype A variant produce relatively small amounts of long-chain omega-3 or omega-6 fatty acids from the short-chain forms in plant foods.
 
Specifically, the average blood levels of omega-3 DHA are 24 percent higher in people possessing haplotype D, compared to people with haplotype A.
 
Likewise, the average blood levels of long-chain omega-6s are 43 percent higher in people possessing haplotype D, compared to people with haplotype A.
 
We’ve said that it’s unhealthful to have an excess of long-chain omega-6s in your blood and cells … but that’s only true if the proportion of omega-6s to omega-3s exceeds a four-to-one ratio.
 
Humans thrive on a ratio of about three parts omega-6s to one part omega-3s … but the average American diet produces an unhealthful ratio of 10-20 parts omega-6s to one part omega-3s.
 
(Remember, we need long-chain omega-3s and omega-6s to survive and thrive, and only these long-chain forms exert strong influence over inflammation and other fundamental aspects of human health.)
 
Having haplotype A or D could explain why some people are at higher risk for diseases related to the “omega balance” in cell membranes, such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, and dementia.
 
Most obviously, people with haplotype A need to ensure ample intake of long-chain omega-3s from seafood or fish oil supplements.
 
But most people with haplotype A – especially those who eat animal foods – don’t need to worry about getting enough long-chain omega-6s in their cells.
 
This is because meats, eggs, poultry, and dairy foods contain ample amounts of long-chain omega-6s.
 
Vegans with haplotype A can ensure adequate blood levels of long-chain omega-6s, despite their genetic disadvantage, if they get plenty of short-chain omega-6s from nuts, seeds, and vegetable oils.
 
Vegans with haplotype A would need to make extra efforts to consume lots of short-chain omega-3s, from the chief commonly available sources:
Flaxseed, flaxseed oil, walnuts walnut oil, canola oil, soybeans, soybean oil*, hemp seed, hemp oil, leafy green vegetables (purslane, grape leaves, spinach, kale, chard, collards), cauliflower, radish sprouts, beans, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, seaweed, and green or yellow squash.
 
Haplotype D: A beneficial but double-edged sword
Haplotype D is highly advantageous for people eating diets low in fish and shellfish … such as prehistoric Africans living on dry savannahs, with little access to fish or other aquatic foods rich in omega-3 DHA.
 
Again, people who possess haplotype D have higher average blood levels of long-chain omega-3s (EPA and DHA), which moderate inflammation and exert myriad beneficial “nutrigenomic” effects.
 
This could make carriers of haplotype D less susceptible to coronary artery disease and other inflammation- and diet-related disorders.
 
However, people who have haplotype D could be at a disadvantage if – like the average American – their diet is high in short-chain omega-6 fatty acids from vegetable oil.
 
As we’ve noted, haplotype D maximizes the conversion of short-chain omega fatty acids to their long-chain forms … and an excess of long-chain omega-6s in your cells promotes the chronic inflammation associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease and other major degenerative disorders.
 
The history, distribution, and health impacts of omega-conversion variants
In addition to revealing their existence, the scientists detailed the history, ethnic distribution, and potentially dramatic health impacts of these genetic variations.
 
Haplotype A – which impedes the omega-conversion process – appeared about 606,000 years ago.
 
Haplotype D – which makes the omega-conversion process highly efficient – appeared in modern humans prior to their exodus from Africa some 50,000 to 100,000 years ago.
 
The study authors noted uncertainty about the timing, and estimate that haplotype D may have appeared as recently as 255,000 years ago or as long as 433,000 years ago.
 
They hypothesized that the haplotype D variation evolved among pre-humans living in places that lack foods providing long-chain omega-3s (i.e., dry, inland places lacking fish or shellfish).
 
People of African, Asian, Oceanic, and European ancestry tend to have the haplotype D variant.
 
In contrast, almost all Native Americans – whether from North, South, or Central America – have the haplotype A variant.
 
The authors suggest that these gene variations may contribute to certain health disparities seen between populations worldwide.
 
And they proposed testing to determine people’s genotypes, to allow doctors to deliver customized dietary guidance.
We would add that it makes sense to test your blood levels of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids, so you know where you stand and can take steps to improve your status.
 
Haplotype A shown in blue, type D shown in red.
 
Source
Ameur A et al. Genetic Adaptation of Fatty-Acid Metabolism: A Human-Specific Haplotype Increasing the Biosynthesis of Long-Chain Omega-3 and Omega-6 Fatty Acids. The American Journal of Human Genetics (2012). doi:10.1016/j.ajhg.2012.03.014.Published online April 12, 2012.
A list of Acid / Alkaline Forming Foods
Your body pH affects everything…
Balancing the pH is a major step toward well-being and greater health.

The pH scale is from   0 – 14

0 1 2  3  4  5  6  7 healthy  8 9 10 11 12 13 14

Human blood pH should be slightly alkaline ( 7.35 – 7.45 ).  Below or above this range means symptoms and disease.  A pH of 7.0 is neutral.  A pH below 7.0 is acidic.  A pH above 7.0 is alkaline.

An acidic pH can occur from, an acid forming diet, emotional stress, toxic overload, and/or immune reactions or any process that deprives the cells of oxygen and other nutrients.  The body will try to compensate for acidic pH by using alkaline minerals.  If the diet does not contain enough minerals to compensate, a build up of acids in the cells will occur.

An acidic balance will:  decrease the body’s ability to absorb minerals and other nutrients, decrease the energy production in the cells, decrease it’s ability to repair damaged cells, decrease it’s ability to detoxify heavy metals, make tumor cells thrive, and make it more susceptible to fatigue and illness.  A blood pH of 6.9, which is only slightly acidic, can induce coma and death.

The reason acidosis is more common in our society is mostly due to the typical American diet, which is far too high in acid producing animal products like meat, eggs and dairy, and far too low in alkaline producing foods like fresh vegetables.  Additionally, we eat acid producing processed foods like white flour and sugar and drink acid producing beverages like coffee and soft drinks.  We use too many drugs, which are acid forming; and we use artificial chemical sweeteners like NutraSweet, Spoonful, Sweet ‘N Low, Equal, or Aspartame, which are poison and extremely acid forming.  One of the best things we can do to correct an overly acid body is to clean up the diet and lifestyle.

To maintain health, the diet should consist of 60% alkaline forming foods and 40% acid forming foods.  To restore health, the diet should consist of 80% alkaline forming foods and 20% acid forming foods.

Generally, alkaline forming foods include: most fruits, green vegetables, peas, beans, lentils, spices, herbs and seasonings, seeds and nuts.

Generally, acid forming foods include: meat, fish, poultry, eggs, grains, and legumes.

Shifting Your pH Toward Alkaline…

In an effort to shift your pH towards a healthier more alkaline environment we have provided many charts available on this site to help assist  you in “adjusting” your bodies pH to a healthier level.  The pH scale is from 0 to 14, with numbers below 7 being acidic ( and low on oxygen ) and numbers above 7 being alkaline.  Be aware that an acidic body is a sickness magnet with the perfect environment for sickness and disease to take hold.  What you eat and drink will impact where your body’s pH level falls, your overall wellness, and how you feel. Eating a more alkaline diet is going to energize you and help aid you in feeling your absolute best.  Remember Balance is Key !!!

 

The Alkalarian Approach
to Optimal Health
by Dr. Robert and Shelley Young

OUR BODIES WERE DESIGNED TO BE HEALTHY, slender and energetic. We were intended to have smooth, supple skin and a quick, alert mind.
Instead we are overweight, tired, and sluggish. WHY?

The New Biology™

Dr. Robert O. Young’s New Biology™, most simply stated, is that the over-acidification of the body is the single underlying cause of all disease.

In contrast, the old biology, based on the work of Louis Pasteur in the late 1800s, stems from the idea that disease comes from germs which invade the body from the outside. Dr. Young has found that when the body is in healthy alkaline balance, germs are unable to get a foothold.

Think of Your Body as a Fish Tank.

Think of the importance of maintaining the integrity of the internal fluids of the body that we “swim” in daily.

Imagine the fish in this tank are your cells and organ systems bathed in fluids, which transport food and remove wastes. Now imagine we back up a car and put the tailpipe up against the air intake filter that supplies the oxygen for the water in the tank instead of a quality water machine. The water becomes filled with carbon monoxide, lowering the alkaline pH, creating an acidic pH environment, and threatening the health of the “fish,” your cells and organs.

What if we throw in too much food or the wrong kind of food (acid-producing food like dairy, sugar, and animal protein) and the fish are unable to consume or digest it all, and it starts to decompose and putrefy? Toxic acid waste and chemicals build up as the food breaks down, creating more acidic byproducts, altering the optimum alkaline pH of the water.

Basically, this is a small example of what we may be doing to our internal fluids every day. We are fouling them with pollution, smoking, drugs, excessive intake of food, over-consumption of acid-forming foods, and any number of transgressions which compromise the delicate balance of our internal alkaline fluids.

Some of us have fish tanks (bodies) that are barely able to support life, yet we somehow manage to struggle from day to day, building more sever imbalances until there is the inevitable crash and debilitating chronic, disturbing and disorganizing symptoms to deal with.

The pH level (the acid-alkaline measurement) of our internal fluids affects every cell in our bodies. Extended acid imbalances of any kind are not well tolerated by the body. Indeed, the entire metabolic process depends on a balanced internal alkaline environment. A chronically over-acidic pH corrodes body tissue, slowly eating into the 60,000 miles of veins and arteries like acid eating into marble. If left unchecked, it will interrupt all cellular activities and functions, from the beating of your heart to the neural firing of your brain. In summary, over-acidification interferes with life itself leading to all sickness and disease!

How do you know if you’re overly acidic?

Fat is an Acid Problem so Drink Your Greens!

Perhaps one of Dr. Young’s most well known discoveries is his theory of the cause of obesity—the overweight. He has shown that fat is actually an over-acidification problem. What does that mean? The body creates fat cells to carry acids away from your vital organs, so these acids literally don’t choke your organs to death. Fat is saving your life! Fat is actually a response from the body to an alarming over-acidic condition. So how do you lose weight? Alkalize and Exercise, beginning with the health and diet plan outlined in The pH Miracle, by enjoying an organic greens drink product that is loaded with chlorophyll, like Doc Broc Power Plants, and by drinking purified, alkaline water from one of the quality water ionizers we offer, such as the Chanson Miracle Water Ionizer.

Alkaline Water and Food to Maintain a Healthy Weight

At the other end of the health spectrum, the yeast and fungus produced within an overly acidic body can feed on your nutrients and reduce the chemical and mechanical absorption of everything you eat by as much as 50%. This causes many people to become excessively thin, which is no healthier than becoming overweight.

Without protein, your body cannot rebuild new tissues or produce enzymes, hormones, or hundreds of other chemical components necessary for cell energy and organ activity. Fatigue, illness, and body weight changes are the results. When an underweight person begins to follow the alkaline health and diet lifestyle they may initially loose a little more weight as their body chemistry stabilizes; but, as their body normalizes, they will begin to gain towards their ideal weight. Healthy bodies are not overweight or underweight. A healthy body naturally maintains its own ideal weight. You can begin to restore health, balance, and harmony to your body with pH Miracle brand nutritional supplements. As alkalizing and oxygenation begins to take place, the body naturally begins to seek its own ideal weight.

Allergies Signify Over-Acidification

The toxins produced within an overly acidic, oxygen deprived body may contribute significantly to what are often called the symptoms of allergy. In addition, the absorption of undigested proteins is a major cause of allergy conditions. The digestive system is weakened, which prevents the total breakdown of amino acids—often causing food allergies. This alone may produce a wide spectrum of severe allergic reactions. When you alkalize and exercise, beginning with an organic green drinks loaded with chlorophyll and purified, ionized water from a quality water machine/water ionizer, these allergies will begin to subside. This is because these products introduce oxygenating and alkalizing elements into your body—helping to balance the conditions that may lead to hyper-sensitivities.

The Fatigue Due to an Acidic Diet

Fatigue is probably the major symptom suffered by an overly acidic body. The toxins produced in an acidic body environment reduce the absorption of protein and minerals, which in turn weakens the body’s ability to produce enzymes and hormones. This also interferes with the reconstruction of cells and other necessary components of energy production. The result is fatigue, poor endurance, an inability to add muscle tone, and general weakness. To abolish your fatigue and become the energetic person you want to be, begin by alkalizing with greens drinks like Doc Broc Power Plants and alkaline water from one of the excellent Chanson water ionizers we’ve made available.

Doc Broc Power Plants, greens drink powder, is formulated to bring you vital nutrient elements and easily digested protein. This alkalizing, energizing, and nourishing green formula begins oxygenating your body.

Alkaline Water and Water Ionizers

The most important thing you must learn is to hydrate the body with alkalizing water. Like the earth on which we live, our bodies are 70% water. Food cravings are often the body’s cry for water. A thirst for water will begin as one begins to hydrate with water.

A diet high in acid foods such as meat, dairy, grains, high sugar fruits, and bread causes acid wastes to build up in the body. When acid wastes enter our blood stream, the blood system will attempt to dispose of these wastes in liquid form through the lungs or the kidneys. If there are too many wastes to handle, they are deposited in various organ systems like the heart, pancreas, liver, colon, and other locations.

The breakdown of this disposal process of acid waste could also be called “the aging process.” To slow down and reverse this process, one must begin by removing this over-acidification of the blood and tissues by including liberal amounts of alkaline water in the diet. Alkaline water has a pH between 9 and 11, and will neutralize harmful stored acid wastes and gently remove them from the tissues. And the best alkaline water comes from water ionizers, that produce many more positive effects than just alkalizing the water. You can Learn more about Water Ionizers Here.

List of Alkaline Foods

Are You Getting Enough Alkaline Foods in Your Diet?

Your health depends on an alkaline environment, created by eating foods such as tomatoes, avocados and green vegetables…striking the optimum 80/20 balance and regulating your body’s acid/alkaline chemistry through simple changes in diet can result in weight loss, increased stamina and strength, a stronger immune system and a greater sense of well being.

How Did We Become So Out of Balance?

After years of societal changes, millions of dollars of marketing spent and technological advances, we, as a race, are now facing more dietary based health challenges than ever before. It is no coincidence that the rapidly growing numbers of cancer, cardiovascular disease and diabetes correlate almost exactly with the rise in consumption of acid forming foods such as sugars, saturated fats, and white breads. At the same time our consumption of fresh vegetables and essential fatty acids has decreased dramatically, making way for convenience and a generation hooked on sugary treats.

Becoming Alkaline With a Simple and Healthy Diet

This is not as difficult or as technical as it sounds. When we talk about eating alkaline foods or starting an alkaline diet we are referring to consuming those foods and drink which have an alkaline effect on the body. This effect is based upon the ash residue that remains after our foods are consumed. Some foods leave an acid ash, whereas others leave an alkaline ash. Conveniently for us, our bodies have been designed to categorize which foods leave which kind of ash into neat and easy to remember groups.

Of course, everybody is different – but most of us should aim to eat 75-80% alkaline foods and a maximum of 20-25% acid forming foods.

The following guides and articles are intended to give you all of the information you need to successfully begin and maintain an alkaline lifestyle. If there are any resources that you would like to see here in the future, please do not hesitate to get in touch: info@phmiracleliving.com


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ALKALINE FOODS ACID FOODS
VEGETABLES
Asparagus
Artichokes
Cabbage
Lettuce
Onion
Cauliflower
Radish
Swede
Lambs Lettuce
Peas
Courgette
Red Cabbage
Leeks
Watercress
Spinach
Turnip
Chives
Carrot
Green Beans
Beetroot
Garlic
Celery
Grases (wheat, straw, barley, dog, kamut, etc.) Cucumber
Broccoli
Kale
Brussels Sprouts
Greens
FRUITS
Lemon
Lime
Avocado
Tomato
Grapefruit
Rhubarb
MEATS
Pork
Lamb
Beef
Chicken
Turkey
Crustaceans
Other Seafood (apart from occasional oily fish such as salmon)

DAIRY PRODUCTS
Milk
Eggs
Cheese
Cream
Yogurt
Ice Cream

DRINKS
Fizzy Drinks
Coffee
Tea
Beers
Spirits
Fruit Juice
Dairy Smoothies
Milk
Traditional Tea

DRINKS
Green Drinks
Fresh Vegetable Juice
Pure Water (distilled, reverse osmosis, ionized)
Lemon Water (pure water + fresh lemon or lime)
Herbal Tea
Vegetable Broth
Non-sweetened Soy Milk
Almond Milk
OTHERS
Vinegar
White Pasta
White Bread
Wholemeal Bread
Biscuits
Soy Sauce
Tamari
Condiments (Tomato Sauce, Mayonnaise etc.)
Artificial Sweeteners
Honey

FATS & OILS
Saturated Fats
Hydrogenated Oils
Margarine (worse than butter)
Corn Oil
Vegetable Oil
Sunflower Oil

SEEDS, NUTS & GRAINS
Almonds
Pumpkin
Sunflower
Sesame
Flax
Buckwheat Groats
Spelt
Lentils
Cumin Seeds
Any Sprouted Seed
CONVENIENCE FOODS
Sweets
Chocolate
Microwave Meals
Tinned Foods
Powdered Soups
Instant Meals
Fast Food
FATS & OILS
Flax
Hemp
Avocado
Olive
Evening Primrose
Borage
Oil Blends
OTHERS
Sprouts (soy, alfalfa, mung bean, wheat, little radish, chickpea, broccoli, etc.)
Hummus
Tahini
FRUITS
All fruits, aside from those listed in the alkaline column.

SEEDS & NUTS
Peanuts
Cashew Nuts
Pistachio Nuts

General Guidance:
Stick to salads, fresh vegetables and healthy nuts and oils. Try to consume plenty of raw foods and at least 2-3 liters of clean, pure water daily.
General Guidance:
Steer clear of fatty meats, dairy,
cheese, sweets, chocolates,
alcohol and tobacco.Packaged foods are often full
of hidden offenders and
microwaved meals are full of
sugars and salts. Over cooking
also removes all of the nutrition
from a meal.

Therapeutic Effects of Cider Vinegar

Cider Vinegar is a germicide and thus helps fight infection and inflammation when administered internally and externally.  It helps prevent blood clots and stimulates the excretory organs.  It is therefore an important blood purifier and elimination promoting agent.

The Vitamin C and beta-carotene in cider vinegar destroy free radicals that weaken the immune system and increase the risk of many diseases.  The acids in cider vinegar control the proliferation of yeast in the intestine.

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