Researched by Nick A. Jerch from the internet and other public resources on body acidity and pH alkaline balance.

We are raised to wish each other good health and do nothing about it ourselves - until we get sick. Then we go to the doctor and get drugs or have surgeries. For many people, preventing an illness has never been an issue and still isn't. Cures are uncertain, painful and expensive. Prevention is best! It's only about a dozen years ago that the Toronto Star newspaper printed a head line reporting that a local medical convention keynote speaker said, "We are not in the prevention business". Things have not changed much since. When it comes to preventing an illness, it's your responsibility. At a recent physical check-up my own doctor did not check , and was not interested in, the acid or alkaline balance of my body. I know of a women who went through breast cancer treatment, and her doctor now advises her to keep her body in a pH neutral alkaline balance. It may take some time before more doctors are advising their patients about the importance of keeping their bodies in a pH neutral alkaline balance.

We have two major preventive systems in our body that can prevent many or most illnesses and we should maintain these two systems. Arthur Schoppenhauer said: "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident." We believe, for most people, it will be selfevident to prefer to prevent diseases.

The new Canada Food Guide 2007 is moving in that direction by recommending to eat more vegetables and fruits than other food groups. Surprisingly, most people know you need a pH neutral alkaline swimming pool for it to work well. However, few are aware that it is more important still to have an alkaline neutral body to help to prevent discomforts and diseases. These are signs of an acidic body: acidic stomach (you should not need anti-acid pills), reflux, stress (a killer), tiredness, low nergy, indigestion and weight gain. PH imbalance may create conditions in the body for diabetes, vascular diseases, arthritis, and cancer, which is unlikely to grow in an alkaline balanced body as stated by many health professionals, and a long list of other diseases. Read what they write on the internet on this subject, including Dr. Otto Warburg two-time Nobel Prize winner in this field. An alkaline balance in our body can be restored with a proper diet, a change to eating more vegetables and certain fruits, and/or by taking a supplement like Bell Acidic Stomach/ Alkaline Balance #39, which is inexpensive and includes a free pH test kit.

Most people may not be willing to make radical changes in their diet. However, a few changes should be made to achieve your goal. You need some acidic foods. The ideal would be 80% alkaline foods and 20% acidic foods. Everybody can make some changes and with the help of Bell Acidic Stomach / Alkaline Balance #39, virtually all people should be able to get into the ideal pH alkaline balance after some experimentation with foods and the number of supplement capsules they need.

The Canada Food Guide 2007 has now been published and it recommends vegetables and fruits as the most important foods to eat, which will help to get closer to a pH neutral alkaline balance. Second category is grain products. Milk & alternatives are third and meat & alternatives are fourth. The previous food guide was obviously not good. otherwise the number of overweight people would not have been increasing every year. In 2006 we were at 67%. We will find out how much better the new Food Guide is, when we see whether the percentage of overweight people will go up or down. Nutrition experts predicted by 2010 over 85% will be overweight. Acidity of the body or a pH alkaline balance is of no interest at the present time by the overnment. Neither is there any concern about toxins (mould) in the grains we eat. Yet, tens of thousands of men, women and children are sick right now in North America from either cause or both.

First option: If, after testing, you find that your body is acidic, you can go by the simple rule to start eating a lot more green vegetables and fruit. Depending on how much you have to change your diet and how much you want to change, you can add Bell Acidic Stomach/Alkaline Balance #39. A few people will get away with 2 capsules a day for a start. Most will need 4-6 capsules a day until they reach the desired alkalinity balance. You have to experiment depending on your present acidity level and your diet. It may take a short time or it may take a few months to reach the desired alkalinity balance. It will help if you go by this basic rule: reduce or eliminate sugar (worst), cakes, pastry, red meat, white bread & noodles, white rice, dairy products, chips, all soft drinks (drink water instead), coffee and alcohol. If you want to have more details on acidic and alkalizing foods, see the following paragraphs.

Hippocrates said: "Let food be your medicine. Let medicine be your food." All new medical doctors are sworn in by this Hippocrates oath with the added words: "Do no harm." You have to wonder whether this oath is taken seriously enough, if according to the FDA Office, doctors prescribed one arthritis drug that caused 139,000 heart attacks and strokes - over 30% or over 40,000 of them fatal in USA and prorated over 4000 in Canada.

Second option: If you are willing to read more about an acidic body and alkaline balance, go on the internet. There is a vast amount of information to be found there. The acidity in your body creates toxin wastes that are stored in your organs and tissues everywhere in your body. Controlling acidity is more important than calories, cholesterol, blood pressure, fat, hormone levels and blood sugar, says one expert in his book. Our body will try to maintain a pH neutral alkalinity in our blood and will rob calcium from our bones, and vitamins and minerals stored in our tissues to do so. Because of this, regardless how many supplements we take, we may be deficient in basic nutrients. If our body is polluted with acidic wastes, it becomes the source of sickness and disease. Every cell in your body is affected by this acidity. Alkaline tissue holds 20 times more oxygen than does acidic tissue and this oxygen rich environment is critical for maintaining health and reducing the risk of disease (anaerobic bacteria, viruses, fungi, cancer etc.)

One author compares the acidic body with a dirty fish tank. A Berkeley University Health Newsletter writes: "An acidic body is perhaps the cause of most diseases from arthritis and cancer to depression and diabetes". Brendan Brazier, author of health books, says in an Alive Magazine article: "Disease is rare in an alkaline body. Cancer, for example, cannot develop in an alkaline environment".

One internet listing asks, "Can an imbalanced pH cause serious problems? Yes, especially older people will be accumulating over the years the side effects of having an acidic body, including cardiovascular disease (#1 killer), cancer (#2 killer, costing the Canadian health care system $14 billion dollars, $140 billion in USA) and diabetes (costs the Canadian taxpayers $13 billion dollars, $130 billion in USA). Also, there is a systemic weight gain due to an acidic body. You will find the same message on many web sites."

Third option: Buy books about the pH balance with mostly vegetarian recipes. You will have to be prepared for a fundamental change of diet, if you want this. The author of one of the books keeps a big container of prepared salads in the fridge with vegetables, sprouts, red onions, pine nuts, tofu cubes, shredded carrot, beet, and radishes and adds legumes or grains as needed for a snack or meal. He talks about baked sprouted tortillas, raw almonds, raw veggies and baked tofu.

#1. Some food experts said microwaving foods destroys enzymes, decreases the nutritional value of vitamins and minerals. Because of this, microwave ovens are outlawed in some parts of the world. It will take time to find out what is true and how critical it is. Better steam your vegetables with very little water. You can buy wire inserts for any size of cooking pot in the hardware store so that vegetables are not submerged in water.

#2. What is still more critical for eating healthy is this: Grains are starting a process of fermenting 90 days after harvesting, says the author of a book, which produces toxins (mould). Proof of this fact is in the news. In October 2006, the Hamilton Spectator newspaper reports a shipment of 58,000 - 2 - - 3 - tonnes of Canadian wheat was confiscated by Italian authorities, because it had three times the allowable limit of ochratoxins (toxic mould). Ask yourself, did we eat the rest of that Canadian harvest here in Canada? We should be just as much concerned how much toxic food we eat as the Italians.

In the book DANGEROUS GRAINS Dr. James Brady M.D. writes that 75 million people in USA, and prorated 9 million in Canada, are sick right now from eating wheat products that contain fungi. Treatment is usually with prescription drugs instead of taking these sick people off all grain products. If grains are fed to animals, it transfers the fungi to the animals and the toxins stay in the body of the animals. When we eat meat, we store the fungi in our body. Even if most people don't show an illness initially, the accumulation of toxins will have an effect on our health eventually. Corn is the worst. Dr. Brady is not the first one to warn about this as it creates many serious illnesses. Dr. Brady lists in his book many other doctors that warned us about this huge health hazard and nothing is being done about it. All doctors should learn from Dr. Brady and know about grains and fungi. Perhaps grain farmers would be offended and it is politically too sensitive?

Here is a personal experience. My son was progressively getting more sick and very thin from eating grain products with fungi for 15 years until we resorted to self-help and took him off all grain products and all drugs. He put his weight back on and is healthy now.

Although many praise whole grains as "very good for you", we should not eat too much of it, considering all steer breeders have a standard procedure to feed whole grains to the steers for four weeks to fatten them up before slaughtering. All it takes is four weeks, I was told.

Very alkalizing foods: Avocado, broccoli, beet greens, carrots, celery stalks, chives, cucumber, edible gourds, fennel, garlic, grasses (wheatgrass), green beans, green cabbage, leeks, peas, peppers, potato, radish, red beets, red cabbage, rhubarb, salad greens, spinach, squash, sweet potatoes, turnips, watercress, zucchini. Navy beans, soy beans, soy nuts, soy sprouts, white beans. Buckwheat. Acidophilus milk, banana smoothie, fresh butter, fresh buttermilk, fresh cheese, fresh whey, raw whole milk. Apple cider vinegar, cold pressed vegetable oils, green herbs, sea salt, table salt. Stevia sweetener. Almond milk, fresh lemonade, fresh vegetable juice, green tea, mint tea, soy milk, tomato juice.

Slightly alkalizing foods: Artichokes, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, lettuce, onions, peas, sour pickles, tomatoes. Dried fruits such as apricots, bananas, dates, raisins. Tofu, dried peas, lentils, kidney beans, mung beans, chickpeas (garbanzo beans), red beans. Coconut, sour cherries, watermelon, bananas (the riper they get, the more acidifying they become). Grapefruit, lemons, limes. Brie, drained cheese, fresh yogurt, fruit smoothie, pasteurized milk, provolone, slightly aged whey, Swiss cheese, yogurt drinks.

Slightly acidifying Foods: Apples, figs, mangos, peaches, pears, pineapples, prunes, dates. Blueberries, cantaloupe, cranberries, gooseberries, grapes, kiwis, melons, mulberries, nectarines, oranges, papayas, plums, raspberries, red currants, strawberries, sweet cherries, tangerines. Barley, brown rice, granola, millet, oatmeal, oats, quinoa, rye, spelt, whole-grain crackers, whole-grain pasta, whole-grain bread without yeast, whole-grain cereals. Brown rice syrup, fructose, heat pressed vegetable oils, honey, maple syrup, pickles, raw cane sugar, vinegar. Bass, flounder, liver, oysters, pike, salmon, sole, trout, walleye.

Acidifying foods: Cakes, cookies, couscous, dark bread, commercial cereals, crackers white flour, pasta white flour, pies, semolina, sweetened granola, wheat, white bread, white rice, yeast bread. Aged brie, aged buttermilk, aged cheese, aged whey, aged yogurt, chocolate milk, cooked butter, cream, dextrogyre yogurt, ultra pasteurized milk, kefir, parmesan cheese, sweetened yogurt with fruit. Chicken, catfish, egg yolk, halibut, mahi mahi, mussels, organ meats, tuna, turkey Artificial sweeteners, brown sugar, processed foods, canned foods, capers, heated oils, hydrogenated oils, ketchup, lard, margarines, mayonnaises, molasses, mushrooms, mustard, pickles, pimentos, white sugar. Beer, black tea, soda pop all kinds, cocoa, commercial juices, commercial lemonade, hot chocolate, liquor, sodas, wine.

Very acidifying foods: Beef, carp, cold cuts, crab, herring, lamb, lobster, mackerel, pork, shrimp, veal, whole eggs, coffee (worst). Acidity of drinks: One expert says all soda pop soft drinks are bad for your health. Beer is very bad because it has yeast and likely fungi from grain. Coffee is twice as bad as soft drinks and coffee with sugar is three times as bad. All alcoholic drinks are acidic. If you feel you must have coffee, you should know that it makes your body much more acidic. The coffee lobby states coffee is not detrimental to your health. You have to make your own decisions on that. Your body does not want or need any of the above. When you drink these beverages, you are mainly doing so to satisfy your taste buds. Water is best for your body. Herbal teas or green teas are a good second choice and have medicinal benefits as well.

Note: Some foods are both slightly acidic and slightly alkaline. This is the reason why they may be listed under both acidic or alkaline headings. Dry red wine may be one of these cases and dry white wine is considered more acidic. One glass of wine or one sweet snack will not spoil your overall pH target as long as it is small and not consumed in excess.

Condiments and spices are not categorized, because you are taking small amounts. Apple cider vinegar is slightly alkaline, balsamic vinegar is more acidic and white vinegar very acidic. Maple syrup and honey are slightly alkaline. Stay away from sweeteners other than Stevia which is a natural sweetener (low calories). It is most important not to consume sugar or artificial sweetners.

Prevention No. 2:
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