Answer Yes or No to the following:
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Raw fruits and vegetables are alkaline – yes?
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Meat and milk are acid – yes?
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Eat 80% alkaline foods – yes?
If you answered Yes to any one, you are wrong!
Acid And
Alkaline Foods
For more than a century scientists have tested a food for its alkaline
or acid content by burning that food down to its ashes, its inorganic minerals.
Minerals are teeny rocks, all that’s left after a fire, which we see as
ash. They pour these ashes into pure water and test the solution to see
if the ashes are more acid, or alkaline.
Some minerals are alkaline, like sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium,
iron and silicon. Others are acid, such as sulfur, phosphorus, chlorine
and iodine. So if a food has more acid minerals, its ash will test acidic,
and a food chart will list that food as "acid."
If a food has more alkaline minerals – like raw fruits and vegetables
– we used to believe its alkaline-forming, that it leaves more alkaline
minerals in our blood after digestion. Same for acid foods such as meat
and milk, we thought they left an acid ash in our blood.
Do You
Have a Fire Inside You?
Just one error here, everyone assumed our digestive systems are burning
food down or oxidizing it perfectly, one hundred percent. That when our
digestive and energy systems are finished with a food, there’s nothing
but ashes (minerals) left.
For most of us, that’s simply not true. We don’t have little fires inside
us! We have metabolic pathways where a gazillion things are gawky. That’s
“clumsy and bumbling along.”
First we gulp our food and don’t chew it to a liquid – drink your food
and chew your drinks! From there it’s an endless sea of problems right
through our digestive tract, such as low HCL (hydrochloric acid) in our
stomach after age 40, or collapsed intestinal villi from a lifetime of
grains – collapsed villi can’t absorb food, so perfectly good food passes
on to your colon and out into the toilet.
Sang Whang writes in Reverse Aging © 2001:
“Many diet books contain tables with acid forming foods and alkaline
forming foods.”
“The big assumption made here is that the food will be completely oxidized
(metabolized) by the cells; therefore, the acidity or alkalinity of the
food residue (ash) is exclusively determined by these inorganic minerals.”
“Unfortunately, 97% of
all foods (the organic elements of carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen)
do not burn completely and they leave organic acidic waste products.”
“For this reason, even if you eat nothing but alkaline forming foods,
your urine will be acidic and so will your perspiration.”
What’s
Your Dominant Metabolic System?
For argument’s sake, let’s say we DO digest our food perfectly, then are
raw fruits and vegetables alkaline? Meat and milk acid?
Nope, wrong again. Dr. Gabriel Cousens at the Tree of Life Rejuvenation
Center in Arizona is proving that some people can eat raw foods and have
excess acid in their blood afterwards. He tests how alkaline or acid his
patient’s blood is after a meal (measures the change in their blood pH).
He reports in his book Conscious Eating © 2000:
“The blood pH tests are totally
different than what is taught in medical schools and in most of the naturopathic
literature ... The research shows that food behaves differently in people
... it is the dominant metabolic
system of that person which determines whether a nutrient will react in
an acid or alkaline way in the body.”
What is a metabolic system? It is the organ and pathways that take care
of a specific function, e.g. our heart and circulatory system, our
lungs and pulmonary system.
Our Oxidative System is in every little cell. It plucks atoms from the
food we eat, to make molecules of energy called ATP. |
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