From Acidic to Alkanlity, the Key to Optimal Health and Long Life

What a claim!

How can I possibly know with any certainty the condition of your cellular environment? I don't know you! You are right to demand proof. When I provide the factual information and when you research for yourself, then let's do something about what's wrong with most Americans today!

Consider the facts!

According to a report from the US Department of Health and Human Services: "Overweight and obesity in children are significant public health problems in the United States. The number of adolescents who are overweight has tripled since 1980 and the prevalence among younger children has more than doubled . . .Being overweight during childhood and adolescence increases the risk of developing high cholesterol, hypertension, respiratory ailments, orthopedic problems, depression and type 2 diabetes as a youth . . . Obesity disproportionately affects certain minority youth propulations . . .African American and Mexican American adolescents ages 12-19 were more likely to be overweight, at 21 percent and 23 percent respectively, than non-Hispanic white adolescents . . .Looking at the long-term consequences, overweight adolescents have a 70 percent chance of becoming overweight or obese adults, which increases to 80 percent if one or more parent is overweight or obese.

Let's face it, I could continue discussing the shocking statistics and the fatal facts until you became ill reading about how sick we are as a natio. At the risk of engaging in overkill, consider several bullet points:

• Heart Disease is the leading cause of death in the World . 1 in every 3 people in America have high blood pressure, which is a major risk factor for heart disease, stroke, congestive heart failure, and kidney failure. This is a silent killer, for the only symptom for some is to have a massive heart attack and drop dead.
  
• Cancer is a cellular disease and affects 1 in 4 Americans today. Cancer is also a silent killer, in fact millions are diagnosed every year with little or no symptoms.
  
  Okay, so much for the dismal facts. Two questions loom huge before us. Why are we a nation of some of the world's sickest people? What can we do about it?
  Why are so many of us so sick and know it? Our bodies are acidic. That means simply the ph levels in your body register less than seven on the potential hydrogen scale Being acidic also means that your blood does not transport oxygen efficiently. Being acidic means that you body works overtime, leaching minerals such as calcium and potassium from your bones so the body can keep you blood pH.at between 7.365 and 7.4. If your blood pH moves very far, in either direction, from that life-giving range, you die! With a ph level that is too high, you die. With a pH level that is too low,you die.

Unexpected deaths occur so frequently in our country, we have adjusted to the fact without asking any "why" questions. Multiple illnesses in older individuals seem so commonplace that we no longer question any difference between the concept of living a long time and aging. We believe they are synonymous. They are not! More on that, though, in a future article.

Here's why many of us drop dead for no apparent reason!

The average American's diet consists of 95% acidic foods and only 5% fresh fruits and vegetables. We are being deprived of the micro-nutrients that we need to survive. We drink too much coffee, tea, sodas, artificial juices, as well as alcoholic beverages. Yet we wonder why, after so much abuse, do our bodies break down and cease to function. I will explain more about these foods and beverages in my next article.

Meanwhile, though, understand what that fact means: "The cells of a healthy body are alkaline. The cells of a sick body are acidic," according to Dr. Arthur Guyton, in the Textbook of Human Physiology.

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