Your Body Is Too Acidic: How To Alkalize Your Body Using Lemon Juice and Apple Cider Vinegar

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Diet conscious like the mainstream populace, are now getting the message that wise dietary fat choices offer essential fatty acids, blood lipid management, maintained endocrine and immune function, inflammation control, metabolic effects and even potential body composition and performance benefits.

Have you ever thought that some type of diet triggers acidity? So, the question is should you worry about the acidity of your diet?

Is the ticket to good health and disease prevention an “alkaline” diet? Proponents of this type of diet claim that so-called “acid-forming” foods can contribute to everything from osteoporosis to heart disease to cancer.

Your body maintains the pH of your blood within a very narrow range (7.35-7.45 on a scale of 1-14, with a pH of less than 7 being acidic).

This is crucial, because a large fluctuation in pH would make your body stop working. Your lungs and kidneys work together to maintain tight pH control, counteracting the acid load you get from food and from the waste products of normal metabolic processes.

An acid-forming diet does not literally make your body full of acid, and acidic foods like lemons are not necessarily acid forming. Rather, foods are classified as acidic or alkaline depending on the minerals they release into your urine.

Potentially acidic foods include many protein foods (meat, fish, shellfish, poultry, eggs, cheese, peanuts), grains, certain fats (bacon, nuts and seeds), coffee and alcohol. Potentially alkaline foods tend to be rich in potassium and magnesium.

They include vegetables, fruit, lentils, spices and herbs, molasses, brown sugar and cocoa powder. Neutral foods include butter, oils, milk, corn, white sugar, honey, water and tea.

Research from several decades ago indicating that cancer cells thrive in an acidic environment has also been overridden by more recent discoveries that cancer cells likely create that acidic environment themselves.

Noble prize Winner Dr. Otto H Warburg , who discovered the real cause of cancer, has found that the root cause of cancer is oxygen deficiency.

Oxygen deficiency leads to an acidic state in the human body. Dr. Warburg also found that cancer cells are anaerobic (do not breathe oxygen) and cannot survive in the presence of high levels of oxygen, as found in an alkaline state.

“All normal cells have an absolute requirement for oxygen, but cancer cells can live without oxygen – a rule without exception. “Deprive a cell 35% of its oxygen for 48 hours and it may become cancerous.”

Fortunately, there is drink that will be a great help to maintain the pH balance of your body optimizing your health:

Ingredients:

-2 Tablespoons Fresh Lemon Juice or Organic Apple Cider Vinegar
-⅓ Teaspoons Baking Soda
-8 ounces water

Directions:

Simply mix everything together. The acid/base combination will immediately begin to fizz. Keep adding baking soda until the fizz stops and then fill the glass with 8 oz. water.

Drink all at once. This home remedy will help neutralize the pH and create an alkaline-forming environment in your body. It will help with stomach acid and reduce acidosis.

The bottom line is that while a diet rich in vegetables and fruits has been shown to have health benefits, it may be for reasons that have nothing to do with the alkaline nature if these foods. Rather than obsessing over an acid-alkaline food chart, simply eat a diet rich in plant foods, along with adequate protein. Also, drink plenty of water (special alkaline water not necessary), as dehydration may be acid forming, too.