pH Balance and Acidity:  Most of what we drink and eat in the normal American diet is making our bodies into an acidic environment which makes cancer cells grow at the fastest rate imaginable, not to mention tanking our immune systems. Your partner may be squealing at your possible acidic breathe while kissing you, or you might experience heart burn pain (GERD) if it gets bad enough. Coffee, alcohol, animal products, processed sugar, etc….makes us acidic, and is not good for us even though marketing may try to spin it another way.

Your body is able to assimilate minerals and nutrients properly only when its pH is balanced. It is therefore possible for you to be taking healthy nutrients and yet be unable to absorb or use them. Most people who suffer from unbalanced pH are acidic. This condition forces the body to borrow minerals—including calcium, sodium, potassium and magnesium—from vital organs and bones to buffer (neutralize) the acid and safely remove it from the body. Because of this strain, the body can suffer severe and prolonged damage due to high acidity—a condition that may go undetected for years. Even if you just did a pH test and it showed normal, chances are that your body has already pulled the calcium from the bones to neutralize. Unless, you are eating a ton of neutralizing foods in the charts below.

Mild acidosis can cause such problems as:

• Cardiovascular damage, including the constriction of blood vessels and the reduction of oxygen.
• Weight gain, obesity and diabetes.
• Bladder and kidney conditions, including kidney stones.
• Immune deficiency.
• Acceleration of free radical damage, possibly contributing to cancerous mutations.
• Hormone concerns.
• Premature aging.
• Osteoporosis; weak, brittle bones, hip fractures and bone spurs.
• Joint pain, aching muscles and lactic acid buildup.
• Low energy and chronic fatigue.
• Slow digestion and elimination.
• Yeast/fungal overgrowth.

What Causes Us to be Acidic?

What you eat directly causes our body to be alkaline forming or acidic. 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, Equal, or aspartame, which are 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. The overall pH of the body and blood normally must be maintained within a narrow range of alkalinity pH 7.30 - 7.45.

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Every animal product (whether organic or not) you consume over time makes you acidic and lines your internal organs with plaque slowly. The animal fat we consume gets stuck in our blood and forms internal clots eventually too.  

How Acidity is Effecting You

Ever wonder how your body naturally combats acidity? The number one way for our bodies to neutralize acidity is by leeching calcium from our bones or by us eating alkalizing foods. The countries with the most animal product intake have the highest rates of osteoporosis. An increase in acidity in the body can also lead to increased body fat, reduced levels of humane growth hormone, kidney stones, and loss of muscle. When we increase acidity we decrease cellular health making our immune systems weak. Research shows that cancers can't develop in an alkaline environment-that alone is a pretty compelling reason to take control of your pH.  

Raw green veggies are one of the best foods for making our bodies more alkaline. Alkaline-forming food choices that will help you achieve your optimal pH are listed below; you will notice that some of these foods are naturally acidic—citrus fruits, for example. " Alkalizing" here refers to the effect the foods have once digested (not the pH level outside the body

                                       Alkalizing Foods

Acidic Foods

This is just a sample and not a complete list