Gary Halbert · whole document (135)
Legally Blind
Listen closely:
Your body is 70% water.
In fact, you have about 10 gallons of water in your body.
Whether you know it or not, there are a number of acids
floating in this water. These include cholesterol, uric
acid and ascetic acid. If there are too many acids, your
body becomes acidic. The opposite of acidic is called
alkaline.
Scientists measure acidity
and alkalinity on the pH Scale. It ranges from 1 to 14.
Anything below 7 is acidic and, the lower the number the
more acidic it is. Anything above 7 is alkaline and, the
higher the number the more alkaline it is. And in order
for you to be healthy and energized, the pH of your blood
should be 7.365 which, is slightly alkaline.
But there is a problem:
95% Of All Food Sold In The
Supermarket Is Acid Forming!
It's true. Meats, eggs,
bread, cheese, coffee, chocolate, sugar, rice, milk, cereal,
cookies, crackers and many other foods create acids in
our body. More so, the foods we eat are so acid forming
that most people have 'acid overload.' This makes it very
difficult for our body to remain alkaline as it needs
to be.
What does this mean? Well,
acid overload causes our blood cells to clump together.
This makes it hard for them to travel to all the tiny
capillaries in our body and deliver oxygen to our cells.
But our cells need oxygen for energy. And simply put,
by not getting enough oxygen we have less energy! With
less oxygen our cells have to work a lot harder which
makes us tired and drains our energy. This is the most
unknown yet... the major reason we are so tired and have
little energy!
Aren't there foods that
are not acidic? Sure. For the most part they are fruits,
vegetables, and a few nuts and grains. But only eating
fruits and vegetables for the rest of your life is not
the solution.