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July 2008

Do You Know Where Your Food Comes From?

Tonight, I looked at some frozen cooked shrimp that I bought at Wal-Mart and was shocked to see that it was processed in... INDIA!  What the heck are we doing importing food from India?  How do we know if India is following safe processing procedures?  Is the food inspected by the FDA before it arrives in the store?  The other day I noticed my Talipia was imported from China! Given the wheat gluten scare, lead paint etc, eating the Talipia scares me more than eating the shrimp.
Given the pet food scare several months ago, how can we know for sure that food processed outside the United States is safe?  Granted sometimes the food here in the United States has been recalled, but we have rules and laws in place to try and protect the food chain. 
If we must import food from out of the country it should be labeled on the front of the packaging if it is imported and the country it is imported from and put in the IMPORTED FOODS section so we the consumers know the food is imported. Maybe that would not be such a good idea since most of the foods that are sold to us would then be placed in the imported food isles. But at least we could decide for ourselves and our families on whether we wish to buy or try certain products. Next time you go shopping for food take a few extra minutes and see how many products you can find that are really made and processed in the United States. It might just shock you.
This is just a Word of Advice - Read Your Food Labels Carefully!!!  It is not only the ingredients you have to be wary of, but now where the products you buy is coming from!! Whatever happened to Made in America? Grown in America?  Let's just outsource everything including our food!  What is next?  Outsourcing our Bathroom Privileges?  Maybe we should go check to see where our toilet paper is coming from!

Suggestions to Alkalize Your Body and
Flush Out Harmful Acid Waste

In its natural state, the body is slightly alkaline. It must maintain this slightly alkaline state for your very survival, and has developed complex mechanisms to ensure that this balance is maintained. Most of us are natural alkaline producers in our early years. This is why many children can get away with eating an imbalanced diet and still be healthy and slender right up until they are in their twenties.
But as we reach our thirties and forties, the majority of us have become overly acidic. That's because nearly everything we are exposed to - foods, environmental toxins, even stress - contribute to an acidic condition in our bodies, and our natural buffer systems become less efficient over time at neutralizing that acid. We go from being in a more or less continuous alkaline state to having chronic excess acidity.

An imbalanced pH affects all cellular activity in the body. Having a balanced pH has the following benefits:
Normalizes insulin and body weight
Maintains proper cholesterol levels
Promotes proper electrolyte acitivity and efficient heart function
Normalizes blood pressure
Protects against premature aging
Promotes energy
Promotes bone health, digestive health, and healthy immunity
An imbalanced body pH can be at the root of many common symptoms such as constipation, digestive problems, heartburn, headaches, frequent colds, fatigue, and sleeplessness, just to mention a few.

Three Steps to Counteract Excess Acidity are;

1. Proper Diet
Generally speaking, as far as diet goes, most vegetables and fruits alkalize, as do whey, yogurt, soybeans, almonds, buckwheat, millet and quinoa. All meats are acidic, as are rice, pastas, cheeses, soft drinks, coffee, alcoholic beverages, condiments, and most sweeteners except raw, unpasteurized honey. Roughly 75 to 80 percent of your diet should consist of alkaline-producing foods. Making these changes in your diet will jump-start your health to whole new levels, as an alkaline body is more effective at warding off all kinds of infections and disease. Researchers now believe that chronic acidosis is a major contributing factor to insulin sensitivity problems that lead to diabetes, to the early.

2. The Importance of Drinking Good Water
Water is the driving force behind all forms of life. Our bodies are over 70 percent water and all of our body fluids contain it. Even the food we eat is predominantly made of water. Water adjusts the body's temperature and through urination and perspiration rids the body of toxins. Health authorities recommend that we drink at least 64 ounces (8 glasses) of water per day to attain proper hydration. Most of us are dehydrated and dehydration can lead to great physical impairment. Dehydration is especially prevalent among men and women over forty years of age. For the body to function properly, it is imperative that it be properly hydrated. Drinking enough water is one thing, but the other thing is the type of water we are drinking. Tap water is treated with many chemicals like chlorine and fluoride, which are toxins to the body. A lot of people these days drink bottled water which is often purified through reverse osmosis, or it is distilled, or it is spring water.
However, many of the bottled waters on the market we have tested were actually acidic, as is distilled water. This is because when the minerals are removed the water loses its alkalinity.

The best water to drink is alkalized or ionized water, which is produced by running normal tap water over a positive (anode) and a negative (cathode) electrode. This creates positive and negative ions in the water that are then separated, creating two different waters, one that is alkaline and one that is acidic. To ionize simply means to gain or lose an electron. Basically, the ionization process robs an electron from one molecule and donates or transfers it to another molecule. Alkaline and acid water, although very different, each has their benefits. Alkaline water is for flushing out internal toxins, scavenging free radicals, and oxygenating the body. Acid water, which is really a by-product of ionizing water, can be used externally for cleansing the skin, cleaning any surface and watering your plants. There are a number of water ionizers on the market that can divide your tap water into acid and alkaline water. The water ionizers were developed in Japan in the 1950's and they were approved by the Japanese Government as "health improvement medical devices".

3. Alkalizing Supplements
In addition to eating an alkaline diet and drinking alkaline water, alkalizing supplements are an easy and powerful way to rapidly alkalize the bloodstream and bring homeostasis back to the body. Also for those of you who would find a water ionizer simply too expensive, and sticking to a strict alkaline diet to difficult, there are a number of effective alternatives. One is adding alkalizing drops to ordinary tap water to make the water alkaline. Keep in mind that alkalizing drops only alkalize the water; they do not purify the water. There are many different products out on the market. Read and compare before buying the first thing you see. My family and I use Alkalive pH Booster you can buy this from pHion Nutrition. This company has a very good product and everything I have tried from them has been very helpful and easy to use.
When your pH level is a least 7.0, you "dump" toxins much more effectively! This allows tissues to be cleansed, and then healed naturally and more quickly by the body. You may notice some of the things listed below when using the alkalizing supplements and changing your diet.
Reduce acidic build-up and rebalance pH.
Remove acidic residues from your body.
Promote the cleansing and repair of tissues.
Replenish critical minerals leached during periods of acidity.

Work on your diet and drink good clean water it won’t be long until you too will be feeling more alive.

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