we will be paying the price with degenerative diseases such as cancer, arthritis, hypertension, and heart disease occurring at an early age, which is already happening. America spends more on health care than any other country in the world, but we are becoming sicker and sicker."
from Vaughn's Health Blog
[also see Hydrochloric Acid Deficiency. Not enough HCl can cause acidosis!]
is where's the kitchen sink? But actually it all makes sense once you read about it. We have lousy diets in this country. We don't eat as many vegetables as our grandparents did. Dinner with them wasn't "Are we having potatoes for dinner?" It was "How are you fixing the potatoes tonight?" Meat portions were small. Lots of gravy to stretch the meat. Mashed potatoes (not instant) and gravy was a staple food. And they always ate lots of other vegetables. "Soda pop" was a rare treat. It came in 8-oz bottles. It would never have occurred to us to ask for a second bottle of it. They usually drank "gunpowder" tea which is alkaline to the body.
*Chilblains is a painful inflammation of small blood vessels in your skin responding to sudden warming from cold temperatures. Also known as pernio, chilblains can cause itching, red patches, swelling and blistering on extremities, such as on your toes, fingers, ears and nose.
http://www.rense.com/1.mpicons/acidalka.htm
are among the most acidifying substances found in the supermarket. Researcher Sang Whang, author of the book Reverse Aging, has found that to neutralize the acidifying effects of one glass of soda, the average person needs to drink thirty-two glasses of highly alkaline water!"
from The Acid Alkaline Food Guide by Dr. Susan E. Brown and Larry Trivieri, Jr.
Sometimes a person might have a pain in their back, arm or leg just go away because of the water and salt. [Use high quality natural salt not supermarket salt!-bfg] It gets into the blood in just a few minutes and will neutralize the acidic tissue when tissue becomes too acidic from lack of water and salt. It gives us a pain signal telling us to drink some water and take a little salt.
pH is a measure of hydrogen ions (atoms) The more H+ in a liquid, the more 'acidic' The more OH-, the more alkaline. Acid and alkaline can be thought of electrically as ions of Hydrogen carrying either a positive or negative charge of electricity. All chemical processes in your body are begun and completed when the correct electrical charge is found to match the electrical charge of another atom. Nothing happens without electricity. Electricity and chemistry, therefore, are the same in the body.
http://www.ionizers.org/alkaline-water.html
...ionized magnesium glycinate, magnesium ascorbate, and magnesium citrate...green vegetable drinks... ...it is wise to avoid products that contain bicarbonate sources such as potassium bicarbonate or sodium bicarbonate (baking soda, which alkalize through the direct contribution of bicarbonate. Because the bicarbonate neutralizes hydrochloric acid (HCl), these supplements compromise digestion and reduce mineral absorption. [My use of baking soda is adding it to acidic water to bring it up to 7.0 before drinking it. The chemical reaction occurs in the water. So I don't think it would neutralize HCl as she says here. I find that it is recommended that you take the baking soda separate from eating. When I use it, I put it in orange juice. Kinda makes it like drinking orange soda, not bad at all! - bfg]
from The Acid Alkaline Food Guide by Dr. Susan E. Brown and Larry Trivieri, Jr.
because of acidic foods, drinks, pollution, lifestyle, stress ... almost everything is acidifying including watching the news at six. "We are told we need to alkalize, but what does that really mean? Many of us think that acidic water is just water with lots of acidic minerals in it, and alkaline water is water with lots of alkaline minerals in it - calcium, magnesium, potassium etc. But you can have acidic water with both acid and alkaline minerals in it; just more acids than alkalis, so it's not quite as simple as you may have thought." - [Read this site for an easy to understand explanation of acid/alkaline balance in the body! (and fun to read, too) - bfg]
http://www.ionizers.org/alkaline-water.html
If you have a blood pressure problem related to sodium the potassium keeps the sodium from building up and causing the blood pressure problem. Alka-Seltzer Gold is a great thing to have around. Remember, plop, plop, fizz, fizz, O what a relief it is. There are several different types of Alka-Seltzer, but Gold is the only one you want.
http://earthclinic.com/Remedies/alkalizing_formulas.html