Make Your Body Function For You

By Samantha Terry


You have found, in this short piece of writing, the answer to better living through how we eat and how we live. It is too easy to get lost among the latest and greatest diets, and to pick out the facts from the fiction.

As our world has become more industrial, so our air and foods/drinks have become more polluted. This pollution resides within us as toxins that we cannot be rid of by continuing to eat and live as we have before. By changing the way we eat, and how we perceive our nutrition, we can make our body into an unparalleled toxin fighter.

Appropriate Ph levels are essential for every living thing on this planet. People require a Ph level of around 7.4, but few actually manage this by eating as our society has become accustomed. Few people would point to an imbalance in your body's acid levels as a threat, or cause for alarm. It isn't until you begin to realize that by keeping our body off balance, we are no longer able to heal from the simple stressors we are exposed to every day. Little aches and pains turn into longer lasting and more chronic pains, diseases breed in a rich environment of an unhealthy body, weight gain occurs, kidney stones form, and our blood pressure and cholesterol levels skyrocket. This is where the alkaline diet comes in, at a point in our lives when we cannot put off our own health any longer, and delivers the results we need to fix the damage to ourselves, and watch as living the alkaline way reverses potentially mortal diseases.

We cannot take the pollutants from the air or water, but we can negate the effects of ingesting things that have had the pollutants leached into them by not eating those things. If we recognize where our toxins are coming from, we can better prepare ourselves for what to avoid.

One person is not enough to try to remove all the pollutants from the air or water, but we can effectively halt the effects of ingesting things that have absorbed the pollutants by not eating those things. If we realize and learn where our toxins are coming from, we can begin making lists of foods that are safe.

Benefits from eating alkalizing foods instead include the retention of muscle mass as we age, due to the high potassium level in fruits and vegetables, and a reduced acid load. It has also been shown to improve growth hormones, which improves our quality of life by reducing cardiovascular risk factors, and helping memory and cognition. People who suffer chronic low back pain who have switched to an alkaline diet have increased their intracellular magnesium resulting in the proper function of enzymes and activation of vitamin D, which in turn, removes the pain.




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