There has been much research on the mystery of weight gain. While numerous questions have been answered, just as many and varied are the regimens recommended to ensure one of the most elusive of health goals—weight loss.
In the book “The pH Miracle for Weight Loss” by Robert O. Young, Ph.D. and Shelley Redford Young, one eye-opener of a statement challenges your mind-set: Weight loss is not really about counting calories, or fat and carbohydrate restriction; it’s about your state of acidity. And here is a promise with a simple formula—whether your goal is 10 pounds, 20 or 40, all you need to do is multiply that number by 2 and that’s how long will it take you to hit your target!
Assuming your slimming plan is 10 pounds, it will take you just 20 days to become 10 pounds lighter. But first there is one requirement—embrace a lifestyle plan to keep your acid in control.
The target is simple: Drink 1 liter of alkaline water for every 30 pounds of body weight. So if you are 150 pounds, you need to drink 5 liters of alkaline water daily. If you follow the program, then you will drop the extra pounds.
Science
Why and how does it work? Amazing as it may seem, here is the science behind it. The human body protects itself from the overproduction of acids by retaining fat. Whatever you eat and drink after nutrient assimilation is discarded by the body through your bowel movement, perspiration and urinary tract. Any excess acid becomes like a meat tenderizer to your cells—it breaks the cell down.
Now pay attention. When there is cell breakdown, the brain receives alarm signals, thus ordering the body to go into self-preservation mode. The result is that the body uses existing body fat and wraps itself with it.
The fat all plastic surgeons remove from the body through liposuction is colored brown. Lab reports establish the medical fact that brown-colored fat is full of acid.
While it is good news to see that the body is doing its job, in the long run, the bad news is that a chronic condition of acidity may be the cause of a lot of health problems. Over-acidification introduces a host of health challenges from overweight to illness.
What happens? Too much acidity robs the blood of oxygen and without enough oxygen, metabolism slows down.
Fermentation
Digestion is affected by this slowing down, giving more time for fermentation to happen.
- Fermentation creates fungus, yeast and molds.
- Cell damage occurs because yeast, fungus and molds are living organisms that need to feed on the nutrients of the food you consume. And when they eat, they also need to unload their waste. These wastes are called exotoxins and mycotoxins. If you find yourself heavier than your usual weight, according to this mind-blowing book, you are not overweight, you are over-acidic!
- Harmful microorganisms are all the “bad” microorganisms (including parasites) living in your body that thrive in an acidic environment.
Underweight people have the same problem as those who are overweight. It is the same source: the presence of microorganisms that are harmful to one’s health. The underweight have congestion of mucus and undigested proteins in the gut.
Increase your alkalinity in order to decrease your acidity. There is a 14-point scale for pH (the negative log of hydrogen ion concentration):
1 = acidic
7 = neutral
Below 7 = acidic
Above 7 = alkaline
14 = very alkaline
The normal blood pH is 7.3 to 7.45. This is according to mainstream medicine. But Dr. Young maintains that it should be slightly higher than the norm (www.pH MiracleLiving.com/bookbonus).
Prescription for life: Stay healthy, maintain a balanced pH.
- Eat alkaline food—fresh, uncooked vegetables and fruits are alkaline.
- Eat healthy—if you have to cook your food, then do so through this healthy cooking guide: according to the order of preserving nutrients, steam, boil, sauté. Frying and grilling will compromise the live enzymes in natural foods.
- Drink healthy—go for vegetable juices and drinks. Mind the sugar, please.
Health trivia: Your body loses two to three liters of water daily through the process of normal activities such as breathing, sleeping, walking.
This week’s affirmation: “I eat and drink healthy to live.”
Love and light!
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