Rebecca

Worst Acidic Offenders:

• Alcohol
• Cigarettes
• Coffee
• Soft drinks
  
• Refined sugar (ice cream, chocolate, candy)
  
• Stress
• Artificial sweeteners
• White flour (bread, pastry, donuts, pasta)
  

Your body’s innate intelligence is to keep homeostasis or equilibrium. When you are acidic the body will steal minerals from organs and tissues to keep the blood alkaline and maintain homeostasis. Unfortunately this buffer system causes unknown strain and can go unnoticed for years. Osteoporosis is a prime example of this. Eating chocolate and drinking coffee and sodas makes you acidic, which causes minerals, that are alkaline, to be leached the from the bones in order to keep your blood pH balanced.

Mild Acidosis Causes:

• Joint pain, aching muscles and lactic acid buildup
• Cardiovascular damage
• Weight gain, obesity and diabetes
• Bladder and kidney conditions, including kidney stones
• Hormonal imbalances
  
• Premature aging
• Gout
  
• Osteoporosis; weak, brittle bones, hip fractures and bone spurs
• Low energy and chronic fatigue
• Slow digestion and elimination
• Yeast/fungal overgrowth

Severe Acidosis Causes:

• Autoimmune diseases
• Cancer

Suggestions To Keep You Balanced:

• 60% of your daily diet to consist of organic vegetables, especially dark leafy greens
• Green powder – NanoGreens (BioPharma Scientific), Vitamineral Green (Healthforce Nutritionals), or Miracle Greens (Macro Greens). Because soils are depleted and you need 5 times what my grandparents ate to obtain the same nutrient value everyone needs a green supplement as most will not get to the 60% daily intake of vegetables.

• Breathing exercises
• Filtered water