The most common reason for unwanted weight and all disease

What if I told you there was one root cause of all unwanted weight and all disease?

Does that sound unbelievable?


And yet that's the power of Alkalinity - the power to produce profound health and age-defying effects in the body, or the power to make us vulnerable to even the slightest attack by microorganisms and bring about premature aging at an alarming rate.

What is Alkalinity? It's a measure of the body's balance on the pH scale.

The pH scale measures how acidic or alkaline something is. It ranges from 0-14, where 0 is pure acid and able to melt through steel, and 14 is purely alkaline. Pure water is right in the middle at a neutral 7.

So what is a healthy level of alkalinity? The body needs to be slightly alkaline on the pH scale to be at optimum health. To be precise, it needs to be at 7.36. This point on the pH scale is essential for survival. It's what produces the electric charge within the body and allows oxygen to flow through the systems. It's so essential that if the body becomes acidized enough to go to even point 7 on the scale, you will lapse into a coma and die.

Every point up or down the pH scale is ten times as acidic or alkaline as the point preceding it. That means that moving from 7 to 8 on the pH scale means becoming ten times more alkaline, while moving from 7 to 5 means becoming 100 times more acidic. When put in those terms, it's easy to see why slight shifts on the pH scale produce such powerful effects on our health.

What happens when the body turns too acid? It first tries to rid itself of the acid through the waste processes. To do this, it reaches for its alkaline stores. That means borrowing minerals from the vital organs and bones of the body to buffer the acid and get it out of the body as fast as possible, even if this means profound injury to bone density, kidney health, and liver function. Why? Because the body knows that it can overload these organs and at least be around to try and repair the damage later. But if it doesn't protect itself from the acid, it will be eaten alive.


But what happens when the body becomes so acid that it can't rid itself of the acid waste? The body goes into panic mode and starts sandbagging against the flood of acid. It literally starts building up walls where the acid can be stored or guarded against. What are the body's sandbags? Fatty deposits. Adipose tissue.

The body builds up these fatty deposits and dumps the acid into them as far away from the vital organs as possible. What areas are easy for the body to build fat stores and as far away from the vital organs as the body can find?All the areas people complain about becoming fat! The thighs, the buttocks, and the belly.

The number one reason for obesity is that the body has become so acidified that it's clearly told to start storing fat to protect itself from acid and breakdown.

When the body becomes too acid, the bones and vital organs start breaking down. When the bones and the body's organs break down, what do you think will be the next thing that suffers? The immune system.

As the body becomes more acid, its immunity becomes quickly compromised, and that swings the door wide open for disease to waltz into the body.

The connection between acidity and disease is not a new one. As far back as 1933, Dr. William Howard Hay published an ahead-of-its time book that demonstrated all disease was the result of the body's immune system becoming compromised by excess acid in the body. He wrote, "It may seem strange to say that all disease is the same thing, no matter what its myriad modes of expression, but it is verily so."

Where the body may be on the pH scale is directly proportional to how much energy we have and how quickly we appear to age. Why? Oxygen.

An environment rich in alkaline properties is by nature very oxygen rich. An acid environment by nature is oxygen deprived. What effect does that have on the body?

Let's start with the blood. Acid coagulates the blood. It thickens the blood cells and clogs them up until there's a veritable traffic jam of sluggish cells slowly trudging through the body.

This means the skin gets deprived of blood and oxygen, plus it gets attacked by acid, which results in the skin losing elasticity and wrinkling.

Facelifts and lipsuctions can fight the rising tide, but unless the body becomes less acid and more alkaline, the skin is on a sinking ship.

So how can you become more alkaline? You must change the fundamental makeup of your diet and your emotions.

Let's start with diet.

According to Sang Wang, author of "Reverse Aging", the only difference between "good food" and "bad food" is that "good food" will have less acid waste in the body and a more alkalizing result. What does that mean? It means that your pH balance depends on what's left after metabolism. That's why something like lemon juice, which would seem to be acidifying as it contains "citric acid", actually has an alkalizing effect on the body.

Take another example of two commonly consumed liquids and the effects they have on the body's alkalinity. Pure water is neutral, or 7, on the pH scale. Carbonated drinks like Coke, whose primary ingredient is phosphoric acid, has a pH of 2.5. That's almost 50,000 times as acidic as neutral water, which means the body needs 32 times that amount of neutral water to counteract the consumption of Coke.

This affects not just the makeup up the body and the nutrients it already contains, but also the food we consume after the fact.

When the body becomes acidified, it also prevents us from absorbing the nutrients we may have started supplementing our diet with. Each mineral has its own pH level at which it can be assimilated by the body. All the minerals our bodies have become deficient in, especially those we've started supplementing our diet with, are already being rejected and excreted simply because our bodies are too acid to absorb them.


Along with our diet, there's another primary producer of acid in our bodies: our emotions. When we go through emotional turmoil - anger, disappointment, frustration, fear - the stress creates enormous amounts of acid in the body.


So look at our previous example of crash dieters. Again, what happens after most people diet? They usually put the weight back on... and usually they gain even more weight! Along with the effects of starving the body, the stressful emotional environment they've created may have produced so much acid in the body that their tissues and organs have gone into panic mode and started storing fatty deposits to protect themselves. So along with having prompted the body to store everything they eat by entering "famine mode", they've also acidized the body and demanded it protect itself by building fatty deposits.

So you can get started alkalizing your diet and your emotions, take a look below at a short list of acidifying and alkalizing foods and emotions.

Acidifying foods

* beef, carp, clam, pork, salmon, shrimp, turkey
* bread, corn, flour, rice, wheat
* cashews, peanuts, walnuts
* black beans, chick peas, lima beans, soy milk
* cheese, milk, butter
* beer, liquor, spirits, wine
* blueberries, cranberries, olives

Acidifying emotions

* Anger
* Fear
* Frustration
* Disappointment
* Hate
* Overwhelm
* Revenge

Alkalizing foods

* asparagus, broccoli, cucumber, lettuce, peas, pumpkin, wheatgrass
* apples, apricots, avocados, bananas, oranges, lemons, peaches, pears
* daikon, shitake, kombu, reishi, nori
* almonds, chicken breasts, eggs, flax seeds, yogurt
* chili pepper, cinnamon, curry, ginger, miso, sea salt

Alkalizing emotions

* Affection
* Compassion
* Courage
* Enthusiasm
* Excitement
* Generosity
* Happiness
* Love
* Joy
* Patience
* Understanding