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Three easy lifestyle changes that guarantee weight loss!

According to a scientific study, most of us take better care of our swimming pools than our bodies. I think that this usually arises due to a lack of education – or sometimes too much education, since in our modern society there are so many theories on how to properly nourish our bodies to achieve the ‘fastest weight loss’ or ‘lose three inches’ by the next week. Amidst these tales, it is refreshing to hear a healthy weight loss plan that does not require any drastic changes and yet is scientifically proven to encourage weight loss and healthy well-being. As Dr. Robert Young states: “We’re not overweight – we’re over-acid!”

The Creation of Fat Cells

Through countless bodily processes, the food we eat is broken down so that necessary nutrients can be extracted for growth and repair. All foods, when metabolized, also contain acidic or alkaline properties that affect the body. While alkaline, or “basic” foods help to oxygenate the body, excess acidity is a danger to vital internal organs. Fat cells are formed in order to carry detrimental acids away from the organs that keep us alive. However, by
alkalizing our systems, our bodies don’t need to form and hold on to this fat! We have all heard that successful weight loss is achieved by gradually making changes in one’s lifestyle rather than following a certain “fad diet”. Regulating the body’s pH level is certainly a way of life, and is a proven theory that has been around since the beginning of the 20th century, even though it has just recently begun to establish itself in many countries. While “alkalizing your body” may sounds daunting, there is actually no need for apprehension! The following three tips are basic in terms of both simplicity… and alkalinity!

1. Incorporate more alkaline foods into your diet.

The foods that are most effective in neutralizing internal acids are fruits and green, leafy vegetables. It is a common misconception that foods that taste sour must be acidic – lemons and limes, for example, are alkaline because the end-products extracted from them by the processes of digestion are basic. However, animal proteins such as chicken, pork and beef add acidity, as do sugars and processed carbohydrates such as white breads. As a general rule of thumb, your diet should ideally consist of a ratio of 3/4 basic foods to 1/4 acidic foods in order to keep one’s system at a consistent, non-acidic pH.

2. Drink alkaline water.

Our bodies consist of 75% water, so it is not surprising that good hydration is a key to maintaining a strong and healthy system.  However, most of us don’t usually give the water that we drink a second thought, and this has a drastic effect upon our health. As Dr. Robert Young states: “Our body is only as healthy as the water it is bathed in.” The fact is that drinks that are stables of many peoples’ diets tend to be acidic. It takes 32 glasses of alkaline water to neutralize the acid from one 12 oz. soda such as Coca-Cola, which has a pH of 2. Coffee is not much beter at a pH of 4. Even the tap water and filtered waters that we drink are usually acidic, so if we drink the recommended eight cups per day – how can we expect acidic water to adequately replenich our parches bodies? Water Ionizers can provide you with water at a basic pH that will literally wash away the fat cells parked on one’s hips, thighs, stomachs, and even brains! As easy to install and use as acommon water filter, they will make all the difference to your health and longterm weight loss goals.

3. Don’t over-exercise.

One of the reasons that exercise is so beneficial is that when we sweat, we eliminate acids from our bodies through perspiration. However, when we exercise excessively, lactic acid – a waste product of energy production – is produced, and if it is not properly whicked away by the bloodstream, it will remain within our bodies. One way of ensuring that we rid ourselves of these wastes is to cool down for at least five to eight minutes after each work out, or until the heart rate is back to normal. Otherwise, the length of your workout should be judged by your fitness level – start with however long is comfortable while keeping your heart rate up, and add to your original time as necessary – listen to your body!

Keeping yourself hydrated properly (with alkaline water) will also contribute greatly to your energy levels and reduce the amount of lactic acid in the bloodstream. Testimonials have shown that altering something as simple as the water that you drink, or adding more alkaline foods to your diet can result in weight loss of up to one pound per day. Losing weight requires nothing more than ‘basic’ knowledge balance.

In 1908 Alexis Carrel won a Nobel Prize for a research and experiment on a chicken heart.   He kept the chicken heart alive in alkaline mineral salt solution for 20yrs by changing the solution every 48 hours. It dies when he stopped changing the solution.   What we learn from Alexis’ work is that you can keep the body cells alive if you maintain the alkaline mineral salts daily.  The health of human cells that make up tissues and organs are only as healthy as the alkaline fluids in which they are bathed. The human cell cannot tolerate low alkalinity and can never tolerate ANY acid condition. The cell begins its biological transformation becoming bacteria in the first stage; then yeast in the second stage; then mold in the 3rd stage of transformation until the anatomical elements of the organized cell (microzymas) are released to become part of some other organized cell.

Dr Robert O Young, PhD in his blog, use the fish bowl metaphor to explain the health of our body cells. The question is this; “If the fish is sick what would you do, treat the fish or change the water?” The logical answer is, you would change the water. Why? Because the fish is only as healthy as the water it swims in. The fish is the human cell and the water is the fluids around the cell(s).  As the water goes “bad” and becomes more acidic because of the waste products and pollution, the fish become diseased and start dying prematurely (further adding to the acid problem).

Acidification process compromises your body’s functioning efficiency, raises your cells’ and organs’ vulnerability to infections and disease, and creates more energy drain as your body gets further and further behind in cleansing itself.

The ocean has a delicate pH balance of 8.3 and is maintain by alkaline mineral salts. Our internal fluids are like the ocean and are maintained by the same alkaline mineral salts – sodium, chloride, magnesium, potassium and calcium. At the present the ocean pH because of global warming has gone from 8.3 to 8.2. This huge decrease in the ocean pH has caused potential health risks to all sea life including the loss of the coral reefs. The same thing is happening to many of us with body warming, as dietary and/or metabolic acids are causing the loss of bone and muscle in order to maintain the delicate alkaline pH of the blood and tissues. The result is an array of health challanges from arthritis, osteoporosis to cancer all caused by the buildup from dietary and/or metabolic acid that the body could NOT manage!”

Green tea possesses a powerful antioxidant EGCG which inhibits the enzyme required for cancer cells growth. Alkaline water also contains antioxidant which helps to prevent free radical damage or oxidative stress to our body cells

Body acidity results in poor blood circulation. And most health problems are a result of poor blood circulation. In areas where your body stores acidic wastes that area will receive poor blood circulation. E.g. diabetes is caused by poor circulation in your …pancreas and gout/arthritis is due to solidified uric acid in bone joints.

As we age we lose bicarbonates (alkaline buffers) in our blood.  Hence older people are more acidic (accumulates more acidic wastes in their body).  Drinking alkaline water indirectly induces the stomach cells to produce more bicarbonates, results in slowing down the ageing process.