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Our body tries to get rid of acidic residue left by acid forming foods through urine, sweat, and exhaled breath. However, our kidneys, skin, and lungs can only cope with so much. They often become exhausted and cannot break down all the wastes from acid-forming foods, drinks and stimulants. When this happens, what can’t be processed has to be stored somewhere in the body. In order to live healthily, our blood and cells must always remain slightly alkaline. So the body, always pursuing survival, changes leftover acidic wastes into solid wastes and stores them in forms such as LDL cholesterol (the harmful cholesterol that can buildup on artery walls); Adipose tissue (aka fat) and Uric acid (responsible for gout, kidney stones, and gallstones).

More on how to maintain a proper PH balance to come, but I just wanted to dispel one myth. There is a common assumption that lemon and limes are very acidic, but what tastes acidic doesn’t necessarily stay acidic during digestion. It is what happens after we eat and drink that counts. “Acidic” limes or lemons actually produce an alkaline residue in our bodies-the opposite of what we would expect. Likewise meat doesn’t taste acidic at all , but it leaves a very acidic residue in our bodies after digestion, so like all animal products, meat is very acid forming.

Alkaline-forming foods are usually considered beneficial while acid-forming foods are seen as detrimental.  Because many acid-forming fruits and vegetables are effective cleansers of the body’s acid waists, they are classed as beneficial.  The juice of carrots and beets, with their high percentage of acid-forming sulphur and phosphorus, effectively cleans out the acid wastes from the liver, kidneys, and bladder.  The juice of cabbage, which is high in acid chlorine and sulphur, cleanses the acid wastes adhering to the mucous membranes of the stomach and intestinal tract.  Alkaline minerals are also effective cleansers.  Potassium, calcium, sodium, and magnesium reduce excess acidity in all the organs in the body.  Therefore we need to make a distinction between acids that are toxic and cause the body’s organs to degenerate and those that rid the body of acid wastes and, by doing so, prevent degenerative disease.

Kind of interesting…

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