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With every cup of coffee you drink, your body’s calcium balance-the difference between calcium intake and excretion-becomes negative. If you drink more than a couple of cups (not mugs!) of coffee a day, the calcium loss can be substantial, especially if you are absoring too little caclium in the first place.

And this isn’t limited to coffee, black tea, alcohol, fizzy drinks (including energy drinks and diet drinks, cows milk and water flavored with artificial sweeteners all lead to inbalances as well.

The following table summarizes the acidic level of different drinks:

Most Acid(Avoid)	Acid	Lowest Acid	Most alkaline	Alkaline	Lowest Alkaline	Neutral(Unlimited)
Coffee	Decaffeinated Coffee	Black tea	Fruit teas	Green Tea	Roobios tea	Water-preferably water or filtered-lemon or lime can be added.  Still water is the best choice.  Carbonated water can reduce the absorption of some minerals.
Alcohol	Tea with Milk/sugar	Earl Grey	Homemeade fruit Juice	Herbal tea, fenel, chamomile, pepermint	Ginger tea with added lemon
Store bought Juice	Weak Coffee	Most Super Market Teas	Aqua Libra
Cows Milk	Sprizters	Soy Milk
Cranberry Juice	Store bought Juice diluted with water 50%	Nut Milks
Water flavoured with Artificial sweeteners		Butter Milks
Hot chocolate

And unfortunatley these acidic beverages do not count towards your daily water intake either as they actually encourage your body to eliminate fluids.  Even though they are liquid and contain water, they dehydrate the body rather than effectively providing the cells with the fluid they need.

However by increasing your water intake will dilute the acid from the acid-forming drinks that you do consume.

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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.

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Food intolerance testing can be performed to establish current sensitivities, although it must be remembered that this can change! Food intolerances can manifest through overconsumption, (i.e. we eat too much of one thing and the body reaches it’s tolerance level). They can also be the result of toxicity and overloaded elimination channels! i.e. when the drains are filled to capacity, the pollutants remain in the blood and then it is a case of the straw that breaks the camel’s back! Therefore intolerances and allergies often indicate the need to moderate one’s diet and detoxify!

Testing for food intolerance is quick easy and results are available immediately.

An intolerant food aggravates the immune system’s mast cells in the gut’s mucous membrane, causing the gut to leak. Particles of partially digested food can then pass into the blood stream setting up a chain reaction.

This gives rise to symptoms such as migraine, excessive weight and arthritis.

The onset of food intolerance is often insidious and thought to be the result of normal absorption failing to take place.

The food’s which cause subtle but adverse reactions may slowly build up in number and severity.

Symptoms are usually multiple, not consistent and may be affected by the sufferer’s general state of health.

They may take hours or even days to appear and include anxiety, mouth ulcers, aching joints and muscles, fatigue, headaches/migraine, sinus and mucus problems, digestive disturbances (indigestion, discomfort, bloating, gas, etc.), hyperactivity and weight gain, etc.

The most common food intolerances are wheat and dairy products, citrus fruits, nightshade family of foods and stimulants (coffee, sugar, chocolate, etc.).

Has anyone had it done before and did they find it useful?