What does it all mean and why is it important for me to think about it?


People are very familiar with the term acidity, mainly due to ant-acid adverts on the television showing us how we can still eat the foods that we love as long as we have a handy pack of product in our handbags or kitchen cupboard.
The images they show us are of food and drinks that are all acid forming foods such as coffee, alcohol, rich meat based dinners and spicy foods but what is it about these foods that cause our stomachs to revolt!
Well, chemically speaking, nothing
A study from "Archives of internal medicine" May 2006, showed that none of these myths are true. The main causes of reflux is from eating too much food in a single sitting, drinking fluids with our food thereby watering down our stomach acid, (so the painful problem becomes one of not enough stomach acid for the breakdown of our protien meal but too little)and finally, of drinking beer and pop which can double stomach acid within an hour.

Healing by alkalising has less to do with your stomach than it has to do with your physical and mental wellbeing. Osteoporosis, Arthritis, Stones and Gout, Loss of stamina, Imune system weakness, Irritability, Insomnia and Pain are all much better indicators of an over acid body.

Foods that raise the acid value of the body are all high in the elements of sulfur, chloride, nitrogen and phosphorus.
Phosphorus for example combines with calcium to form bones and teeth, it is involved in metabolism and energy production via the B group vitamins so how could too much of this harm us?

Well phosporus is prevelent throughout the plant and animal kingdom so there is little chance of deficiency unless you live on ant-acids or have faulty kidneys so we are mainly looking at excessive intake. Using the recomended daily allowences as a guide(1200mg per day for growing kids 10-18), the average kid would have overshot their serving limit by having one 10g powder serve of milo(625mg of phosphorus),3g of vegimite (1080mg of phosphorus), on one slice of brown bread(160mg of phosphorus). That's a total of 1865mg of Phosphorus, not including the milk that the milo was stirred into.

Over a period of time this kind of intake not only causes a build up of acidic tissue but effects the operation of that tissue. Kidney function for example starts to decrease resulting in not just the formation of stones or diseases such as hypertension and cholesterol control problems, but further speeds the degeneration of the whole body by it being less able to excrete these acidifying complexes. We spiral down into diseases throughout the body, dental carries, skin erruptions and foot odour are easily identifiable conditions of this type of acid complex imbalance. Foot odour is almost entirely related to kidney function. Normalising renal chemistry will eliminate foot odour and all of the accompanying infections associated with sweaty feet.

Protein is particularly high in these elements and our consumption of protein as meat and dairy has risen dramatically, so too has our consumption of products like milo, pop and wheat bran and bread products.

This is one of the reasons taking a thorough case history is so important, just popping into a chemist for a chat with the the resident naturopath or other professional will never reveal this kind of underlying condtion and the most you can hope for will be a pot of symptomatic relief, but going in with the personal reccomendations in the healthee health report will enable the health professional to advise you on the most suitable product and brand for you to buy from them
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