A
huge component of the Healthy & Active Program is all about keeping your
body’s pH in balance. The term pH stands
for the word “potent” and the H is the chemical symbol for hydrogen and how
hydrogen behaves in your body is absolutely essential to hyour health.
Your Body is More Alkaline
Than Acid
In
order for the body to remain healthy and alive, your body keeps a delicate and
precise balance of blood pH at 7.365, which is slightly alkaline. The body does
whatever it has to in order to maintain this balance, including making us
seriously ill in order to help us dispel the acid.
The
problem is that most people have what can only be described as incredibly acid
lifestyles. Acid is produced in your body whenever you have stress, upset
emotions and when the food you eat is acid forming. The acid is only
neutralized by alkaline substances. The
exces acid is stored in your fat cells and in order to try and control this
your body will leach calcium, an alkaline substance, from your bones in an attempt to stabilize
your overall pH level..
The
typical North American lifestyle diet is very acidic which puts a strain on all
of your systems and organs and causes a lot of disease.
The Goldfish In Dirty Water
Analogy
The
author, Dr. Robert O. Young who wrote The pH Miracle: Balance Your Diet. Reclaim Your Health and who is at the forefront of research on the effects
of the acid/alkaline balance in the human body, uses a “goldfish in the
aquarium” anaology to describe how Imbalanced blood pH ruins our health.
“Pretend you had a goldfish in a bowl, and one day you saw
the goldfish was beginning to look very unhealthy. You also notice that the
water is a little dirty.
Chances are it's the water that's making the fish unhealthy,
not the fish itself. When you change the water, the fish will get healthier.
The fact that the goldfish is unhealthy is actually a symptom of the unhealthy
environment. Not the problem. “[1]
Our bodies are more than seventy percent Water! And most of
the time because of our diets, emotions and lifestyles, the "water"
in our body is over-acidic, and to put it simply: toxic. Yet, even knowing
this, modern day establishment medicine puts much more attention on fighting
the symptoms, and not recognizing the root of the problem.
Acidity Is An Epidemic
It is a real challenge in
these hectic times to keep our bodies in the proper pH balance and the result
is that we often blow our metabolisms out so they do not function properly any
more. This does not happen over night but rather, over a period of years.
Our bodies produce acid
all of the time. During the digestion process (though to a lesser degree on an
alkaline diet), respiration, normal metabolism, and cellular break-down.
Before you even account
for what happens while you breathe, digestion and metabolism add enough acid to
your body to significantly affect its pH, potentially decreasing it by as much
as 2 points. That means that unless we help our bodies cope productively with
these acid by-products, and/or if we overwhelm the body's ability to do so by
piling on acidic food, drink, and behaviour, we are fated to be fat, sick and
tired.
This
is where a change in diet and lifestyle can be enormously helpful. It is
possible to reverse your pH from acidic to alkaline. For more information about
the Healthy & Active Program please visit our website atwww.healthy-active.com. You may also
call us in Toronto at (41) 440-2217 and ask for Adrienne Wright Bulow or Dr.
Michael Rahman or email us at adrienne@healthy-active.com.
[1] Sourced fom Robert O. Young,
Shelly Redford Young. The pH Miracle: Balance Your Diet, Reclaim Your Health.
Grand Central Life and Style. 2010
