Research has shown that over acidification of body fluids and tissues underlies ALL disease! 

But here are some specifics you should know:

Our blood is set at an alkaline level of 7.365.  The pH scale goes from 1-14 with 7 being neutral.  Anything above 7 is alkaline and anything below 7 is acidic.  Our blood, like our body temperature, is set at a specific number and if it varies from that we experience problems; just as we do if our temperature varies from 98.6 degrees.

The body will go to great lengths to maintain its slightly alkaline environment.  If the body or tissues are too acidic, the body will tap into it's alkaline buffering reserves to neutralize acidity and maintain its delicate balance of 7.365.  But where are the alkaline reserves in the body?  Much of the alkaline buffering reserves are calcium from our bones and magnesium from our muscles.  Acidity causes the calcium and magnesium to be leached from the bones, teeth and muscles out into the blood to help neutralize acidity.  Being acidic is one of the fastest ways to get osteoporosis, weak flabby muscles and have major teeth issues as well.

It's also a major contributor to obesity and difficulty with losing weight.  Why is that?  Well for one thing fat is protecting your body from acid corrosion on your tissues and vital organs.  It's literally saving your body's life!  Like acid eating into marble, acidosis erodes and eats into cell wall membranes of the heart, arteries and veins, weakening cardiovascular structures and interconnective tissue.  Fat is created to bind acidity in the body and store it away from the internal vital organs and delicate systems of the body.

When you gain weight as body fat it is because the body is going into self preservation mode to protect itself.  Too much fat, however, will overwhelm the body's protective response.  When you become more alkaline the body no longer needs to hold onto the fat to protect itself from being corroded and it becomes much easier to lose weight.

Over acidity causes many other symptoms besides osteoporosis and body fat.  Acidosis also disrupts general lipid and fatty acid metabolism within the body.  Fatty acids are intimately involved in nerve and brain function.  When fatty acid metabolism is disturbed, neurological problems may arise including Multiple Sclerosis, Macular Degeneration and others, as well as problems with hormonal balance within the endocrine system.

Life-essential functions, like electrolyte Potassium (K plus) and Sodium (Na plus) channels, are inactivated by acidosis. 

Sodium and Potassium are highly alkaline minerals that also help to neutralize acidity in addition to calcium and magnesium and when they are taken away from their primary jobs in the body to manage an acidity crisis in the body that leaves other systems depleted and vulnerable. 

This has far reaching effects on the cardiovascular system, since without sufficient electrolyte management, heart attacks are likely to occur.  Without appropriate electrolyte management, our heart literally stops beating.  Inhibition of electrolyte activity also affects the way we feel and behave, and is intimately involved in the energy levels we experience, because of the nature of the Sodium-Potassium pump and cellular metabolism.

Being acidic causes cholesterol plaque to form.  LDL cholesterol is laid down at an accelerated rate within an acid chemical environment of the cardiovascular system, inappropriately lining the vascular network, and clogging up the works!  The amount of cholesterol in the diet has not been found to be a major factor in cholesterol plaque formation.  Rather, pH status appears to be the factor more directly involved, binding cholesterol with heavy metals and other cellular debris.

Diabetes Is Caused By Acid

The pancreas produces one of the highest pH body fluids - pancreatic juice with a pH of 8.8. A shortage of calcium ions in the body impairs the production and the release of the insulin hormone. This eventually leads to an acidic blood condition. With the accumulated acidic waste products coating the receptor sites of the insulin producing beta cells, insulin is prevented from being synthesized or utilized. Diabetes is the result. This could be improved by an alkaline diet and detoxification.

As acidic waste products accumulate in the blood, the kidneys - the bloodstreams filter - become more taxed, leading to nephritis, uremic poisoning, bladder diseases, etc. All kidney disease is acid related, which can be improved by an alkaline diet. Kidney stones are salts of phosphoric acid and uric acid, generally combined with calcium and/or magnesium. These salts are acidic salts that gradually build up into a stone like object.

Although calcium and magnesium are in the salts, they are there to soften the poisonous effects of uric acid and phosphoric acid. Some people mistakenly believe that kidney stones are formed because there’s too much calcium. This is not true. Calcium compounds will dissolve in acidic urine, while a kidney stone will not. If you add calcium into the blood and lower blood acidity by an alkaline diet, kidney stones will dissolve from the inside.

Being acid also causes cancer!  Being acidic inhibits cellular regeneration and DNA-RNA synthesis. For DNA-RNA synthesis and healthy cell proliferation to occur, cell pH must not be acidic.  However, cancerous cells grow well in acidic mediums; therefore an acid pH actually accelerates and increases the possibility of cellular mutations (cancer).

Actually the real cause of cancer was discovered back in 1923 by Dr. Otto Warburg and he received the Nobel Prize for it in 1931.  Dr. Warburg was the director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute (now Max Planck Institute) for cell physiology at Berlin.  He investigated the metabolism of tumors and the respiration of cells, particularly cancer cells.

Dr. Warburg investigated the metabolism of tumors and the respiration of cells and discovered that cancer cells maintain and thrive in a lower pH, as low as 6.0, due to lactic acid production and elevated CO2.  He firmly believed that there was a direct relationship between pH and oxygen.

"Cancerous tissues are acidic, whereas healthy tissues are alkaline.  Water splits into H+ and OH- ions, if there is an excess of H+ it is acidic; if there is an excess of OH- ions, then it is alkaline."

In his work The Metabolism of Tumors he demonstrated that all forms of cancer are characterized by two basic conditions: acidosis and hypoxia (lack of oxygen).  Lack of oxygen and acidosis are two sides of the same coin: where you have one, you have the other. "All normal cells have an absolute requirement for oxygen, but cancer cells can live without oxygen - a rule without exception.  Deprive a cell 35% of its oxygen for 48 hours and it may become cancerous." - Dr. Ottow Warburg

When you drink water you are oxygenating your body.  A water molecule is made up of two atoms of hydrogen and one atom of oxygen. (H2O)

The active ingredient in Coca-Cola is phosphoric acid.  It will dissolve a nail in about 4 days and you can use it to clean corrosion from car battery terminals, clean car engines, clean hard stains from your toilet and any vitreous china or porcelain.  Phosphoric acid also leaches calcium from bones and is a major contributor to the rising increase in osteoporosis and teeth issues.  Coca-Cola has a pH of around 2.  That is HIGHLY acidic...actually dangerously acidic!

To carry Coca-Cola syrup (the concentrate) the commercial trucks must use Hazardous Material place cards reserved for highly corrosive materials.  If you do a Google search on job listings for transporting Coca-Cola and actually read the job requirements you'll see on most of them that one of the first requirements is a Class A commercial driver's license with Haz-Mat and doubles endorsements.

It would take around 32 glasses of alkaline 9.5pH water to neutralize the acidity of ONE soda!  It literally takes 20 parts alkaline to neutralize 1 part acid so just buying a Kangen Water Machine and drinking alkaline water isn't going to change your pH much if you are drinking sodas all day long and eating highly acidic foods.

This Kangan Water Machine is for someone serious about their health and becoming alkaline and who is committed to changing their eating habits to natural alkaline forming foods and beverages.  This machine will NOT give you a free pass to eat all the acidic junk food and drinks you want thinking that as long as you are drinking alkaline water it makes up for every food crime against your body....

It doesn't work that way.  Drinking alkaline water will absolutely help but you have to work with it and not against it.  You have to be committed to changing your eating and drinking habits and do what it takes to get your body alkaline.

So what foods can we eat and what foods and beverages should we avoid?

The charts below are provided as a general guideline for those trying to improve their health through diet change.  Note that there may be some discrepancies between foods included in these charts.

INFORMATION ON THESE CHARTS HAS BEEN COLLECTED FROM A VARIETY OF SOURCES  

ALKALIZING FOODS ACIDIFYING FOODS ALKALIZING VEGETABLES Alfalfa Barley Grass Beets Beet Greens Broccoli Cabbage Carrot Cauliflower Celery Chard Greens Chlorella Collard Greens Cucumber Dandelions Dulce Edible Flowers Eggplant Fermented Veggies Garlic Green Beans Green Peas Kale Kohlrabi Lettuce Mushrooms Mustard Greens Nightshade Veggies Onions Parsnips Peas Peppers Pumpkin Radishes Rutabaga Sea Veggies Spinach, green Spirulina Sprouts Sweet Potatoes Tomatoes Watercress Wheat Grass Wild Greens ALKALIZING ORIENTAL VEGETABLES Maitake Daikon Dandelion Root Shitake Kombu Reishi Nori Umeboshi Wakame ALKALIZING FRUITS Apple Apricot Avocado Banana (high glycemic) Berries Blackberries Cantaloupe Cherries, sour Coconut, fresh Currants Dates, dried Figs, dried Grapes Grapefruit* Honeydew Melon Lemon* Lime* Muskmelons Nectarine* Orange* Peach Pear Pineapple Raisins Raspberries Rhubarb Strawberries Tangerine* Tomato Tropical Fruits Umeboshi Plums Watermelon ALKALIZING PROTEIN Almonds Chestnuts Millet Tempeh (fermented) Tofu (fermented) Whey Protein Powder ALKALIZING SWEETENERS Stevia ALKALIZING SPICES & SEASONINGS Cinnamon Curry Ginger Mustard Chili Pepper Sea Salt Miso Tamari All Herbs ALKALIZING OTHER Apple Cider Vinegar Bee Pollen Lecithin Granules Molasses, blackstrap Probiotic Cultures Soured Dairy Products Green Juices Veggie Juices Fresh Fruit Juice Mineral Water Alkaline Antioxidant Water ALKALIZING MINERALS Cesium: pH 14 Potassium: pH 14 Sodium: pH 14 Calcium: pH 12 Magnesium: pH 9 ACIDIFYING VEGETABLES Corn Lentils Olives Winter Squash ACIDIFYING FRUITS Blueberries Canned or Glazed Fruits Cranberries Currants Plums Prunes ACIDIFYING GRAINS, GRAIN PRODUCTS Amaranth Barley Bran, wheat Bran, oat Corn Cornstarch Hemp Seed Flour Kamut Oats (rolled) Oatmeal Quinoa Rice Rice Cakes Rye Spelt Wheat Wheat Germ Noodles Macaroni Spaghetti Bread Crackers, soda Flour ACIDIFYING BEANS & LEGUMES Black Beans Chick Peas Green Peas Kidney Beans Lentils Pinto Beans Red Beans Soy Beans Soy Milk White Beans Rice Milk Almond Milk ACIDIFYING DAIRY Butter Cheese Cheese, Processed Ice Cream Ice Milk ACIDIFYING NUTS & BUTTERS Cashews Legumes Peanuts Peanut Butter Pecans Tahini Walnuts ACIDIFYING ANIMAL PROTEIN Bacon Beef Carp Clams Cod Corned Beef Fish Haddock Lamb Lobster Mussels Organ Meats Oyster Pike Pork Rabbit Salmon Sardines Sausage Scallops Shrimp Scallops Shellfish Tuna Turkey Veal Venison ACIDIFYING FATS & OILS Avacado Oil Butter Canola Oil Corn Oil Hemp Seed Oil Flax Oil Lard Olive Oil Safflower Oil Sesame Oil Sunflower Oil ACIDIFYING SWEETENERS Carob Sugar Corn Syrup ACIDIFYING ALCOHOL Beer Spirits Hard Liquor Wine ACIDIFYING OTHER FOODS Catsup Cocoa Coffee Vinegar Mustard Pepper Soft Drinks ACIDIFYING DRUGS & CHEMICALS Aspirin Chemicals Drugs, Medicinal Drugs, Psychedelic Pesticides Herbicides Tobacco ACIDIFYING JUNK FOOD Coca-Cola: pH 2 Beer: pH 2.5 Coffee: pH 4     UNKNOWN FOODS There are several versions of Acid/ Alkaline food charts to be found, both online and in nutrition books. The following foods are sometimes attributed to the Acidic side of the chart and sometimes to the Alkaline side. Remember, you don't need to adhere strictly to the Alkaline side of the chart, just make sure a good percentage of the foods you eat come from that side. Asparagus Brazil Nuts Brussel Sprouts Buckwheat Chicken Corn Cottage Cheese Eggs Flax Seeds Green Tea Herbal Tea Honey Kombucha Lima Beans Maple Syrup Milk Nuts Organic Milk (unpasturized) Potatoes, white Pumpkin Seeds Sauerkraut Soy Products Sprouted Seeds Squashes Sunflower Seeds Yogurt
RANKED FOOD CHART : ALKALINE TO ACIDIC EXTREMELY ALKALINE Lemons, Watermelon ALKALINE FORMING Cantaloupe, Cayenne Celery, Dates, Figs, Kelp, Limes, Mango, Melons, Papaya, Parsley, Seaweeds, Seedless Grapes, Watercress Asparagus, Fruit Juices, Grapes, Kiwifruit, Passionfruit, Pears, Pineapple, Raisins, Umeboshi Plums, Vegetable Juices MODERATELY ALKALINE Apples, Alfalfa Sprouts, Apricots, Avocados, Bananas, Currants, Dates, Figs, Garlic, Grapefruit, Grapes (less sweet), Guavas, Herbs, Lettuce, Nectarine, Peaches, Pears (less sweet), Peas, Pumpkin , Sea Salt Apples (sour), Green Beans, Beets, Bell Peppers, Broccoli, Cabbage, Carob, Cauliflower, Ginger, Grapes (sour), Lettuce (pale green), Oranges, Peaches (less sweet), Peas (less sweet), Potatoes (with skin), Pumpkin (less sweet), Raspberries, Strawberries, Squash, Sweet Corn, Turnip, Apple Cider Vinegar SLIGHLTY ALKALINE Almonds, Jerusalem Artichokes, Brussel Sprouts, Cherries, Coconut (fresh), Cucumbers, Eggplant, Honey (raw), Leeks, Mushrooms, Okra, Olives (ripe), Onions, Pickles (homemade), Radishes, Sea Salt, Spices, Tomatoes, Brown Rice Vinegar Chestnuts (dry, roasted), Egg Yolks, Essene Bread, Goat's Milk and Whey (raw), Mayonnaise (homemade), Olive Oil, Sesame Seeds (whole), Soy Beans (dry), Soy Cheese, Soy Milk, Sprouted Grains, Tofu, Tomatoes (less sweet), Nutritional Yeast NEUTRAL Butter (fresh, unsalted), Cream (fresh, raw), Cow's Milk and Whey (raw), Margine, Oils (except olive), Yogurt (plain) MODERATELY ACIDIC Bananas (green), Barley (rye), Blueberries, Bran, Butter, Cereals (unrefined), Cheeses, Crackers (unrefined rye, rice and wheat), Cranberries, Dried Beans (mung, adzuki, pinto, kidney, garbanzo), Dry Coconut, Egg Whites, Eggs Whole (cooked hard), Fructose, Goat's Milk (homogenized), Honey (pasteurized), Ketchup, Maple Syrup (unprocessed), Milk (homogenized), Molasses (unsulferd and organic), Most Nuts, Mustard, Oats (rye, organic), Olives (pickled), Pasta (whole grain), Pastry (whole grain and honey), Plums, Popcorn (with salt and/or butter), Potatoes, Prunes, Rice (basmati and brown), Seeds (pumpkin, sunflower), Soy Sauce, Wheat Bread (sprouted organic) EXTREMELY ACIDIC Artificial Sweeteners, Beef, Beer, Breads, Brown Sugar, Carbonated Soft Drinks, Cereals (refined), Chocolate, Cigarettes and Tobacco, Coffee, Cream of Wheat (unrefined), Custard (with white sugar), Deer, Drugs, Fish, Flour (white wheat), Fruit Juices with Sugar, Jams, Jellies, Lamb, Liquor, Maple Syrup (processed), Molasses (sulphured), Pasta (white), Pastries and Cakes from White Flour, Pickles (commercial), Pork, Poultry, Seafood, Sugar (white), Table Salt (refined and iodized), Tea (black), White Bread, White Vinegar (processed), Whole Wheat Foods, Wine, Yogurt (sweetened)

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