An acidic environment is the leading cause of dis-ease causing ailments in the body which affect the mind and overall quality of life. Water is one of the main components of our diets and should be healing rather than toxic. Learn about water pollution under the “water pollution” tab. However, we are what we consume making not only water extremely important but the foods we eat as well. Learn about how an alkaline diet can benefit your health and change your quality of life.

ALKALINITY IN YOUR DIET

Dead foods are classified as nutrient stripped, fiber-less foods such as meat, fish and dairy. Meat and dairy contain animal protein, saturated fat, and, in some cases, carcinogenic compounds such as heterocyclic amines (HCA) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), which are formed during processing/cooking. Meat also contains hormones, which increase your cancer risk as well as many other chronic diseases. Meat, dairy products, and eggs all contain high levels of cholesterol and saturated fat and contribute to some of our top killers: heart attack, stroke, diabetes, and various types of cancer. Saturated fat is present in all meat and fish, even chicken and turkey cooked without the bird's skin on. Decades of scientific study have linked dietary cholesterol to cardiovascular disease — our country’s number-one cause of death, killing nearly 2,200 Americans daily. According to a study published by the ADA (American Diabetes Association,) people who eat high amounts of animal protein are 22% more likely to develop diabetes. Saturated fat has even been linked to breast cancer, as well as Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, and cognitive decline. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reports that 70% of all food poisoning is caused by contaminated animal flesh. Food borne diseases, such as E. Coli, Salmonella, and Campylobacter, cause an estimated 76 million illnesses, 325,000 hospitalizations, and 5,000 deaths in the United States each year. These numbers are growing by the second. Eating meat puts you at a greater risk for food poisoning because animal products are often tainted with fecal contamination during slaughter or processing. Fecal contamination in chicken, especially, is a major problem we face today. According to a Consumer Reports study, 97 percent of raw chicken in U.S. supermarkets is contaminated with bacteria that could make customers sick. So if you eliminate animal products from your diet, you'll also be eliminating your exposure to the most common carrier of these bacteria.

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Consuming a diet centered around natural, whole foods grown from the earth is the most powerful step you can take towards immediate detoxification and cleansing. Researchers have shown that a more plant-based diet may help prevent, treat, or reverse some of our leading causes of death, including heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and high blood pressure.  Plant-based diet intervention groups have reported greater diet satisfaction than control groups, as well as improved digestion, increased energy, and better sleep, and significant improvement in their physical functioning, general health, vitality, and mental health. Studies have shown plant-based eating can improve not only body weight, blood sugar levels, and ability to control cholesterol, but also emotional states, including depression, anxiety, fatigue, sense of well-being, and daily functioning. Only one way of eating has ever been proven to reverse heart disease in the majority of patients: a diet centered around whole plant foods. If that’s all a whole-food, plant-based diet could do—reverse our number-one killer—shouldn’t that be the default diet until proven otherwise? The fact it may also be effective in preventing, treating, and arresting other leading killers seems to make the case for plant-based eating simply overwhelming. (NutritionFacts.org)

HEAVY METALS FOUND IN WATER & FOOD

Toxic heavy metals such as mercury, aluminum, copper, cadmium, lead, arsenic, nickel, chrome, alloy, and steel are hidden antagonizers that can find their way into our bodies and wreak havoc. If you want to heal from chronic illness and symptoms, removing the heavy metals in your body is an amazing place to start. Signs of heavy metal toxicity include ADHD, ADD, autism, depression, alzheimer’s, memory loss, focus and concentration issues and much more. Some symptoms may include tingling, fatigue, numbness, ringing ears, anxiety, dizziness and vertigo, neck pain, knee pain, foot pain, heart palpitations, pain in the back of the head, as well as other joint aches and pains. In today’s modern world it is somewhat impossible to be completely immune with all the pollution in our air. However it is fairly inexpensive to cleanse your body through certain supplemental foods before they cause any health issues. Below are some of the best supplements to cleanse from the inside. Similar to chelation therapy, a medical procedure that involves the administration of often-synthetic chelating agents that will bond with heavy metals in the body and remove them, these foods also electrically attract and bond with metals, but not the beneficial nutrients, thus helping to eliminate them out of the body.

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• HAWAIIAN SPIRULINA- TAKE 2 TEASPOONS MIXED WITH WATER, JUICE, OR COCONUT WATER

• BARLEY GRASS JUICE EXTRACT POWDER- DRINK 1-2 TEASPOONS MIXED WITH WATER, COCONUT WATER OR JUICE

• WILD BLUEBERRIES ARE HIGH IN ANTIOXIDANTS AND HELP REVERSE ANY OXIDATIVE DAMAGE. ALTHOUGH BLUEBERRIES ARE HIGH IN ANTIOXIDANTS THEY LACK THE METAL-DRAWING CAPABILITY OF WILD ONES. WILD BLUEBERRIES CAN BE FOUND IN THE FREEZER SECTION OF MOST SUPERMARKETS.

• GARLIC IS AN ANTIBACTERIAL, ANTIFUNGAL, AND ANTIPARASITIC FOOD. GARLIC BINDS HEAVY METALS IN THE BODY AND HELPS US TO DETOX.

• ACTIVATED CHARCOAL ACTUALLY USES A THIN FILM ON ITS OUTSIDE SURFACE TO BIND TOXINS AND POISONS. THE POROUS SURFACE HAS A NEGATIVE ELECTRIC CHARGE THAT ATTRACTS POSITIVELY CHARGED TOXINS AND POISONS; IT BINDS THEM, AND ESCORTS THEM OUT OF YOUR BODY THROUGH THE ELIMINATION PROCESS OF YOUR INTESTINES.

Pesticides can be found in literally everything from air, food, and water to breast milk. They are the only toxic substances intentionally released into our environment to kill living organisms such as rodents (rodenticides), insects (insecticides), weeds (herbicides), and fungus (fungicides). High levels of these chemicals are most commonly found in children, whose bodies and developing organs are particularly vulnerable. Children take in pesticides in the womb, at home and daycare, and on schools and playgrounds. Using MRI technology, researchers found that even low levels exposure to the widely used insecticide chlorpyrifos in utero caused irreversible brain damage (Toxic Action Center.) The last place we need these sprays is on our food before it enters our body.

I personally own an in-home water ionization machine that produces 2.5 pH (strong acidic) as well as 11.5 pH (strong alkaline) electrolyzed reduced water that removes pesticides from food before consumption. Up to 80% removal of pesticides according to a study done by the National Institute of Health (PubMed.gov)

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To remove pesticides with electrolyzed reduced water:

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1. Fill a large bowl, tub, or the entire kitchen sink with 11.5 pH water to remove all oil based pesticides, insecticides, herbicides, etc. from the foods.

2. Soak all produce for 3-5 minutes.

3. Rinse the produce off under 2.5 pH water which eliminates dirt or bacteria left behind during the cleaning process.