Your body should be slightly alkaline; only digestive juices in your stomach should be acidic.
Keeping correct acid/alkaline balance is critical to proper functioning of your body. Thus your body will do everything it can to maintain that balance.
In fact you have 'alkaline buffers' in your body that your body can utilise to neutralise acids. These buffers are certain minerals (calcium, sodium and potassium for example). The largest storages of these minerals are in your bones. That’s why chronically acid diet depletes these minerals and weakens your bones.
It is important that we maintain a balance body pH of ideally about 7.2-7.4, which is about neutral. However, because of our poor diet of junk food, fast food, overcooked, processed foods, especially soft drinks which have a pH of 2.7, most of us are not balanced. The above foods are several thousand times more acidic than our bodies. The pH-scale is logarithmic, meaning that change of one unit (for example from 7 to 6) is equivalent to 10 times increase/decrease in acidity.
This is important because harmful bacteria, parasites etc live and thrive in an acidic environment and do not live well in an alkaline environment.
You can see two detailed acid/alkaline food chart by clicking the links below. Please note that there are many variations of these charts floating around the internet. I don’t know which one is ‘the ultimate truth’, so please consider any charts you find (including these) as guidelines rather than the hard truth.
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http://www.rense.com/1.mpicons/acidalka.htm
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http://www.naturalhealthschool.com/acid-alkaline.html Contains also good information about acid/alkaline balance
and its effect on health.
During digestion foods are broken down into smaller and smaller components that your body can utilise. This happens through chemical reactions that break molecules apart. Either the end or waste products of these chemical reactions are acidic.
Acidifying foods may also interfere with digestion. Majority of the food you eat is digested in the small intestine. Your small intestine secretes enzymes into food and those enzymes break food into molecules that your body can utilise. However, those enzymes require alkaline environment to function.
Your stomach is highly acidic and food that leaves your stomach is also acidic. Your pancreas secretes alkalising enzymes into food that neutralise acids. Those alkalising enzymes are manufactured in your pancreas from amino acids.
Chronically acid diet (i.e. diet consisting mainly of meat, processed food, dairy products, sugar, rice, pasta) puts lots of pressure on pancreas to produce alkalising enzymes, which means that your pancreas must use large quantities of alkalising minerals.
As a result of this virtually every American has an enlarged pancreas by the time they are 40.Constant requirement of alkalising enzymes from your pancreas slowly depletes your body's reserves of these alkalising minerals.
Over time your pancreas may fail to produce alkalising enzymes in required quantities. This means that food entering small intestine is still acidic. Digestive enzymes are not working optimally in this acidic environment.
Undigested food passes to your colon where harmful bacteria feast on them. Harmful bacteria putrefy undigested food, which results into highly acidic toxins.
That is one of the reason sugar is so bad for you. Harmful bacteria in your colon rapidly ferments sugar and produce acidic toxins as a result.
You can safely generalise that toxins are always acidic, and that acidic reactions are generally harmful to your body.DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO NEXT?
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