POWERFUL/HEALING FOODS THAT MAKE YOUR BODY IMMUNE TO DISEASES

I love Thomas Edison's assertion about food and nutrition:

"The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.”

In other words, nutrition or diet ranks higher than our conventional medicines.

On the other hand, Thomas Edison was mindful of the negative effects of man's invention of chemical medicines in his attempt to provide cure for man’s diseases.

The consumption of plant foods or diets (fruits, nuts, vegetables and seeds), still remain man's safe method of maintaining his health without any negative repercussions or side effects.

The story of Ann Cameron featured in my recent article, where I had discussed “Foods that fight and tame cancer”, https://naturalhealthrecovery101.blogspot.com/2022/08/f00ds-that-fight-and-tame-cancer.html.

Ann Cameron had been diagnosed to have a stage 4 cancer, but she had rejected radiation and chemotherapy and opted to use diet to battle her case. In fact, her story literally broke the internet when it surfaced, as numerous internet users searched to read her success story on how she overcame the dreaded disease. Ann Cameron is still alive today after all the years she had become cancer-free.

Personally, I had recovered from a chronic lower back pain, high BP, arthritis, bad eye sight and a host of other health challenges I had unconsciously accepted as normal age-related issues. My recovery happened when I implemented a radical diet lifestyle change, after I learned how the right diet can impact my health positively.

For over 15 years, (I’m 66+ now), I wake up without pains, no headaches or other age-related health challenges. I do not visit hospitals for any emergencies, except for the routine periodic and yearly health checks.

Now, the foods that heal the body or help it to recover from diseases are known as “alkaline or alkalizing foods or diets. I regard them as “powerful or power foods.”

Food experts – nutrition scientists and dieticians recommend that we should balance our consumption of acidic foods with alkaline foods. The ratio is 80%/20% - 80% alkalizing foods or meals and 20% acidifying foods or meals.

However, when the body becomes distressed or over acidic due to many other factors, such as smoking, the individual should now begin to consume only alkaline forming diets.

The pH of your body is determined by the kind of diet you consume. Low body pH has been noted to be responsible for obesity and all diseases linked with food metabolism.

Presently, majority of people, especially in the western countries, are plagued by diseases that result from the consumption of foods that acidify the body. Contemporary lifestyle compel many people to eat diets that acidify the body, (diets laden with chemicals, in the form of additives), which cause problems inside the body.

Our usual foods these days are those mostly manufactured with chemical ingredients or additives that acidify the body. These ingredients are added to packaged foods, as glucose, proteins, minerals, vitamins, etc.

However, foods that alkalize or heal the body, including green veggies and fruits, are hardly eaten in appreciable amounts to balance the acid/alkaline equation. Therefore, the body is deprived of enough alkalizing foods that should keep it healthy at all times.

We are essentially what we eat. The greater the amount of alkalizing food or diet you consume, the better you will feel, and the healthier you will become. And the more alkalizing diets you consume, the more the pH level of your body would become, and shield you from diseases. In addition, a person who is more alkaline would possess more energy than the person who is acidic.

Some of the “healing” (powerful) or alkalizing foods recommended by experts to empower the body against diseases include the following:

Apples, Cucumber, Lemon, etc.

Beet roots, Carrots, Turmeric, etc.

Cauliflower, Broccoli, Brussel Sprouts, Cabbages, etc.

Kale, Spinach, Green Leafy Vegetables, etc.

Ginger, Garlic, onions etc.

 Millet, etc.

Alkalizing foods are healing foods. They are the kind of foods or diets that keep your body healthy and save you from often infirmity.

And if you are desirous of maintaining optimal energy at all times, then you should eat more alkalizing meals.

Consuming meals that alkalize the body ensures that your nerves and muscles remain supple or flexible. In addition, a more alkaline body, (a body that is above the neutral pH value), reduces your chances of becoming infected by dangerous organisms, which usually result in diseases like gastroenteritis, osteoporosis, arthritis, etc.

Loss of bone density is common in later years, therefore, consuming more alkalizing meals or diets are critical for persons above 50 to maintain good health.

The body’s alkalinity or acidity can be obtained by using a pH test strip (like a litmus paper). You can also use water-testing reagent, which you can buy from your local pharmacy shop or online.

It’s usually better to obtain a sample of your first early morning saliva or urine in a clean bottle, and dip the test strip into it. If you’re making use of water-testing reagent, then drop one or more drops into the test tube or bottle in which you have some quantity of your saliva or urine.

Test strips or water-testing reagents come with a chart which indicates acidity and alkalinity. The color you obtain reveals your level of alkalinity or acidity.

A pH reading below 7.0 is considered to be acidic; pH 7.0 is the neutral position, while readings from 7.0 upwards is alkaline. Your body works better when you are more alkaline (from pH 7.1 and above).

The pH levels in certain parts of the body varies. For instance, the heart is the most alkaline part of your body (7.5 or so), and this needs no further explanation. This is the reason someone who remains more acidic for a long time would still be walking around, though with certain diseases already manifesting in various parts of their body.

Deliberate alkalization of the body (when you start eating more alkaline diets), is the process of defusing the acids that has accumulated in the body and has started to overwhelm it. In other words, alkalizing foods and dietary supplements aid the body to reduce body over-acidity. And as already noted, green vegetables and fruits form the majority of alkalizing foods or diets. Dark green leafy vegetables remain the most alkalizing diets all over the world.