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What is Acidosis?

Acidosis is a pH imbalance where the body has accumulated too much acid and does not have sufficient acid neutralizer to neutralize the effect. The term acidosis is relative and only meant to convey a shift in total body chemistry toward the acidic direction.

Acidic foods

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 (all)

Rice Cakes

Rye

Spelt

Wheat

Wheat Germ

Noodles

Macaroni

Spaghetti

Bread

Crackers, soda

Flour, white

Flour, wheat

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

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In simple terms, acidosis is too much acid in the body. It is a distinctly abnormal condition resulting from the accumulation of acid or from the depletion of alkaline reserves. Acidosis is associated with diabetic ketoacidosis, lung disease, and severe kidney disease.

According to Dr. Michael Lam, Director of Medical Education at the Academy of Anti-Aging Research, an acidic pH body is more prone to illness. Excess acidity weakens the body and leads to serious problems with all the major organs such as the liver, the heart, and the kidneys. Acidosis is a cause of weight gain and diabetes. It accelerates free radical damage and premature aging. It slows the delivery of oxygen into the cell. Acidosis corrodes arteries, veins, and heart tissues, and it disrupts lipid and fatty acid metabolism.

Excess acidity forces the body to borrow minerals, including sodium, calcium, potassium, and magnesium, from vital organs and bones and safely remove it from the body. Additionally, when your body is faced with a shortage of options due to excess acid, it dumps toxic wastes in fatty deposits as away from the organs and heart as possible.

What causes an acid imbalance in the body?

The four major contributing factors behind an acid imbalance are acid-forming foods, stress, exposure to toxic chemicals, and impure water.

Acid-Forming Foods

Regular consumption of highly refined foods, sugars, and white flour, meat, alcohol, sodas, and fried foods increase acids. Sodas, for example, are pH 2.5 because the active ingredient is phosphoric acid. At that pH, it is almost 50,000 times more acidic than neutral water and needs 32 glasses of neutral pH to counteract the consumption of just one glass of soda.

Stress

Life stressors create an artificially high production of adrenaline which is a naturally acidic compound. In fact, of all acidifying factors, stress is the greatest. It can neutralize and acidify an alkaline diet with a surge of adrenaline.

Exposure to Toxic Chemicals

Many of the products we routinely use to clean our bodies, our clothes, and our homes contain significant concentrations of toxic chemicals. These chemicals are either taken into our lungs when we breath or are absorbed by our skin.

Impure Water

Due to improper chemical dumping, run off of fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides, incomplete treatment of raw sewage, an overgrowth of microbes and chemicals used to "clean" our municpal water supplies are often a source of impure tap water.

How do excess acids impact my health?

Excess acids cause the body to suffer severe and prolonged "corrosion" due to high acidity. The condition can go undetected for years. The result is an internal environment where disease can easily manifest. It affects nearly every person in our society because of the way we eat, the environment we live in, and the way we live.

Excess acids contribute to a variety of medical conditions, including:

"The countless names of illnesses do not really matter. What does matter is that they come from the same root cause ... too much tissue acid waste in the body!"

Dr. Theodore Baroody
Alkalize or Die

Atopic Dermatitis
Constipation
Diabetes
Dry Skin and Hair
High Blood Pressure
Indigestion
Obesity
Osteoporosis
Tension Headache

Maintaining a pH balance allows normal body function necessary to resist disease. Although we will maintain sufficient alkaline reserves if we have a healthy body, our society is faced with too many excess acids. When excess acids must be contiually neutralized, our alkaline reserves are depleted, leaving the body in a weakened, disease-prone state.

How is my weight affected by excess acids?

Dr. Robert O. Young in his book The pH Miracle for Weight Loss, argues convincingly that fat is the body's way of protecting itself from excess acids. "Fat," he says, "is saving our lives."

He sees sugar as an acid and as the reason we are so fat, but not for the reasons we have been taught. He says that the body has to protect itself from the excess sugar we consume, and so it co-ops fat--to encase it and protect us from it.

As Dr. Lynda Frassetto, an acid/alkaline researcher from the University of California, San Francisco, discovered, we do not handle acid waste the way we used to. The sheer volume of acid waste our body has to handle has become overwhelming. When our bodies are faced with a shortage of options due to excess acidity, they dump toxic wastes in fatty deposits as far away from the organs and heart as possible. On the buttocks, the chest, the thighs, and the belly.

But because the body has made a habit of its "last chance" solution (pirating calcium from the bones and teeth) of what to do with excess toxic acid waste, it cannot manage the acid. These acidic wastes then accumulate in the body. The body works ot save the kidney and liver from degradation by excess acid. But there is a cost. Obesity, lowered immunity, lack of energy and a whole host of acid related diseases such as cancer, diabetes, osteo-arthritis, etc.

To lose weight, what matters most is keeping your body alkaline. Weight loss and the regaining of energy occur more easily when we take the first steps toward the alkaline "re-balance."

Getting to and keeping your ideal weight requires eating plenty of high-quality, healthful foods and focusing your choices around green vegetables.

However, the biggest secret of all is actually in what you drink. Keeping you body sufficiently hydrated with the right water�an alkaline water�makes all the difference.

What does drinking high alkaline water do to my health?

So what happens in your stomach when you drink high pH water?

In order to digest food and kill the kinds of bacteria and viruses that come with the food, the inside of the stomach is acidic. The stomach pH value is maintained around 4. When you eat food and drink water, especially alkaline water, the pH value inside the stomach goes up. When this happens, your body has a feedback mechanism in your stomach that detects the change and commands the stomach wall to secrete more hydrochlorich acid into the stomach to bring the pH value back to 4. So the stomach becomes more acidic again.

Your body does not store hydrochloric acid. If it did, the acid would burn a hole in your body. Instead, the cells in your stomach wall must produce it instantly on as as-needed basis. The ingredients in the stomach cell that make hydrochloric acid NaHC03 are carbon dioxide (CO2), water (H2O), and sodium chloride (NaCl) or potassium chloride (KCl).

NaCl + H2O + CO2 = HCl + NaHC03

or

KCl + H2O + CO2 = HCl + KHC03

The byproduct of making hydrochloric acid is sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO3) or potassium bicarbonate (KHCO3), which goes into the bloodstream. These bicarbonates are the alkaline buffers that neutralize excess acids in the blood. They dissolve solid acid wastes into liquid form. As they neutralize the solid acidic wastes, extra carbon dioxide is release, which is discharged through the lungs.

When you look at your whole body, there is a net gain of alkalinity as you drink alkaline water. Alkaline or acid produced by the body must have an equal and opposite acid or alkaline produced by the body. Therefore, there is no net gain. However, alkaline supplied from outside the body, like drinking alkaline water, results in a net gain of alkalinity in your body.