Food ChartsThe New Biology of Health
A new
day is
dawning. A day of truly holistic health, vitality, and
well-being. A time of energizing our very cells, maximizing
the life force of our bodies. An era of naturally lean and strong physiques!
This book is your key to letting that light into your life. It first helps you
understand the revolutionary science I (Rob) call The New Biology, then explains
the practical ways to change your diet and unleash the full power of your body
to heal itself. In truth,
the light came over the horizon more than a hundred years ago. But
the radical work of some great pioneering scientists has been overlooked
by a mainstream medical model so deeply involved with its own myths
that it was blind to larger truths. Until now. Now
we're going to peel off the blinders and look at an entirely new model
of human health—and disease. Working from decades of exhaustive research-my
own as well as the work of those early
(ignored) pioneers—we'll discover the basic pathways to illness and wellness.
You'll get the science, of course, but also the practical applications that will
allow you to put the science to work for you. It's all
about
balance. The universe operates by keeping opposites.in balance,
and the universe contained within your body is no exception. When imbalance occurs,
we get the signs of disease: low energy, fatigue, poor digestion, excess weight,
foggy thinking, aches and pains, as well as major disorders. This book is about
reclaiming balance (health): energy, mental clarity, smooth operation of all
body systems, clear, bright eyes and skin, and a lean, trim body. With the program
in this book, all
that will be yours within weeks. All you
have to do is take a look around you to see that most people with our
modern
lifestyles are suffering from imbalance. They are obese. Tired. Prematurely
aging. Perhaps you are too. Chances are at least one person you love is
suffering from one of the top three killers in the If you're
like
most people in our culture, at this point you're thinking, Well,
you have to die of something. We've forgotten that it is natural to die—and to live—healthy! In fact, it is your birthright to live healthy,
right up until the day you die. Making that vision a reality is the great gift
of
this program. And believe me, it has nothing to do with
mapping the human genome, cutting-edge medical technologies, or even more
powerful—and dangerous—pharmaceuticals. The good news is, the answer is much,
much simpler than all that. And available right here and now. Today. The obvious
clue is right there in the top three killers (cancer, heart disease,
and
diabetes). All are directly linked to diet. In fact, eight of the top ten causes of death in Even mainstream
medicine agrees: "Foods contain nutrients essential for normal
metabolic function, and when problems
arise, they result from imbalances in nutrient intake and
from harmful interaction with other factors. For...adult Americans
who do not smoke
and do not drink excessively, one personal
choice seems to influence long-term health prospects more than any other—What
We Eat" (from the 1988 "Surgeon General's Report on Health
and Nutrition": Emphasis added). Since
that landmark report from C. Everett Koop (and even before, depending
on the circles you run in), Americans have been following one diet
craze after another not only in an attempt to drop the excess baggage
most of us are carrying around but also as a way to find our way back
to good health. The
result? We (as a country) are fatter than ever. And we're certainly no
healthier. The problem
is that while diet is the key not only to slimness but also to overall
health and well-being, it has to be a diet that properly balances our
body chemistry. But each and every one of the diets Americans have
tried—including not just the "average American diet" but
also such supposedly healthful regimens as low-fat diets, the food
pyramid, and vegetarianism—create wildly imbalanced body chemistry. Even if one
way of eating does get rid of extra pounds (usually temporarily) or
lower
cholesterol levels or lessen digestive trouble for some
people, it does not fulfill the promise of simple good health. We're so used
to our modern medical machinery, in fact, that good health seems anything but
simple. I'm here to tell you: It is simple. Forget
cholesterol counts. Forget calories and fat grams. Forget blood pressure,
blood sugar, hormone levels, or any of the other markers of health
you're used to at the doctor's office. It turns out that the single
measurement most important to your health is the pH of your blood and
tissues—how acidic or alkaline it is. Different areas of the body have
different ideal pH levels, but blood pH is the most telling of all.
Just as your body temperature is rigidly regulated, the blood must
be kept in a very narrow pH range—mildly basic or alkaline. The body
will go to great lengths to preserve that, including wreaking havoc
on other
tissues or systems. The pH
level of our internal fluids affects every cell in our bodies. The
entire metabolic
process depends on an alkaline environment. Chronic overacidity corrodes
body tissue, and if left unchecked will interrupt all cellular activities and
functions, from the beating of your heart to the neural firing of your brain.
In other words, overacidity interferes with life itself.
It is (as we'll see in more detail in the next chapter) at the root of all sickness
and disease. If that's
not enough to get you interested in balancing your body pH naturally,
nondestructively, keep this in mind: Overacidity is
also what's keeping you fat (more about that later). The goal,
then—and what this program allows you to do—is to create the proper
alkaline balance within your body. The way to do that is by eating
the proper balance of alkaline and acid foods. That means 80 percent
of your diet must be alkalizing foods, like green vegetables. (That
percentage will go down somewhat once you've successfully rebalanced
yourself.) That leaves much smaller portions of acid foods (such as
meat and grains) on our plates. In addition, carefully chosen, high-quality
supplements will help you achieve and maintain pH balance. You'll learn
more about all this in detail in later chapters. That's
it. That's all there is to it. Get at least three-quarters of your
plate covered with alkalizing food, use the supplements as explained
in this book, and you'll be good to go. The following
chapters get into the details of why, and the remainder of the book
shows you specifically what and how. You'll get the benefit of my own
exhaustive research and the work of the great minds that have gone
this road before me, and you'll also get Shelley's real-life, practical
expertise in how to make all this
happen for you. Bottom
line: This program will bring you increased quality and quantity of
life. I guarantee you'll see immediate improvement. Your energy will
increase, you'll find new mental clarity and powers of concentration,
you'll build strength and stamina, and you'll lose excess body fat
while increasing muscle mass. You'll have bright eyes and clear skin.
You'll look better. You'll improve your athletic performance. Your
entire body will function more efficiently. Whatever health challenges
you've been facing will improve and most likely evaporate altogether.
In short, you'll regain all the effortless energy and wellness you
thought was lost with your childhood. With the healing, wholeness,
and rejuvenation that this program brings, you'll experience, possibly
for the
first time in your life, vibrant personal health. Over and
over again, we've witnessed joy, relief, and renewed peace of mind
in those who have turned a serious or chronic illness around, those
who lost weight they had been battling for years, those whose cholesterol
levels dropped, skin cleared up, itching stopped, energy returned.
I've seen people who no longer required insulin injections for their
diabetes. People whose aches and pains disappeared. Even people who
had been diagnosed with cancer whose tumors vanished and who were pronounced
cancer free. We hear frequently from people who haven't been able to
work for months or years who are returning to work, people whose allergies
are letting up, people whose infections clear. People who are well,
whole, and energetic again. People like Sharon and her husband. I'll
let her
tell their story: I was
up to a record 192 pounds. I was depressed and tired and had attempted
almost every diet known to humankind. I would lose weight and then
gain it right back when I returned to my old eating habits. I became
more and more discouraged. I was
sick and tired of being sick and tired—and fat! I knew it was time to make some
major lifestyle changes. So, once
again I stepped onto the diet roller coaster by going to a local weight
loss organization. It worked for the first few months. I lost thirty-two
pounds, traded in my diet sodas for water, and started to exercise.
I thought I might
really have the problem licked this time. At this
same time, my husband applied for a life insurance policy. The findings
of the company's physical exam scared us to death. His cholesterol
was practically off the charts at 340. He had fatty growths in his
shoulder. He was at his heaviest ever, too: 227 pounds. For someone
who is five-nine, that's quite a load to carry around. The report made
him out to be a walking time bomb. An accident waiting to happen. Just
like me, he realized he needed to make some serious changes. But he
was confused about what and how. Before
he could take action, we moved into a new house and went on a vacation.
I went back to my old eating habits, stopped exercising, and regained
twenty of the thirty-two pounds I had lost. When things settled down
again and we realized we had to take action, that's when The pH Miracle
came into our lives. We shared
the same first thought: How on earth could we change our lifestyle
so drastically? And the same second thought: We had to try. That night
we committed to the program—and immediately headed over to a favorite
local restaurant to pig out on our last barbecued pork ribs and mud
pie. The next morning we changed our diets— and changed our lives.
We've never looked back. My husband's
cholesterol dropped to 242 in six weeks, and is now under 200. He had
been experiencing arthritis in the hips and had been thinking about
surgery. But the pain has disappeared! For the first time in my life,
I'm not depressed. I'm no longer a compulsive eater; no longer do I
eat until I get sick—and then eat some more. I'm not a slave to my
addiction to sugar and breads. Now the foods I crave are avocados and
soybeans. We both would still like to lose a few more pounds, but we
don't worry about it anymore. We know our bodies will reach an optimum
weight. And we'll never regain it because we no longer crave the foods
that made us sick, tired, and fat in the first place. It turns
out the weight loss is almost a side benefit. What we've really gotten
out of this is feeling better. Our minds and bodies are stronger. We
no longer feel sick and tired all the time. Even our relationship has
benefited. We have a more fulfilling life. We can more fully enjoy
the best things in life—mainly, our
kids. Speaking
of our kids, we are now gradually working them into the program, too.
They've been raised on fast food and pizza, candy bars and soda pop.
And they've been
addicted to sugar, bread, and meat—and been tired, obese, and depressed as a
result, just like so much of their generation. Who would have thought they would
ever be drinking green vegetable juice for breakfast? We feed them healthy meals,
and they take supplements as well. They still have some sugar now and then, but
we know this is not an overnight process. The whole family is headed in the right
direction. Robert
Louis
Stevenson wrote: "There will come a time when we will sit down to the banquet
of our consequences." We were.
And
we are. I like this way much better. Besides
the
huge volume of tales like this one—which I'll share more of throughout the
book—I've seen the scientific proof of such transformation with my own eyes,
though nothing is more persuasive than the radical changes in people's everyday
lives. I've observed thousands of blood samples, including pH levels, from people
all over the world, and seen the transformation that occurs—right down to the
individual cells—when people change the way they eat. HOW WE CAME TO EAT THIS
WAY All this
healing occurs because people are willing to take responsibility for
their own health and make the necessary changes. That was a mission
Shelley and I were on
for ourselves starting over twenty years ago. But it
took quite a while to realize that what seemed in popular thought to be optimal
was still leaving us tired, seemingly prone to every passing cold, and just not
able to get the very best out of life. Eventually, through trial and
error—experimenting on ourselves—we developed The pH Miracle program, and found, finally, the way to get fully,
permanently, holistically healthy-physically prepared to live life to
its fullest. We had
always been active, and on the lookout for ways to improve our health.
By 1980, we were on what we thought was an ideal strictly vegetarian
regime-mostly complex
carbohydrates, along with some simple carbs (sugars),
proteins, and fats. We were conforming to what seemed to be the best possible
nutrition for our bodies and raised our children this way. We ate
the best of all foods sold in our favorite health food stores. Yet
still we felt that afternoon fatigue. Our athletic endurance seemed
to have plateaued, and we weren't getting any further improvements.
We didn't have the strength and stamina we wanted. We were slowly but
surely getting one common sign of aging after another. And it all seemed
to be getting
worse as we grew older. What we
didn't know then was what havoc all this was wreaking on our body chemistry,
how it dangerously acidified our bodies, inviting all the disastrous
consequences explained in upcoming chapters. Thank goodness the whole
family had stayed generally healthy, but with what we know now we can
see we were lucky. We were setting ourselves up for a lot of potential
trouble. It took
a long
time to realize what was going on—and what we could do about it. When we did
figure it all out, what a dramatic difference! For one thing, though neither
of us was overweight to begin with, we both shed pounds. I lost about twenty
pounds—and four inches around my waist. Shelley dropped about fifteen pounds,
and is now the same size she was in high school (nine). More important, we felt
much better. Not only that, but I also could see astounding changes in our blood,
including the pH levels. One good thing about the roughly fourteen-year journey
we went through in developing this program was that it gave me time to come to
some new (to me) laboratory techniques with which I could chart our progress
(which I'll describe more fully later in the book). Since
we were essentially healthy to start out with, I was eager to test
the effects of the dietary changes we were making on people facing
serious health challenges, such as diabetes, cancer, obesity, heart
disease, lupus, gout, and arthritis. Sure enough, in my studies I could
see the same sweeping improvements in their blood. They all reported
feeling better and losing weight. And in many cases, even the dire
conditions healed or disappeared! Witnessing these amazing results,
I knew we'd stumbled upon more than a way of eating that just happened
to be right for us and our family. We'd found something we wanted to
share. We've
been
fully on The pH Miracle diet for more than five years
now, and there's no doubt in our minds: We'll never go back. We've gained too
much we'd never want to give up. Even as we get older, we keep feeling better.
And we know we're protecting ourselves from the ravages of the diseases that
claim so many of our fellow Americans. We've found a way to ensure that we'll
be there for each other, for our work, and most of all, for our children, over
the long haul. And able to truly enjoy every minute of it. Good health
should be second nature to us, but for many people it seems very difficult
to
maintain. The pH Miracle changes
that forever. It will empower you to regain what is rightfully yours,
encourage you to take responsibility for your own well-being, and restore the
great gift of wellness to you. I know, there are lots of formulas out there for getting well. And
many of them have good track records and positive reputations. Often,
that's because they deal partially (perhaps unknowingly) with what
you're going to learn here. Also, you can get a lot better without
getting completely well, so you might think the job is done without
ever reaping the greatest rewards. Once you experience the full, vibrant
wellness that comes with this basic change to your diet, you'll know
just how tremendous the difference can be. So we invite you to begin
this journey and experience the results for yourself. Awaken to the
light of a new day! |
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