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Epicurus.com - The Ultimate pH Solution: Balance Your Body Chemistry to Prevent Disease and Lose Weight
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List Price: $14.95
Our Price: $10.92
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Manufacturer: Collins Living
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.3992
EAN: 9780061336430
ISBN: 0061336432
Label: Collins Living
Manufacturer: Collins Living
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: 2008-01-01
Publisher: Collins Living
Release Date: 2007-12-26
Studio: Collins Living
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Control the level of acid in your body and reclaim your health with this simple, step-by-step program Beginning a healthier lifestyle can be as easy as starting your day sipping a glass of water with a squeeze of lemon juice. Drinking this simple drink is only one of the many ways, all outlined in The Ultimate pH Solution, that you can change your body's pH and ward off disease. Too much acid in your blood can cause a host of health problems, but with cutting-edge, medically sound research, this indispensable guide offers an easy-to-follow plan and simple lifestyle changes that will help you kick acid and stay healthy. The Ultimate pH Solution also includes real-life success stories of people who have overcome disease and lost weight by balancing their pH levels, along with 50 recipes for delicious pH-powerful dishes. Learn why high-protein diets may be harmful to your health, why eating dairy may not help you avoid osteoporosis, and how to lower the acid levels in your body for optimal health.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Book!
Comment: This is a fast and easy read! Very helpful! My pH was 5.5 when I started and I've remained a healthy 7.0 since following her guidance! Bravo!
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Summary: Very good introduction to eating alkaline foods for improving health
Comment: This book is a simple and well-written explanation for those unfamiliar with the importance of eating a predominantly alkaline diet to maintain a healthy acid/alkaline balance in tissues. If people ate just to promote alkalinity, they'd maintain healthy weight, feel great, and wouldn't have to worry about most degenerative diseases.
pH is the measurement of potential hydrogen: simplified, it's the amount of positively charged hydrogen ions (acid) and negatively charged hydroxyl ions (alkaline) we carry. Our blood is slightly alkaline and most tissues should be as well. But our body is forced to store acids in our tissues when too many are consumed or generated for our body to excrete.
Additionally, alkaline minererals, such as calcium and magnesium, are robbed from bones and muscle to buffer these excess acids. A diet high in acid foods, such as sugar, meats, grains, coffee, and drugs, causes an improper pH balance in our tissues, which leads to poor health and, according to some, proliferation of microbes, fungus, yeast and molds.
The author writes:
"Instead of being addicted to sugar, stress, adrenaline rushes, conflict, or food additives, you will be addicted to feeling energetic, sleeping well at night, thinking clearly, and maintaining a balanced mood. Your body, your mind, and your spirit will feel strong in a way that can never be achieved with an acidic lifestyle."
In this book you'll discover:
* some problems with our current food choices
* an example of a typical acid diet
* how acids are produced internally
* how various diseases are caused by this diet: e.g., diabetes, depression, osteoporosis, CFS, arthritis, obesity, cancer
* how our body responds physiologically to ingestion of acids
* a quiz to rate your potential level of acidity
* case studies of various individuals who transformed their health through modifying their acid/alkaline balance
* supplements and therapies
* a chart of acid and alkaline foods
* a one-week meal plan for increasing alkalinity
* over 30 pages of recipes, some of which look quite appetizing and easy to make
The shortcomings include too little information on physiology (which is only important to someone like me who wants to understand the finer details), superficial instructions for testing urine and saliva pH and interpreting the results (which probably only matters to the anal retentive among us), too much cooked food with improper food combining, and minor reliance on gadgetry and technology. But these shortcoming pale in comparison the wealth of information from which anyone can benefit. Definitely recommended for the health seeker.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Good overview, easy to read...
Comment: I just finished reading "The Ultimate pH Solution". As the first book that I read on the topic of acid/alkaline balance, I thought it gave a great overview and was easy to read. I was first introduced to the acid/alkaline balance concept during a recent vacation (a cruise). There were a series of health seminars with the focus on acid/alkaline balance and detoxification. I thought this book supported what I had been told in the health seminars and made a lot of sense. I plan to read other books on the topic, but I highly recommend this book as a starter. I have not yet tried any of the recipes, but soon will. I have already begun drinking water with lemon added, green tea and green drinks instead of my usual coffee and diet cokes. It's only been a week but I am already feeling a ton of energy and am excited about the future weeks and months...and the changes that will occur. Again, I recommend this book for anyone interested in the topic, especially "newbies" like me!
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Summary: mrss88
Comment: Lots of to-the-point information about pH and some good recipes and tips to help reduce acid.
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Summary: Excellent!
Comment: This is an outstanding book both in content and in readability. It is practical, many of the books out there on acid-alkaline are over the top extreme, recommending all vegan or only raw foods - this book has a plan I can actually implement in my life.
Also, she includes a bibliography in the back of the book (references - yeah!) which I find reassuring as there are too many health and alternative medicine books out there that make many a statement and claim, but you have to wonder if they have a foot to stand on. A section of recipes is included also, every one that I have tried has turned out well, tasting great and surprisingly satisfying.
I think this will be a life changing book for many. I should add that those who have read a great deal of alternative medicine/health books may not like this book, as it is with out all the hype and salesmanship type motivational talk (but that is what I like about this particular book).
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