Alkaline Diet – How Can Alkaline Diet Transform Your Health

[Monica]

How interesting that bottled water is totally considered "the devil" in the US.

It's not so much the water in the bottles, but the bottles themselves. They are toxic. They contain cancer-causing chemicals. They pollute the planet. They accumulate in the oceans and take forever to break down. They are a scourge upon the planet.

Not just bottles for water, but soda bottles, etc. Plastics in general. It simply makes no sense to contribute to the pollution, + add to toxins in one's own body, when there are alternatives available.

We produce our own healthy water, without any of those chemicals, and have just 1 BPA-free bottle each for use when leaving the home.

In Hungary, I drink from a bottled water source that is a from a "nearby" (30-40km?) good well, my health has improved tenfold since drinking this in large amounts every day.... it is alkaline, it contains no fluoride, no excess natrium...

That's wonderful! That is better than having it shipped 100's or even 1000's of miles, in trucks in the hot sun, which makes more chemicals leach from the plastic to the water. You are fortunate you have a local source.

It's also wonderful that your community does not force fluoridation on the citizens. But, is it chlorinated? And, alkalinity may be natural, or it may be from added lye, in which case it's not good. Do you know what the pH of the water is? Tap water is typically around 7.5, but may be around 8 in some areas.

This is certainly much better than most bottled waters, which are acidic.

so what is the problem? I do not notice my body crying out for help because of it. *

In the context of alkalizing the body for health, if your water is 7.5 pH or higher, then you aren't adding to the problem, as is the case when people drink acidic water.

However, neither are you helping your body to get more alkaline. Your water, if between 7 and 8, is basically in the neutral to slightly alkaline range. To help the body get more alkaline, we drink water at the 9 to 10 pH range, which is 10 to 100 times more alkaline than the neutral water. At this high level, it can help counteract acidity from the diet.

If you are very healthy, it might not seem as though it should matter to you. For those wishing to improve their health, reduce or eliminate medications, heal diseases like cancer, arthritis, etc., there is a very big difference between 'neutral/slightly alkaline' and highly alkaline water, in terms of benefits.

That's not counting the oxidation issue. ALL bottled waters are oxidizing. If you could drink the water fresh from the spring, that would be wonderful. But as soon as it runs downstream and is bottled, it changes its state and will be oxidizing.

*of course, I am talking about non-carbonated mineral water, cause it makes no sense to drink it carbonated. If I want the fuzz, I will drink a glass of diet coke and promptly thank the Creator for allowing me to experience that strange addiction!

Sodas are extremely acidifying and therefore major contributors to cancer. It's virtually impossible to maintain a healthy pH while drinking even 1 soda per week. This alone is far worse than all the other bad effects from the sugar, caffeine, etc.

In addition to being extremely acidic, the sweetener in diet sodas are highly toxic. We call sodas 'cancer in a can' with diet sodas being even more poisonous.

It may produce a pleasurable fizz, but it's arguably the worst thing one can put in one's body.

Cancer in a Can

Diet Drinks: America’s Passion for Poison

An aspartame study by C. Trocho et al, was conducted by the staff of the Biology Department at the University of Barcelona. It clearly shows that aspartame which was labeled with carbon 14 isotope was transformed into formaldehyde in the bodies of the living specimens and that when they were examined later, the radioactive tagged formaldehyde was found throughout the vital organs of their bodies.

This conclusively proves that aspartame does indeed convert to formaldehyde in the bodies of aspartame consumers, and that many of the symptoms reported by victims of aspartame toxicity are indeed those associated with the poisonous and cumulative effects of formaldehyde.
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Some of the adverse symptoms that have been reported include the following: impotence, reduced female response, numbness, tingling nerves, aggressive behavior, spontaneous anger, anxiety, aggravation of phobias, depression, grand mal seizures and a combination of symptoms that mimic a heart attack.

A healthy way to get that same fizz would be by drinking flavored water kefir. It's fizzy but very healthy!