Balancing Your Alkaline Levels

In the beginning of the 20th century, scientists and Nobel prize winners made an incredible discovery. If our blood is unable to absorb enough oxygen, we become terribly ill. Heart problems, candida infections, arthritis, diabetes, and even cancer may result.

Our body is constantly trying to maintain a constant temperature 98.5F or 37C, which some may know, but were you also aware that your body tries even harder to maintain the right amount of oxygen in your blood? When our pH is too high or too low, we don’t feel well. In fact, our bodies begin to feel tired, gain weight, have poor digestion and get aches and pains.

Most people in the US and Europe are too acidic, where cancer, heart disease, arthritis,and diabetes are such an epidemic.

These are the four most common reasons for the high acidity levels:

Stress;
Toxins;
Parasites; and
The food we eat.

Acid Foods List

It’s really a shame that the foods we like most are the ones that make us most acidic and thus sick. Which foods are these? You guessed it:

Junk & Processed foods
Sugar
Coffee & Tea
All animal food (meat, eggs, chicken, fish, lobster, oysters)
Grains: (white) wheat, pasta, flour, bread etc
Dairy products (milk, cheese, butter)
Bad fats

That’s not to say that in moderation, and from the right sources, we can’t enjoy these foods. But the way that most of us get these products (fatty cuts of meat, bleached flour, homogenized cheese), there’s really no helping it.

Alkaline Foods List

During most of our lives, the majority of the foods we eat are highly acidic. These make us sick and tired whereas, by eating raw alkaline foods and drinks, we can help our body to heal itself:

Vegetables – especially raw green leafy vegetables.
Fresh Herbs & Spice – parsley, basil, cilantro, cayenne, ginger
Fruits – watermelon, avocado, cucumber, young coconuts
Wheat grass
Sprouts (alfalfa, broccoli, etc.)

The best alkaline drinks are alkaline water, vegetable juices and wheat grass juice. If you’re very acidic, however, you might need alkaline supplements to get you back in balance quicker.

How Acidic Are You?

How do you know your body pH? It’s actually incredibly easy to find out your alkalinity. You simply buy some pH test strips (also called litmus paper) at a health store and pee on it. The paper will tell you instantly what your pH is and thus, how alkaline or acidic you are.

The Best & Cheapest Alkaline Foods

Would you like to know the best and cheapest alkalizing foods? Edible wild plants. They’re highly alkaline, abundant, fresh and free! Just throwing a few of them in your salad will help balancing you.

That does mean, of course, to eat your crabgrass..or the pretty mushrooms in your yard.

Bio: Alexis Bonari is a freelance writer and blog junkie. She often can be found blogging about education and scholarships for college. In her spare time, she enjoys square-foot gardening, swimming, and avoiding her laptop.

We all know that water is important but I’ve never see it written down like this before:

• 75% of Americans are chronically dehydrated.
• In 37% of Americans, the thirst mechanism is so weak that it is often mistaken for hunger.
• Even MILD dehydration will slow down one’s metabolism as much as 3%.
• One glass of water shuts down midnight hunger pangs for almost 100% of the dieters studied in a U-Washington study.
• Lack of water is the #1 trigger of daytime fatigue.
• Preliminary research indicates that 8-10 glasses of water a day could significantly ease back and joint pain for up to 80% of sufferers.
• A mere 2% drop in body water can trigger fuzzy short-term memory, trouble with basic math, and difficulty focusing on the computer screen or on a printed page.
• Drinking 5 glasses of water daily decreases the risk of colon 79%, and one is 50% less likely to develop bladder cancer.

Are you drinking the amount of water you should every day?

Growing for Big Profit on a Small Parcel of Land

According to a recent Census of The Department of Agriculture, the most productive farmland in the United States is in the Borough of the Bronx! The second most productive farmland is in the City of San Francisco!

You can earn up to eight times the average personal income on as little as one acre of land. You can be male or female, old or young, married or single. You can lease, own, or rent. You can succeed with small fruits on prairie beach lands, house plants in coastal valleys, flowers on steep wooded hillsides, vegetables in city greenbelts and ornamentals in neighborhoods of million-dollar homes.

AND IT IS NOT THAT HARD TO DO!

Contributed by Jay North, www.GoingOrganic.com

How to grow 6000 pounds of veggies per year in your own back yard

The following article is an original from Jay North, author of Getting Started in Organic Gardening for Fun and Profit. The book is available at www.OneGlobePress.com. A portion of the proceeds are donated to Oprah’s Angel Network at www.Oprah.com.  Please visit One Globe Press today and download your PDF copy.

How to grow 6000 pounds of veggies per year in your own back yard
By Jay North from GoingOrganic.com

Organic gardening popularity in America is at an all-time high, and well it should be, considering the high cost of fresh produce at the supermarket.

But wait, Eat Organic, it’s the best bet for you and your family and oh-so-fresh, right from your own back yard. Best of all it will cut your grocery bill in half. While most want to be green thumbs, what many may not know is they can grow over 6000 lbs. of fresh veggies right in their own backyard, and tomatoes have never tasted so good.

While there are hundreds of gardening methods, the very best for small back yard gardens is the stack method, utilizing air space and raised multi-level beds. Equipment and supply cost can be kept to a minimum by using recycled materials often found at your local landfill; ask the operators if you can sift  through to find what you need. To start your search, look for recycled lumber to build beds, wire, rope and soft mesh materials for baskets.

Start with a plan and plan according to what you like to eat. Design a lay out that calls for utilizing air space to the max. Use fruit trees for shade for plants that require shade on hot months (i.e.; Chervil, Basil and soft lettuces), use the fence line to tie up beans, berries, traveling squash and grape vines. Find simple building plans or a friendly carpenter to help design stacked raise beds. Fill them with soil and organic compost, and build them to the highest level that is comfortable for you to reach. Use air space to tie up your cantaloupes and cucumbers.

Close planting is required to use the most root space without crowding the plants. Never mind the package that reads plant four inches apart, plant two inches apart. Plant carrots so you can pull an entire bunch for dinner, plant lettuce like grass and cut just the tops when ready for dinner. Train your tomatoes to climb the wall or fence, same for the cucs and melons. Support the fruit of melon plants with soft mesh baskets.

Two popular close planting methods

First the deep bed method—which is to say high wall, victory garden style or raised beds, which essentially mean all the same thing. Deep loose soil, wide enough bed to be worked from both sides of the bed and the bed is never walked on; this assists with air accessibility for the roots and ease of mineral assimilation. A typical high wall bed could be 10 feet long, four feet wide and two feet high, supported with wood, rock or brick. Filled with high quality topsoil, mulch and some organic fertilizers. Stop, wait, don’t plant the whole bed in one day — no, stagger your plantings by two weeks between each seeding. Why? Because you want to harvest and eat the veggies all season long, if you plant to much to quick, it will all mature at one time and be ready for consumption at the same time.

Now, combine your plantings: Example 1

Plant a short row of sweet corn. Plant seeds 1.5″ deep but close together, the plant uses the nutrients best that way and corn can support one another in the wind. Okay, corn is seeded, now what? Seed your onions, garlic and short edible flowers just a few inches from the corn seed path. They do not utilize the same nutrients and the onions and garlic make great pest control for the corn. Got it? Now you’re thinking!

Example 2:  Ready to plant some lettuce?

Wait — first run a wide gauge wire fence right down the center of your bed. Plant the seeds of pole beans and “cucs”(1) on both sides of the wire mesh fence, and then seed your lettuces. Why? Shade! Lettuce love shade especially on hot summer days — sooner here than you expect it to be. Then around the whole planting, seed your carrots, radishes and potatoes.

Important note: notice the combinations?

Some vegetable plants require more water than others, so always hand water-never use overhead sprinklers and never over-water.  Water only when soil is dry and plants needs additional water.

Popular planting method two:

Plant the Hopi method and save the world, and water too.

The Hopi Indians are the oldest agriculturist group in America; they believe planting a seed and speaking kind loving words to it will save the world from destruction. While this may be true or false, their planting methods speak loudly about what a genius way to plant and harvest edible crops and it’s all done in circles.

Start by digging round holes in the ground about one foot deep. Lay soil to the side for refilling the hole. Add compost if you choose; many Hopi might disagree with the necessity for added materials other than a single whole fresh fish — dead of course – at the bottom of the hole. Don’t gut or clean out the fish, otherwise you are robbing your plants of all the fertilizer they will need for the growing cycle. Cover the hole with the soil removed – but do not pack it in. Seed the entire hole in a circular form. Use corn, squash, melons, onion, garlic and anything else you enjoy eating. Sow seeds deep in the loose soil, water and allow spouting. As plants grow tall and strong use little a less water with each watering — better to allow the root to go in search of water, thereby building the strength of the plant to add strength to your body.  Aho Ho (3), and it is done, plant many seeds to the hole and plant close!

Lastly, don’t plant just strawberries.

Plant Blackberries, Raspberries, Blueberries and Strawberries all at the same time and in the same area.
Start with a well composted soil Ph 7 0r 8 (2). Dig deep beds down, not up, dig deep, and add compost and mulch. Plant Blackberries where they can travel freely, plant Raspberries so that can grow straight up and out, plant Blueberries close and strawberries even closer. Plant varieties for spring, summer and fall producing, be sure to mark where they are and feast all year long.

Smart stacking and seeding will easily supply a whole family with 6000 pounds of fresh produce — even year—round – in mild climates. To extend your growing season use plastic tents early in the spring and late in the fall to protect against frost damage.

Water saving tip

Dig a very large hole in your backyard or side hill; place a 2500 gallon plastic container in hole, add small water pump and collect water runoff during the rainy season — watch your water bill be cut by 25%.

Jay North, Organic gardener, author and social activist is an internationally recognized expert in organic gardening and farming. Author of Getting Started in Organic Gardening for Fun and Profit. His books can be found at his website www.GoingOrganic.com and www.OneGlobePress.com to download immediately in PDF EBooks.

Footnotes:
1 cucs, slang for cucumbers
2 Ph degree of acidity Vs Alkalinity Ph 7 is neutral and best for most edible crops
3 Aho Ho, native acknowledgement and blessings

I’ve been writing about the dangers of soy, in particular US soy, because 91% of the soy grown in the United States is GMO. Now comes a new study that ties eating GMO soy with reduced fertility, reproductive disorders, slower sexual maturity, increased infant mortality, and even hair growing in the mouth. For the full report, click here: http://www.responsibletechnology.org/utility/showArticle/?objectID=4888#hair

40 Winks or More

We all know that getting enough quality sleep is vital to our health. Sleep is the body’s time to do ‘fix up.’ Well you may be able to add yet another benefit to getting forty winks.

A new study from the University of Chicago indicates that not getting enough quality sack time, along with a sedentary lifestyle, as well as overeating may all contribute to getting diabetes.

Your lifestyle does make a difference in your health. In fact, this is the kind of information that needs to be considered in Washington as they are trying to fix our broken ‘health’ care system. People taking responsibility for their own health in little ways like getting enough ‘shut eye’ can go a long way to reducing the cost of health care, be it good, bad or indifferent.

Full story: http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSTRE57B3I620090812

For years I’ve been taking about the benefits of proper exposure to natural sunlight, and warning about the dangers of having low Vitamin D levels in your body. Now here comes a report that shows ANOTHER side effect of low Vitamin D.

Again… get outside, get some sun. Avoid sunscreens. Use your head and don’t get burned, but get some natural sunlight on your body. It’s how you body makes Vitamin D, and it’s critically important to your health.

Modern merchandising has demonized sunlight, something that we lived with and under for a million years, then in the last 20 grew to fear the sun. Did you know that the incidence of skin cancer is higher among factory workers than it is in construction workers? Yep, several times higher.

Here’s that new report:
http://www.businessweek.com/lifestyle/content/healthday/635427.html

The Environmental Working Group has updated their annual guide to safe sunscreens. In this report, only 8 percent passed the EWG tests for dangerous contents and truth in labeling. Fully 92 percent are rated “not recommended.”

Again, like I’ve said for years, the healthiest, best sunlight is natural sunlight – and our bodies need it for optimal health.

Here’s the EWG report: http://www.ewg.org/2010sunscreen/full-report/

Did you ever wonder why, no matter what you do for your health, you never seem to get to the point of optimal health????

Have you tried the diets, the exercise plans – and still fallen short???

While diet and exercise are important, you are still missing the critical part, the most important part. You’re missing the emotional connection for optimal health and wellness. You are what you feel!

We’ve put together a collection of resources to help you address this:

Audio interviews with Bruce Lipton – author of The Biology of Belief and Spontaneous Evolution. In these interviews he discusses how his scientific studies led to the writing of these two books, what he learned, and how.

Bruce is a PhD Biologist who has made the scientific connection between emotions & health.

An audio lecture (CD) by Neville Goddard – a positive thinking legend.

Audio interviews and lectures about the relationships between prayer, meditation and love – and how they impact healing.

Great inspiration from Julie Motz, Marilyn Schlitz, K. C. Craichy, Dr. David Kessler, James Howard Kunstler, Sally Wadyka, and more.

Outlines of how our emotions affect our well being on many levels.

Charts matching disease and emotional connections – find out what emotion is matched to what physical problem…

This is the “secret” to optimal health and wellness at any age.

You get all the information you need to transform your health – and your life – in this one outstanding package from RawDoctors.com!

For more information, please click here. (http://chidietvideos.com/the-secret-ingredient)

Australia recognizes Bowel Cancer Awareness Week in June which is designed to raise public awareness of a disease that claims the life of one Australian every two hours. Bowel cancer is the most common cancer in Australia to affect both men and women and is Australia’s second biggest cancer killer after lung cancer.

Symptoms of Bowel Cancer:

There are a number of signs and symptoms of bowel cancer, such as:
* Bleeding from the rectum, accompanied by constipation or diarrhea.
* Sudden weight loss.
* Fatigue and low blood pressure.
* Change in the frequency and timing of bowel movement.
* Stools with mucus and/or melena.
* Bowel pain, tenderness and vomiting.
* Blood or air bubbles in the urine and vaginal discharge that is malodorous in nature.
* Anemia and palpitations due to a low hemoglobin level.
* Jaundice and liver enlargement.
* Paraneoplastic syndrome related to blood thickening.
* Irritable Bowel Syndrome.

For more information visit chiDiet.com.

Coffee Linked to ‘Hallucinations’

Durham University asked 200 students about their caffeine intake. About 3% of them told researchers they had seen things that were not there. The researchers wrongly concluded that this was a case of too much caffeine. While that buzz brew may have contributed, my guess is that it’s not the whole picture.

Very frequently people who live for that java jolt are not all that concerned with their diet or lifestyle. They live for the buzz. So it is no surprise that after awhile their body gets to an overload point and then their brain makes up a movie in their heads.

The fact is, a cup of coffee a day won’t hurt you. But if you don’t watch your nutrition it will. To function properly, your brain needs good fats, vitamins and minerals – everyday, and in optimal amounts. Cutting back on nutrition for that caffeine crush is a road to la la land.

Follow the Raw Living Foods Lifestyle (stress reduction, optimal nutrition, sun and exercise) and you won’t need the buzz because you will have your health.

Full story:
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7827761.stm?ad=1