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Freedom with Greens

Good morning all!

As I am sitting here drinking my Goddess of Greens, reflecting on my alkalizing journey, some important thought came to me.

So, my first thought was, "This drink is so freakin delicious, I can have another one after this, oh, and another one if I want to, and one after that, too."

Being excited by that idea, I felt a sense of freedom; a deep freedom that goes beyond society, FDA, government, Pharmaceuticals, just kept going and going and going.

Freedom to live, live without fear of dying some horrible dis-ease, freedom to live without running to this doctor and that doctor just to find out, "We know you have (fill in dis-ease here) but we don't know how you got it."

Freedom without running to the pharmacy to pick up medications, freedom without worrying about pollen or not being able to go to the beach because the sun will kill us. Freedom from worrying when I am hungry I better eat something small so I won't gain 10 pounds.

Freedom from worrying about if my mom is going to get Alzheimer's and forget about me. Freedom from searching the web for rare dis-eases and how to cure them. The list goes on and on.

So, as I sat there and remembered all of the people who have told me how "extreme" I am being, I felt peace and guess what? FREEDOM!

On my journey of alkalizing, I have had a bumpy road, and it has all been good! I wouldn't change it for anything.

Living an acid life is actually more time consuming, more money consuming and worst of all, more life consuming. That is what occurred to me this morning.

To all you beautiful souls, HAVE A FABULOUS DAY! I have to go make another Goddess of Greens...........

The Medical Diagnosis of Disease Is An Illusion

Disease or should we say Dis-ease names like cancer, diabetes and osteoporosis are misleading and misinform patients about dis-ease prevention.

There is a curious tendency in conventional medicine to name a set of symptoms a disease. I was recently at a compounding pharmacy having my bone mineral density measured to update my health stats. I spotted a poster touting a new drug for osteoporosis.

It was written by a drug company and it said exactly this: 'Osteoporosis is a disease that causes weak and fragile bones.' Then, the poster went on to say that you need a particular drug to counteract this 'disease.'

Yet the language is all backwards. Osteoporosis isn't a disease that causes weak bones, osteoporosis is the name given to a diagnosis of weak bones. In other words, the weak bones are the result of excess acidity, and then the diagnosis of osteoporosis followed.

The drug poster makes it sound like osteoporosis strikes first, and then you get weak bones. The cause and effect is all backwards. And that's how drug companies want people to think about diseases and symptoms: first you 'get' the dis-ease, and then you are 'diagnosed' just in time to take a new drug for the rest of your life.

But it's all an illuision. There is no such disease as osteoporosis. It's just a made-up name given to a pattern of symptoms that indicates you are over-acid which causes your bones to become fragile.

As another example, when a person follows an unhealthy lifestyle that results in a symptom such as high blood pressure, that symptom is actually being assumed to be a disease all by itself and it will be given a disease name.
What disease? The dis-ease is, of course, 'hypertension' or 'high blood pressure.'
Doctors throw this phrase around as if it were an actual dis-ease and not merely descriptive of patient physiology.

This may all seem silly, right? But there's actually a very important point to all this.

When we look at symptoms and give them disease names, we automatically distort the selection of available treatments for such a dis-ease.
If the dis-ease is, by itself, hypercholesterolemia or high cholesterol, then the cure for the dis-ease must be nothing other than lowering the high cholesterol. And that's how we end up with all these pharmaceuticals treating high cholesterol in order to 'prevent' this dis-ease and lower the levels of LDL cholesterol in the human patient.

By lowering only the cholesterol, the doctor can rest assured that he is, in fact, treating this 'disease,' since the definition of this 'disease'
is hypercholesterolemia or high cholesterol and nothing else.

But there is a fatal flaw in this approach to disease treatment: the symptom is not the cause of the dis-ease. There is another cause, and this deeper cause is routinely ignored by conventional medicine, doctors, drug companies, and even patients.

Let's take a closer look at hypertension or high blood pressure. What actually causes high blood pressure? Many doctors would say high blood pressure is caused by a specific, measurable interaction between circulating chemicals in the human body. Thus, the ill-behaved chemical compounds are the cause of the high blood pressure, and therefore the solution is to regulate these chemicals. That's exactly what pharmaceuticals do -- they attempt to manipulate the chemicals in the body to adjust the symptoms of high blood pressure. Thus, they only treat the symptoms, not the root cause.

Or take a look at high cholesterol. The conventional medicine approach says that high cholesterol is caused by a chemical imbalance in the liver, which is the organ that produces cholesterol. Thus the treatment for high cholesterol is a prescription drug that inhibits the liver's production of cholesterol (statin drugs). Upon taking these drugs, the high cholesterol (the 'disease') is regulated, but what was causing the liver to overproduce cholesterol in the first place?
That causative factor remains ignored.

The root cause of high cholesterol, as it turns out, is primarily an over acidic lifestyle and diet. A person lives an acidic life or who eats foods that are acidic will inevitably cause the body to go into preservation mode and produce more cholesterol to neutralize the excess acid thus showing the symptoms of this so-called dis-ease of high cholesterol. Its simple cause and effect.
Eat the wrong foods and don't exercise, and you'll produce too much acid which will cause the body to release cholesterol from the liver to bind up that acid which can be detected and diagnosed by conventional medical procedures. You see it is not the cholesterol that is bad it is the acid producing food we eat and the lack of exercise that is bad. Reduce the acid producing foods like beef, chicken, pork, dairy, coffee, tea, soda pops, etc., and start exercising every day and you will reduce the protective cholesterol that is saving your life from acids that are not being elimnated from an acidic lifestyle and diet.

Yet the root cause of all this is actually poor lifestyle and food choice, not some bizarre behavior by the liver. If the disease were to be accurately named, then, it would be called Acidic Lifestyle and Food Choice Dis-Ease, or simply ALFCD.

ALFCD would be a far more accurate name that would make sense to people. If it's an acidic lifestyle and foods choice dis-ease, then it seems that the obvious solution to the dis-ease would be to choose a lifestyle and foods that aren't so acidic. Of course that may be a bit of simplification since you have to distinguish between healthy alkaline lifestyles and foods and unhealthy acidic lifestyle and foods. But at least the name ALFCD gives clients or patients a better idea of what's actually going on rather than naming the dis-ease after a symptom, such as high cholesterol. You see, the symptom is not the dis-ease, but conventional medicine insists on calling the symptom the dis-ease because that way it can treat the symptom and claim success without actually addressing the underlying cause, which remains a mystery to modern medicine.

But let's move on to some other dis-eases so you get a clearer picture of how this actually works.
Another dis-ease that's caused by poor lifestyle and acidic food choice is diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is the natural physiological and metabolic result of a person consuming refined carbohydrates and added sugars in large quantities, undigested proteins from beef, chicken, and pork without engaging in regular physical exercise that would compensate for such dietary practices.

The name 'diabetes' is meaningless to the average person. The disease should be called Excessive Acid Dis-Ease, or EAD. If it were called Excessive Acid Dis-ease, the solution to it would be rather apparent; simply eat less sugar, eliminate all animal proteins, eggs, dairy, drink fewer soft drinks, exercise and so on. But of course that would be far too simple for the medical community, so the dis-ease must be given a complex name such as diabetes that puts its solution out of reach of the average patient.

Another dis-ease that is named after its symptom is cancer. In fact, to this day, most doctors and many patients still believe that cancer is a physical
thing: a tumor. In reality, a tumor is the solution of cancer, not its cause. A tumor is simply a physical manifestation of bound up acidic cells so they do not spoil other healthy cells. The tumor is the solution to cells damaged by acids not the problem. The truth is cancer is not a cell but an acidic liquid. When a person 'has cancer,' what they really have is cancerous tissues or latent tissue acidosis. They are absorbing their own acidic urine. It would be a far better named for the dis-ease: Cancerous Tisssue Dis-Ease(CTD) or Latent Tissue Acidosis or LTA.

If cancer were actually called Latent Tissue Acidosis, it would seem ridiculous to try to cure cancer by cutting out tumors through surgery and by destroying the immune system with chemotherapy. And yet these are precisely the most popular treatments for cancer offered by conventional medicine. These treatments do absolutely nothing to support the patient's immune system and prevent the build up of acids in the tissues. That's exactly why most people who undergo chemotherapy or the removal of tumors through surgical procedures end up with yet more cancer a few months or a few years later. It's also another reason why survival rates of cancer have barely budged over the last twenty years. (In other words, conventional medicine's treatments for cancer simply don't work.) The main reason is current medical science wrongly perceives cancer as a cell when in reality cancer is an acidic liquid, like lactic acid.

This whole situation stems from the fact that the dis-ease is misnamed. It isn't cancer, it isn't a tumor and it certainly isn't a dis-ease caused by having too strong of an immune system that needs to be destroyed through chemotherapy. It is simply latent tissue acidosis. And if it were called latent tissue acidosis dis-ease or urine in the tissues dis-ease, the effective treatment for cancer would be apparent.

The kidneys are responsible for eliminating acids out of the blood and recycling alkalinity back into the blood. When we have an over-acidic lifestyle and diet this puts stress on the kidneys which can cause them to breakdown. The result is kidney dis-ease caused by circulatory acids. If acids are not eliminated out of the blood they will then be thrown out into the tissues leading to latent tissue acidosis and eventual cancerous tissue. Medical science uses dialysis to purify the blood from acidity and prevent latent tissue acidosis. If one will stop their acidic lifestyle and diet and begin to alkalize the blood and tissues this will support the kidneys and prevent kidney disease and the need for dialysis.

There are many other dis-eases that are given misleading names by western medicine. But if you look around the world and take a look at how dis-eases are named elsewhere, you will find many countries have dis-ease names that actually make sense.

For example, in Chinese medicine, Alzheimer's dis-ease is given a name that means, when translated, 'feeble mind disease.' In Chinese medicine, the name of the dis-ease more accurately describes the actual cause of the dis-ease which is caused by acids or urine on the brain, whereas in western medicine, the name of the dis-ease seems to be intended to obscure the root cause of the dis-ease, thereby making all dis-eases sound far more complex and mysterious than they really are.

This is one way in which doctors and practitioners of western medicine keep medical treatments out of the reach of the average citizen. Because, by God, they sure don't want people thinking for themselves about the causes of dis-ease!

By creating a whole new vocabulary for medical conditions, they can speak their own secret language and make sure that people who aren't schooled in medicine don't understand what they're saying. That's a shame, because the treatments and cures for virtually all chronic dis-eases are actually quite simple and can be described in plain language, such as making different alkaline food choices, getting more natural sunlight, drinking more alkaline water, engaging in regular physical exercise, avoiding specific acidic foods, supplementing our diet with green foods and green drinks and alkalizing nutritional supplements and so on.

See, western medicine prefers to describe dis-eases in terms of chemistry. When you're depressed, you aren't suffering from a lack of natural sunlight; you are suffering from a 'brain chemistry imbalance' that can only be regulated, they claim, by ingesting toxic chemicals to alter your brain chemistry. When your bones are brittle, it's not acidic brittle bones dis-ease; it's called osteoporosis, something that sounds very technical and complicated. And to treat it, western doctors and physicians will give you prescriptions for expensive drugs that somehow claim to make your bones less brittle. But in fact, the real treatment for this can be described in plain language once again: regular physical exercise, vitamin D supplementation, mineral supplements that include calcium and strontium, natural sunlight, and avoidance of acidic foods such as soft drinks, white flour and added sugars.

In fact, virtually every dis-ease that's prominent in modern society -- diabetes, cancer, heart disease, osteoporosis, clinical depression, irritable bowel syndrome and so on -- can be easily described in plain language without using complex terms at all. These dis-eases are simply misnamed. And I believe that they are intentionally misnamed to put the jargon out of reach of everyday citizens. As a result, there's a great deal of arrogance in the language of western medicine, and this arrogance furthers the language of separation. Separation never results in healing. In order to effect healing, we must bring together the language of healers and patients using plain language that real people understand and that real people can act upon.

We need to start describing dis-eases in terms of their root causes, not in terms of their arcane, biochemical actions. When someone suffers from seasonal affective disorder or clinical depression, for example, let's call it what it is: Sunlight Deficiency Disorder. To treat it, the person simply needs to get more sunlight. This isn't rocket science, it's not complex, and it doesn't require a prescription.

If someone is suffering from osteoporosis, let's get realistic about the words we use to describe the condition: it's really Acidic Bones Dis-ease.
And it should be treated with things that will enhance bone density, such as nutrition, physical exercise and avoidance of acidic foods and drinks that strip away bone mass from the human body to neutralize the excess acids in the blood and tissues.

All of this information, of course, is rather shocking to old-school doctors and practitioners of western medicine, and the bigger their egos are, the more they hate the idea of naming dis-eases in plain language that patients can actually comprehend. That's because if the simple truths about dis-eases and their causes were known, health would be more readily available to everyday people, and that would lessen the importance of physicians and medical researchers.

There's a great deal of ego invested in the medical community, and they sure don't want to make sound health attainable to the average person without their expert advice. Many Doctors want to serve as the translators of 'truth' and will balk at any attempts to educate the public to either practice medicine on their own.

But in reality, health (and a connection with
spirit) is attainable by every single person.
Health is easy, it is straightforward, it is direct and, for the most part, it is available free of charge. A personal connection with our Creator is the same if we ask humbly in prayer for a relationship with Him, and guidance.

Don't believe the names of dis-eases given to you by your doctor. Those names are designed to obscure, not to inform. They are designed to separate you from self-healing, not to put you in touch with your own inner healer. And thus, they are nothing more than bad medicine masquerading as modern medical practice.

In Love and Healing Light,

Robert O. Young Ph.D., D.Sc.

Pomegranate Reduces Intestinal Inflammation, Enriches Blood, Cleans Arteries and Protects Against Cancer

Pomegranates are nearly round, 2-1/2 to 5 in.
wide fruit crowned at the base by the
prominent calyx.

The tough, leathery skin or rind is typically yellow overlaid with light or deep pink or rich red.

The interior is separated by membranous walls and white, spongy, bitter tissue into compartments packed with sacs filled with sweetly acid, juicy, red, pink or whitish pulp or aril.

In each sac there is one angular, soft or hard seed full of Omega 5 oils (CLA).

The arils (seed casings) of the pomegranate are consumed raw. The entire seed is eaten, though the fleshy outer portion of the seed is the part that is desired. The taste differs depending on the variety of pomegranate and its state of ripeness.

Pomegranate juice is a popular drink in the Middle East, and is also used in Iranian and Indian cuisine; it began to be widely marketed in the U.S. in 2004.

Pomegranate concentrate is used in Syrian cuisine. Grenadine syrup is thickened and sweetened pomegranate juice; it is used in cocktail mixing. Before the tomato arrived to the Middle East, grenadine was widely used in many Persian foods; it can still be found in traditional recipes. The juice can also be used as an antiseptic when applied to cuts. In addition, Pomegranate seeds are sometimes used as a spice and the seeds are the best source of Omega 5 or CLA oils.

The primary commercial growing regions of the world are the Near East, India and surrounding countries and southern Europe.

In California commercial cultivation is centered in the southern San Joaquin Valley.

One pomegranate delivers 40% of an adult's daily vitamin C requirement. It is also a rich source of folic acid and of antioxidants.

Recent research into the health benefits of Pomegranates has created unprecedented demand both in the United States and Europe.

Recent studies have been published showing a positive relationships between pomegranate consumption and prostate cancer, carotid arteries and hypertension.

The pomegranate and its color have been the object of great fascination, particularly in Oriental cultures. The Arabs were great admirers and promoters of its cultivation, making it the symbol of the Moslem Kingdom of Granada in the southern Iberian Peninsula.

The scarlet blossoms of the pomegranate appear as dazzling flames against the dark green backdrop of the tree's leaves. The tiny beads of fruit, full of precious oil and juice, are brilliant as drops of blood or rubies. These drops of blood from the pomegranate when consumed will help to build healthy red blood cells, according to the ancients who wrote the "Law of Similars".

King Solomon compared the cheeks of his beloved to the pomegranate three thousand years ago.

Here at the Rancho del Sol, in sunny Valley Center, California, the home of the pH Miracle Center, we are happy to say that we also grow pomegranates, along side our avocados and grapefruits for very special and important life saving reasons.

The pomegranate is quite rich in vitamins C, E, and B6, containing, as well, significant amounts of B1, B2, and niacin. The most abundant minerals are potassium for alkalizing, copper for purification, and iron for building hemoglobin.

Among its non-nutritive components the following are worth noting:

Tannins, in small amounts. These are much more prevalent in the rind of the fruit or in the membrane that separate the seed sacs.

These tannins have an astringent and anti-inflammatory effect on the mucosa
of the digestive tract.

Anthocyanins are reddish or bluish vegetable pigments belonging to the flavonoid group act as antiseptics and anti-inflammatory substances in the digestive tract and as potent antioxidants within the body cells, halting the aging process and cancerous acidic degeneration.

Pelletierine is an alkaloid and is effective vermifuge (expulses intestinal parasites) that is found primarily in the bark of the roots of the tree. The rind and the membranes also contain this alkaloid, but not the seed sacs.

Together, thee components give the pomegranate the following properties: astringent, anti-inflammatory, vermifuge, remineralizer, alkalinizer, antioxidant, and depurant.

The pomegranate is suitable in cases of outfectious diarrhea caused by excess acidity leading to gastroenteritis or colitis because of its astringent and anti-inflammatory action on the digestive tract. It is also beneficial in cases of flatulence or intestinal cramps.
Surprising results have been achieved in chronic cases such as ulcerative colitis or granulomatous colitis (Chrohn's dis-ease).

Intestinal parasites, tenia or tapeworm, in particular are eliminated by eating the inner walls of the pomegranate.

Because of its astringent action it reduces the production of hydrochloric acid and thus reduces inflammation in an irritated acidic stomach (which should be alkaline).

The pomegranate contains a significant amount of copper at 70 ug/100g., a trace element that helps to purify the blood as well as helps in the absorption of iron in building red blood cells.

Because of its rich content of flavonoids and antioxidant, which halt the processes of arterial aging, the pomegranate seed oil is recommended in cases of reduced arterial blood flow. It is very beneficial in heart attack prevention and cardiac health in general.

Because pomegranates are rich in potassium, they are appropriate for those suffering from hypertension. They help avoid excessive numbers of both systolic and diastolic pressure.

Pomegranates are of value in cases of gout, excess uric acid, and acid causing obesity because of its alkalizing and depurant effect.

Pomegranates are loaded with Omega 5 CLA oils which have been found to neutralize acids associated with arteriosclerosis, breast cancer, prostate cancer and especially obesity.

Dr. Robert O. Young, a research scientist at the pH Miracle Living Center, is suggesting to ingest at least 3000mgs to 4000mgs of pomegranate Omega 5 CLA oil per day for helping the body maintain its alkaline design and buffer the acids that make us sick, tired and fat.

The Erroneous Johns Hopkins Hospital 'Cancer Update' Article

The following "cancer update" article of mis- information on cancer has been circulating around the internet for about a year. The claim is that the article originated from Johns Hopkins Hospital as an update for how cancer spreads and the recommended methods for treatment.

According to Snopes the article did not originate from Johns Hopkins Hospital and they also deny the authorship of the following article of March 2007.

http://www.snopes.com/medical/disease/cancerupdate.asp

As a matter of scientific interest and to correct many of the myths surrounding cancer I have decided to comment after each statement in the erroneous Johns Hopkins Hospital article.

"CANCER UPDATE"

1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion. When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size.

Dr. Robert O. Young states,
"There is no such thing as a cancer cell. Cancer is not a cell but an acidic dietary and/or metabolic acid that poisons or ferments body cells. Just like a rotten apple in a bushel of healthy apples, the rotten spoiling apple is eluding acid that will spoil all the rest of the healthy apples.

We do not say that the apple or apples have cancer, we say the apples are spoiling or rotting.

Cancer is not a noun it is an adjective. We do not have cancer cells or cancer in our body we have acids that spoil healthy cells causing cancerous cells and a cancerous condition.

When this happens we have cancerous or spoiling cells which describes the reality of what is happening to the body cell(s) in a cancerous or fermenting state. Also, one can test the levels of urine acidity daily which will give an indication of the levels of tissue acidity.

Normal healthy urine pH should read at least 7.2 or above. You can also see the effects of tissue acidity that leads to a cancerous state by viewing how the blood coagulates. If the blood is in a hypo-coagulated state this indicates latent tissue acidosis and a marker for a cancerous or degenerative tissue state.

This simple blood test can be done as an early warning to any cancerous state in any part of the body for the purposes of screening and prevention."

2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person's lifetime.

Dr. Young states:
"All of us have cancerous or acidic body cells from conception to death to a lesser or greater degree depending upon lifestyle and dietary choices.

The body is constantly trying to maintain its alkaline design while dealing with its many acidic functions.

The body requires energy to run and the consumption of energy produces dietary and metabolic acidic waste products.

If these dietary and metabolic acidic waste products are not eliminated through urination, perspiration, defecation or respiration they are then eliminated into the body tissues, such as the connective tissues, muscles and bones.

These dietary and/or metabolic acids that are not properly eliminated can then spoil body cells leading to an acidic or cancerous state I call latent tissue acidosis."

3. When a persons immune system is strong the cancer cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumors.

Dr. Young states:
"First, the immune system or the white blood cells do not destroy cancerous cells. They do not even pick up cancerous cells.

White blood cells are the janitors of blood traveling through the body fluids picking up smaller insignificant cellular debris from the food we eat.

Second, cancerous cells do not multiply. This is another scientific misconception based upon the premise that cancer is a cell. Cancer is not a cell it is an acidic poisonous liquid flowing through our body fluids.

Dietary and metabolic acids spoil body cells and then as one cell begins to spoil their acids can spoil other cells.

This phenomenon is a what I call the "domino effect".

Metastasis of cancerous cells is the expression of the "domino effect" of acids from one spoiling cell spoiling another cell and so on. This causes the body to go into the preservation mode by forming fibrin monomers to encapsulate the spoiling cells together in order to protect the surrounding healthy tissue. Medical savants call these formations tumors. Tumors are fibrous encapsulations of rotten spoiled cells and their associated acidic waste products."

"A tumor is the body's way of stopping systemic spoiling and localizing the spoiling to a specific localized area.

Tumors are not the cancer but the encapsulation of acidic spoiling cancerous cells. The tumor is the body's solution to systemic spoiling of unhealthy body cells and tissues due to an inverted way of living, eating and thinking and NOT the perceived cause of the cancerous state by current medical savants."

4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has multiple nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic, environmental, food and lifestyle factors.

Dr. Young states:
"People do not have cancer they are in a cancerous state to a lesser or greater degree depending on lifestyle and dietary choices. When you live, think and eat acidic you pollute your internal environmental fluids causing latent tissue acidosis that can lead to cancerous or spoiling tissues."
"Genetics only plays out in a cancerous state as an inherited physiological weakness where acids may settle. One is only predisposed to a cancerous state if they are making acidic lifestyle and dietary choices."

5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet and including supplements will strengthen the immune system.

Dr. Young states:
"To overcome a cancerous state one needs to reestablish the alkaline design of the body and better manage the acidic loads from lifestyle, diet and metabolism. I have suggested for years a healthy body cannot get sick in an alkaline state. All sickness and disease is caused by over-acidic lifestyle and dietary choices. You do not get a cancerous condition you do a cancerous condition. A cancerous condition is the expression of poor lifestyle and dietary choices."

6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone marrow, gastro-intestinal tract etc, and can cause organ damage, like liver, kidneys, heart, lungs etc.

Dr. Young states:
"All chemotherapy treatments are acidic. Acidic treatments of chemical therapy only contribute to an already acidic state. The key to health, energy, vitality and fitness of the body is not with the body cells but with the alkaline environment in which the body cells reside. Destroying cancerous cells with drugs does not address the real foundational problem of what causes a cancerous condition.

The true cause of any cancerous state is the level of acidic dietary and metabolic poisons in the fluids of the body. That is why ALL treatments focused on the cancerous cells and tissues will eventually fail with the death of the body. You do not fight fire with the acid of kerosene just as you would not fight a cancerous condition with acidic drugs and/or treatments."

7. Radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.

Dr. Young states:
"Radiation does breakdown cancerous cells which pollutes the internal alkaline environment causing systemic pollution and stress on the white blood cells and elimination and filter organs, including the lungs, liver, skin, kidney and bowels. The key is not to destroy tumors with radiation but to saturate the tissues with alkalinity. When this happens the tumor will finish its job of encapsulating spoiled or fermenting cancerous cells, crystallize, harden and then breakdown to eventually eliminated. This is the normal healthy life cycle of a tumor in the body."

8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often reduce tumor size. However prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation do not result in more tumor destruction.
Dr. Young states:

"Chemotherapy and radiation treatment is focused on the wrong thing - the cells of the body and not the acidic fluids of the body. The problem is not the tumor or cancerous cells. The tumor is the solution to the problem to prevent systemic cellular poisoning or spoiling from dietary and/or metabolic acid. So what is the real problem?

The real problem is systemic acidosis from personal lifestyle and dietary choice that localizes at the weakness parts of the body tissues."

9. When the body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy and radiation the immune system is either compromised or destroyed, hence the person can succumb to various kinds of infections and complications.

Dr. Young states:
"True immunity comes from maintaining the alkaline design of the body fluids at 7.365 to 7.4. The white blood cells play only a supportive role in maintaining cleanliness of the body fluids. It is true that chemotherapy drugs and radiation can suppress the white blood cells from cleaning up cellular debris. The build up of cellular debris will cause an increase of acidity contributing to an already acidic state. A person in an acidic state or latent tissue acidosis will eventually succumb from the outfections of acids from spoiling cellular debris/matter and cancerous spoiling body cells."

10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to mutate and become resistant and difficult to destroy. Surgery can also cause cancer cells to spread to other sites.

Dr. Young states:
"I will state again that there is no such thing as a cancer cell. Body cells do not mutate they spoil.
All body cells transform to bacteria, yeast and then mold in an acidic environment. Acids spread systemically spoiling body cells. Cancerous cells only spoil other cells from their acidic transformations and wastes! Chemotherapy and radiation are acidic treatments that spoil healthy and unhealthy body cells. Surgery removes acidic cancerous cells but disturbs the healthy surrounding tissue. This can cause further acidic complications in and around the surrounding healthy tissue."

11. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer cells by not feeding it with the foods it needs to multiply.

Dr. Young states:
"Cancer cells do not multiply! Cancerous cells are body cells that are fermenting, rotting and spoiling other cells. You cannot starve cancerous cells. Body cells are made up of intelligent matter which cannot be destroyed - they can only be changed.

The key to a cancerous condition in the body is to hyper-alkalize the blood which will then force alkalinity into the acidic tissues and thus buffering the tissue acidity that leads to a cancerous state."

CANCER CELLS FEED ON:

Dr. Young states:
"Once again we have cancerous cells not cancer cells. Cancerous cells are not different from healthy cells - they both feed on electrical energy - electrons. Antione BeChamp once said, "everything is the prey of life, nothing is the prey of death."

Matter cannot be created nor can it be destroyed it can only change its form and its function."
12. Sugar is a cancer-feeder. By cutting off sugar it cuts off one important food supply to the cancer cells. Sugar substitutes like NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc are made with Aspartame and it is harmful. A better natural substitute would be Manuka honey or molasses but only in very small amounts. Table salt has a chemical added to make it white in color. Better alternative is Bragg's aminos or sea salt.

Dr. Young states:
"All sugars, including manuka honey and molasses are acid forming and can cause cancerous body cells.

All sugars are acidic waste products from fermenting matter. Braggs aminos is also acidic and should not be ingested when in a cancerous state. Sea salt is alkalizing and should be included in any plan to prevent or reverse a cancerous condition.

Sea salt is also foundational in helping the body create the alkaline buffer of sodium bicarbonate."
13. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus.

By cutting off milk and substituting with unsweetened soya milk cancer cells are being starved.

Dr. Young states:

"Mucous is formed by the body as a protection to healthy body cells to buffer dietary and/or metabolic acids. Milk is highly acidic and contains a cancerous causing acid called lactose that breaks down to a primary metabolite called lactic acid. Lactic acid is one of the major cancerous causing acids next to nitric and uric acid from animal proteins. Cancerous cells do not feed on mucus they feed on electrons robbing the body of energy. Mucus is the end product of the body buffering dietary and/or metabolic acids with sodium bicarbonate. Soy milk is also acidic and should not be used unless it is freshly squeezed."

14. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment.

A meat-based diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little chicken rather than beef or pork. Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all harmful, especially to people with cancer.

Dr. Young states:
"Cancerous cells are fermenting body cells and do not thrive in an acidic state but are the result of an acidic state. Cancerous cells will continue to breakdown or transform in an acidic environment.

All animal proteins including fish are highly acidic and should not be ingested when one is in a highly acidic cancerous state. The body cannot adequately remove the dietary acids of uric, nitric, sulphuric and phosphoric acid from the animal proteins leading to increased acidity and potentially increased cancerous body cells. Antibiotics and hormones are both metabolic acids and can contribute to an acidic state leading to a cancerous condition."

15. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains, seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body into an alkaline environment. About 20% can be from cooked food including beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide live enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to cellular levels within 15 minutes to nourish and enhance growth of healthy cells. To obtain live enzymes for building healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most vegetables including bean sprouts) and eat some raw vegetables 2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).

Dr. Young states:
"All enzymes are acids. All acids cause cancerous conditions. The body runs on alkalinity not acidity.

Another way to say this is the body runs on electrons not protons or hydrogen ions. When you are dealing with a serious cancerous condition one needs to reestablish the alkaline design of the body. You can only do this with a 100% alkaline lifestyle and diet! I call this the alkaline plan the COWS program. The COWS program is the pH Miracle Lifestyle and Dietary Plan of alkaline foods, drinks and lifestyle choices. This would include the four food groups of:
1) Chlorophyll
2) Oil
3) Water
4) Salt
It would also include deep breathing, meditation and daily exercise.

16. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high caffeine. Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer-fighting properties. Water-best to drink purified water, or filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap water. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it.

Dr. Young states:
"Coffee, black tea, green tea, chocolate are all acidic and do not support the alkaline design of the body. Alkaline water at a pH of 9.5 or above is the best water to drink. Distilled water with sodium chloride or chlorite will increase the alkalinity of the body fluids and buffer excess dietary and metabolic acid."

17. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the intestines become putrefied and leads to more toxic buildup.

Dr. Young states:
"All meat is acidic, all digestive enzymes are acidic and should not be ingested. To support the alkaline design of the body you need to increase your consumption of alkaline food, water and supplements. Daily deep breathing, mediation and exercise are also necessary for maintaining the alkaline design of the body."

18. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering.

By refraining from or eating less meat it frees more enzymes to attack the protein walls of cancer cells and allows the body's killer cells to destroy the cancer cells.

Dr. Young states:
"Cancerous cells have a calcified covering from all the acidity. The body uses calcium ions to buffer endogenous acidity from without and within the body cell. Enzymes are acids that negative effect every cell in the body.

Enzymes do not attack cancerous cells they spoil body cells leading to more cancerous cells. The calcification of the body cell is a means of protection against dietary and/or metabolic acidity."

19. Some supplements build up the immune system (IP6, Flor-ssence, Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFAs etc.) to enable the body's own killer cells to destroy cancer cells. Other supplements like vitamin E are known to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body's normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or unneeded cells.

Dr. Young states:
"One of the most naturally occurring alkalizing compounds produced by the body is sodium bicarbonate. I have suggested using increased amounts of sodium bicarbonate for years to neutralize the dietary and metabolic acids that make us sick, depressed and tired. Its inexpensive, safe, effective and easy to get. I also suggest liberal amounts of mono and polyunsaturated fats to buffer increased amounts of dietary and/or metabolic acids in the prevention of a cancerous state."

20. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit.
A proactive and positive spirit will help the cancer warrior be a survivor. Anger, unforgiveness and bitterness put the body into a stressful and acidic environment. Learn to have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy life.

Dr. Young states:
"A cancerous state is caused by acidic lifestyle and dietary choice. This would include your thoughts, your words and your deeds."

21. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated environment. Exercising daily, and deep breathing help to get more oxygen down to the cellular level.
Oxygen therapy is another means employed to destroy cancer cells.

Dr. Young states:
"Cancerous cells may change in an oxygen rich state of nascent oxygen, atomic oxygen or O1.
I agree with daily exercise, deep breathing and oxygen supplementation to help maintain the alkaline design of the body. I also strongly believe that the cure for any cancerous condition can be found in its prevention and not in its treatment!"

Origins of the "Cancer Update":
Just as urban legends and rumors eventually become attached to the most famous exemplars of the subjects they discuss (e.g., any fast food-related legend, no matter where it originates, will inevitably be told about McDonald's), so do many of the spurious medical articles circulated on the Internet eventually become attributed to the world-renowned Johns Hopkins University, medical school, and hospitals.

The "Cancer Update from Johns Hopkins Hospital"

quoted above has been forwarded via e-mail as a preface to another piece (about the supposed dangers of using microwave ovens to heat food stored in plastic containers) also falsely said to have originated with Johns Hopkins. Neither article was issued by (or has any connection to) the Johns Hopkins university or hospital, and Johns Hopkins has disclaimed the contents of both.
Of the "Cancer Update" e-mail (most of the information contained within which is of the "quack" variety), Johns Hopkins says:

An email falsely attributed to Johns Hopkins describing properties of cancer cells and suggesting prevention strategies has begun circulating the Internet. Johns Hopkins did not publish the email, entitled "Cancer Update from Johns Hopkins," nor do we endorse its contents.
For more information about cancer, please read the information on our web site or visit the National Cancer Institutes's web site at http://www.cancer.gov/.

The URL for this page is http://www.snopes.com/medical/disease/cancerupdate.asp

Soy Helps to Reduce Belly Fat

A daily serving of soy may help postmenopausal women avoid gaining fat around the middle, preliminary research suggests.

In a study of 18 postmenopausal women, researchers found that those who drank a soy-based shake every day for three months tended to gain less abdominal fat than those who had a milk-based shake.

Soy contains compounds called isoflavones that are help to buffer the the hormone acid estrogen.
So in theory, soy isoflavones could help reduce the amount of stored fat that binds to hormones like estrogen.

The new findings appear to be the first to show that soy protein may affect abdominal fat distribution, according to the researchers, led by Dr. Cynthia K.
Sites of the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
They report the results in the medical journal Fertility and Sterility.

The study included 18 women in their 50s who had been menopausal for one to five years. Half were randomly assigned to drink a soy-based shake each day, while the rest were given a shake containing the milk protein casein.

The women were told to drink half of a shake with breakfast, and the other half with dinner, and to substitute the daily drink for other foods in their diet in order to avoid weight gain.

After three months, the researchers found, women who drank the soy shake showed less of a gain in abdominal fat, even though both groups showed similar changes in weight and overall body fat.

It's not clear why soy protein might affect belly fat in particular, according to Sites and her colleagues.

"Whatever the mechanism," they write, "our data suggest that soy protein containing isoflavones may prevent the accumulation of fat in the abdominal depot."

Because excess abdominal fat is especially related to higher risks of symptoms associated with excess acidity, such as diabetes and heart disease, limiting the well-known middle-age spread is important. They think larger, longer-term studies should continue to investigate the potential of soy protein.

According to Dr. Robert O. Young, a research scientist at the pH Miracle Living Center states, "organic sprouted soy contains the highest concentrations of isoflavones.

Isoflavones are excellent buffers of dietary and metabolic acids, especially hormones. I recommend a low heat dehydrated organically sprouted soy, with a 28 to 1 ratio. That means it takes 28 pounds of soy sprouts to make 1 pound of finished concentrated soy sprout powder.

This soy sprout powder is great to add to water or to a green shake. It is also a great source of protein at 41% by volume. I recommend at least 1 to 2 ounces a day of the concentrated soy sprouts which would be the equivalent of eating 2 to 4 pounds of organic sprouts."

Resources:

Fertility and Sterility, December 2007

What Happened to That Imaginary Avian Flu Virus and Epidemic?

What Happened to That Imaginary Bird Flu Epidemic?

The strain of bird flu that can be deadly to humans appears not to have moved through the world with migrating flocks of wild birds, despite scientists fears.

Thousands of wild birds were tested in a wide variety of countries. There was no sign of the virus at all in Africa, and only sparse detections in Europe. It is unknown to scientists why bird flu is not spreading in the wild more widely and quickly. (But not unknown to us when we understand the New Biology)

More than 13,000 wild birds were tested since February in the Netherlands, a major bird migration route. None have carried the virus. The EU has started to ease restrictions in recent months, but continues to strictly regulate poultry in farms near wildlife water reserves and river deltas.

Despite all those 'Chicken Little' warnings from so-called 'health experts,' that rumored bird flu epidemic -- predicted to kill some 2 million Americans -- turned out to be a whole lot of hot air.

When you know the true cause of dis-ease, which is the over-acidification of the blood and tissues due to an inverted way of living, eating and thinking, then you understand this imaginary bird flu virus has more to do about selling more drugs and making more money for big business then protecting our health.

The colds and flus that we experience during the year is the body's alkaline buffering system removing excess acidity out of the body through urination, perspiration, respiration and defecation.

Colds and flus ARE NOT CAUSED BY A VIRUS! They are caused by dietary and metabolic acids - especially the acid SUGAR!

If you want a cold or a flu this coming NEW YEAR eat more acidic sugary foods and drinks, animal proteins and alcohol.

To protect yourself from the symptoms of excess tissue acidity that can cause the aches and pains we associate with colds and flus, may I suggest the following:

1) Drink 1 glass of pHour salts with 1 scoop in 4 to
6 ounces of distilled or purified water 3 times a day.

2) Drink 3 to 4 liters of fresh or powdered green fruit and vegetable juices every day.


3) Take 4 capsules of pHlush or magnesium oxide 3 times a day with alkaline pH water or green juices.

4) Take a spray of pHlavor salts in the mouth 6 to 9 times a day.

5) Eat 9 to 12 servings of green vegetables and fruits every day.

6) Eat 2 to 3 ounces of unsaturated fat from hemp seed, flax seed, borage seed, olive, avocado, primrose, and fatty fish, every day.

7) Do not eat foul of any kind. They are highly acidic as applied in their name.

8) Stay away from all pork products.

9) You can eat fatty fish like, trout, sea bass, salmon and tuna. The oils in fatty fish will buffer dietary and metabolic acids.

10) Remember dairy is scary. Dairy contains lots of lactose sugar which becomes lactic acid in the body.
Lactic acid is one of the major causes of cancerous tissue, especially breast and prostate cancer.
So stay away from ALL dairy products.

11) Ideally all alcohol beverages, soda pops and soda water are highly acidic and should all be avoided to prevent any sickness or dis-ease.

12) Remember stress is 3 times more acidic then the food you eat. A high percentage of heart attacks are caused by a thought attack. So relax and enjoy life in the moment.

13) Get adequate rest - at least 8 hours a day.

14) Avoid coffee, tea, chocolate and tobacco.

15) Drink fresh ginger tea with fresh squeezed lemon juice in alkaline pH water.

16) Drink alkaline 9.5 pH water daily, when drinking water.

17) Avoid eggs. They contain over 37,500 pathological microbes per egg and pollute the blood. This activates the immunes system to clean up the cellular pollution which can take up to 72 hours.

18) Exercise daily for at least 1 hour each day and sweat, sweat, sweat! When you are sweating you are moving dietary and metabolic acids through the pores of the skin and protecting the delicate alkaline pH of the body.

19) Laugh out loud daily.

20) Each day take time out of your day to meditate and/or pray.

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Health Benefits of Broccoli and Broccoli Sprouts

Health Benefits of Broccoli and Broccoli Sprouts - The Major Ingredients in Doc Broc Rocks and the pHruits and pHolage Capsules or Powders

Promote Optimal Health

Like other cruciferous vegetables, broccoli contains the phytonutrients sulforaphane and the indoles, which have significant anti-cancer effects.

Research on indole-3-carbinol shows this compound helps deactivate a potent estrogen metabolite (4-hydroxyestrone) that promotes tumor growth, especially in estrogen-sensitive breast cells, while at the same time increasing the level of 2-hydroxyestrone, a form of estrogen that can be cancer-protective. Indole-3-carbinol has been shown to suppress not only breast tumor cell growth, but also cancer cell metastasis (the movement of cancerous cells to other parts of the body). Scientists have found that sulforaphane boosts the body's detoxification enzymes, potentially by altering gene expression, thus helping to clear potentially carcinogenic substances more quickly.

When researchers at Johns Hopkins studied the effect of sulphoraphane on tumor formation in lab animals, those animals given sulforaphane had fewer tumors, and the tumors they did develop grew more slowly and weighed less, meaning they were smaller. A study published in the cancer journal, Oncology Report demonstrated that sulforaphane, which is a potent inducer of Phase 2 liver detoxification enzymes, also has a dose-dependent ability to induce cell growth arrest and cell death via apoptosis (the self-destruct sequence the body uses to eliminate abnormal cells) in both leukemia and melanoma cells.

Sulforaphane may also offer special protection to those with colon cancer-susceptible genes, suggests a study conducted at Rutgers University and published online in the journal Carcinogenesis.

In this study, researchers sought to learn whether sulforaphane could inhibit cancers arising from one's genetic makeup. Rutgers researchers Ernest Mario, Ah-Ng Tony Kong and colleagues used laboratory mice bred with a genetic mutation that switches off the tumor suppressor gene known as APC, the same gene that is inactivated in the majority of human colon cancers. Animals with this mutation spontaneously develop intestinal polyps, the precursors to colon cancer. The study found that animals who were fed sulforaphane had tumors that were smaller, grew more slowly and had higher apoptotic (cell suicide) indices.
Additionally, those fed a higher dose of sulforaphane had less risk of developing polyps than those fed a lower dose.

The researchers found that sulforaphane suppressed enzymes called kinases that are expressed not only in animals, but also in humans, with colon cancer. According to lead researcher, Dr. Kong, 'Our study corroborates the notion that sulforaphane has chemopreventive activity...

Our research has substantiated the connection between diet and cancer prevention, and it is now clear that the expression of cancer-related genes can be influenced by chemopreventive compounds in the things we eat.'

Another study, published in Cancer, the journal of the American Cancer Society, looked at indole-3-carbinol (I3C), a naturally occurring component of Brassica vegetables, such as broccoli, cabbage, and Brussels sprouts. I3C has been recognized as a promising anticancer agent against certain reproductive tumor cells.

This laboratory study evaluated I3C's effects on cell cycling progression and cancer cell proliferation in human prostate cancer cells.
I3C was shown to suppress the growth of prostate cancer cells in a dose-dependent manner by blocking several important steps in cell cycling and also to inhibit the production of prostate specific antigen (PSA), a protein produced by the prostate whose rising levels may indicate prostate cancer. Researchers noted that the results of this study demonstrate that 'I3C has a potent antiproliferative effect' in human prostate cancer cells, which qualifies it as 'a potential chemotherapeutic agent' against human prostate cancer. New research has greatly advanced scientists' understanding of just how Brassica family vegetables such as broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, kale and Brussels sprouts help prevent cancer.

When these vegetables are cut, chewed or digested, a sulfur-containing compound called sinigrin is brought into contact with the enzyme myrosinase, resulting in the release of glucose and breakdown products, including highly reactive compounds called isothiocyanates. Isothiocyanates are not only potent inducers of the liver's Phase II enzymes, which detoxify carcinogens, but research recently conducted at the Institute for Food Research in the U.K. shows one of these compounds, allyl isothicyanate, also inhibits mitosis (cell division) and stimulates apoptosis (programmed cell death) in human tumor cells.

Optimize Your Cells' Detoxification/Cleansing Ability

For about 20 years, we've known that many phytonutrients work as antioxidants to disarm metabolic acids before they can damage DNA, cell membranes and fat-containing molecules such as cholesterol. Now, new research is revealing that phytonutrients in broccoli work at a much deeper level. These compounds actually signal our genes to increase production of alkaline buffers involved in detoxification, the cleansing process through which our bodies eliminate harmful compounds.

The phytonutrients in broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables initiate an intricate dance inside our cells in which gene response elements direct and balance the steps among dozens of detoxification enzyme partners, each performing its own protective role in perfect balance with the other dancers.
The natural synergy that results optimizes our cells' ability to disarm and clear metabolic acids and toxins, including potential carcinogens, which may be why cruciferous vegetables appear to significantly lower our risk of cancer.

Recent studies show that those eating the most cruciferous vegetables have a much lower risk of prostate, colorectal and lung cancer-even when compared to those who regularly eat other
vegetables:

In a study of over 1,000 men conducted at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, WA, those eating 28 servings of vegetables a week had a 35% lower risk of prostate cancer, but those consuming just
3 or more servings of cruciferous vegetables each week had a 44% lower prostate cancer risk.

In the Netherlands Cohort Study on Diet and Cancer, in which data was collected on over 100,000 people for more than 6 years, those eating the most vegetables benefited with a 25% lower risk of colorectal cancers, but those eating the most cruciferous vegetables did almost twice as well with a 49% drop in their colorectal cancer risk.

A study of Chinese women in Singapore, a city in which air pollution levels are often high putting stress on the detoxification capacity of residents' lungs, found that in non-smokers, eating cruciferous vegetables lowered risk of lung cancer by 30%.
In smokers, regular cruciferous vegetable consumption reduced lung cancer risk an amazing 69%!

How many weekly servings of cruciferous vegetables do you need to lower your risk of cancer? Just 3 to 5 servings-less than one serving a day!
(1 serving = 1 cup)

To get the most benefit from your cruciferous vegetables like broccoli, be sure to choose organically grown varieties (their phytonutrient levels are higher than conventionally grown), and steam lightly (this method of cooking has been shown to not only retain the most phytonutrients but to maximize their availability). For a brief overview of the process through which cruciferous vegetables boost our ability to detoxify or cleanse harmful compounds (acids) and examples of how specific phytonutrients in crucifers work together to protect us against cancer, read our pH Miracle Books. The pH Miracle books can be found on amazon.com or at:

Broccoli definitely proves the adage, 'Good things come in small packages' since by weight they provide an even more concentrated source of sulfur-containing phytonutrients than mature broccoli. Researchers estimate that broccoli sprouts contain 10-100 times the power of mature broccoli to boost alkaline buffers that detoxify potential carcinogens!
A healthy serving of broccoli sprouts in your salad can offer some great health benefits.
Now you can have those benefits for your you and your children with pHruits and pHolage and Doc Broc Rocks.

Support Stomach Health for Children of All Ages

A study published in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy provides support for broccoli's ability to eliminate Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori). In this study, sulforaphane, a phytonutrient richly abundant in the form of its precursor in broccoli and broccoli sprouts, was able to completely eradicate H. pylori in 8 of 11 laboratory animals that had been infected with the bacterium via the implantation of infected human gastric cells. Results were so dramatic the researchers concluded that sulforaphane-rich broccoli may be of benefit in the treatment or prevention of outfection with H. pylori, a primary cause of ulcers.

Clinical research is being planned that will hopefully confirm these findings and other similar findings, potentially offering people an effective dietary approach to eliminate H. pylori.

A more recent study published in Inflammopharmacology also supports these findings.

The research team, led by Akinori Yanaka of the University of Tsukuba, Japan, found that in patients with H.pylori infection, a diet including 100 grams of broccoli sprouts per day (about 3 ounces) resulted in a significant reduction of H. pylori and pepsinogen (a biomarker in the blood indicating the degree of gastritis).

The researchers think these beneficial results are due to broccoli sprouts' especially rich concentration of sulforaphane, which can protect against oxidative (free radical) damage in cells that can damage DNA, potentially causing cancer.

H. pylori outfection results in a constant barrage of oxidative damage to the cells that make up the lining of the stomach. Cells can survive against such chronic oxidative stress by increasing their protective arsenal of anti-oxidant enzymes, thereby protecting cells from DNA damage.

Recent studies have shown that the gene encoding Nrf-2 (NF-E2 p45-related factor-2) plays an important role in increasing the production of antioxidant enzymes protective against oxidative stress. Sulforaphane stimulates this nrf-2 gene-dependent production of anti-oxidant enzymes, thereby protecting cells from oxidative injury during H. pylori outfection.

The Japanese team recruited 40 patients with H. pylori. Each day for two months, 20 patients ate a diet with 100 grams of sulforaphane-rich broccoli sprouts each day for two months, while the remaining 20 ate a diet with 100 grams of alfalfa sprouts instead.

'We wanted to test alfalfa spouts together with broccoli sprouts,' Yanaka explained, 'because the chemical constituents of the two plants are almost identical, except that 100 grams of broccoli sprouts contain 250 milligrams of sulforaphane glucosinolate whereas alfalfa sprouts contain neither sulforaphane nor sulforaphane glucosinolate.'

(Glucosinolates, naturally occurring compounds in cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage are enzymatically converted into sulforaphane and other bioactive components when the sprouts are chewed or cut.)

At the end of the two-month dietary regimen, patients consuming 100 grams of broccoli sprouts per day showed significantly less H. pylori and markedly decreased pepsinogen (an indicator of gastric atrophy). Those eating alfalfa sprouts did not show any effect.

'Even though we were unable to eradicate H. pylori, to be able suppress it and relieve the accompanying gastritis by means as simple as eating more broccoli sprouts is good news for the many people who are infected,'
said Yanaka.

Outfection with H. pylori is very common worldwide, and some experts estimate that nearly 50% of the American public is infected with the bacterium. In addition, this research provides a deeper understanding of earlier studies suggesting broccoli sprouts have cancer-preventive properties. We now know that by increasing the production of anti-oxidant buffers that protect against H. pylori-induced DNA damage, these sulforaphane-rich sprouts may also help prevent gastric cancer.

Help for Acidic Skin Exposed to the Sun

Sulforaphane, an active compound found in Brassica family vegetables has already been shown to boost liver and skin cells' detoxifying abilities. Now, research conducted at Johns Hopkins University and published in Cancer Letters indicates sulforaphane can help repair sun-damaged skin.

After exposure to a dose of UV light comparable to that which would be received by a person sunbathing by the sea on a clear summer's day, twice weekly for 20 weeks, test animals were treated with varying doses of broccoli extract applied topically to their backs, 5 days a week for 11 weeks.

Broccoli extract counteracted the animals' skin cells' carcinogenic response to UV light. Recent research has demonstrated that some sun exposure is essential for good health since it is needed for our production of vitamin D, yet to much may be of concern as skin cancer rates continue to rise due to depletion of the ozone layer.
Broccoli sprouts' ability to repair damage done to sun-exposed skin may offer us a way to receive the benefits of sunlight we need without increasing our risk for skin cancer.

A Cardio-Protective Vegetable

Broccoli has been singled out as one of the small number of vegetables and fruits that contributed to the significant reduction in heart disease risk seen in a recent meta-analysis of seven prospective studies. Of the more than 100,000 individuals who participated in these studies, those who diets most frequently included broccoli, tea, onions, and apples-the richest sources of flavonoids-gained a 20% reduction in their risk of heart disease.

Cataract Prevention

Broccoli and other leafy green vegetables contain powerful phytonutrient antioxidants in the carotenoid family called lutein and zeaxanthin, both of which are concentrated in large quantities in the lens of the eye.

When 36,000 men in the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study were monitored, those who ate broccoli more than twice a week had a 23% lower risk of cataracts compared to men who consumed this antioxidant-rich vegetable less than once a month.

In addition to the antioxidant potential of broccoli's carotenoids, recent research has suggested that sulforaphane may also have antioxidant potential, being able to protect human eye cells from free radical stressors.

Stronger Bones with Broccoli

When it comes to building strong bones, broccoli's got it all for less. One cup of cooked broccoli contains 74 mg of calcium, plus 123 mg of vitamin C, which significantly improves calcium's absorption; all this for a total of only 44 calories.

To put this in perspective, an orange contains no calcium, 69 mg of vitamin C, and about 50% more-calories. Dairy products, long touted as the most reliable source of calcium, contain no vitamin C, but do contain saturated fat.
A glass of 2% milk contains 121 calories, and 42 of those calories come from fat.

An Immune System Supporter

Not only does a cup of broccoli contain the RDA for vitamin C, it also fortifies your immune system with a hefty 1359 mcg of beta-carotene, and small but useful amounts of zinc and selenium, two trace minerals that act as cofactors in numerous immune defensive actions.

A Birth Defect Fighter

Especially if you are pregnant, be sure to eat broccoli. A cup of broccoli supplies 94 mcg of folic acid, a B-vitamin essential for proper cellular division because it is necessary in DNA synthesis. Without folic acid, the fetus' nervous system cells do not divide properly.
Deficiency of folic acid during pregnancy has been linked to several birth defects, including neural tube defects like spina bifida. Despite folic acid's wide occurence in food (it's name comes from the Latin word folium, meaning 'foliage,' because it's found in green leafy vegetables), folic acid deficiency is the most common vitamin deficiency in the world.

Description

Broccoli's name is derived from the Latin word brachium, which means branch or arm, a reflection of its tree-like shape that features a compact head of florets attached by small stems to a larger stalk. Because of its different components, this vegetable provides a complex of tastes and textures, ranging from soft and flowery (the florets) to fibrous and crunchy (the stem and stalk). Its color can range from deep sage to dark green to purplish-green, depending upon the variety. One of the most popular type of broccoli sold in North America is known as Italian green, or Calabrese, named after the Italian province of Calabria where it first grew.

Other vegetables related to broccoli are broccolini, a mix between broccoli and kale, and broccoflower, a cross between broccoli and cauliflower. Broccoli sprouts have also recently become popular as a result of research uncovering their high concentration of the anti-cancer phytonutrient, sulforaphane.

History

Broccoli has its roots in Italy. In ancient Roman times, it was developed from wild cabbage, a plant that more resembles collards than broccoli. It spread through out the Near East where it was appreciated for its edible flower heads and was subsequently brought back to Italy where it was further cultivated. Broccoli was introduced to the United States in colonial times, popularized by Italian immigrants who brought this prized vegetable with them to the New World.

How to Select and Store

Choose broccoli with floret clusters that are compact and not bruised. They should be uniformly colored, either dark green, sage or purple-green, depending upon variety, and with no yellowing.
In addition, they should not have any yellow flowers blossoming through, as this is a sign of over maturity. The stalk and stems should be firm with no slimy spots appearing either there or on the florets. If leaves are attached, they should be vibrant in color and not wilted.

Broccoli is very perishable and should be stored in open plastic bag in the refrigerator crisper where it will keep for a week. Since water on the surface will encourage its degradation, do not wash the broccoli before refrigerating.
Broccoli that has been blanched and then frozen can stay up to a year. Leftover cooked broccoli should be placed in tightly covered container and stored in the refrigerator where it will keep for a few days.

How to Enjoy

Tips for Preparing Broccoli:

Both cooked and raw broccoli make excellent additions to your meal plan. Some of the health-supporting compounds in broccoli can be increased by slicing or chewing, since both slicing and chewing can help activate alkaline buffers in the broccoli. The heating (for example, steaming) of unsliced broccoli is also fine, since it helps to prepare the food in a pureed state for biological transformation into blood in the small intestine. When cooking broccoli, however, the stems and florets should be prepared differently. Since the fibrous stems take longer to cook, they can be prepared separately for a few minutes before adding the florets. For quicker cooking, make lengthwise slits in the stems. While people do not generally eat the leaves, they are perfectly edible and contain concentrated amounts of nutrients.

The World's Healthiest Foods has long recommended quickly steaming or healthy sautéing as the best ways to cook vegetables to retain their nutrients.
Several recent studies have confirmed this advice.
The way you cook can dramatically impact the amount of nutrients your vegetables deliver.

A study published in the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture investigated the effects of various methods of cooking broccoli. Of all the methods of preparation, steaming caused the least loss of nutrients.

Microwaving broccoli resulted in a loss of 97%, 74% and 87% of its three major antioxidant compounds-flavonoids, sinapics and caffeoyl-quinic derivatives. In comparison, steaming broccoli resulted in a loss of only 11%, 0% and 8%, respectively, of the same antioxidants.

Study co-author, Dr. Cristina Garcia-Viguera, noted that 'Most of the bioactive compounds are water-soluble; during heating, they leach in a high percentage into the cooking water. Because of this, it is recommended to cook vegetables in the minimum amount of water (as in steaming) in order to retain their nutritional benefits.' A second study, published in the same issue of the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, provides similar evidence. In this study, Finnish researchers found that blanching vegetables prior to freezing caused losses of up to a third of their antioxidant content. Although slight further losses occurred during frozen storage, most bioactive compounds including antioxidants remained stable. The bottomline: how you prepare and cook your food may have a major impact on its nutrient-richness.
A third study, published in the British Medical Journal, checked to see how much of the B vitamin, folate, was retained after broccoli, spinach or potatoes were boiled or steamed.

Boiling for typical time periods caused a loss of 56% of the folate in broccoli, and 51% of the folate in spinach, while boiling potatoes caused only minimal folate loss. Steaming spinach or broccoli, in contrast, caused no significant loss of folate. The take home message: Boiling potatoes may be okay, but to get the most benefit from cruciferous vegetables like broccoli, and greens like spinach, cook them lightly!

A Few Quick Serving Ideas:

Sprinkle lemon juice and sesame seeds over lightly steamed broccoli.

Toss spinach pasta with olive oil, pine nuts and healthy sautéed broccoli florets. Add salt and pepper to taste.

Purée cooked broccoli and cauliflower, then combine with seasonings of your choice to make a simple, yet delicious, soup.

Doc Broc Caserole found in the Doc Broc Stonehindge Cave Adventure Book for children of all ages.

Have your children take Doc Broc Rocks everday at least 1 to 3 capsules 1 in the morning, 1 in the afternoon, and 1 at night. Adults should take 1 to 3 capsules of the pHruits and pHolage each day and/or drink 3 t 4 liters of of alkaline water with 1 to 3 scoops of pHruits and pHolage powder.

Safety

Broccoli and Goitrogens

Broccoli contains goitrogens, naturally-occurring substances in certain foods that can interfere with the functioning of the thyroid gland. Individuals with already existing and untreated thyroid problems may want to avoid broccoli for this reason. Cooking may help to inactivate the goitrogenic compounds found in food. However, it is not clear from the research exactly what percent of goitrogenic compounds get inactivated by cooking, or exactly how much risk is involved with the consumption of broccoli by individuals with pre-existing and untreated thyroid problems.

Nutritional Profile

Broccoli contains glucosinolates, phytochemicals which break down to compounds called indoles and isothiocyanates (such as sulphoraphane). Broccoli also contains the carotenoid, lutein. Broccoli is an excellent source of the vitamins K, C, and A, as well as folate and fiber. Broccoli is a very good source of phosphorus, potassium, magnesium and the vitamins B6 and E.

Introduction to Food Rating System Chart

The following chart shows the nutrients for which this food is either an excellent, very good or good source. Next to the nutrient name you will find the following information: the amount of the nutrient that is included in the noted serving of this food; the %Daily Value (DV) that amount represents; the nutrient density rating; and the food's World's Healthiest Foods Rating. Underneath the chart is a table that summarizes how the ratings were devised. Read detailed information on our Food and Recipe Rating System.

Broccoli, steamed
1.00 cup
43.68 calories
Nutrient Amount DV (%) ND World's Healthiest

vitamin C 123.40 mg 205.7 84.8 excellent
vitamin K 155.20 mcg 194.0 79.9 excellent
vitamin A 2280.72 IU 45.6 18.8 excellent
folate 93.91 mcg 23.5 9.7 excellent
dietary fiber 4.68 g 18.7 7.7 excellent
manganese 0.34 mg 17.0 7.0 very good
tryptophan 0.05 g 15.6 6.4 very good
potassium 505.44 mg 14.4 6.0 very good
vitamin B6 0.22 mg 11.0 4.5 very good
vitamin B2 0.18 mg 10.6 4.4 very good
phosphorus 102.80 mg 10.3 4.2 very good
magnesium 39.00 mg 9.8 4.0 very good
protein 4.66 g 9.3 3.8 very good
omega 3 0.20 g 8.0 3.3 good
vitamin B5 0.79 mg 7.9 3.3 good
iron 1.37 mg 7.6 3.1 good
calcium 74.72 mg 7.5 3.1 good
vitamin B1 0.09 mg 6.0 2.5 good
vitamin B3 0.94 mg 4.7 1.9 good
zinc 0.62 mg 4.1 1.7 good
vitamin E 0.75 mg 3.8 1.5 good

World's Healthiest Foods Rating Rule

excellent DV>=75% OR Density>=7.6 AND DV>=10%
very good DV>=50% OR Density>=3.4 AND DV>=5%
good DV>=25% OR Density>=1.5 AND DV>=2.5%

In Depth Nutritional Profile for Broccoli

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You Are Not Over-Weight - You Are Over-Acid

"Let us first understand the facts, and then we may seek the cause." - Aristotle - Obesity in America is worse than ever before. New statistics reveal that a startling 64.5% of American adults, or more than 120 million people are overweight or obese.

US obesity experts say, these numbers, probably mean a definite increase in diabetes and heart disease cases, if things do not improve. The number of Americans who are overweight, is the high acid level ever recorded. The data from the 1999-2000 National Health and Nutrition Examination survey are consider the most definitive assessment of America's weight us of the length in size of the study. And because peoples high can wait are actually measured.

The statistics reveal that: 1) 31% or about 59 million adults older than 20, are obese. Obesity is defined as 30 or more pounds over a healthy body weight; overweight is roughly 10 to 30 lbs. over a healthy weight. Overweight and obesity in adults are determined by body mass index, which is a measure of persons weight in relation to his or her height. The BMI is calculated by dividing a person's weight in kilograms by their height in meters (which has to be squared mathematically). A rating of 25 to 30 kg/m2, or higher is considered overweight, and obesity is a BMI above 30 kg/m2 or higher, and 40 kg/m2 or higher is extremely obese.

For example, a 5'8" person who weighs 190 lbs. would be overweight; a person at the same height, who weighs 230 lbs., is obese. In general, obesity is crudely defined as more than 20% above ideal body weight, and by this definition, more than one third to one half of of the population of the United States is obese. There are one in three (33%) Americans that have a degree of being overweight that puts them at a medical risk and many of these individual have insulin sensitivity and Type II diabetes. 2) 33% of adult women are obese, compared with 28% men. 3) 50% of black women are obese, compared with 40% of Mexican -- American women and 30% of white women.

There is virtually no difference in obesity among men based on race. 4) 5% of people over all are extremely obese. That's up from about 3% in the early 1990s. But 15% of black women are extremely obese. 5) As of the early 1990s, the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) found that 15 percent of children between 6 and 19 were overweight, twice the comparable percentage a decade earlier.

Today 9 million children overweight, and another 7 million considered "at risk" of joining them. Samuel Klein, President of the North American Association for the study of obesity, said, "when you look around at our current environment, it's surprising that anyone is lean, because there is an abundance of food and marked decrease and regular physical activity." In 1991, when the epidemic was less intense, researchers from St. Luke's/Roosevelt hospital in New York estimated that obesity killed 325,000 Americans a year -- eight times the number who died of AIDS, and more than the combined deaths from alcohol, drugs, firearms, and motor vehicles.

It approaches the 430,000 per year killed by smoking. But while smoking rates are going down, obesity rates are accelerating. Since 1950, health experts have been telling us how to lose weight and telling us to eat less and exercise more. Yet, obesity rates have tripled. Obesity is fast becoming the leading cause of death in America.

Why? The answer is so simple that it eludes us. We perceive that fat is the problem. We perceive that fat is bad. We perceive that fat will kill us or is killing us! The truth is fat is saving our life! Fat is protective! Fat is our friend! Without the protection of fat we would be dead! The answer to the "WHY" is simple. When our body becomes over acidic from an inverted way of living, eating and thinking the body uses FAT to bind to the acid as a protection for all other cells, tissues and organs that sustain life.

For example, when you eat sugar and that sugar is fermented to lactic acid, if the lactic acid is not eliminated it can disturb other cells and cause them to breakdown, leading to disease. I call this the rotten apple metaphor, that is, when there is one rotten apple in a bushel of healthy apples, the one rotten apple will spoil all the other apples. When are diet is over-acid form high sugar fruits, dairy and meat these acids have to be eliminated or they will spoil or rot other cells.

So, what does the body do? The body goes into preservation mode and uses dietary and body fat to bind and neutralize the acid. The acid bound fat is now eliminated or if elimination is compromised or if the body is enervated (tired) and elimination is not possible it is stored in the extremities or away from the organs that sustain life. You see your dietary fat and body fat is saving your life. The more acidic your lifestyle and diet the fatter you will be.

The less acidic your lifestyle and diet the thinner you will be. That is not to say over-thin people are healthier than fat people. That is not the case. In fact, fat people are generally healthy than over-thin people because their fat is providing a place to park all their acids, where in a thin person, if the acids are not eliminated they can and will breakdown the tissues, (muscles), bones and organs causing and array of symptomologies.

Do you know someone who is underweight who can eat everything and anything and not gain weight? This is a serious problem because the fat buffering system of the body is not working properly. Underweight and overweight is two sides of the same coin and is always a result of over-acidity. Risks of Obesity or Risks of Acidity I would like you to think about what you ate for breakfast or what did your child have for breakfast? Was it cereal and milk, yogurt, a pastry, a bowl of oatmeal, or even a glass of orange or apple juice? All of these foods metabolize to sugar which increases metabolic acids which signals the body to go into the preservation mode to bind the acid with fat. You see you are not overweight.

You are not obese. You are over acid! Acid is the expression of the level of your obesity. All of the risk factors for obesity are ALL a result of your level of acidy! Do not blame the fat, it is saving your life - blame your life choices - your lifestyle your diet! Here are some of the risk factors generally associated with obesity but are in reality states of acidity: 1) Hyper and hypoglycemia is a result of too much sugar - the cocaine of the food world.

It is about time people started realizing that sugar is not just like a drug, but is a drug. A drug just like any other that compels people to take more and more and more. Unlike other perfectly legal drugs like cigarettes and alcohol, sugar and complex carbohydrates don't carry a government warning, despite the fact, they are known by medical savants to be linked to diabetes, hypertension in children and antisocial behavior. Diabetes has more than tripled since 1958; right in line with the consumption of sugar. Although over 100 years ago, 1% of the population had diabetes, now the figure is officially 1 in 12.

We now consume over a third of a pound of sugar each day, and the number of children and adults suffering from this life threatening condition is and can only rise. The sugars found in many of our low or no fat foods will and can cause insulin release and insulin can be broken down to acid by yeast, which then activates the body's protective mechanism to bind the acid with fat. So read the label carefully, no or low fat foods make you fat. It's the sugar not the fat in, No Fat Foods. Our kids are being seriously compromised with school lunch which is acidic. From all the vending machines of soft drinks which all contain carbonic acid to candy bars, popcorn, ice cream, to after school, a cola and fries at the fast food restaurant across the street from the school, which is extremely acidic, to most American dinners which include meat, pasta, potatoes, corn, deserts which are all acidic.

The body has only one choice and that is to protect itself from all the sugar, from all the acidic foods and from all the acid with FAT. Thank GOD for Fat! 2) Liver Disease is as simple as understanding that the liver is one of the many filters for toxins and the toxins we are talking about here are gastrointestinal, metabolic, respiratory and cellular breakdown acids - if that weren't enough for the liver to deal with we pour the acid down our throats with, coffee, tea, beer, wine, and colas, just to name a few and expect the liver to withstand this onslaught of systemic acid. NO wonder the liver breaks down.

It can only with stand so much acid to filter and if the liver can't deal with it then the kidneys have to deal with the acid, which leads to kidney dysfunction and break down. And if the liver or kidneys are filtrating the acid then the acid comes right out through our third kidney, the skin, leading to acne, blemishes, rash, eczema, psoriasis, etc. To top it off, our kids are smoking more to get their sugar hit, from tobacco that is fermented with sugar and yeast during the drying process of the tobacco leaves. This is why when someone stops smoking they crave sugar. The sugar turns to acid and the acid if not eliminated is bound by fat. Eureka. So smoking increases blood sugar, which increases acid, which in turn increases your risk for obesity as the body binds the acid, diabetes as the acid breaks down the insulin producing alpha and beta cells, pancreatic cancer as a result of localized acid that breaks down the pancreatic functions, and lung congestion and/or lung cancer, also due to cellular break down from acids.

Always keep in mind that cancer is NOT a disease of the tissue but at state of acidosis in the fluids that surround the tissue. 3) Heart disease is the result of the heart muscle turning to mush as sugars breakdown to acids tenderizing the heart like Heinz 57 sauce tenderizes a steak. By the way, the second ingredient in Heinz 57 behind the water is an acid. So, if you want to weaken your heart just keep on tenderizing it with an acidic lifestyle and diet. 4) Arthritis, as the body uses another buffer, calcium, to bind to the acid creating micro-calcifications that build up on the joints, or can be found in the brain in dementia or Parkinson's, or in the breasts in breast cancer, and in the liver or gallbladder, as in liver and gall stones. 5) And now for the next biggest scientific illusion - cholesterol is bad! In fact, cholesterol comes from fat and is created as a binder of acids in the fluids of the body.

The bottom line here is this - when you eliminate your acidic lifestyle and diet you lower your cholesterol and when you increase your acidic lifestyle and diet you increase your cholesterol - that good cholesterol we have been told for years by scientists that it is bad - low density lipoproteins (LDL's) - is another fat that binds to systemic acids that is saving our life! When the body fluids, especially the blood is acidic, the body goes into preservation mode and creates LDL's out of fat to bind to acids in the blood to protect the endothelial cells and basement membrane. If the acids are left free to flow throughout the blood stream, they will damage the endothelial cells, that protect the blood vessel and expose the basement membrane, which activates certain clotting factors to prevent internal bleeding.

This can then lead to disseminated intravascular coagulation, which is the premature clotting of the blood, which then leads to circulation problems, oxygen deprivation, cellular breakdown, excess acidity, which culminates in arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries due to acidosis), stroke and/or heart attack. If you the various peoples of the area and have little or no arteriosclerosis and are virtually free of heart disease. A scientist by the name of Lowenstein, found that fat intake ranged from 21 g per day to as much as 355 g per day. (Lowenstein, F. W., American Journal Clinical Nutrition, 15:175, 1964).

In both the Somalis and the Samburus East Africa, the diet is from 60 to 65% fat, and yet they are nearly free from arteriosclerosis and heart attacks. Only be argued that ethnic differences are involved here, population groups of wide ethnic variation have been reported to subsist on a high fat, high cholesterol, high caloric diets, while remaining virtually free from coronary heart disease. Gsell and Mayor report that the isolated peoples of the Loetschental Valley in the Valaisian Alps of Switzerland, habitually eat a diet high in saturated fat and cholesterol, high in calories, but evidence low serum cholesterol values and little cardiovascular disorders (Gsell, D., and Mayer, J. "Low blood and cholesterol associate with high calorie, high saturated fat intake in a Swiss Alpine Village population." Am. J. Clin. Nutr., 1-:471, 1962)

In Kenya, Africa, the Masai tribe, subsists on a diet that is excessively high in butterfat and cholesterol, the fat constituting as much as 60% of total calories consumed, yet are virtually free of cardiovascular disease. An epidemiological study of coronary heart disease in a general population of 106,000 Americans conducted over a one year period, W. J. Zukel and his co-workers found the highly provocative fact that farmers showed a much lower incidence of coronary heart disease, than males of other groups, in spite of the fact that there were no substantial differences in their mean caloric intake or fat cholesterol consumption (Zukel, W. J., et. al., Am. J. Publ. Health, 49:16 30, 1959).

According to a published article in the well-respected scientific journal, the Lancet, (1981) said, incidence of arteriosclerotic heart disease, including coronary arterial disease, in Greenlandic Eskimos is extremely low. From 1963 to 1967, Greenland. Moreover, not a single established case of diabetes mellitus is known to have been reported in the public population of Greenlandic Uhanak district. Since diabetes mellitus and arteriosclerotic heart disease afficy literally millions of millions of people around the world, these statistical figures have attracted the serious attention of many scientist throughout the world.

The word "Eskimo" is of Red Indian Origin and means "people eating raw meat." The food of the Greenlandic Eskimos still living as hunters and/or fishermen consist predominantly from fats and proteins of whales, seals, seabirds and fish (usually halibut and hang salmon). Why, therefore, can a group of people who consume such large amounts of fat and protein have such a low incidence of atherosclerotic heart disease? The answer to this question is found in a tongue twisting fat called EicosaPentaenoic acid (commonly referred to as EPA).

EPA is a direct precursor of the important prostaglandin PGE 3. There is a large amount of EPA in fish: you get for example, about 20% EPA in salmon tuna, mackerel, or by taking brain oils like cod liver oil. One interesting fact about EPA came to light when the polyunsaturated fatty acids in the diet and tissues of Eskimos eating their usual high fat and protein diet and the Danes in Copenhagen living on an American type diet were scientifically compared and study. It was discovered that the longer chain polyunsaturated fatty acids of EPA found in the marine oils was present in much larger amounts in the Eskimos.

In fact, EPA was present to the extent of 10% of total plasma lipids (blood fats) in the Eskimos, whereas in the Danes, living on a diet especially low in marine fats, it was nearly absent. And, of course, the Danes had a much higher statistical record of coronary heart disease as compared to the Eskimos. And finally, in an epidemiological study of two Polynesian island groups, Hunter compared the diet, body build, blood pressure, and serum cholesterol levels of the traditional-following Atiu and Mitiaro with the more Europeanized Rarotongan neighbors (Hunter, J. D., Fed. Prop., 21, Supp, 11:36, 1962).

The Atiu-Mitiaro people live on a diet low in calories and protein but rich in the highly saturated coconut fat. There Rarotongans eat more food, but eat comparatively little coconut fat. Hunter found that 25% of the Rarotongans (males) suffered more hypertension, as compared to only 10% of the Atiu-Mitiaro males. While the serum cholesterol levels of the saturated coconut fat-eating Atiu-Mitiaro males were higher (as high as European males), Hunter was unable to discover by electrocardiographic readings any tendency to coronary heart disease.

It is clear, that adults of widely differing ethnic stock can subsist on a high fat, high cholesterol, high caloric diet, and yet remain free of cardiovascular disorders. From my own research, I have found evidence that strongly points toward the conclusion that a diet low in sugar, will be low in acid, thus, maintaining the delicate pH balance of the body fluids, that maintains the integrity of the cell and the amount of fat or cholesterol consumed is relatively inconsequential. Your fat is like a parking lot and the acid you create through digestion, metabolism, respiration and cellular breakdown are like the cars.

So, the more cars you have the more parking lots you need to park your cars or acids. All diabetics are over-acidic and 80% of the 95% of the Type II diabetics are overweight from over-acidity. Remember, fat is your friend, love your fat, because it is saving your life form gastrointestinal, metabolic, respiratory and cellular breakdown acids. One of the inconsistencies is the fact that 80% of those who suffer heart attacks have normal cholesterol in the blood. And, most of the cholesterol that exists in the body comes not from the dietary intake from fatty foods, but rather is produced by the body, and particular by the liver.

So take care of your liver with clean alkaline foods and drinks and eating lots of good healthy fat from avocado, olive oil, flax, borage, primrose and marine oils from fish. Generally speaking the concentrations of cholesterol in the blood are determined largely by the amount synthesized by the liver. One dietary food substance that seems to accelerate the livers synthesis of carbohydrates to fat (cholesterol) is the intake of sugar (sucrose).

In England, evidence has been presented by Dr. Yudkin and co-workers that excessive consumption of sugar is statistically associated with arteriosclerosis and heart attacks. Dr. P. T. Kuo, in a study at the University of Pennsylvania, found that dietary sugar administered to patients actually caused blood fats to increase. Dr. Yudkin points out: "a person assessed by our dietary history was taking more than 120 g of sugar a day (4 oz.) is perhaps five or more times as likely to develop myocardial infraction as one taking less than 60 g a day."

Current medical science knows that cholesterol serves many important functions of the body, and is necessary for the optimum health of the whole person. Cholesterol found in the skin can be converted, for example, into vitamin D when exposed to sunlight or other ultraviolet light. Bile salts are derived from cholesterol. Cholesterol is involved in sex hormone production and with steroid hormone production by the adrenal gland, especially in times of severe stress. Cholesterol, therefore, is no foriegn or evil substance within the body.

In fact, it is absolutely necessary for life! When we can teach our body to burn fat rather than sugar or protein we are literally burning cleaner fuel. Our internal landscape or terrain, the fluids of our body are cleaner, our liver is cleaner and less stressed from an over-acidic lifestyle and diet. You want to move away from fast foods, colas, fries, shakes, hamburgers, pasta, pizza, etc. that are high in sugar and focus on slow foods from good fats, like avocados, marine oils from fish, like cod, mackerel, salmon, tuna, trout, primrose oil, flax oil, olive oil, hemp oil, and borage oil will help give your pancreas a break from all the sugar metabolism and allow the body to begin healing the pancreas and the insulin and glucagon producing beta and alpha cells that will eventually lead to the reversal and cure of your diabetes and/or arthrosclerosis and/or heart dis-ease!

Ketones and Ketoacidosis A tendency of folks with Type I diabetes to suffer from a severe diabetic complication called ketoacidosis, or very high blood glucose with large amounts of ketones or acids in the blood. The reason why ketones or acids increase in the presence of high blood sugar is the deficiency of insulin and glucose is no longer able to enter the cells so an alternative source of energy is needed - fat. The body begins burning fat as its primary source of energy instead of sugar creating acetones and butyric acids or ketones.

If these acids are not eliminated or chelated with cholesterol, bicarbonate, electrolytes like sodium, potassium, calcium or magnesium they will compromise the delicate pH balance of the body fluids causing the body to go into ketoacidosis. Whenever the body fluids are over-acidic whether from sugar, protein or fat metabolism the body goes into preservation mode and uses body fluids (water) to dilute and neutralize the acid leading to dehydration, vomiting to eliminate acids via the mouth, rapid breathing as your body's attempt to blow off some the acid through the lung, or muscle soreness as the body throws off the acid into the tissue to maintain the alkaline balance of the blood at the delicate pH balance of 7.365.

Some of the symptoms of ketoacidosis are blood sugars usually more than 300 mg/dl or 16.6 mmol/liter and your urine will be 2% sugar or higher. When there is not enough insulin or chromium to bind the insulin to the glucose molecule to take into the energy cycle, the body cannot use glucose for energy production so it goes into fat metabolism. Fat metabolism is the healthiest way to create energy producing twice the amount of energy than sugar metabolism with half the amount of acid waste.

The most important point to remember here is that any acid in the body fluids can compromise the alkaline pH and needs to be eliminated, including ketones from fat metabolism, lactic and acetic acid from carbohydrate metabolism and sulphuric and uric acid metabolism from protein metabolism.. Get off Your Fat ACID and GO to Health The key to eliminating any acid quickly is superhydrating immediately with alkaline fluids of 10 grams of sodium bicarbonate in 1 liter of distilled water or 16 drops of 2% sodium chlorite (Prime pH) in 1 liter of distilled water, 1000 mg. of pancreas compound (Pancreas Plus), 1000 mg. of adrenal compound (Adrenal Plus), 15 grams of powered soy sprouts (Super Soy Sprouts) or 5 drops of colloidal aminos (LL Aminos), and 5 drops of colloidal chromium and vanadium (LL Chromium)..

To avoid any symptom of imbalance may I suggest again to simply alkalize and energize the body with green foods and green drinks (SuperGreens), throughout the day and avoid any acidic lifestyle or diet choice. The choice is yours if you truly want to go to the House of Health. So get off your fat acid and go to health! In Love and InnerLight,Dr. Robert O. Young