Balance Your Body Ph For Weight Loss

Many folks fight to maintain a healthy weight and body composition. With a great number of Americans being overweight or even obese, the problem has grown into a crisis. Nearly 160,000 people die each year from weight-related diseases.
Every week seems to spawn the next fad diet designed to help you "shed the pounds." The difficulty is that most of these schemes are not effective. Some work for a few days, but the weight soon comes back. Others are emphatically unhealthy. The key to effective weight-management is developing and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. The successful weight management system combines a healthy eating plan, exercise, water consumption, and exceptional nutrition to help you create a lifestyle of health.
The missing key to this problem is the pH factor. "pH" or "potential for hydrogen" is the criterion used to establish whether something is an acid or alkaline. It is measured on a scale from 0 - 14, with 6.8 - 7.0 being considered neutral. Anything below 6.8 is considered acidic, and anything above 7.4 is considered alkaline. The pH of the blood is just over 7.3. If blood pH is altered, major problems, including death, are imminent. Therefore, the body has multiple buffers in place to make sure the blood pH remains constant.
Since blood pH is so critical to life, the human body protects the blood at all cost. The common diet consists of foods that when digested create acid that is released into the blood. The human body has to neutralize this acid or risk major harm. The primary buffers the human body uses are: sodium, calcium, and body fat. When acid is present in the blood, the human body looks to neutralize it with an alkaline substance. The primary neutralizing agents are sodium, then calcium. The body actually takes calcium from the bones in order to neutralize blood acid. If it cannot be easily neutralized, then the human body stores the acid in the fat cells. That creates a major weight-management problem.
Like any machine, the fuel that we burn creates by-products, sometimes called ash. When raw fruits and vegetables are consumed, the human body digests it and sends it to the cells for fuel. The cell burns the fuel and the exhaust is an alkaline ash. When food from the typical diet, including processed food, bleached flour, white sugar and unhealthy saturated fats, is burnt for fuel, the exhaust created is an acidic ash. When attempting to lose fat, we typically cut calories. But, if our system remains acidic, then instead of burning fat, which would release more acid into the system, the body burns muscle instead. Not only is this depressing, it is unhealthy.
Our goal then is to minimize the amount of food that creates acidic ash and increase the foods that produce alkaline ash.

Effects of Acid
Acid in the human body acts very much like acid outside the body. It destroys human cells. It ages the skin, degenerates tissues, damages vital organs, and causes major problems. Additionally, most health concerns are created by an over-abundance of acid in the body. Reducing acid in the system is critical to long-term health.
Many people love to drink a can of soda. If you look on the label, you will discover that a can of soda primarily contains acid. The pH of a soda is around 2.3. That is highly toxic and it is not an acid ash slowly accumulated from burning food for energy; it is raw acid overload requiring the body to scramble to neutralize that acid in the system. It uses sodium, calcium from the bones or teeth, or anything else it has to in order to neutralize the acid and, as a consequence, weakening the body and consuming vital reserves.
The Basic Elements of a Successful Weight Reduction System
A well-rounded healthy lifestyle is critical to weight-management and health. This includes: sensible eating , a good nutritional program, regular exercise, and plentiful water consumption.
Change Eating Habits
In life, balance is a desired objective. When anything is done to excess, we are in danger of getting out of balance. Usually it is not one piece of cake, or one cola that does us in. It is when sodas, pastries, and other acid-producing foods are consumed in excess that we create problems. We can even get out of balance on the other side.
For example, the life span of most professional athletes and vegetarians, is actually less than some couch potatoes due to the excess lactic acid caused by overtraining during the long hours of practice