Grass Juices- Alkalinizing Powerhouses Grass Juices have significant impact on human health by positively impacting the pH or acid-base balance in your body's cells, fluids and tissues by increasing Acid-Base Balance and Health An important factor effecting your health is the pH or acid-base balance of your body tissues. Modern diets tend to be acid forming due to the large amount of grains in the diet. We have adapted to eating meat and other animal products, which are acid forming (decrease pH), but those acid forming foods are supposed to be neutralized by an abundance of alkalinizing (increase pH) fruits and vegetables. If you do not eat a balance of acid forming foods and base forming (alkalinizing) foods, the pH of your body will increase. This can have many undesirable health consequences including:
It should now be clear that acid-base balance is critical to maintain your health. Reduction of meat consumption is often considered a solution to reducing acidity, but I do not advise this approach because animal products provide many essential nutrients that you can not get from plants. Many people are not aware that grains such as bread and tortillas are also acid forming and foods made from grains tend to replace the beneficial alkalinizing greens, berries and veggies that are so crucial for achieving balance. The solution is to replace foods made from grain with organic greens, berries and vegetables. Complete Organic Greens Powder is my favorite way to make sure you are getting enough alkalinizing greens and grass juices in your diet. An easy way to measure your daily acid load is to measure your first morning urine pH. If it's lower than about 6.8, you are acidic. You need more alkalinizing (base forming) foods such as Complete Organic Greens Powder in your diet. You should also reduce your consumption of acid forming grains and carbonated beverages. Many doctors and nutritionists are recommending more calcium to increase alkalinity, but if our diets contained more organic green drinks and grass juices we would need far less calcium supplementation. For more information click the above links or contact Dr. Webster. 972-735-0707 Complete Health and Weight Loss 5000 Legacy Dr. #240 Plano, TX 75024 972-735-0707 |