Let's play a game!

              The game is "What is wrong with the beverages I am drinking".

1~ Coffee: It is very acidic.It has caffeine which is dehydrating.The grossest thing I read, research has shown that cancer cells live indefinitely in coffee.Ewww!! Just something to think about.

2~Tea: because of the high acidity content I should take black tea off the menu.

3~Soft Drinks:One thing that stuck with me one of the key components of cola is phosphoric acid it's strong enough to dissolve a nail in three days.I can't even imagine what our beautiful bodies must think of it.This phosphoric acid leaches calcium from my bones~they have it hard enough already.


                     What should I be drinking?

1~ H20: I know this is a given.I know I should drink more water! But why is it so hard to enjoy water?It is quite astonishing what water does for the body.It helps regulate your temperature,toxin excretion,joint lubrication and fat metabolism (that one caught my attention) Water helps process just about every biological,mechanical and chemical action that takes place in my body.It cushions and protects organs,transports nutrients within each cell and dispels acidic wastes.My lungs need it to humidify the air they move.My digestive system need it to process foods.My brain needs it to perform the chemical reactions required to run my body.The pancreas uses it to alkalize food coming in and out of the stomach and into the intestines.Water keeps my skin soft and supple.Increases oxygen in the blood.It helps maintain normal electrical properties of the cell improving cell to cell function.When I read all that the body needs to do with the little amount of water I give it I thought "Crap I need to drink more water". I know all the bad things that can happen if I don't drink enough, that wasn't working to get me to drink more.But now I just think of all the things that my body can do with a glass of water...I will stop whining and start drinking.I 'll add some lemons,limes or grapefruit they help maintain the body's pH balance and it's super tasty.

2~ Herb teas: I can get some great caffeine free teas from David's tea.

3~Smoothies and juicing: I'll be honest juicing for me is time consuming but, a smoothie of frozen fruit and water.Yummy!! I do want to juice though. I read Crazy Sexy Diet and the benefits of juicing. (PS this is a great book and Kris Carr is a very inspiring person.)

              I would love some ideas or tips if anyone has some out there?

          " Thousands have lived without love,not one without water"

                                                       W.H Auden

Intersesting!!

  As you know from my blog I LOVE to read.If I had only one thing to entertain me it would have to be books.It is a great addiction.I learn so much.So I am going to share some interesting health facts that I have read recently.I liked them because they make your body and it's connection to food so much easier to understand. 

  I knew that my body has acid and alkaline needs to say healthy.But it's really confusing so I had read this recently and it just clicked with me.The reason why animal proteins are so deadly for the body, is that it turns the blood to an acid environment.This makes your blood thick and goopy.(this was not the term they used in the book~that is my visualization.)Which in turn makes it hard to get around.This affects everything.If you think all the work your body has to do to get the blood to the feet and to the head.Then you add this thickness to it~YUCK!Think of this thick blood trying to make it's way through the brain(links to Alzheimer's)the heart(heart disease),poor circulation,cancers(cancer cell thrive in an acidic environment). I thought it was an easy way to understand something really tricky.

  I recently read from John Robbins book "May all be Fed." Something that I thought was really intriguing.One long term study  found that even with as little as 75 grams of protein(less than three quarters of what the average meat eater consumes)more calcium is lost in the urine than is absorbed by the body from the diet-a negative calcium balance.We in North America have the worst bone densities.More women die from the effects of osteoporosis than from breast cancer and cervix combined.Regardless of how much calcium we take in,the MORE PROTEIN in the diet ,the more calcium we lose.You know all that Vitamin D and calcium you get from your milk..nope you pee it all out.That is why the FDA does not allow the dairy industry to promote the calcium angle anymore.INTRIGUING!!

  These are a couple of thing that were my light bulb moments recently.I have got Josh off dairy milk and on to Almond milk.He really likes it and I consider that one of my personal victories this month.When you read this take what YOU want from it,I won't preach anything to anyone unless they ask. But on my blog if I have something to say I am going to put it on here.I am going to end with a quote from one of my favorite doctors.The famous Dr Ornish.

     "It's easier to PREVENT illness than to reverse it.The real point is that these simple changes increase the joy of living.You don't have to be sick to notice the improvements when you change your diet and lifestyle.People lose weight,they feel lighter,happier,freer,more full of joy.These simple changes can be very powerful.The implications of all this go way beyond treating and preventing heart disease."