In regards to eating meat

[Monica]

A high meat diet dumps weight because of high acid, which will also dump a lot of your calcium.

I remember when I did Adkins (yes, I actually did Adkins!! shudder) there was something about forcing the body into ketosis, whatever that means. I remember using some sort of testing strip, but it wasn't a pH strip.

Yes the body dumps fat, but at what cost?

I may have to look at "acid" and see just what it is connected to in reality.

That would be interesting. For starters, I find it very interesting that the pH scale matches the chakra colors!

Check this out:

Extremely acid shows red using the pH activator drops.
Very acid=orange
Slightly acid=yellow
Neutral=green
Alkaline=blue
Very alkaline=indigo purple
Highly alkaline=violet

I do these pH tests on our water all the time, and continue to marvel each time I see it. Is that cool or what??

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This surprised me because I thought milk was alkalinizing, so I did some googling. There are different opinions out there. This is how the ARE (Edgar Cayce) website categorizes dairy foods:

ALKALINE DAIRY
Acidophilus milk
Buttermilk
Milk (raw only -- human, cow, or goat)
Whey
Yogurt

ACID DAIRY
Butter
Cheese (all)
Cottage cheese
Cream
Custards
Margarine
Milk (boiled, cooked, malted, dried, canned)

This is accurate. Raw and Cultured milk products are alkalizing, whereas pasteurized milk products are acidifying.

It's not the pH of the food itself, but its effect on the body.

For example, lemons are very acidic, but they have a chemical reaction in the stomach and produce an alkalizing effect on the body.

It's a common misconception that milk neutralizes acid, because doctors tell people to drink milk when they have acid reflux.

But alternative doctors will tell you that acid reflux is caused by the body overall being too acidic, which makes the organs that are supposed to be acidic (stomach and, in women, vagina) to be too alkaline. The stomach is supposed to be acidic, and when it's too alkaline, it doesn't do its job and the inefficient stomach acid backs up into the throat; hence acid reflux.

This is why alkalizing the body usually results in relief from acid reflux.

This is easily tested. (It's what I do for a living.)

Here is what I suggest to my customers:

Test your pH using pH strips (put in urine stream and it will change color) first thing in the morning, before embarking on any dietary changes. Notate the reading. (Most people initially test acidic - 6 something or even 5 something. Extremely ill people may even test as low as 4.5) It's a logarithmic scale, so 5 is 10 times more acidic than 6, and 100 times more acidic than 7. So a person with a urine pH of 5 is 100 times more acidic than they're supposed to be (according to this school of thought of course).

Drink alkaline water, and/or get on an alkalizing diet, and retest in a week or so.

Keep working on improving the diet and water, until the goal is reached (between 7 and 7.5).

Then drink a soda, or eat some fried chicken or a cheese pizza, and see what happens!