>From: Jim Cales <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Paleolithic Eating Support List <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: [P-F] The Acid Foods Myth
>Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 04:54:32 -0500
>
>Greetings,
>I too would love to see more information regarding this as I just
>finished listening to Tony Robbins "Get the Edge" series and he suggests
>( strongly!) that a person drink alkaline green juices to "alkalize" the
>body with the intent of getting the blood PH back to 7.36 which is the
>suggested optimum.
>
>While I can see the logic in ingesting materials of an alkaline nature
>as a source of alkalinity for future use there is some doubt in my mind
>regarding the entire concept.  The simplest evidence that I can find is
>that I eat an enormous amount of "acid" foods and I am still alive.
>Clearly the body regulates the PH in the blood on it's own, but does
>anybody have any info regarding the depletion of the alkaline reserves?
>
>On the other hand his suggestion that one eat only raw, live foods seems
>pretty hard to dispute.
>


One of the schools of metabolic typing suggests that some people need they
body to be "acid" to be healthy while other need be on "alkalian" side. I
don't know if it's true (I'm somehow sceptical on body typing)but I
personally feel best without all these green juices.

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