The food that we eat burns with oxygen in our cells to produce energy. After burning, the food becomes acidic wastes and the cells dump them into the blood stream. Our body tries its best to get rid of these wastes through urine and perspiration. As we know, urine and skin surface are acidic.
Unfortunately, we cannot get rid of all the wastes that we produce. The major reasons include our lifestyle, the kinds of foods and drinks that we consume, and the polluted environment that kills our healthy cells and changes them into acidic wastes. What is left over must be stored somewhere else in our body.
In order to live, our blood and cells must always remain slightly alkaline. So, the body plays a clever trick to convert these left-over acidic wastes into solid wastes. If these wastes are not dissolved in liquid, they do not influence the PH of the fluid.
Some examples of solidified acidic wastes are cholesterol, fatty acid, uric acid, kidney stones, urates, sulfates and phosphates. The accumulation of these non-disposed solid wastes is the process of aging. The chemical formula for cholesterol and fatty acid is incompletely burnt carbohydrates. Cholesterol and fatty acid are the results of eating too much pasta and bread and not exercising enough. Uric acid and ammonia come from all kinds of meat. Phosphoric acid comes from grains such as rice, and drinks such as Coca-Cola. Sulfuric acid comes from egg yolks.
Sulfuric acid, phosphoric acid, and uric acid are all poisonous acids. They must have alkaline minerals to neutralize them to be non-poisonous. In the absence of enough alkaline minerals from our diet, the body robs calcium from our skeleton to convert these poisonous acids into non-poisonous acid salts: sulfate, phosphates, and urates. This is how osteoporosis is developed.
Depending upon where the body stores the acidic wastes, blood circulation around that area gets poor, eventually a vital body organ is unable to receive enough blood supply and becomes dysfunctional.
Malignant cancer cells are acidic, while healthy cells are alkaline. Normal cells cannot survive near areas of acidic waste accumulation. However, some people have strong survival genes that mutate to survive in an acidic environment. That is how cancer cells are developed. As long as the acidic environment remains unchanged, the cancer will regenerate after a "successful" tumor removal operation. Experienced oncologists increase the alkalinity of the patients before administering treatment, probably by injecting sodium bicarbonate, an alkaline buffer.

The food that we eat burns with oxygen in our cells to produce energy

Greg Sharp

2003-09-28