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The Alkaline/Acid Balance
Water is essential to life. All the tissues and fluids in the body contain this substance that is chemically abbreviated as H2O. Water acts as a solvent for minerals such as calcium, potassium, magnesium, and sodium as well as other substances. The mineral content, after the digestive processes are completed, determines the body's potential of hydrogen (pH) as the measure of the alkaline/acid balance. A pH of 7.0 is neutral, below 7.0 it is acidic and above 7.0 it is alkaline. The human blood pH should be slightly alkaline between 7.35 and 7.4. Below or above can mean dis-ease and disease.
Water with a twist of lemon has a refreshing acidic taste. However the taste has nothing to do with the residue left in the body after digestion. It is the minerals like potassium and calcium found in it that balance of the pH and actually cause an alkaline residue in the body. So despite their acidic taste, lemons and other citrus fruits cause an alkalinizing reaction.
Generally speaking alkaline forming foods include most fruits, fresh vegetables, green peas and green beans, herbs and seasonings, seeds and almonds. Acid forming foods include generally speaking all animal products including milk and eggs, grains, legumes, oils and most nuts. Cooking fruits and vegetables makes them react more acidic due to mineral losses.
To restore and to maintain health, the diet should consist of at least 80% alkaline forming foods (and about 20% acid forming foods). However not only the things we consume, but also our surroundings and the things we do have an effect on this balance. We can read about it in the Bible in Jeremiah 2 verse 22: "Though you wash yourself with lye and use much soap, the stain of your guilt is still before me, declares the Lord God." Not only guilt, but also fear, anger, jealousy, stress and overwork cause an acidic reaction in the body. Meditation, prayer, peace, love and kindness on the other hand have proven to help the body to be alkaline.
Vegan Life Style
The original diet was vegan. It was after the flood that animal products were added to the diet (Genesis 9:3) and that man probably started to cook his food.
Before the account of the flood the average lifespan of man was 912 years. God decided to reduce mans life expectancy to 120 years (Genesis 6:3) because according to Genesis 6:5 man's "imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually." After the flood, when animal products were allowed and cooking probably started, the lifespan of man dropped by the end of the book of Genesis with Joseph to 110 years.
Prof. Dr. Walter Veith, a zoologist and former evolutionist, states in one of his articles on diet a fact that is very much supportive of a fruit based original diet: "Our human digestive system is geared toward the diet God set out for us in Genesis 1. The length of the digestive tract is a strong indicator of what type of food is normally eaten, and our digestive tract is 12-‐14 times our shoulder-‐to-‐hip trunk length, the same as fruit-‐eating animals. Herbivores, such as cattle, have a gut-‐length 20 times their body length, since it takes longer to digest the fiber content in their diet. The shortest tracts are found in meat-‐eaters. It does not take many thousands of years for a change to take place in gut lengths due to changes of diet. Recent studies have shown that this can take place over a short period of time."
The benefits of a vegan lifestyle are nicely summarized in the China Study, the largest, most comprehensive study ever done on the correlations between diet, disease, and mortality. Carried out in China, where there is an up to a one-hundredfold difference in cancer incidence among different locations. Cancer is a localized disease in rural China, present in one village but totally absent in another village with diet being the differentiator. In western countries, however, where we tend to eat similar things, cancer is rampant.
T. Colin Campbell, the author of the Study, reports a linear relationship between consumption of animal foods and disease states. As the consumption increases—even in small amounts—so does disease. But the higher the level of antioxidants in the blood, which is obtainable only from plants, the less disease there was.
Dr. Campbell reports the study's findings about "controlling cancer through nutrition." Casein, a milk protein, was used in lab experiments, and the question was raised, "Did it make a difference what type of protein was used in these experiments?" Would wheat or soy protein, for example, cause the same effect? It was found that "plant protein did not promote cancer growth, even at the higher levels of intake."