Book Review: The Ultimate pH Solution — Michelle Schoffro Cook

Balance Your Body Chemistry to Prevent Disease and Lose Weight by Michelle Schoffro Cook, DNM, DAc

Very good introduction to eating alkaline foods for improving health

This book is a simple and well-written explanation for those unfamiliar with the importance of eating a predominantly alkaline diet to maintain a healthy acid/alkaline balance in tissues. If people ate just to promote alkalinity, they’d maintain healthy weight, feel great, and wouldn’t have to worry about most degenerative diseases.

pH is the measurement of potential hydrogen: simplified, it’s the amount of positively charged hydrogen ions (acid) and negatively charged hydroxyl ions (alkaline) we carry. Our blood is slightly alkaline and most tissues should be as well. But our body is forced to store acids in our tissues when too many are consumed or generated for our body to excrete.

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Additionally, alkaline minererals, such as calcium and magnesium, are robbed from bones and muscle to buffer these excess acids. A diet high in acid foods, such as sugar, meats, grains, coffee, and drugs, causes an improper pH balance in our tissues, which leads to poor health and, according to some, proliferation of microbes, fungus, yeast and molds.

Instead of being addicted to sugar, stress, adrenaline rushes, conflict, or food additives, you will be addicted to feeling energetic, sleeping well at night, thinking clearly, and maintaining a balanced mood. Your body, your mind, and your spirit will feel strong in a way that can never be achieved with an acidic lifestyle. –Michelle Schoffro Cook, DNM, DAc

In this book you’ll discover:

• some problems with our current food choices
• an example of a typical acid diet
• how acids are produced internally
• how various diseases are caused by this diet: e.g., diabetes, depression, osteoporosis, CFS, arthritis, obesity, cancer
• how our body responds physiologically to ingestion of acids
• a quiz to rate your potential level of acidity
• case studies of various individuals who transformed their health through modifying their acid/alkaline balance
• supplements and therapies
• a chart of acid and alkaline foods
• a one-week meal plan for increasing alkalinity
• over 30 pages of recipes, some of which look quite appetizing and easy to make

The shortcomings include too little information on physiology (which is only important to someone like me who wants to understand the finer details), superficial instructions for testing urine and saliva pH and interpreting the results (which probably only matters to the anal retentive among us), too much cooked food with improper food combining, and minor reliance on gadgetry and technology. But these shortcoming pale in comparison the wealth of information from which anyone can benefit. Definitely recommended for the health seeker.

Buy The Ultimate pH Solution.

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