Let Them Laugh

 “Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.”
-Mohandas Gandhi

The concept of acid/alkaline imbalance is not new. In 1933, Dr.William Howard Hay published his groundbreaking book, A New Health Era. In his book, Dr. Hay put forth the idea that all disease is caused by acid accumulation in the body. Toxicity due to acid may not be a new idea, but it is still not accepted by mainstream medicine. Because it is the most controversial and unconventional of all of the concepts covered in this book, I am going to stop and defend it now.

You can visit websites like quackwatch.com and read that the acid/alkaline body theory is “nonsense.”  Critics claim that you cannot control the alkalinity of your blood through diet. The problem with this argument is that practitioners who advocate an alkaline diet are not claiming that they can manipulate the pH of blood with food and nutritional supplements.  The pH level of blood must stay within a very narrow range. It would mean death for it to become too acidic. What can be made more alkaline by diet is the nutrient-filled fluid that bathes the trillions of cells in the body.

Naysayers can argue until they are blue in the face, but they can’t argue with the results experienced by people eating an alkaline diet. Remedy.com is a website that allows users to rate treatments for various diseases. On a scale of 1-10, users rated the effectiveness of an alkaline diet at a hugely successful 9.8.

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