Eating PH balance meals is vital to our health.  Our body needs to maintain an 80% alkaline to 20% acid in the foods we eat.  Unfortunately due to societal changes, we are doing just the opposite.  The American public is consuming increased amounts of sugar, fats, and white bread.  All these foods are acid.  Meats, convenience foods, fats and oils, dairy foods, sweets, alcohol, and tobacco are all acid foods.  Alkaline foods are fruits, vegetables, certain seeds, nuts, herbal drinks, and other foods (see note*).  Ingesting too much acid foods can cause a plethora of diseases.  As a society, we are getting fatter, acquiring early diabetes type II, and experiencing gastric reflux more frequently.  This then results in more medications needed (medications are acid).  Can we reverse this trend?  Hopefully, but the public is not educated in cause and effect.  They cannot see that what they are eating is causing their diseases.  They do not know how to cook.  We can tell the public until we are blue in the face to eat more raw vegetables and less meat or pasta.  Will it do any good?  The easiest way to cook and prepare meals with convenience foods seems to be the norm.  Preparing meals together as a family and sitting down together to eat without the television and computer seems to be a thing of the past.  We are wrecking our stomachs and digestive systems with our poor eating behaviors.  How do we awake and educate the society to change this behavior?   The individual needs to want to improve their health, immune system, and sense of well being.  The question is how to promote this.  Wellness is important to our society.  Start by promoting it in your life.

*Note: Food charts or lists of alkaline and acid foods are easily found at many websites.

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