Felicia Drury Kliment - The Acid Alkaline Balance Diet: An Innovative Program that Detoxifies Your Body’s Acidic Waste to Prevent Disease and Rstore Overall Health

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An Innovative Program That Detoxifies
Your Bodys Acidic Waste to Prevent Disease
and Restore Overall Health

Felicia Drury Kliment

To Stephen
Always with us

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Fiona Sarne, my editor, has the rare ability to see the large picture and at the same time never miss a detail. Her advice is always on target, and she is a pleasure to work with. Thanks to Susan Moore for her attention to detail and thoroughness in seeing the book through production. Also, thanks to my daughter, Pamela, and my son-in-law, Steve, for their invaluable advice and wisdom.

It took me twenty years of researching, writing, and consulting in the field of alternative health before I found the common denominator in all degenerative disease: acidic waste. These wastes are largely the byproducts of the food we eat. Wherever acid waste accumulates, it causes nearby organs to malfunction and degenerate.

Before I ever became aware that acidic wastes could cause serious health problems, I was unknowingly devising simple strategies to reduce the toxic acid levels in my body. After a stressful day at work, I would take a hot bathunusual for me, as I am a confirmed shower takeror drink some hot milk. I later learned that hot baths and hot milk reduce excess acidity in the urine, and this has a calming effect on the nerves. A remedy I used for an upset stomach was an ice pack. It gave me relief within seconds. I read later in the medical journal Lancet that cold temperatures stimulate the production of antihistaminesas the name implies, they destroy histamines, which are the cause of allergic reactions.

Yet if you had asked me at the time if elevated acid levels were dangerous to health, I would have denied it. Despite being knowledgeable about the physiology of the body, I knew nothing about hyperacidity. After all, my mother had had acid indigestion all her life, and she died at the age of ninety-eight, still able to live by herself. Whenever she had a stomach upset, she used an old folk remedy handed down from her mother: one-eighth teaspoon each of bicarbonate of soda, spirits of ammonia, and essence of peppermint. The alkalinity of the ammonia, bicarbonate of soda, and peppermint neutralized the acidic residues in her stomachthe by-products of foods not adequately broken down.

While I was successfully (if unknowingly) treating my own symptoms of acidity, those who had come to me for advice on how to alleviate their health problems were not all so lucky. Some felt no better after they had taken my advice than before. An abundance of health foods, herbs, and vitamins had passed through their bodies and had no effect. Something was missing.

A Chinese acupuncturist friend gave me a clue. Aware of the ancient Chinese belief that all living and nonliving things were predominantly yin or yang, I asked her what these opposites actually meant. She answered, Yin is acid; yang is alkaline. This was exactly what I had learned in chemistry, namely, that all earthly elements were made up of different combinations of acid particles (positively charged protons) and alkaline particles (negatively charged electrons). It is the magnetic attractions and repulsions between these particles that cause atoms to form molecules, molecular chains, and ionic compounds, the building blocks of the bodys tissues and fluids. It follows that normal body function depends on the correct balance of acid and alkaline particles in the blood, lymph, enzymes, urine, and other body fluids. This was the factor that I had overlooked in the health problems of my patients.

I knew that the Chinese treated illness by using yin and yang herbs and acupuncture needles to bring about a balance in the body between these two opposing principles. I had a hunch that I could get even better results in restoring acid-alkaline balance in the body using diet and alkaline particles to rid the body of acidic wastes.