Re: Re: thoughts on veggie broths/juice vs. salt

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Aubin

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> Hi! If you are moderator still, could you forward

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> Regarding acid/akaline balance issue, the field of

> metabolic typing seems

> to also point to some answers. Bill Wolcott, in his

> " The Metabolic Typing

> Diet " starts out with a discussion of Price's work

> and references Sally's

> NT throughout. He suggests that what alkalinizes

> some people would acidify

> others, because there are different ways the body

> metabolizes food and

> makes energy. Before the age of mass travel, one

> would likely be born with

> the inherited characteristics of one's ancestors,

> which would have evolved

> to handle the foods available locally. Thus the

> Masai, eating foods that

> we popularly construe as acidifying, would thrive

> because their metabolism

> and digestion processes evolved to process those

> foods. Wolcott says that

> because most of us are a mixture of various

> ethnic/racial/cultural

> backgrounds, it might seem at first that all is lost

> in confusion but

> actually he says we all have a " functional type "

> which is the way we

> actually metabolize food. This can be fast, mixed,

> or slow. Where one

> falls determines whether one needs more protein and

> fat, or more carbs.

> Sounds like there is a baseline of all

> macronutrients that are recommended

> for everyone though, which would put it in line with

> NT. The point, to

> bring it back, is that a lemon might be alkalinizing

> for you but acidifying

> for me depending on our metabolic type. (Wolcott

> uses at least 9 different

> measures of biochemical individuality to determine

> this precisely, btw....)

>

> Anyone have experience with this approach? Does it

> clear up the

> acid/alkaline question?

>

> > > Cheers,

>

>

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[Guest guest]

Price wrote about acid-alkaline balance. He found that all the healthy

groups had more acid ash foods than alkaline ash foods in their diets--yet

showed no evidence of bone loss or any symptom of being " too acid. " His

dismissed this whole business as a bad theory. Hi article is reprinted in an

issue of the Price-Pottenger journal several years ago--you can call them and

get a reprint.

I discuss acid-alkaline balance in NT.

I once did an experiment on our family. We tested saliva with pH strips. An

alkaline saliva is said to be good and show that the body is in acid-alkaline

balance. All of us tested alkaline. Then I tested a friend of the

children's who at a lot of junk food (but also ate lots of meat). Her saliva

was alkaline. Then I tested the dog who ate only meat (high acid diet) and

his saliva was alkaline also.

Sally