Crazy Sexy Diet: Eat Your Veggies, Ignite Your Spark, and Live Like You Mean It! by Kris Carr, Rory Freedman (Preface), Dean Ornish M.D. (Foreword) Read Free Book Online Page B
hydrochloric acid used to fight foreign invaders and break down foods, especially protein. Your saliva fluctuates the most but still should be slightly alkaline.
The simplest and most accurate way to read your pH is to test your urine—the most reliable bodily substance—with litmus paper strips, available online for about $10. They’re similar to strips used to test chlorinated swimming pool water, so that you can do the backstroke without getting algae in your bikini. The litmus paper changes color when it’s exposed to an acid or alkaline substance. The greater the color change, the more acid or alkaline the substance.
To test your urine, most manufacturers will tell you to simply hold the strip in the flow for a second or two and wait about ten seconds. Easy! Then just compare the color on the strip to the pH chart on or with the package. For optimum sparkle, your urine should fall in the 6.8 to 7.5 pH range. Keep in mind that the pH of urine varies, depending on what you eat and when. To get the best reading, blow off testing your first morning pee. Due to metabolic processes from the night before, it will generally be on the acidic side. If your first pee isn’t acidic, it doesn’t always mean you’re in the zone. Quite the contrary, it could mean that you’re not releasing acids the way you should. To get a more accurate reading, the best time to test your pH is on your second pee of the day and before meals or at least one to two hours after eating.
One reading of a test strip won’t really tell you much, because levels fluctuate. It’s best to track your readings a few times a day for a week or so to get a general idea of where you fall. Record your findings in a journal so that you can track your success. A few weeks of this will give you a pretty good snapshot of your body chemistry. As you transition to a more alkaline diet, you’ll definitely see improvements. After a while you won’t even need to test. You’ll know exactly what will happen when you scarf hot wings and guzzle coffee.
It’s important to keep in mind that pH operates on a logarithmic scale, meaning each increase of a single number in either direction away from 7 (neutral) is actually a multiple of ten. So when you move from 7 to 6 on the pH scale, that’s ten times more acid; 7 to 5 is a hundred times more acidic; and so on. Coffee, for example, has a pH of around 4. Soda is a 2. Can you see why the SAD diet takes its toll? It’s much easier on your bod to stay in an alkaline range than to try to restore it. In the blood it takes twenty times the amount of alkalinity to neutralize an acid. Sheesh, is it really worth that cup of Joe?
A few years ago I was teaching my husband about testing his pH and trying to encourage (force) him to eat more alkaline, raw foods and dump animal products completely. At the time, I was in my bash-people-over-the-head mode—and there is absolutely no worse way to approach the man I married. Several hours after he’d finished a burger, fries, and brews at our local joint, I asked him to test his urine. It was an 8, which is über-alkaline!
Naturally, I was shocked and began questioning all that I had learned. Then I hit the books to find out what was really going on. Animal products, fried foods, and alcohol are all highly acidic. In response, his cute bod was pillaging his mineral reserves. He was too alkaline because he had previously been too acidic—his body was overcompensating. Get it? A reading like this is a false positive. Once you understand the basics, you’ll know when your body is truly in the zone.
ROBBING PETER
TO PAY PAUL
Ever hear the expression Something’s got to give? Well, that something is gorgeous you! Your loyal and dedicated body will do anything it needs to do in order to keep you alive. It doesn’t just “find” balance; it works dang hard to create it. If you’ve ever had a high fever, then you’ve experienced the desperation your body undergoes
The simplest and most accurate way to read your pH is to test your urine—the most reliable bodily substance—with litmus paper strips, available online for about $10. They’re similar to strips used to test chlorinated swimming pool water, so that you can do the backstroke without getting algae in your bikini. The litmus paper changes color when it’s exposed to an acid or alkaline substance. The greater the color change, the more acid or alkaline the substance.
To test your urine, most manufacturers will tell you to simply hold the strip in the flow for a second or two and wait about ten seconds. Easy! Then just compare the color on the strip to the pH chart on or with the package. For optimum sparkle, your urine should fall in the 6.8 to 7.5 pH range. Keep in mind that the pH of urine varies, depending on what you eat and when. To get the best reading, blow off testing your first morning pee. Due to metabolic processes from the night before, it will generally be on the acidic side. If your first pee isn’t acidic, it doesn’t always mean you’re in the zone. Quite the contrary, it could mean that you’re not releasing acids the way you should. To get a more accurate reading, the best time to test your pH is on your second pee of the day and before meals or at least one to two hours after eating.
One reading of a test strip won’t really tell you much, because levels fluctuate. It’s best to track your readings a few times a day for a week or so to get a general idea of where you fall. Record your findings in a journal so that you can track your success. A few weeks of this will give you a pretty good snapshot of your body chemistry. As you transition to a more alkaline diet, you’ll definitely see improvements. After a while you won’t even need to test. You’ll know exactly what will happen when you scarf hot wings and guzzle coffee.
It’s important to keep in mind that pH operates on a logarithmic scale, meaning each increase of a single number in either direction away from 7 (neutral) is actually a multiple of ten. So when you move from 7 to 6 on the pH scale, that’s ten times more acid; 7 to 5 is a hundred times more acidic; and so on. Coffee, for example, has a pH of around 4. Soda is a 2. Can you see why the SAD diet takes its toll? It’s much easier on your bod to stay in an alkaline range than to try to restore it. In the blood it takes twenty times the amount of alkalinity to neutralize an acid. Sheesh, is it really worth that cup of Joe?
A few years ago I was teaching my husband about testing his pH and trying to encourage (force) him to eat more alkaline, raw foods and dump animal products completely. At the time, I was in my bash-people-over-the-head mode—and there is absolutely no worse way to approach the man I married. Several hours after he’d finished a burger, fries, and brews at our local joint, I asked him to test his urine. It was an 8, which is über-alkaline!
Naturally, I was shocked and began questioning all that I had learned. Then I hit the books to find out what was really going on. Animal products, fried foods, and alcohol are all highly acidic. In response, his cute bod was pillaging his mineral reserves. He was too alkaline because he had previously been too acidic—his body was overcompensating. Get it? A reading like this is a false positive. Once you understand the basics, you’ll know when your body is truly in the zone.
ROBBING PETER
TO PAY PAUL
Ever hear the expression Something’s got to give? Well, that something is gorgeous you! Your loyal and dedicated body will do anything it needs to do in order to keep you alive. It doesn’t just “find” balance; it works dang hard to create it. If you’ve ever had a high fever, then you’ve experienced the desperation your body undergoes
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