12 Steps to Whole Foods

CHAPTER 12
Achieving an Alkaline
Inner Terrain
Your Goal:
To understand the importance of eating and drinking alkaline-forming foods and water. You’ll want to
improve the acid/alkaline balance in your body with ionized water plus more alkaline-forming foods
and fewer acid-forming foods.
What You’ll Need:
You will need a means to provide alkaline water, and the best solution is to save for a water ionizer.
You may also wish to add a quality dehydrated greens product to your daily drinking water.
Why Is Water So Important?
Our bodies are over 70% water. Thinking of
yourself as mostly water, ask yourself this:
Would you rather be a river or a pond?
Ponds sit stagnant, with nothing much
feeding them most of the time. They’re full
of algae and pollutants, and no one wants to
swim in most of them except the occasional
one that is fed from underground. A river,
however, is in flux, constantly cleaning and
regenerating itself.
Flushing your mostly water body, similarly,
is critically important. Dr. Bernard Jensen
said that most people are chronically
dehydrated, causing all tissues and fluids in the body to become viscid and thick. The mucous lining in
the colon changes when dehydrated and fails to provide lubrication for feces to move easily. Plenty of
water leads to a healthy digestion and elimination.
People who drink lots of water eat about 200 calories per day less than people who drink much less.
This is likely one of the reasons why people who drink more water lose weight and people who drink
less water gain weight.
We already addressed water, as a first-thing-in-the-morning habit, in Chapter 10 which talked about
breakfast. It’s so critically important, this water issue, that I bring it up in Chapter 1 as we start green
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