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Creating Delicious Whole-Food Treats 324 12 Steps to Whole Foods © Copyright Robyn Openshaw

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 © Copyright Robyn Openshaw 12 Steps to Whole Foods 325

Creating Delicious <strong>Whole</strong>-Food Treats<br />

324 <strong>12</strong> <strong>Steps</strong> <strong>to</strong> <strong>Whole</strong> <strong>Foods</strong><br />

© Copyright Robyn Openshaw

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