Do you know what food acidity is? Or even a Chemistry lab? I’m sure that at some point of time in school, thanks to the inner destructive life-force called the ‘inner child’ you’ve encountered explosions, instances of temporary swooning or just found our true purpose in life, juvenile delinquency, vis-à-vis the magic of Chemistry.
And for those of you who explored the subject with religious fervor, for example, to detect a ‘gas’ with visible evidence other than by merely validating its presence by its odor. Both types of Chemistry students would have used litmus strips in some tests, which either turns red or blue when brought into contact with a substance.
And then there are the numbskulls whose idea of a test involves panic and paranoia after doing what they do best, impregnating someone… thanks to sexual chemistry and all that jazz.
So here’s some trivia for the one-track mind that refuses to take off on an intellectual tangent: The litmus test as mentioned above is used to measure the pH value of a substance that it’s brought into contact with. The pH scale measures how acidic or alkaline a substance is and when the strip turns blue or red indicates whether the substance is alkaline or acidic. Aha moment… anyone?
OK, well… thanks for useless fact #758, Jack? But what’s this got to do with me?
It has a lot to do with your body actually, not unless your sign-in word is ‘Nanu Nanu’.
Now, if you recall Morpheus’ monologue in the Matrix about the human body that is being optimized by the machines to produce electricity, energizer-bunny style. Well, it’s not sci-fi, it’s a fact!
Every organ (yes, this includes people with irritatingly petite versions of the cerebellum) in your body emits electromagnetic current for the purpose of communicating with each other, so that you can get the day rolling. Now, our blood stream is used as a medium of transportation to carry this bio-chemical current [or electrical impulses, if you will] to its destination. And so, if the pH value of our blood screams acidic, it’s not good for energy levels. On the other hands, if the pH value of our blood is at about 7.35, it is at an optimum level, and directly impacts our energy levels positively on a day-to-day basis.
The pH level in our body, either acidic or alkaline in nature, is primarily determined by the food and drink that we eat, or what the health-junkies call a diet and so on and so forth. (No… I’m not denigrating the kinds who want to live a healthy life, rather caustically referring to the ones who indulge in ‘typecasting’.)
So, since some of my free-spirited ones aren’t in the mood of being tied down by these words of wisdom, feel absolutely free to raise the stakes on your acidic food intake which in turn, will upset the delicate bio-chemical balance in your body by stopping the red blood cells from not flowing easily in your body as well as deplete the number of blood cells that will stop oxygen from reaching parts of your body that need it most. And of course, watch those energy levels drop drastically while your body experiences a power cut and then you’ll, sooner or later, fall sick and drop dead. Of course, a pregnancy test will be the least of your problems then!
So, if you still consider people who eat their vegetables and mind their Ps and Qs fruity, don’t worry… you’ll find yourself in the ‘produce’ section soon enough! Does the word ‘vegetable’ albeit in a non-supermarket context ring a bell?
And for those who are well and truly taken aback by this, welcome to the real world and it’s time for a serious reassessment of the phrase ‘alkaline is so fine’!
But before we move on to the ‘affinity for alkalinity’ war cry, it’s time to assess the acidic foods that we so gratifyingly indulge, in a very ‘ignorance is bliss’ state of mind.
Here are some foods (in excessive doses) that can push your body’s pH levels to acidic levels:
Veggies
Corn, Lentils, Olives, Winter Squash [pumpkin], Black Beans, Chick Peas, Green Peas, Kidney Beans, Lentils, Pinto Beans, Red Beans, Soy Beans, Soy Milk, White Beans, Rice Milk, Almond Milk
Meats
Bacon, Beef, Carp, Clams, Cod, Corned Beef, Fish, Haddock, Lamb, Lobster, Mussels, Organ Meats, Oyster, Pike, Pork, Rabbit, Salmon, Sardines, Sausage, Scallops, Shrimp, Shellfish, Tuna, Turkey, Veal, Venison
Fruits
Blueberries, Canned or Glazed Fruits, Cranberries, Currants, Plums, Prunes
Now this is not necessarily an exhaustive list, but it’s good for a start!
And yes, for those who’d like to get to know me, my favorite color is ‘blue’, alkaline or otherwise, but not necessarily of the ‘rigor mortis’ kind.
So what does ‘Food acidity’ mean to you now?
603 views
