The Standard Western Diet mostly includes acid-forming foods. Acid-forming foods are usually packaged, pasteurized, boiled, chemically preserved, and altered in some form from its natural state. This includes fried foods and oil which has been heated (including roasted nuts). Acid-forming foods are known for their cell-destructive nature and difficulty in digestion. The standard high-fat, high-sodium diet causes a build-up of plaque inside the arteries while also constricting them; making it difficult for our heart to pump and blood to flow freely.
This diet promotes heavy metals, radioactive elements, harmful chemicals, and urea accumulation in the cells and prevents the body from flushing itself out. It is widely considered that this is the biggest contributing factor to practically every wide-spread illness (including heart disease and cancer) facing America and Western civilization as a whole. Adult obesity in the United States is approaching a third of our population. A tenth of our population (and climbing) is diabetic. 25% of all US deaths are from heart disease. All of these maladies can be potentially reversed by following a plant-based diet and engaging in healthy lifestyle choices.
This is why Kaiser Permanente, (the largest HMO provider in the United States) has urged ALL of its physicians to recommend a plant based diet to ALL of their patients. In today’s world of rampant pollution, atmospheric ozone depletion, automobile exhaust, chemically laden foods, acid-forming & nutritionally devoid eating habits, plastic/food contact, pesticides, synthetic fertilizers, GMO products and the like, it is more crucial than ever to keep the body’s defenses up to combat those things which are slowly killing us. We do this by making healthy daily choices and by purging the body of toxins through cleanses. Food becomes medicine if we will but choose to eat wisely.
-From Lydia’s Guide to Health & Well-Being
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