Re: thoughts on veggie broths/juice vs. salt

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> I wonder how important the alkaline/acid balance

> really is for healthy people? For example are the

> traditional Masai or traditonal Inuit concerned with

> acid/alakaline balance? What would the acid/alakaline

> balance be for most of the groups Price studied? It

> seems to me that most of them would be acid, some more

> so than others...

Hi Alsion:

There is a 1934 article by Weston Price on this topic on the PPNF web

site.

Chi

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> Thanks Mark for your explanation.

>

> I wonder how important the alkaline/acid balance

> really is for healthy people? For example are the

> traditional Masai or traditonal Inuit concerned with

> acid/alakaline balance? What would the acid/alakaline

> balance be for most of the groups Price studied? It

> seems to me that most of them would be acid, some more

> so than others...

Yes, that is what the article at Price-Pottenger said. This whole

issue is something that I'm investigating at the moment. One thing

that makes me think acid/alkaline is so important is the fact that

our bodies are exposed to so much pollution and toxic chemicals that

our livers have to deal with on a daily basis....The primitive

cultures did not have the onslaught of pollutants that we have to

filter through our most valuable organ! We might need the extra

alkaline elements to help neutralize these things... ?

Also the fact that every successful healing regime for degenerative

diseases involves a high amount of alkaline foods to restore health

seems to support this theory...

Spring tonics using natural herbs and local, wild edible plants was a

practice of many people in the past that has been largly forgotten.

It usually consisted of alkalizing elements and liver tonics to

cleanse the body.

> If I was diagnosed with cancer or started having other

> serious or pervasive health problems, I would do a raw

> foods cleanse with no salt and and lots of fresh

> veggie juice-

I agree!

> Vegetable juices aren't natural- are any of them

> traditional? You certainly wouldn't sit down to eat a

> few pounds of raw veggies at a time. Someday I do hope

> to get a wheatgrass juicer- I'd like to use wheatgrass

> as a dietary supplement- but the thought of lots of

> fresh veggie juice makes me- *hungry!!*

Yes, you are right, juicing pounds of vegetables and drinking the

jiuce is not very " natural " or traditional....but neither is eating

fast food or modern day non-foods. So, when our bodies are so toxic

with junk, it takes this concentrated vegetable or highly detoxifying

wheatgrass juice to cleanse our system. We have to swing the

pendulum back in the other opposite direction for healing to take

place. Hope that makes sense...

> I can see I will have to check out the Bieler book at

> some point.

Yes, Bieler's book is very interesting and his position on salt is

that it is a stimulant (as bad for you as coffee, sugar, etc..) He

says it is inorganic sodium and that the body cannot utilize it.

Organic sodium (like from celery, cucumbers, etc...)is what your body

needs. It is when your liver is congested and not functioning well

that you crave stimulants such as salt. He took his patients off of

stimulating diets and put them on sodium rich vegetables to

replentish their alkaline elements of the liver and they became

healthy.

Just my 2 cents,

Becky

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[Guest guest]

> Thanks Mark for your explanation.

>

> I wonder how important the alkaline/acid balance

> really is for healthy people? For example are the

> traditional Masai or traditonal Inuit concerned with

> acid/alakaline balance? What would the acid/alakaline

> balance be for most of the groups Price studied? It

> seems to me that most of them would be acid, some more

> so than others...

>

> If I was diagnosed with cancer or started having other

> serious or pervasive health problems, I would do a raw

> foods cleanse with no salt and and lots of fresh

> veggie juice- but I haven't thus far persuaded myself

> to drink veggie juice for breakfast over eggs and

> toast. (No thanks Dr. Mercola!)

>

> Vegetable juices aren't natural- are any of them

> traditional? You certainly wouldn't sit down to eat a

> few pounds of raw veggies at a time. Someday I do hope

> to get a wheatgrass juicer- I'd like to use wheatgrass

> as a dietary supplement- but the thought of lots of

> fresh veggie juice makes me- *hungry!!*

>

> Veggie broths- are these traditonal foods? When I'm

> sick maybe, but chicken broth is so much nicer IMO.

>

> I can see I will have to check out the Bieler book at

> some point.

>

>Alison

I made the Beiler broth with grass-fed chicken and beef stock (beef

is best). Delicious and captures the best of 2 worlds. I also added a

couple of carrots to sweeten the taste. Yield 1 gallon.

anne