acidity/alkalinity misconceptions

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Dear Barb,

Your constant sore throat indicates candida could be growing there,

or that your body is detoxifying through your throat.

This is what Dr. Price says about the acidity/alkalinity theory (from

our files):

" It is very important that dependable data be accumulated as rapidly

as possible which bear upon this problem of acid-base balance of

foods, since many enthusiasts are advocating strongly the elimination

or reduction of potentially acid foods such as cereals, meats and

fish. Indeed, a great deal of propaganda is reaching the profession

and laity which places great stress upon the importance of keeping

the diet potentially alkaline.

It is my personal belief, based on the extensive data that I am

accumulating, from a study of these various primitive groups and

their breakdown at the point of contact with civilization and its

foods, that several constitutional factors may be involved besides

tooth decay, and which are very important. My investigations are

showing that primitive groups have practically complete freedom from

deformity of the dental arches and irregularities of the teeth in the

arches and that various phases of these disturbances develop at the

point of contact with foods of modern civilization.

It is not my belief that this is related to potential acidity or

potential alkalinity of the food but to the mineral and activator

content of the nutrition during the developmental periods, namely,

prenatal, postnatal and childhood growth. It is important that the

very foods that are potentially acid have as an important part of the

source of that acidity the phosphoric acid content, and an effort to

eliminate acidity often means seriously reducing the available

phosphorus, an indispensable soft and hard tissue component.

It is my belief that much harm has been done through the

misconception that acidity and alkalinity were something apart from

minerals and other elements. Many food faddists have undertaken to

list foods on the basis of their acidity and alkalinity without the

apparent understanding of the disturbances that are produced by, for

example, condemning a food because it contains phosphoric acid, not

appreciating that phosphorus can only be acid until it is neutralized

by combining with a base. "

Bee