The pH Effect

Reducing acid forming foods from my diet has been the most beneficial action I have ever taken regarding my overall health. Our bodies naturally regulate internal pH to between 7.30 and 7.40 with perfect alkalinity considered to be at 7.365. Acid forming foods have become an issue with the introduction of refined and processed foods such as bleached white flour and sugar. A more accurate label for refined flour and sugar would be toxins however rather than foods.

Acid forming foods deplete the body of oxygen and make a friendly environment for illness. Instead of allowing our bodies to heal from within using proper nutrition, doctors prescribe acid forming pharmaceuticals which manage our original maladies into chronic diseases. The best strategy to avoiding disease is prevention. One of the first steps toward a healthy body is a diet consisting of 80% alkaline forming foods. When examining what foods are acid forming it will become clear why we also have an obesity problem today. Most people are simply not eating the foods their bodies were designed to be eating.

The chart below lists common foods with an approximate, relative potential of acidity (-) or alkalinity (+), as present in one ounce of food. There is a lot of information across the web on this topic. I recommend that you do your own research into this and adjust your diet accordingly. Begin by eliminating one or two of the most acid forming foods or beverages from your diet. Slowly replace those with an alkaline forming food. Eat alkaline forming foods generously everyday and try to make acid forming foods a smaller part of your typical daily diet.

Alkaline Forming Foods Eat Everyday! Vegetables Alfalfa Grass +29.3 Asparagus +1.3 Barley Grass +28.1 Brussels Sprouts +0.5 Cabbage Lettuce, Fresh +14.1 Cauliflower +3.1 Cayenne Pepper +18.8 Celery +13.3 Chives +8.3 Comfrey +1.5 Cucumber, Fresh +31.5 Dandelion +22.7 Dog Grass +22.6 Endive, Fresh +14.5 French Cut Green Beans +11.2 Garlic +13.2 Green Cabbage, Dec. Harvest +4.0 Green Cabbage, Mar. Harvest +2.0 Kamut Grass +27.6 Lamb’s Lettuce +4.8 Leeks (Bulbs) +7.2 Lettuce +2.2 Onion +3.0 Peas, Fresh +5.1 Peas, Ripe +0.5 Red Cabbage +6.3 Rhubarb Stalks +6.3 Savoy Cabbage +4.5 Shave Grass +21.7 Sorrel +11.5 Soy Sprouts +29.5 Spinach, Other Than Mar. +13.1 Spinach, Mar. Harvest +8.0 Sprouted Chia Seeds +28.5 Sprouted Radish Seeds +28.4 Straw Grass +21.4 Watercress +7.7 Wheat Grass +33.8 White Cabbage +3.3 Zucchini +5.7 Root Vegetables Beet +11.3 Carrot +9.5 Horseradish +6.8 Kohlrabi +5.1 Potatoes +2.0 Red Radish +16.7 Rutabaga +3.1 Summer Black Radish +39.4 Turnip +8.0 White Radish, Spring +3.1 Fruits Avocado (Protein) +15.6 Fresh Lemon +9.9 Limes +8.2 Tomato +13.6 Non-Stored Organic Grains And Legumes Buckwheat Groats +0.5 Granulated Soy (Cooked Ground Soy Beans) +12.8 Lentils +0.6 Lima Beans +12.0 Soy Flour +2.5 Soy Lecithin (Pure) +38.0 Soy Nuts (soaked Soy Beans, Then Air Dried) +26.5 Soybeans, Fresh +12.0 Spelt +0.5 Tofu +3.2 White Beans (Navy Beans) +12.1 Nuts Almonds +3.6 Brazil Nuts +0.5 Seeds Caraway Seeds +2.3 Cumin Seeds +1.1 Fennel Seeds +1.3 Flax Seeds +1.3 Pumpkin Seeds +5.6 Sesame Seeds +0.5 Sunflower Seeds +5.4 Wheat Kernel +11.4 Fats (Fresh, Cold-Pressed Oils) Borage Oil +3.2 Evening Primrose Oil +4.1 Flax Seed Oil +3.5 Marine Lipids +4.7 Olive Oil +1.0

Foods You Should Consume Moderately Fruits (In Season) Apricot -9.5 Banana, Ripe -10.1 Banana, Unripe +4.8 Black Currant -6.1 Blueberry -5.3 Cantaloupe -2.5 Cherry, Sour +3.5 Cherry, Sweet -3.6 Coconut, Fresh +0.5 Cranberry -7.0 Currant -8.2 Date -4.7 Fig Juice Powder -2.4 Gooseberry, Ripe -7.7 Grape, Ripe -7.6 Grapefruit -1.7 Italian Plum -4.9 Mandarin Orange -11.5 Mango -8.7 Orange -9.2 Papaya -9.4 Peach -9.7 Pear -9.9 Pineapple -12.6 Raspberry -5.1 Red Currant -2.4 Rose Hips -15.5 Strawberry -5.4 Tangerine -8.5 Watermelon -1.0 Yellow Plum -4.9 Non-Stored Grains Brown Rice -12.5 Wheat -10.1 Nuts Hazelnuts -2.0 Macadamia Nuts -3.2 Walnuts -8.0 Fish Fresh Water Fish -11.8 Fats Coconut Milk -1.5 Sunflower Oil -6.7

Acidic Forming Foods Limit or Avoid! Meat, Poultry, And Fish Beef -34.5 Chicken (to -22) -18.0 Eggs (to -22) Liver -3.0 Ocean Fish -20.0 Organ Meats -3.0 Oysters -5.0 Pork -38.0 Veal -35.0 Milk And Milk Products Buttermilk +1.3 Cream -3.9 Hard Cheese -18.1 Homogenized Milk -1.0 Quark -17.3 Bread, Biscuits (Stored Grains/Risen Dough) Rye Bread -2.5 White Biscuit -6.5 White Bread -10.0 Whole-Grain Bread -4.5 Whole-Meal Bread -6.5 Nuts Cashews -9.3 Peanuts -12.8 Pistachios -16.6 Fats Butter -3.9 Corn Oil -6.5 Margarine -7.5 Sweets Artificial Sweeteners -26.5 Barley Malt Syrup -9.3 Beet Sugar -15.1 Brown Rice Syrup -8.7 Chocolate -24.6 Dr. Bronner’s Barley Dried Sugar Cane Juice -18.0 Fructose -9.5 Honey -7.6 Malt Sweetener -9.8 Milk Sugar -9.4 Molasses -14.6 Turbinado Sugar -9.5 White Sugar -17.6 Condiments Ketchup -12.4 Mayonnaise -12.5 Mustard -19.2 Soy Sauce -36.2 Vinegar -39.4 Beverages Beer -26.8 Coffee -25.1 Fruit Juice Sweetened With Fruit Juice, Packaged, Natural -8.7 Liquor -38.7 Tea (Black) -27.1 White Sugar -33.6 Wine -16.4 Miscellaneous Canned Foods Microwaved Foods Processed Food

Table: pH scale of alkaline and acid forming foods
Source: “The Nutrition Factor” by Dr. Jimmy Steger, N.D., Phd.

This is a great first step in overall awareness. Research nutrition thoroughly. Take responsibility for your own better health. We have been told a lot of untruths regarding what is healthy for us. The pH effect is only one reason the USDA’s food pyramid needs to be thrown on the compost pile. I’ll be sharing more of what I have found on that soon.

How To Study The Bible: Using e-Sword

After 9 million downloads of e-Sword FREE Bible study software, many people have yet to hear about it.  If this is new to you please visit http://www.e-sword.net and get your free copy.  The basic installation provides tools that greatly increase your study time effectiveness.   With the basic install you will receive the King James Version, the King James Version w/ Strong’s numbers, and Strong’s’ Concordance.  You can add modules, most of which are free, of additional translations/paraphrases, dictionaries, map, and more.

So let’s look at an example of how this can help with our studies…

With e-Sword open using the King James version with Strong’s numbers, let’s do a search on all the instances of the word “fire” in the Bible.  First, click on the icon that looks like a set of binoculars, type the word “fire” in the search field, and let’s select just the New Testament for this demonstration.

The search results will show that the English word “fire” is in the New Testament a total of 83 times in 79 different verses.  By double clicking on a verse in the search result area you are immediately taken to that verse in the reading pane.  You may also click “accept” which will close the search window but save your search results in the drop down tool just to the right of the binocular icon.  You can then scroll to each verse or simply click on the directional arrow, either forward or backward through the list.

From this particular study you can see how the English word fire is used in the context of each verse.  We can learn something already from the first three results as they are in the consecutive verses of Matthew 3, verses 10, 11 and 12.  We see “fire” in all three verses…

Matthew 3:10-12 KJV
(10) And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
(11) I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:
(12) Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.

By hovering the mouse over the Strong’s number next to the word fire we see it is the Greek word “pur”, and it is this same Greek word each of the times it is mentioned in these particular verses.  You may recall that denominations of the Christian church teach fire as being undesirable.  We see from verse 10 the trees that bring not forth fruit, representing evil man, thrown into the fire.  In verse 12 we see chaff purged from the threshing floor and also thrown into the fire.  How then do we understand verse 11 which states that Jesus baptizes us with the Holy Ghost and with fire?

If you hover your mouse pointer over the word “and” in verse 11 you see it is the Greek word “kai” and it is a copulative conjunction… meaning the Holy Ghost and fire are connected, they go together.

Continue to read through the other verses from your search on the word “fire”.  How do we reconcile this seeming contradiction?  If we think the Bible contradicts then we know we are not understanding… because we know God’s Word does not lie.  What do we do with Hebrews 12:29 that states:

(Hebrews 12:29 KJV)
For our God is a consuming fire.

I believe the brick and mortar church of man teaches that fire is a bad thing… am I wrong?  Doesn’t fire equate to hell… a place of fiery torment that lasts for billions and billions and billions of years… and then some more?

Doing topical word studies using e-Sword can bring greater understanding.  Continue to study all types of words with their Hebrew or Greek origins.  At some point I hope you find yourself asking questions.  Using my demonstration study of the word fire you will discover verses as the ones in 1 Corinthians 3:13-15:

1 Corinthians 3:13-15 KJV
(13)  Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.
(14)  If any man’s work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
(15)  If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.

Do these verses leave you with questions?  Do you know what you believe and why you believe it?  Too many of us for too long have ignored the commandment to study, expecting our pastors and priests to do it for us.  I don’t believe that has been working very well, do you?

We are not commanded to read our Bibles… we are commanded to study our Bibles.

(2 Timothy 2:15 KJV)  Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

Search for this verse in e-Sword and look for the meaning of the Greek word “spoudazo” translated “study”.

to use speed, that is, to make effort, be prompt or earnest: – do (give) diligence, be diligent (forward), endeavour, labour, study.

e-Sword is a great study tool.  If God so inspires you, I am sure you will gain understanding and a love for the truth by using it.

One last thought:  Jesus said that the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field… it’s hidden.  We have to find it.  That means we have to dig and search…  which requires diligence and labor.  Ask for understanding and a love for the truth, then start digging.

All Means All

Does God Lie?
In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began; (Titus 1:2 KJV)

God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good? (Numbers 23:19 KJV)

And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent. (1 Samuel 15:29 KJV)

Does God’s Word Lie?
Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. (John 17:17 KJV)

If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken; (John 10:35 KJV)

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: (2 Timothy 3:16 KJV)

Does God’s Word contradict? Wouldn’t that be the same as lying? If I think the Bible contradicts, I must not understand.

How Many Will Jesus Save?
And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. (1 John 4:14 KJV)

Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. (1 Timothy 2:4 KJV)

For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe. (1 Timothy 4:10 KJV)

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. (2 Peter 3:9 KJV)

Whose Will and Whose Pleasure?
For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. (Philippians 2:13 KJV)

Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure: (Isaiah 46:10 KJV)

Does God Fail?
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. (1 John 4:8 KJV)

Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. (1 Corinthians 13:8)

Does All Mean All?
For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. (1 Corinthians 15:22 KJV)

The word “all” comes from the Greek word “pas” and is defined as:

Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole: – all (manner of, means) alway (-s), any (one), X daily, + ever, every (one, way), as many as, + no (-thing), X throughly, whatsoever, whole, whosoever.

The “all” in the first half of 1 Corinthians 15:22 is the same “all” in the second half of the verse. All in Adam die. I personally know of no one over about nineties years of age. I have heard there are people living well over 100 in certain parts of the world… but they do die eventually.

I can see that in Adam all die.

The verse says “as in Adam all die”. The word “as” is the greek “hosper” and is defined as:

just as, that is, exactly like: – (even, like) as.

How can all mean all in the first half of the verse and not in the second half of the verse? I could ask a pastor if I wanted to see an attempt at making God a liar… or I can continue to pray for understanding and a love for the truth. I realize the Bible is not a book for toilet seat reading… I am commanded to study.

These scriptures are clear… but clearly do not agree with the doctrine of today’s Christian church.

Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. (Matthew 7:14 KJV)