Health and Diet
by Sang Whang
Looking at the global picture, there are three major categories of
diseases. The first is contagious diseases caused by the invasion of
foreign live substances. Today’s medical science is effective in
isolating these invaders and finding the killer agents or developing
immune shots. I believe that it is only a matter of time when medical
science will find a cure for AIDS. We already know that the HIV virus
cannot survive in an acidic environment; it cannot be transmitted
through skin contact because skin surface is acidic.
The second category is degenerative adult diseases caused by the
accumulation of non-disposed acidic wastes within our body. Whether the
wastes are distributed evenly throughout the body or concentrated in
some specific area, they can cause different diseases such as diabetes,
digestive problems, constipation, arthritis, gout, cancer,
osteoporosis, wrinkles, etc. There are various means by which
concentrated wastes are distributed, such as massages, vibrators,
magnetic devices, hot baths, sauna, etc. With the exception of
perspiration, these methods simply redistribute wastes from
concentration. The best way to get rid of acidic wastes through urine
is to drink alkaline water.
The third category is mysterious diseases caused by nutritional
deficiency. I say "mysterious" because these diseases are rather new
and doctors cannot yet figure out what they are. This category is more
common among those so-called health-conscious people. They eat
exclusively "healthy foods" and exclude all "unhealthy" ones. After an
extended time, they develop nutritional deficiency. Since they eat only
healthy food but still do not feel well, they suspect that some
substances in their drinking water make them sick. They, therefore,
insist on drinking distilled water or reverse osmosis filtered water,
believing that pure water is the best water. What these people don’t
realize is that distilled water leaches valuable minerals from the
human body, further depleting the body of needed minerals and nutrients.
Nutritional deficiency could be the result of special diets, which
exclude some food or over-indulge in others. Over-indulgence in one
kind of food could cause nutritional deficiency/imbalance. Our body
needs all kinds of nutrients; certain nutrients are need to maintain
proper ratios with other nutrients. For example, we must maintain the
proper ratio of potassium and sodium in our body; taking in sodium salt
without a sufficient amount of potassium can cause health problems, and
taking no sodium can also cause problem, as we recently learned.
Mr. Hofgren, a health food store owner from Sweden, visited me after
reading my book and told me an interesting phenomenon. When people
start a vegetarian diet, they definitely feel health improvement. After
a few years, their health deteriorates due to nutritional deficiency.
However, their memory of health improvement is so vivid that they think
they should eat more vegetables, thus making the situation worse.
With all due respect to nutritionists, there are more nutrients in
natural food that we don’t know than what we know. It makes me cringe
when I hear some nutritionist advising people not to eat certain food
because it contains no useful nutrients. Such advice may be doing more
harm than help. I have seen many so-called nutritionists disagreeing
with one another as to what food is good and what is bad.
When it comes to health and diet, there are two schools of thought.
Professional hospital dieticians advocate a balanced diet for their
patients, making sure that the needed carbohydrate, protein, fat, and
fiber are supplied. They are not necessarily concerned with the types
of waste products that these foods produce. On the other hand, health
food specialists are more concerned with waste products that the foods
produce; they recommend certain kinds of food while excluding others.
They are not necessarily knowledgeable about our body’s minimum daily
requirements of certain nutrients.
When I was developing AlkaLife®, I made 10 different ratios of
potassium hydroxide and sodium hydroxide combinations and had them
tested on 200 people over a period of two months. The doctor who
conducted the test didn’t know what was in each bottle. The test
results showed that the ratio of 75% potassium to 25% sodium to be the
most optimal for the majority of people. There were two persons who
showed a completely different result - 20% potassium to 80% sodium was
better for them. I told the doctor the contents of the bottles and the
peculiarity of the two persons, she consulted her charts and found that
they were on an "absolutely-no-sodium" diet. Their body needs more
sodium but their head rejects it, for whatever reason. Animals eat and
drink what is good for them, instinctively, but we human beings eat and
drink what TV ads tell us to. We also reject any food or drink that TV
ads tell us not to.
My personal recommendation is to enjoy the food that we like, but do
not over eat or exclude any food. Eat in moderation following
professional dieticians’ balanced diet concept, and let alkaline water
do the job of cleansing acidic wastes. Do not use food to cleanse the
wastes, thus running the risk of creating nutritional deficiency and/or
imbalance.
Copyright 1997 by Sang Whang Enterprises, Inc.
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