Water: Nutrition Fact
Water is a nutrition fact that challenges old diet patterns; discover new ways to healthy eating:As shown in the Benefit of drinking water page, your health is directly related to the chemical structure of water, which affects your body ph balance - in other words: if the aquatic solution of your body - in which every metabolic reaction happens - is too acid or too alkaline, the cells can die, causing you health problems
Let's see why water is a nutrition fact - this page covers the followings main subjects:
- The Hunza Water secret
- Acid-alkaline food:
- Danger of processed food
- Child nutrition fact
- Danger of microwave cooking
- How is Sugar related to the nutrition fact?
- Danger of processed food
- Factory Farming - Basic Macrobiotic Dietary Concepts
- Energy giving food:
- Energy Cycle in Living Things
- The Hunza Water secret
- Vitamins and minerals
- Benefit of vegetarian diet
- Nutrition fact: related links
A major nutrition fact is the body ph balance
As explained in the properties of water page, on the Ph scale from 1 to 10, the neutral zone is between 7-8. The human body acid/alkaline balance has to be between 7.35 - 7.45 to insure a good health. Eaither too acid (1-7), or to alkaline (7-10) our body becomes sick.
- When your body is acidic, it cannot assimilate vitamins and minerals, it's susceptible to sickness, it's difficult to lose weight, etc.
- By increasing your body pH to be more alkaline, you increase the oxygen to your body, increase your energy, and enhance your immune system to better heal itself.
- Balancing a proper body pH is essential and controls the speed of the body's biochemical reactions, as well as cellular and metabolic activities and functions.
- Maintaining proper body alkalinity is essential for life, health, and vitality! To regain a life-supporting alkaline state, acids need to be buffered or neutralized through a combination of salts and minerals.
- Alkalinity is a very important nutrition fact for our immune system, enzymatic system, repair mechanisms, biochemical functioning, bone health, etc.
Water nutrition fact: acid-alkaline food
The main cause of metabolic acidosis are poor dietary habits
... which simply means eating food that is not natural, therefore not compatible with our natural organism... like:
- processed food,
- chemical ingredients and flavors,
- chemically treated soil and plants and also
- all farmed animals products...
Danger of processed food
"Convenience and processed foods have all sorts of undesirable components which wreak havoc on the digestive and immune systems of an unsuspecting public
These foods make you 'full' and 'temporarily satisfied' but they fall well short on providing the fuel to keep your immune system strong. Even worse many of the processed modern foods contain known carcinogens and are no doubt a factor in the escalation of cancer in the last few decades." - XTEND-LIFE.com
Fast
food has hastened the malling of our landscape, widened the chasm between
rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and propelled American
cultural imperialism abroad. Read Fast
Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
Child nutrition fact
Do you know that: america's favorite ice cream is flavored with wood pulp, and many soft drinks owe their sweetness to coal? There are hardly ever any cherries in a cherry lollipop, or bananas in banana cake. Maple syrup need not come from the tree that bears this name, and a chocolate cookie can contain only a trace of chocolate... Learn more
HOT DOGS: one of the children's favorite foods.
"Children
who eat hot dogs once a week double their risk of a brain tumor. Youngsters
eating other cured meats, such as ham, sausage and bacon, had an 80 percent
higher risk of brain cancer. This study was done at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Kids eating more than twelve hot dogs
a month (that's barely three hot dogs a week) have nearly ten times the
risk of leukemia as children who ate none. This research was done at
the University of Southern California School of Medicine in Los Angeles.
But here is the very important good news: Children who ate hot dogs and
other cured meats, but who also took supplemental vitamins, had reduced
cancer risk." (Jean Carper’s syndicated column in Lancaster,
PA Intelligencer-Journal, Weds., June 22, 1994.) Learn
more
Overweight in children is clearly a public health crisis states NIH:
"Sixteen percent of children in the United States are carrying around excess weight — that’s 9 million children who are at increased risk for chronic illnesses such as heart disease, diabetes, and asthma,” Secretary Leavitt said today at the Environmental Solutions to Obesity in America’s Youth conference organized by the NIH’s National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
“We need to act now to prevent obesity in our children,” said NIH Director Elias Zerhouni, M.D. “Obesity is a high priority of the NIH. This year, we will spend about $440 million on a wide range of research on this important problem.”
The science-based We Can! program helps parents teach their children to:
- Eat a sufficient amount of a variety of fruits and vegetables per day
- Choose small portions at home and at restaurants
- Eat fewer high-fat foods and energy-dense foods that are low in nutrient value such as French fries, bacon, and doughnuts
- Substitute water or fat-free or low-fat milk for sweetened beverages such as sodas
- Engage in at least 60 minutes of moderate physical activity on most, preferably all, days of the week
- Reduce recreational screen time to no more than two hours per day
The misunderstanding of the nutrition fact lead to an alarming increase of child obesity, which can affect their health and further development.
Factory Farming is a Nutrition Fact:
AViva! investigation reveals most pigs are crammed in disease-ridden,
indoor units where they live in their own filth. A cocktail
of drugs keeps them alive and forces fast growth.
Massive use of antibiotics in factory farming animal production can affect humans in two major ways.
First of all, the drugs can quicken the evolution of drug-resistant bacteria that may then infect humans with untreatable diseases.
In addition, all those antibiotics and various other drugs accumulate in an animal's body. So do whatever growth hormones the creature ingested.
When the animal eventually becomes meat, this chemical cocktail enters the body of whomever eats it. The effect of eating all these chemicals and the super acidic animal meat is not known. Read more...
So, an important nutrition fact today is that we literally eat poisoned meat from sick animals ...
How is this related to water? Please read the Message from water
- Toxic food and
- Drugs to cure our diseases after we eat this toxic food..
Danger of microwave cooking
Microwave ovens alter the molecular structure of water contained in the food:
"Artificially generated microwaves, including those in ovens, are produced from alternating current and force a billion or more polarity reversals per second in every food molecule they hit. Production of unnatural molecules is inevitable. Naturally occurring amino acids have been observed to undergo isomeric changes (changes in shape morphing) as well as transformation into toxic forms, under the impact of microwaves generated in ovens. Read The Proven Dangers of Microwave Ovens
Water nutrition fact: The Hunzas secret reveald
The Negative Hydrogen Ion is a Nutrition fact
Dr. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi who discovered vitamin C and got the Nobel Prize in metabolic chemistry said:
"Hydrogen is the fuel of life." All the food we eat does one thing for us. It releases hydrogen which is burned by oxygen in the final chemical reaction releasing the energy that makes ATP, the fuel that actually runs our bodies.
Carbohydrates are one-third carbon, one-third hydrogen and one-third oxygen. We have enzymes in the body called dehydrogenases and their purpose is to loosen hydrogen on the food we eat so that the hydrogen (hydrogen is the fuel) can be burned by oxygen, releasing energy, and the carbon and oxygen left on the carbohydrate turns into carbon dioxide gas which we breathe out and the plants breathe that in. That is called the Krebs cycle.
... If you eat only processed and cooked foods, the only way you can get hydrogen is from carbohydrates, lipids and proteins, which only give enough energy to run the body at a minimal level, but it is not enough to take care of free radical damage...
... We need lots of electrons to neutralize free radicals (highly reactive chemicals that often contain oxygen and are produced when molecules are split to give products that have unpaired electrons. This process is called oxidation. Free radicals can damage important cellular molecules such as DNA or lipids or other parts of the cell).
Every enzyme reaction in the human body uses negative ionized hydrogen which has a free electron." says Dr. Patrick Flanagan
... so, our bodies desperately need this negative hydrogen ion the proper acid/alkaline balance, and antioxidant supplementation will help counter the effects of free radicals.
The only people who aren't deficient in hydrogen are those who eat pure raw food, organic diets with no cooked food or processed food , and they live way out in the countryside where there is no pollution. - If we ate pure raw organic food, and drank lots of fresh organic juices, we wouldn't need a hydrogen supplement."
Dr. Patrick Flanagan discovered how to trap the hydrogen ions in the silica spheres so that they can be time-released when added to water - and this is the secret of Hunza Valley: the water from these region contains massive quantities of negatively-charged hydrogen ions.
... one capsule of MegaHydrate contains the same number of electrons as you would find in 10,000 glasses of fresh, organic orange juice. It is loaded with negative ionized hydrogen.
Basic Macrobiotic Dietary Concepts
The following are basic concepts of the Macrobiotic Way of Eating:
- Consume organically and locally-grown foods in season as they become available, or foods that will store without artificial preservation or refrigeration. Alternatively, eat foods grown in the same latitude.
- Consume cooked whole grains primarily, and recipes made from whole grains; secondarily in quantity, cooked vegetables, adjusting proportions and preparation methods according to activity, climate and seasonal fluctuations of temperature and humidity.
- Use solar-evaporated sea water salts in preparation of food, as well as traditionally-aged miso and shoyu, umeboshi and seaweeds. Drink undyed, 3-year old roasted twig tea (kukicha) as preferred beverage.
- Use unrefined, cold-pressed seed oils sparingly, made from organically-grown seeds, like sesame, corn, safflower, sunflower, flaxseed, etc.
- Use roasted seeds and nuts, fruit, salads and fish occasionally as desired, in smaller quantities, as provided in season.
- Use beans and bean products frequently, as primary sources of protein, along with whole grain and vegetable dishes.
- Avoid all foods and beverages containing: refined sweeteners, chemical dyes, synthetic flavorings or seasonings, refined oils, chemical preservatives, or made from foods grown with chemical insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, chemical fertilizers, or produced by bio-engineering or grown under hot-house conditions.
- Avoid foods grown in, and shipped from, warmer latitudes.
- Avoid: "soft" (carbonated, sweetened) beverages, canned goods, alcoholic beverages, artificial sweeteners or products containing these ingredients.
- Chew each mouthful thoroughly before swallowing.
Source: Carbondale Center for Macrobiotic Studies
