Health Cafe Journey

I  LOVE  coffee. I mean I like the taste—never ruined it with sugar (yeah, even me a former sugar addict). So when I found I needed to eliminate coffee from my diet, I was devastated—kind of describes how I felt about many things I needed to stop eating/drinking. Reading the book  Nature's Cancer-Fighting Foods by Verne Varona  started me on my healing diet, which I attribute to  the cure for my hereditary curse . Green tea was one of several things I added to fight cancer, which tended to grow in my colon. Most are familiar with the addictive properties of caffeinated coffee—just try a day without it and get  smacked  with a whopper  caffeine withdrawal  headache. But did you know that coffee, regular and decaf, is very acid in the body? When the body becomes acidic due to a bad diet (consumption of processed foods with artificial ingredients and sugar), it becomes a cancer-producing, inflammatory environment. Green Tea: A Better Bevera...

Why should I be concerned about foods that make my body acidic? Does that mean I shouldn't eat oranges or lemons? What's this acid vs alkaline thing all about anyway? It's likely the last time you heard the word pH was in high school chemistry and it set your head spinning. You've probably never heard that your body's pH level is important for good health. So let me try to make the subject clear for you. You want your body to be alkaline.  A neutral pH is 7.5 (neither acidic nor alkaline). Anything below that is acidic and not good for your body. The foods you eat contribute to your body being either acidic or alkaline. Your body strives to be alkaline.  Your body seeks to be alkaline by drawing on alkaline-forming minerals. Where does your body get these alkaline-forming minerals?... Your bones! Calcium is leached from your bones to balance the acidic environment, attempting to become more alkaline. Not a good scenario—can you say osteoporosis? An acidic body is su...