Spill the Pills, Part 2

In last week’s community lesson, we looked at the effect of acidic food and liquids on our bodies.  (By the way, there is much information online about acidic and alkaline foods.  For a chart, see http://www.seagulltechnologies.com/acidic2.htm.)  Here is sister’s advice for Dad, who is eighty-five years old:

Lots of fruit and veggies of course, especially high alkaline ones: celery, potato (especially the broth), avocado, banana, fig, corn, watermelon.  Also, as stated in the previous e-mail, the salt is important.  Mom really needs to be using the sea salt in all baking and cooking since the white salt is bleached, overheated and robbed of natural nutrients and extremely acidic.  This will help balance some of the processed salt he'll be getting from any other source (processed and packaged foods).  Water is also important and that is where those alkaline drops will help.  Most water is acidic.  Dasani and Evian are alkaline.  I will forward that e-mail to you also.  Please check the Lawry's salt Mom uses to see if it has MSG, because it used to.  I will see if I could send some of the REALSALT season salts so that Mom can use them for cooking.

If you answer the multiple-choice questions below and e-mail to lessonanswers@mymontebello.com with “Lesson answers” in the subject field, you will be credited toward a “certificate of recognition in community affairs” to be awarded in 2008 by a local nonprofit organization.

1. Of which kind of food should we be eating more?

(a) Alkaline food.

(b) Acidic food.

2. Most water is

(a) acidic.

(b) alkaline.

3. As for salt, it is better to use

(a) sea salt.

(b) processed salt.

November 27, 2008