water with lemon

[sawastea]

i.e. lemon: tightens the skin and eliminates grease

 

[SubjectiveIllusion]

i.e. lemon: tightens the skin and eliminates grease

I presume you mean topically?

 

[rettoforever]

Just add a slice of lemon to water instead of drinking soda or a sugary (or diet chemical) drink.
And believe whatever you want about it.

 

[OKIE]

I heard from someone (or read it somewhere?) that lemon is a natural diuretic. Don't know if it is true, but if so, the lemon, combined with lotsa water, can help keep water retention down.

It also is a nice change for your tastebuds when you drink SO much water.

Ditto.

 

[anthrax]

Can you explain what you mean? Do we need to fight acidity?

here is all you wanted to know about acid/alkaline balance :

Balanced body chemistry is of utmost importance for the maintenance of health and correction of disease. Acidosis, or over-acidity in the body tissues, is one of the basic causes of many diseases, especially the arthritic and rheumatic diseases.

All foods are "burned" in the body--more commonly called "digested"-- leaving an ash as the result of the "burning", or the digestion. This food ash can be neutral, acid or alkaline, depending largely on the mineral composition of the foods. Some foods leave an acid residue or ash, some alkaline. The acid ash (acidosis) results when there is a depletion of the alkali reserve or the diminution in the reserve supply of fixed bases in the blood and the tissues of the body.

It is, therefore, vitally important that there is a proper ratio between acid and alkaline foods in the diet. The natural ratio in a normal healthy body is approximately 4 to 1 -- four parts alkaline to one part acid, or 80% to 20%. When such an ideal ratio is maintained, the body has a strong resistance against disease. In the healing of disease, when the patient usually has acidosis, the higher the ratio of alkaline elements in the diet, the faster will be the recovery. Alkalis neutralize the acids. Therefore in the treatment of most diseases it is important that the patient's diet includes plenty of alkaline-ash foods to offset the effects of acid-forming foods and leave a safe margin of alkalinity.

A healthy body usually keeps large alkaline reserves which are used to meet the emergency demands if too many acid-producing foods are consumed. But these normal reserves can be depleted. When the alkaline-acid ratio drops to 3 to 1, health can be seriously menaced. Your body can function normally and sustain health only in the presence of adequate alkaline reserves and the proper acid-alkaline ratio in all the body tissues and the blood.

For optimum health and maximum resistance to disease, it is imperative that your diet is slightly over-alkaline. The ideal ratio, according to the world's foremost authority on the relationship between the acid-alkaline ratio in the diet in health and disease, Dr. Ragnar Berg, is about 80% alkali-producing foods and 20% acid-producing foods.

Most grains are acid-forming, except millet and buckwheat, which are considered to be alkaline. Sprouted seeds and grains become more alkaline in the process of sprouting.

 

[ZKaudio]

^good post bro, couldn't have said it any better.

 

[Socrates]

i used to eat and drink the juice of 3 lemons when i wrestled to cut weight before i went to bed. i would loose 3-5 pounds extra!!!. i know this was probually stupid but it really helped make weight.

 

[SubjectiveIllusion]

The Acid Foods Myth

Many people believe eating foods that "make the body (or the blood) acid" is bad for our health. Well folks, this is very simple. Eating any food does not make your blood or your body more or less acid. This is complete nonsense.

You can eat acidic foods like citrus fruits, vinegar, and chemicals in food that you need such as ascorbic acid or folic acid and the level of acid in your bloodstream is completely unaffected. Your stomach produces strong acid to aid in digestion of your food, but the pancreas neutralizes this just after it leaves the stomach. There are foods that create acid or alkaline ash, but this affects the pH of urine only.

HERE'S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: Both your bloodstream and all your organs are buffered to maintain the pH level (the standard measure of acidity) within very close limits. Any deviation from this narrow range results in severe, life-threatening illness. You would need to eat an entire bottle of antacids at once to decrease the acidity of your body. There is very little you can do to increase the acidity because your body responds very rapidly so the pH of your blood does not vary as a result of eating.

 

[Socrates]

yes, but dosent the ph get neutralized from minerals in bones and organs-resulting in mineral loss in these areas? yes the blood stays neutralized but the organs get acidic.....help me out here.

 

[mickeys]

lemon juice and lower the GI of foods. I have this bottle of pure lemon juice i bought, 2tbsp is juice from 1 whole lemon. i put it on foods and in water some times cuz it tastes good and has benefits