The hundreds of stories I hear, about alkaline ionized water, combined with my own experience of drinking alkaline ionized water for about 18 years, give me a unique perspective on nutrition, health, and dieting. In addition to having so much experience with my favorite nutritional booster [alkaline ionized water] I’ve also spent hundreds of hours of my free time over the years studying nutrition, health and dieting as a science. So, today’s blog is all about my personal thoughts and suggestions for…

Nutrition, Health, and Dieting as it relates to Alkaline Ionized Water.

Keep in mind that I’m not providing you with medical advice, just plain common sense as seen through my experienced eyes.

1st Piece of Advice: Drink Alkaline Ionized Water!

2nd Piece of Advice: Use Moderation

Moderation is important for both nutrition and dieting. I have a stable nutritional rule that works real well for me, and I’ll share that with you.

If it tastes so good “you can’t only eat just one” then stay away from it.

What is the cause of overweight?

Much of it boils down to poor nutrition, of course your body needs a certain amount of exercise, but in the short term over-weightness is related to a series of wrong choices of food consumption. Foods that don’t satisfy you are wrong choices of food to eat. Foods that are too tasty are probably also wrong choices if they are addictive in their tastiness.

Examples of Good Choices:

• Ionized water [in abundance]
• Whole, un-cooked, and un-juiced, veggies and fruits [in abundance]
• Whole grains [in moderation]
• Balance in foods consumed over the course of a day [proteins, carbs, etc.] [in moderation]

Poor Nutrition leads to poorer nutrition, and eventually poor health of course. It also can lead to obesity.

Examples of Poor Choices:

• Soft drinks
• Sugary foods
• Refined Carbohydrates [or carbs in over-abundance]
• Over-cooked vegetables [like what you get in cans]
• Over-cooked meats [or meat in over-abundance]
• Fats [in over-abundance] [chips, fries...]

To ensure good nutrition I suggest the following:

• Drink plenty of alkaline ionized water. This will hydrate you, help get rid of toxins, help to protect your cells from free-radical damage [oxidation], give you more energy, and much more.
• Don’t buy foods that are too tempting
• Save your money and eat at home [rather than tempting fast-food places]
• Limit the poor choices to none or almost none [depending on your will-power*].

*Surprising Insight into Will-Power: What I have found about will-power is that it actually takes less will-power to have none of certain foods than it does to have just a little of it. So if you think your will-power is low, then choose none of the poor-food-choice category. It’s easier to stick to. Sugary foods are an example of that kind of food for me. What I have to do is simply have none in the category of sweets whenever I want to lose weight. Whole, un-juiced and uncooked fruits are okay, but even allowing a little bit of refined, sugary foods opens the door [for me] for over-indulgence in the sweets department. If it’s any consolation, though, it takes about 3 days for your body to adjust to a new diet routine. If it’s a healthy diet routine, you should be on easy-street [in the cravings department] once your body adjusts to it.

Another Surprising Necessity Related to Losing Weight …

Is… to eat. Starving triggers the body’s mechanisms to store fat. You don’t want to trigger that. So eat. But eat in moderation.

So, If you are attempting to lose weight I suggest the following:

• Eat. Do not not-eat. Do not starve. But, make sure to make good choices [see above] in what you eat.
• Use moderation.
• Drink lots of alkaline ionized water. [Advice for drinking ionized water: If you are mixing it with sweeteners, then do this in moderation. Don't do it with every glass. Do not heat the water...or if you do, then heat it infrequently. Heating loses most of the ionization benefits right away. Try to drink the ionized water fresh rather than hours old. Try to not blend or whip the ionized water. That causes you to lose much of your ORP [antioxidant benefits].]
  • Poor choices for mixing with ionized water.
    • Crystal-Lite
    • Cool-Aid
  • Good choices for drinks made with ionized water.
    • Squeeze a slice of fresh lemon, sweeten with Stevia, and mix slowly.
    • Steep a green-tea bag in room-temperature ionized water and sweeten with Stevia. Mix slowly.

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According to the National Cancer Institute’s own estimate, the number of new cases of colon and rectal cancer in the US for 2010 is 103 thousand and out of those cases over 50 thousand are predicted to result in death. That is definitely a very high percentage of deaths! 

It is definitely not new news that colon cancer kills, but it may be new news to some people that water ionizers have helped many people [preventatively] who were well on their way to colon cancer. Here is a video devoted to the subject to the colon. Dr Shinya was the inventor of the colonoscopy, and the colonoscopy is seen in practice in this video. People starting out with unhealthy colons are directed to drink ionized water and eat an alkaline diet for a period of time. Then the colonoscopies are repeated.

Polyps are a sign of potential cancer.

The results are remarkable. The people in this video who were headed for colon cancer are clearly reversed. Their life history is now re-written all because of a simple thing like ionized water and a healthy diet. Though we may never know the exact consequence of their continued course, we can use our own judgement to see where they were headed and where they are now headed…and see these are in two different directions.

These before vs after drinking ionized water video clips are quite amazing.

Drinking ionized water helps to cleanse the organs [including of course the colon], and healthy organs and cells need continuous cleansing in order to stay healthy…plain and simple.

So, providing your body with alkaline ionized water on a regular basis is definitely going to help. For eighty years it has been established that cancer cannot thrive in an alkaline environment. It needs acidity in order to live and grow.

This next video offers more proof. It is a collection of film-clips on animal research that has been done. Go to the 4-minute mark of the video to see these experiments with the rats. Rats and mice were injected with cancer and they are split into two groups [one group drinks alkaline ionized water]. The experiments are more testament to the fact that cancers will not grow in the presence of an alkaline body. Cancers need acidity to thrive.  It’s in Korean, so you need to read and watch at the same time.

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I’ve just recently added a Glossary of Water Ionizer Terms to my website and in this blog post I’ve included the main terms in tutorial sequence for people who want to know what these terms mean. For a full listing, including all links & further explanations, click here: Glossary .

Ion: A charged particle.

Water Ionizer: An electrical device that first filters the water, then reduces the water-cluster size, splits the water into two streams [alkaline and acidic] by electrically activating [charging] the ions in the water. 

Alkaline Ionized Water: Water which has undergone ionization and which has the properties of smaller cluster size, greater alkalinity, and increased ORP [oxidation reduction potential]

ORP:Oxidation reduction potential. A negative ORP can be explained as having the properties of an antioxidant. ORP is measured in mille volts [mv] as positive [+] or negative [-]. Negative ORP is desired for its anti-oxidizing benefits. Positive ORP [as found in tap and bottled water] causes oxidation.

Free Radical: An oxygen [O2] molecule with a missing electron. Causes oxidation, which is a deterioration of the surface of a cell.

Antioxidant: The ability of a substance to prevent or fight against the free radical damage caused by oxidation. If a substance has extra electrons that can be donated to the O2 molecules which are missing electrons, then it is said to be an antioxidant.

Functional Water: Water which has been enhanced in its ability to hydrate and cleanse [get acids out of] your cells, so as to enhance the process of oxygen getting to your cells and bring about better functions within your cells.

PH: Potential Hydrogen. This signifies the proportion of OH- verses H+ that is present in a solution. OH- [alkaline] is free to take on an H+ [acid] to bring about a neutral within a solution. This process is called “Buffering”. PH is measured on a scale of 0 to 14, in which 0 is a theoretical lowest acidity and 14 is the highest alkalinity. PH of 7 is called neutral. Each progression up the scale signifies ten times the level before it. [Ex. A solution with a pH of 8 is ten times more alkaline (contains ten times more OH- ions) than a solution of pH of 7.]

Buffering: The process of an acidic solution becoming more neutral by adding alkalinity or the process of an alkaline solution becoming more neutral by adding more acidity.

Body Fluid Buffering: Body fluids must maintain an exact pH level [7.365]. If it alters even one little bit you could die. Therefore the body is in a constant state of buffering its body fluids. Usually the foods consumed [especially junk food], the life stresses, smoke, pollution, chemicals, lack of exercise and even exercise will add acidity to the body fluids, which then must instantly be counteracted [buffered] by alkaline minerals. The body has a variety of storage places for these alkaline minerals [joints and bones are the most abundant places], so the body will rob alkaline minerals from these locations to buffer the incoming acids. The body is unable to rob enough alkaline minerals, fast enough, so has other methods of getting the acids out of the blood. • Solidify the acid [transform it into uric acid crystals or some other solid] • Store it in a fat cell [fat cells contain acids, fatty acids, and can be a very effective way of removing acids from your blood quickly] • Trap acids in your cells [Cells give off acid wastes naturally, by transporting them out of the cell and into the blood, however if the blood cannot buffer these acids readily then the acids can’t be released and get trapped in the cells. This brings on a diseased condition of the cell, but is preferable to the instant death that would occur if the acids went into the bloodstream and had no buffers to neutralize them.] • Increased levels of HCL in your stomach. One way to get rid of acid in the blood is to pull it into the stomach to increase the acidity of the stomach. We need acidity in the stomach to digest food, however too much acidity can cause heart-burn, acid reflux, ulcers and other problems. Our bodies need balance, and so we need buffers.

Dehydration: The condition of not having sufficient water in your diet to keep your cells healthy. Many conditions can be attributed to dehydration, such as: headache, low energy levels, low back pain, digestive problems, constipation, obesity, asthma allergies, arthritis, Type II Diabetes, and hypertension.

Micro-clusters: By the time you get water from your tap it comes to you in large clusters of H20 molecules [11-16]. After ionization, the water comes out in smaller clusters of molecules [5-8]. Micro-clustering reduces the surface tension of water and makes it easier to absorb into your cells.

Uses of Acidic Water: Cleaning and disinfecting, astringent, mouthwash, hemorrhoids, foot baths.

Uses of Alkaline Water:Drinking [up to 9.5 or 10 pH], cleaning/degreasing [over 10 pH].

Silver Impregnated Carbon Filter: A carbon filter which is protected against bacterial growth inside the filter by way of the presence of silver, which inhibits bacterial growth.

KDF Filter Media:KDF stands for Kinetic Degradation Fluxion. This is a sophisticated [and expensive] filter media which will remove chlorine, chloramines, lead, copper, mercury, iron, hydrogen sulfide and will reduce bacteria, lime, scale, fungus, and algae. It operates by chemically bonding to contaminants and either changing them to harmless molecules or causing them to become trapped in the filter [and removed from the water supply].

Activated Alumina Filter Media: Removes chemicals [such as fluoride and arsenic] by chemically bonding them to the filter media itself and thus trapping them in the filter and not allowing that chemical to pass through.

Granulated Active Carbon [GAC] Filter:This is filter media that’s good for removing chlorine, chloramine, pestacides, organic compounds and other chemicals. Because it’s so porous, it can adsorb a large amount of contaminants.

Reverse Osmosis: A water filtering system that utilizes a membrane which allows only the solvent [water] to pass through but not the dissolved particles.

Hard Water:Water that has high levels of calcium and magnesium. Water hardness is measured in ppm [parts per million] or gpg [grains per gallon]. Water is considered soft or hard according to the ppm or gpg of calcium and magnesium in the water. Most references report the following:

• Soft: Below 17 ppm [or 0-1 gpg] 
• Medium: 17.1 – 60 ppm [or 1 - 3 gpg] 
• Medium Hard: 61 – 120 ppm [or 3 - 7 gpg] 
• Hard: 121 – 200 ppm [or 7 – 11 gpg] 
• Very Hard: Over 200 ppm [or over 11 gpg

Hexagonal Water: Water which is in its natural hexagonal shape, not polluted and also not void of all minerals either. http://alkalinewaterplus.info/blog/2010/03/24/ionized-water-and-hexagonal-water/ 

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Water ionizers are now being certified as “medical devices” in Canada. So far the Jupiter, and now Chanson water ionizers are officially certified medical devices in Canada. This is great news! Previously Oriental countries [where water ionizers were invented and have been used and tested for over 40 years] were the only countries that certified water ionizers as medical devices. It means that perhaps soon the United States may jump on board, and M.D.’s may start writing prescriptions as they now can do in Canada. This would help a lot of people to be able to take the tax deduction or even have their insurance company pay for part of the purchase!

It makes sense for doctors to prescribe preventative things like water ionizers for their patients, although the drug companies might not like it, because they really do help people with their health! But of course doctors want proof. That is understandable. I offer lots of proof throughout my website [e.g., check out my Research Videos button above], but here’s just a little bit of great objective proof:

The picture above is an example of Ronnie Ruiz, whose blood was photographed by a nutritional microscopist over 18 months ago. Ronnie’s blood was clearly acidic. It was in a very unhealthy state. The spikes you see in some of the blood cells mean these blood cells are becoming oxidized and there is possibly high cholesterol. The irregularly shaped blood cells are an indication of disease or unhealthy condition in the body. The cells that look like they have a little knob on the end are yeast cells [not a good thing to be in your blood], the blood cells that have shiny white spots in them is a sigh of iron or other nutrient deficiency [i.e., the blood cells are thinning]. The crystals that look like elongated triangles are solidified uric acid. One way our body protects us from acid is to solidify it. If left go very long, these uric acid crystals would find their way to the joints and cause pain [i.e. arthritis].

After drinking alkaline ionized water for 18 months Ronnie’s blood changed dramatically! Look at how round they are, and how evenly shaped! They’re not irregularly sized or shaped for the most part, and there’s no white spots in the middles. There’s no yeast and no signs of nutritional deficiencies or oxidation happening to the cells.

For more information and videos of live blood cell analysis, visit this recent blog post of mine: http://alkalinewaterplus.info/blog/2010/01/12/ionized-water-blood-cells-demo-videos/

The problems that Ronnie had before drinking alkaline ionized water were: over acidity of body, and oxidation of cells. These are very common problems that probably affect almost everyone in the US. Our diet and lifestyle makes us particularly vulnerable to the problems of oxidation and over-acidity of our bodies. Buying a water ionizer could someday be considered by you as the best thing you ever did! Don’t wait until it’s too late! I’ve had almost 18 years of experience drinking ionized water; please believe me, it’s not natural to be sick!

The following video is a pretty good summary of what the causes and signs of an acidic body. Of course if you have any of these signs, you should start drinking ionized water [about a gallon per day].

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From ordinary people to health professionals…

Every day, more and more people are finding out how much a water ionizer can do for them!

There many testimonials out there on the benefits of ionized water, but there are also more scientific ways to test the benefits of a water ionizer [drinking ionized water], one of which, nutritional microscopy [looking into live blood cells] is what I’m going to show you in this blog post.  Read on to see videos and pictures of live blood under a microscope. Live blood a great way to take a good look into the inside of a person’s body to get clues as to how healthy/unhealthy that person is.

• An irregularly shaped blood cell could be an indication of some unhealthy condition or disease.
• The spiked blood cell, above, is an acanthocyte which indicates possible high-cholesterol and disease.

The picture above is an example of Ronnie Ruiz, whose blood was photographed by a nutritional microscopist over 18 months ago. Ronnie’s blood was clearly acidic. It was in a very unhealthy state. The spikes you see in some of the blood cells mean these blood cells are becoming oxidized and there is possibly high cholesterol. The irregularly shaped blood cells are an indication of disease or unhealthy condition in the body. The cells that look like they have a little knob on the end are yeast cells [not a good thing to be in your blood], the blood cells that have shiny white spots in them is a sigh of iron or other nutrient deficiency [i.e., the blood cells are thinning]. The crystals that look like elongated triangles are solidified uric acid. One way our body protects us from acid is to solidify it. If left go very long, these uric acid crystals would find their way to the joints and cause pain [i.e. arthritis].

After drinking alkaline ionized water for 18 months Ronnie’s blood changed dramatically! Look at how round they are, and how evenly shaped! They’re not irregularly sized or shaped for the most part, and there’s no white spots in the middles. There’s no yeast and no signs of nutritional deficiencies or oxidation happening to the cells.

The problems that Ronnie had before drinking alkaline ionized water were: over acidity of body, and oxidation of cells. These are very common problems that probably affect almost everyone in the US. Our diet and lifestyle makes us particularly vulnerable to the problems of oxidation and over-acidity of our bodies. Buying a water ionizer could someday be considered by you as the best thing you ever did! Don’t wait until it’s too late! I’ve had almost 18 years of experience drinking ionized water; please believe me, it’s not natural to be sick!

Live blood cell analysis is done all the time by nutritional microscopists. Dr Robert Young, a forerunner in the advancement of ionized water in the treatment of disease in the United States, uses nutritional microscopy all the time as part of his evaluation of patients. This “look into live blood” assists him in evaluating whether the patient’s blood is healthy or not. If it’s healthy it will not have parasites and will have equal sized, round red blood cells. It will also not have an overabundance of white blood cells, but there will be some.

Here is Dr. Young giving a live blood cell analysis:

J. Dashiff MD and Ronnie Ruiz talk about Alkaline and Ionized Water and its Benefits for the Blood:

In these next two videos we see more live blood cell analysis by Dr. Blaine Chambers.

Dr Chambers is very detailed in his analysis. It’s interesting in that this client’s blood has examples of uric acid crystals, free radical damage and parasites.

There are many clues people look at to assess their own health. Aches, pains, cold symptoms, energy, temperature, weight, mental clarity, appearance of skin, teeth, hair & nails are all things we know as either good or bad signs of our overall health. I have personally experienced improvement in all of these areas with my own body and my family…so much so that I’d say that any “conditions” we used to have are a thing of the past. They’re gone. The woman in the video below is a health & nutritional coach and she gives many examples of how her clients have benefited from drinking alkaline ionized water. Here are some of the benefits she’s seen in herself and her many clients after drinking ionized water: increased energy, decreased pain, improvement of a wide variety of health conditions [hypertension, high cholesterol, bursitis, arthritis, fibro-myalsia, psoriasis, candida (yeast)].

How can a water ionizer’s fantastic health benefits be explained?

Alkaline ionized water can make immediate and dramatic changes in your blood! By the way, your blood vessles are the largest organ in your body! Within 20 minutes of drinking ionized water you can typically see a relief and improvement of many unhealthy blood conditions. Anti-oxidized, slightly alkaline blood traveling through your body is essential in the body’s well-being.

Dr. Otto Warberg (Nobel Prize Winner, 1932) stated that “Cancer is caused by the lack of oxygen and the fermentation of sugars.” This is due to a low pH acidic environment. 

The slightly alkaline blood is your body has a dual function. It’s both a delivery service and a trash collection service for your cells. It brings new nutrients and oxygen to your cells with every heart-beat and picks up acidic wastes from your cells, which is equally important to the health of your cells. Think of what your town would look like if no one could ever get rid of their trash!

Shortly after drinking ionized water, the blood delivers anti-oxidants to your cells! Anti-oxidants are able to repair the damage caused by free radicals [oxidation/rotting], but more importantly, a constant supply of anti-oxidants can prevent further oxidation damage to your cells. If you can prevent and repair the damage of oxidation at the cellular level before it causes a disease you are saving untold amounts of trouble for your body and money, time, worry, and so on! This is where your “ounce of prevention” comes in. Also, if you can prevent oxidation from happening inside of the blood vessels, themselves, then you can keep your cardiovascular system healthy you’ll live a longer and healthier life. It is now proven by Dr. Lgnarro’s work and the work of other researchers in the field of cardiovascular disease prevention that anti-oxidants play an extremely important role in keeping your blood vessels healthy and performing their natural functions [which include warding off plaque]. 

There is unlimited value to what this one little water ionizer can bring to you and your family!

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Even with a water ionizer it is probably uncommon to NOT gain weight over the holidays! So what do you do?

If you know anything about ionized water, you probably are aware that by drinking alkaline ionized water you provide buffers to your body which helps you get rid of acid wastes [including fats] in your cells. Without the benefit of alkalinity that ionized water gives you, you may hit plateaus where you just quit losing weight! So, a water ionizer is a great help to anyone trying to lose weight!

If you don’t yet have a water ionizer, call or write me and I’ll make sure you get a great deal! Mention this blog post for a great water ionizer discount! I sell all water ionizers.

It’s important to realize that ionized water isn’t enough stimulus for weight loss all by itself. My 17 1/2 years of experience with ionized water tells me you need a few more things. I’d like to share these weight loss tips with my blog readers, so here it goes [please remember these are tips from me to you -- not medical advice]:

• Drink at least 1 gallon of ionized water per day [spread throughout the day]
• Don’t diet without determination! A yo-yo diet [gaining/losing/gaining/losing] is unhealthy, so if you start into a diet, do it “cold turkey” and do not allow even the slightest deviation from the routine. Realize that once you arrive at your target weight, you will need to establish and follow a long-term eating routine that keeps you at that weight [except maybe when you go on a cruise or have a vacation or holiday come around].
  • If you find yourself time after time cheating [because you don't have enough determination and/or control -- which IS needed] then pay for a weight loss program.
  • You do need determination and strength, and for some people that is easier than for others.
  • I will suggest one thing, that if you think you can just cheat here and there and still lose your needed weight — think about your past history. Has this approach or attitude worked for you in the past? If so, then you don’t need to read this blog post. But be honest with yourself; most people need to be strong and unwavering in order to actually lose those needed pounds and keep them off.
• Establish a 3-meal-per-day [and 1-2 snacks if desired] plan for yourself. Here is the plan that works for me [which I am doing right now]! For some reason, I don’t feel excessively hungry on this diet, and I can go for several hours without thinking of food. Keep in mind your body usually has an adjustment period when you change diet habits. If you hang-in-there for about 2-3 days, you’ll get through this adjustment period. So, if on ”Day #2″ you have hunger pains, maybe add a small snack…i.e. apple, to help you through it. Don’t despair. This type of thing should only be temporary. Hunger pains are the kind of thing that go away once you’re grooved into your new diet patterns within about 2 or 3 days. 
  • Breakfast:
    • I have 1 egg boiled or fried in water or a little PAM
    • I have about 1/2 cup fresh uncooked veggies [I use cauliflower, but you could substitute broccoli, celery, lettuce, spinach] [stay away from peas, potatoes, corn, and canned veggies]
    • I have no salad dressing [you could use maybe a little vinegar...no oil]
    • I have 6 wheat saltines [you could substitute another kind of no-fat cracker]
  • Lunch:
    • I have 3-4 oz. lean meat [like chicken, tuna, turkey]
    • I have about 1/2 cup fresh uncooked veggies [I use cauliflower, but you could substitute broccoli, celery, lettuce, spinach] [stay away from peas, potatoes, corn, and canned veggies]
    • I have no salad dressing [you could use maybe a little vinegar...no oil]
    • I have 6 wheat saltines [you could substitute another kind of no-fat cracker]
  • Dinner:
    • I have 3-4 oz. lean meat [like chicken, tuna, turkey]
    • I have about 1/2 cup slightly-cooked veggies [I use cauliflower, broccoli, celery & a couple of little carrot pieces] [You could substitute lettuce, spinach, etc... but stay away from peas, potatoes, corn, and canned veggies]
    • I have no salad dressing [you could use maybe a little vinegar...no oil]
    • I have 6 wheat saltines [you could substitute another kind of no-fat cracker]
  • Snacks: I don’t always feel a need for a snack, and when I don’t …then I don’t have a snack. But if I’m too hungry in between meals or even when it’s close to bed time….I’ll have one of the following [however not more than twice per day]:
    • apple [I usually choose this, but the others are okay too]
    • banana
    • orange/or grapefruit
    • pear
    • strawberries
    • [no grapes, cherries, or dried fruit]
• You may need to adjust this to suit your desired weight. I’m 5′7″ and my desired weight is 135 lbs. A 6′ tall man, for instance, may need double the amounts I’m consuming.
• Once you get close to your desired weight [within 5 lbs.], then you should begin to add extra food and exercize into the mix. I’m not a good exercizer, so I’ll leave those tips for someone else to give. However, I believe that any kind of hard work [gardening, painting, cleaning] is a good potential substitute for the exercize your body needs.
  • For extra food: A little at a time [like maybe one portion of one of the following items extra per day], add some salad dressing, bread, mayo, and fattier meats. Continue to add a little per day [and even increase some of your above portions] until your weight loss stops at your desired weight. Take your time getting back slowly to a more normal eating routine. Spread this out over about 3-4 weeks.
  • Once you start adding things to your diet, you may find yourself still losing …even beyond your desired weight. This is not a signal to start over eating. Just continue to add a little more portions or items at a time until you are stabilized. You can also add a sweet [like a desert or something] here and there. Watch the scale and be ready to backtrack if you’ve added too much.

I’d be interested in finding out how successful these weight loss tips are for people who try them. They’ve always worked for me — very well! Please come back after trying my tips and let me know how you do. Thanks!

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What Do Water Ionizers Have to Do With Weight Loss?

Water Ionizers provide you with alkaline water which helps you to lose weight. It particularly helps eliminate “plateaus” in losing weight. When you lose weight the fats that come out of your cells must go into the bloodstream to be eliminated, but sometimes your body won’t let this happen. Body fat is acidic and full of toxins. Alkaline water buffers the acids and safely promotes removal of the acids and toxins from your body. “Safety” is the key word here. Your body is not going to allow any fats or toxins to be eliminated if it perceives it as a threat. So, that’s why buffering is a must. Alkaline ionized water’s most important function is to provide your body with buffers.

Weight management is a touchy subject, and losing weight is definitely easier for some people than others, however for me weight management has been consistently easier since I purchased my first water ionizer back in 1993. I am no longer touchy about weight loss, because I know if I go on a cruise or other vacation whatever weight I gain will be able to come off…I’m not worried about it anymore. Drinking ionized water has definitely given me a real advantage in achieving my weight management goals.

Why Learn the Gabriel Method of Weight Loss?

I always keep my eyes open for natural weight management truths. While it’s true that ionized water is part of the answer to effective and long-term weight management, it’s not the whole story. Weight loss can be a multi-faceted problem and very frustrating endeavor if you only know part of the facts about effective weight management. I thoroughly believe that with knowledge comes POWER. That’s why I promote the Gabriel Method of Weight Loss. John Gabriel was a walking/talking example of everything that is frustrating about weight loss, and he did the very same things that many people have done…looked/learned/tried/gave up/looked/learned/tried…. But until he found the right answers he simply didn’t make headway in the long-run. On the contrary, he only gained more weight in the end. But now John Gabriel is a walking/talking example of “Knowledge is Power”. Just look at him in the videos below. I’ll let him speak for himself on how he found the answers…he does a GREAT job! He shares all he’s learned [and it is very comprehensive] in his program, you can purchase here: Gabriel Method of Weight Loss . I bought the program, because I think it’s very cheap to spend $35.00 and 11 hours of my time learning the knowledge it took an obviously intelligent and successful person to learn in several years. To me it’s a no-brainer to value the hard-earned knowledge of another like-minded individual. I’m suggesting that if you have weight-management issues you learn his method. He does not over-simplify or over-complicate the weight loss problem…he hits it right on the button.

Water Ionizers, Weight Loss & the Gabriel Method

As a society we are very ignorant of how to effectively win the battle of body vs. mind regarding the state of our weight. Our bodies are constantly battling our minds over the subject. In the Gabriel Method of natural, healthy weight loss you learn how to win the battle of mind over body. You learn how to work with your body, not against it. You learn how to teach your body to listen to you about the weight You want to be.  You learn how to keep your body satisfied, so it won’t think you’re starving. This is an important thing to learn, because if your body thinks you’re starving it WILL NOT allow you to lose a single pound. Mr. Gabriel’s story is worth shouting from the rooftops!

Here’s a little from John Gabriel, himself, about his Method Natural Weight Management System

In the News…

I encourage anyone who has an interest in healthy, natural weight management to check out John Gabriel’s complete program: the Gabriel Method of natural, healthy weight loss. It is 100% satisfaction guaranteed [which I think says a lot]. The program in its entirety is very inexpensive [about $35.00] and the guarantee assures you that if for whatever reason you don’t feel this is the program for you, you can get your money back. What can you lose? 

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Cancer & Disease

Most Researchers Will Agree that Diseases are Preventable. You do NOT have to become a Statistic!

 Dr. Otto Warberg (Nobel Prize Winner, 1932) stated that “Cancer is caused by the lack of oxygen and the fermentation of sugars.” This is due to a low pH acidic environment.

Believe it or not, the kind of water you drink could be the single most important measure you could take to prevent a multitude of diseases. The water I’m referring to is Alkaline Ionized Water. By drinking alkaline, ionized water, you can help counteract the acids in the foods and drinks you consume. By having more balancing pH buffers within your body, you can then increase your chances for maintaining optimal health.

Every day people drinking alkaline ionized water are changing their lives! They’re slowing down the aging process, promoting healthy weight loss, detoxifying their bodies, boosting immunity against disease and increasing the body’s ability to absorb nutrients, vitamins and minerals!

The benefits of reducing your body’s acidity has long been recognized in the medical profession even in the United States. Researchers believe that disease is caused by excess acidity in our cells which weakens all body systems. Caused by our high stress lifestyles, diets and pollutants, it affects virtually everyone. Excess body acidity forces the body to rob minerals [calcium and magnesium] from the body’s reserves in the bones and joints. Once the body’s reserves are depleted the body is vulnerable to bone density loss, heartburn, indigestion …68 conditions in all. A healthy body has sufficient alkaline reserves to balance itself.

Alkaline ionized water is possibly more powerful of an anti-oxidant than any single food or vitamin supplement, because it contains active hydrogen which supplies huge amounts of extra electrons to your body.

Why are antioxidants so important? Charged atoms called “free radicals” damage healthy cells, causing the process of oxidation. It’s what makes cut apples turn brown and iron rust. Researchers believe free radical damage plays a major role in heart disease, premature aging, cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, rheumatoid arthritis and many more.Antioxidants stop oxidation. There is clear evidence that they counter-act the onset of degenerative disease.

What is all the fuss over drinking lots of water daily? For starters, our bodies are 2/3 water. Dehydration is a factor in many major health problems. Common effects of dehydration can include: low energy, migraines, type II diabetes, hypertension, weight gain, low back pain and colon problems.

This powerful alkalizing, anti-oxidant water provides superior hydration to your cells. Dehydration usually appears to be something else and is treated with drugs instead of water. Proper hydration is critical to good health and vitality. Alkaline ionized water filters [water ionizers] reduce the size of the water molecule clusters, resulting in significantly more hydration per glass.

America is #1…for Colon Cancer and Disease!

This is an area where one does NOT want to come in at first place. Sadly though, recent statistics reveal that at least half of all Americans are suffering from 1-5 chronic illnesses. This alarming situation is largely due in part to the Western diet that full of acidic foods and beverages.

This video examines the colons [through colonoscopies] showing before and after drinking alkaline ionized water and eating a prescribed alkaline rich diet.  

Here are some more facts that are sure to get your attention:

• Cases of Colon Disease have never been more Prevalent. According to the highly reputable Merck Manual, colon degeneration and disease is on the rise. More specifically, the incidence of diverticulosis, a type of hernia, has increased dramatically over the past 40 years. In 1950, only 10% of Americans had this disease, but that number had already grown to nearly 50% by 1987.
• Colon Cancer Kills 400% more People than AIDS. It also kills even more American men and women than breast and prostate cancer.
• Just this year alone, 60,000 Americans will Die from Colon-Rectal Cancer. An additional 125,000 cases of the disease will be diagnosed, as well.
• Up to Half of All Americans have Polyps in their Colon. The majority of these polyps will eventually mutate into malignant cancer tumors.
• It is widely recognized in the medical profession that a healthy & clean colon is one of the most important precursors to good health and that the great majority of body ailments and diseases originate in an acidic and dirty colon.

You have a Choice – You do NOT have to become a Statistic!

Some of the popular uses for a water ionizer are:

• Medium Alkaline Water: Used for drinking, cooking and obtaining the health benefits described above.
• Strong Alkaline Water: Used for cleaning pesticides off of fresh vegetables. Also, with grease-cutting properties strong alkaline water can be used as a mild chemical-free detergent for your fine clothing. It even will break up stubborn stains.
• Medium Acid Water:Used as natural a skin toner. Also used as final rinse water for your hair [to add that extra bounce and shine to your hair]. Also used to water plants [plants love this!]
• Strong Acid Water: Used for killing germs on contact  

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Fluoride is considered harmful by many health professionals and helpful to others. Here are 50 reasons why we should be concerned about fluoridation of our drinking water. The fact that our drinking water is fluoridated means that we all should know more about fluoride. Fluorides are important industrial chemicals with a number of uses but the largest uses are for aluminum production, drinking-water fluoridation and the manufacture of fluoridated dental preparations. It’s interesting that the scientists claiming that fluoridation is beneficial are connected with the aluminum and other manufacturers (who have an abundance of surplus fluoride byproducts to get rid of for a price). Here’s an incredible video [the video is 28 min. long -- split into 3 parts]. Literally everyone in the USA should watch this! I’m so thankful to Christopher Bryson for his investigative reporting on this. Will his story get squashed and swept under the carpet? Probably.

Also, below is a dentist’s report about fluoride.

Here’s another thing that I can relate to: as a former teacher and administrator in elementary school, I was continually astonished by the year-by-year increases in students being diagnosed with learning disabilities and ADHD. I always linked the rise in per-capita diagnoses to the drug companies who sell ritalin and other cocain-type drugs, but now I’m thinking that fluoride may be an additional link (not to understate the drug companies’ role in the increasing statistics).

This article is not intended to drive you away from drinking water! You need water for life! You also don’t need dead water (reverse osmosis water) and that kind of water is connected with many more illnesses than fluoridated water. [As a side-note: If you do use RO water, you should remineralize your water at the very least to prevent the negative health effects of drinking water void of all minerals. RO water can leach minerals right out of your cells if you don't remineralize it before drinking it!] You also definitely don’t need bottled water (because most bottled water is acidic). Also, bottled water is expensive and the bottles are not being recycled in many cases. The best solution for right now is to use alkaline ionized water and to prefilter it for fluoride removal.

Filters can be purchased which will remove 99% of the fluoride in the water here: click on arsenic, lead & fluoride filters. It seems logical to at least do something to reduce the amount of fluoride we consume (especially the non-organic kind of fluoride). It should be noted that water ionization eliminates 85% of the fluoride in the alkaline ionized drinking water. That’s great news. Usually the FDA tries to ensure the ranges of fluoride in the water supply is within healthy limits, but for my money I wouldn’t totally trust what they’re considering safe. Taking a good 85% of it out I think is a good idea. Water ionizers can be purchased at my Alkaline Water Ionizer Store.  I suggest at least get a water ionizer, then for greater protection against fluoride just hook up the fluoride prefilter into the line that feeds your water to the water ionizer and voila! You’re 99% protected!   

The concept of fluoridation (adding fluoride to foods and water) has been with us for decades. Some clever scientists noticed that organic fluorine is required with calcium for healthy teeth and bones. Extrapolating this, the scientists decided that more fluorine may mean more healthy teeth, (although they couldn’t prove this) and suggested that water supplies be “enhanced” with ionic fluoride, which is not the same compound and has different health effects. Coincidentally, the scientists worked for large paper and aluminum manufacturers, whose industrial processes produce large amounts of fluoride! Ionic fluoride does not contribute to this process and instead causes the over stimulation of the parathyroid glands, resulting in abnormal bone growth, calcification of tendons and ligaments and interrupts the process which generates energy in cells. Wide variations in fluoride intake among children make estimating fluoride intake difficult and much controversy surrounding fluoridation and youth.

Today, cities all over the US purchase hundreds of thousands of gallons of fresh pollution concentrate from Florida – fluorosilicic acid (H2SiF6) – to fluoridate water.

Phosphate fertilizer suppliers have more than $10 billion invested in production and mining facilities in Florida. Phosphate fertilizer production accounts for $800 million in wages per year. Florida’s mines produce 30% of the world supply and 75% of the US supply of phosphate fertilizers. Much of the country’s supply of fluorosilicic acid for water fluoridation is also produced in Florida.

Phosphate fertilizer manufacturing and mining are not environment friendly operations. Fluorides and radionuclides are the primary toxic pollutants from the manufacture of phosphate fertilizer in Central Florida. People living near the fertilizer plants and mines, experience lung cancer and leukemia rates that are double the state average. Much of West Central Florida has become a toxic waste dump for phosphate fertilizer manufacturers. Federal and state pollution regulations have been modified to accommodate phosphate fertilizer production and use: These regulations have included using recovered pollution for water fluoridation.

Is there any harm from drinking and bathing in contaminated water?

Yes!!! On August 9, 2007 Fluoride Action Network signed by over 600 professionals calling for an end to fluoridation and a call to legislators in fluoridating countries to hold hearings to determine why, after the release of the landmark National Research Council report 2006, aggressive promotion of fluoridation continues. Now there are over 1,720 signers!

Signers included;
o 247 PhD’s (includes DSc, Doctor of Science)
o 226 Dentists (DDS, DMD, BDS)
o 219 MD’s (includes MBBS)
o 208 DC’s (Doctor of Chiropractic)
o 203 Nurses (RN, BSN, ARNP, APRN, LNC)
o 96 ND’s (Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine)
o 47 Lawyers (JD and LLB)
o 32 RDHs (Registered Dental Hygienist and RDHAP)
o 29 Acupuncturists (LAc – Licensed Acupuncturist, and, MAc -Master Acupuncturist)
o 28 Pharmacists (Pharm.D, B. Pharm, DPh, RPH)
o 18 DO’s (Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine)

Hopefully, in the near future the “powers that be” will quit putting fluoride in our drinking water! But, until then, I think it’s a good idea to filter out the fluoride and of course at the same time ionize your drinking water for the greatest health benefits.

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Here are some more water ionizer testimonials! I just came across these. They’re audio testimonials from people drinking ionized water from Enagic [Kangen Water] water ionizers

Fantastic Water Ionizer [also called Kangen Water] Testimonials!

CP 5-7-09
CP is a stage 4 cancer survivor, who was diagnosed 10 years ago with breast cancer and had an aggressive treatment for it at the time. Then a year later had another bout of breast cancer and had more chemo, and then 4 years after that it had spread. She started the chemo treatments back up, but because it was taking longer and longer for her to recover from each treatment, and it was making her too sick to function, she quit the treatments. Then 2 months later she discovered Kangen water [the Enagic term for ionized water].

She felt tired all the time and everything hurt prior to drinking Kangen water.

• Here’s what happened after drinking Kangen [ionized] water:
• constipation stopped
• blood pressure lowered
• no more sugar cravings
• felt 20 yrs youngerlot of energy
• MRI & scans are showing up nothing so far!

G: 2-12-09
Last year in Nov…G had a tumor in his jaw. He underwent traditional radiation treatments & surgery. Then a few weeks later some lymph nodes had spots cancer in them … so had more radiation on them. As a result, G had a lot of ulcers & sores in mouth, loss of taste & lot of discomfort. When he started drinking ionized water [Kangen water] here’s what he did:

• He sprayed 11.5 pH water on the sores
• He drank 8.5 water

In amazement to the doctor, in about three days the ulcers were just about completely gone. However after a few weeks some of the cancers returned, and he continued the treatments.

So he continued drinking the water and in addition went to the full 33 treatments [completed last treatment]. Maintained weight and health all the way through the treatments, and didn’t even miss a day of work.

K: 07/08
K was a 25 year cancer survivor, but in 2006 had an onslaught of after effects including traditionally untreatable [due to her former extensive treatments] breast cancer, neuropathy, installed pacemaker, and was put on disability [virtually could do nothing and that would make her tired]. She started a natural treatment program including drinking ionized [Kangen] water.

K has been drinking Kangen water for a year.
Here’s what happened when she started drinking ionized [Kangen] water:
increased vitality
back to being able to do things
skin, hair, well-being returning to her

K’s Son: 07/08
K’s son has had a condition since birth of lymphatic malformation. He had sever excess fluids in chest and extreme learning disabilities. He drank the water for one week and she saw extreme benefits in his learning abilities. His story ideas were actually legible, and he was able to do math [when he couldn't do any math on his own before]. His chest fluids are now able to be maintained at normal acceptable levels now! He has no more acid reflux. He doesn’t need speech and occupational therapy anymore!

D: 05/08
D, an eleven year breast cancer survivor has used a combination of medical and natural treatments all these years. The pain re-appeared about 18 months ago, but the cancer was not showing up on scans. D was introduced just about that time to the ideas of pH and acidity and tested herself as acidic. So, she started drinking ionized [Kangen] water in Oct. ‘08 The pain went away in 3 weeks and has never returned.

DS 6/07
DS didn’t actually believe the stories about Kangen water, but brought some of the water to friend’s son who had lymphoma cancer. He thought if it helps Jason [his friend's son] then he’ll become a believer. His friend even bought a unit for Jason to get fresh water. When the cancer from Jason’s lips, nose and legs all started going away in two weeks of drinking the water, DS started becoming a believer. So he got his own machine. Here’s what has happened since then:

• His Mom’s arthritis is gone.
• His father can sleep now [had insomnia-hadn't slept well for years] &
• his father’s arthritis disappeared.

DS started to tell all neighbors. One lady next door had hepatitis C…gave her water and 3 days later she came to tell how great she felt [she demanded more water]…in few days after that she wanted her own machine.

E: 6/07
E had a family history of breast cancer, and she watched her aunts go through much struggle with surgery and treatments on their breast cancer. Because of this, she didn’t want this invasive surgery for her own cancerous tumor. So, when she was diagnosed with breast cancer, she called a friend who was into health and nutrition and he told her about Kangen [ionized] water. Started drinking 5 – 7 liters of the water per day and got her own water ionizer. Soon, she started to feel really good. Her surgery was postponed for a month so she could give this water a chance to work on its own. Her tumor had shrunk from 8cm to 2cm in that time. Two and ½ months later her tumor markers are all normal and she is essentially cured. She says, “The body will heal itself if it’s provided with the proper environment”.

M: 3/22/07
Diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease started chemo, and it was so awful she stopped the treatment. She began a natural alternative treatment: she drank Kangen water and started eating alkaline to treat herself. She also read books and started filling her world with a positive attitude. After four months, she had another Kat scan and other tests which all verified that the lymphoma was completely gone.

Wishing You Water Wellness!
Sincerely,
Cathleen LoGrasso
Blog-Master

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