An alkaline pH balance in the bloodstream is essential for a healthy diet.  The pH of your blood is naturally alkaline, registering around 7.4 on the pH scale. Blood that has a pH below 7.35 is considered to be critically acidic.  Your body will do whatever is necessary to maintain that delicate balance, even if that means extracting calcium from your bones in order to neutralize the acid.

Bones are the most accessible source of something alkaline that the body can utilize to increase alkalinity in the blood.  When the body leeches calcium from bones in order to neutralize excess acid in the diet it leads to arthritis, osteoporosis and bone loss.

Acid foods and drinks in the diet include soft drinks, sugar, artificial ......

By Jane Wakefield

Here is a brief overview of how to get the most from this wonderful food lifestyle. This outline  is all there is to it. The equation is pretty simple. Eat Sunrider foods & clean up your body = great health with lots of energy. Imagine, never being tired, irritable, fat or sick and then having such a clear mind that things come to you easily and effortlessly. Although these may seem like pretty big claims, and they are not touted by Sunrider,  but by  the people who have eaten these foods on a regular basis.

Although Sunrider as a company does not tell people what to eat and what not to eat, you can be on the fast track to better health or take things more slowly.

Here are a few points to consider ......

By Jane Wakefield

Are the people around you making you sick?

By Glenda Feilen  & Jane Wakefield

A recently married friend came to see me this week. She was complaining about the fact every morning for the past 3 months (the duration of her married life) she has been waking up in the morning with a headache. She also told me she has gained weight (which she didn’t have to tell me!) and she said he just didn’t have any energy at work anymore.It didn’t take much investigating to find out the fact that since she has been married she has been drinking her husband’s protein powder and has not been taking her VitaShake and Fortune Delight tea, which previously was part of her daily routine. Of course she purchased both that day and one week later I received a text from ......

By Jane Wakefield and Sherry Jones

Feeling like there are too many pressures and demands on you? Losing sleep worrying about your family, tests and schoolwork? Eating on the run because your schedule is just too busy? You're not alone. Everyone experiences stress at times - adults, teens, and even kids. But there are things you can do to minimize stress and manage the stress that's unavoidable.

What Is Stress?
Stress is a feeling that's created when we react to particular events. It's the body's way of rising to a challenge and preparing to meet a tough situation with focus, strength, stamina, and heightened alertness. The events that provoke stress are called stressors, and they cover a whole range of situations - ......

By Jane Wakefield and Sherry Jones

Do Americans really get parasites?

Well of course we do! As gross as it may seem, the majority of us have parasites. You may not think it so, since we can live our lives free from the symptoms or suffer the results of parasitic infestations. However, many do suffer unknowingly.

The symptoms vary from anemia, fever, joint pains, muscle pains, vomiting, liver problems, lung problems, rash, convulsions, colitis, low blood sugar, fatigue, swollen lymph glands (that can mimic tumors), allergies, restlessness, diarrhea,dry cough etc. Parasites have to eat, so they rob us of our nutrients and poison us with their toxic waste. They travel through our bodies and puncture our intestines and organs to do so! Ouch!......

By Jane Wakefield and Sherry Jones

The body is designed to have an optimal weight and shape. During our life, choices in lifestyle decisions, eating habits, available foods, and our environment work together to move us away from that optimal position.
Many nutritional and herbal companies' approach to solving the excess fat out of the body is to get the fat out using ways that are not generally healthy for the body. They use procedures, colonics, herbs, or other ingredients, such as Ma Huang (ephedra) and Guarana (high caffeine content) to this intent. While these herbs will decrease appetite and increase energy, they do it for the wrong reasons. The means is as important as the end. We at BestHealthFoodStore.net recommend, the way to......

How to naturally prepare for the cold and flu season.

By: Jane Wakefield

Yes, it’s only September, but pretty soon you’ll start seeing commercials on TV about cold and flu remedies. Right before the annoying holiday commercials will come the onslaught of fear tactics encouraging us to power through our colds. Have you noticed that the most frequent commercials on TV are those from drug companies promising to treat whatever ails you?

I’ve heard my friends say, “There are so many side effects to those drugs, who in their right mind would take them?” Sure, that is one observation, but there’s something else worth mentioning. Many of the drugs advertised on TV are so expensive it is quiet probable that......

By Jane Wakefield

Food addiction is a disease characterized by obsession with weight and body image. Food addiction is similar to drug and alcohol addiction. Very often for a food addict, refined sugar, flour and fats become what alcohol is to the alcoholic, or cocaine to the cocaine addict. When eating food in this group, the addict sets the phenomenon of "craving" into motion. Like the drug addict, the food addict experiences withdrawal when attempting to cut down on foods that trigger cravings. They can experience both physical and emotional withdrawal such as tremors, cramps, depression, teary periods and self-hatred, which leads to self abuse.

Binge Eating Disorder

(Compulsive overeating) Binge eaters are part of the ......