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Fell's Official Know-It-All Guide: Health & Wellness

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The central theme of this book is that the acid-alkali balance in your body is extremely important to your health. If you ever used the self-cleaning cycle of an oven you noticed that any liquid that spilled in the oven was turned into an ash. Inside your body, the parts of food that went through the digestive process and were not digested were turned into an ash (not including fibers that just passed through undigested). The ash left behind after eating high protein food is strongly acidic. Strong acids can be tolerated in the stomach but they can't be tolerated in the urinary tract - they would cause severe burns there. So they must be neutralized. If you have reserves of sodium in your body you will be able to neutralize the acid easily. But if you don't, your body must take sodium or calcium from other duties and apply them to neutralizing acid. This loss of sodium or calcium hurts you in the long run. It is the author's contention that if you eat foods that produce an alkali ash and cut back on protein foods, you will be healthy. So eat those fruits and veggies, and don't load up on the biggest steak on the menu. To learn more, get the book.

Dr Morter tells the story of the body and how it works in very easy to real language. If you are in a health crisis or just want to learn more about how unique your body is then this is the read for you. I highly recommend this book.

This book was recommended to me because I was very sick for a long time. By learning exactly how my body works, I have been able to heal a lot. I am not completely well, but I am so empowered now, because I know what my body needs. Eating more fruits and vegetables is not just something our mothers and our government tells us to do for no reason. It is essential to our bodies! And protein is not the good thing that the food industry wants you to think it is. This book explains it all. I highly recommend this book. It should be required reading in schools, and by all doctors. It can change your life.

This book is the exact opposite of the famous Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution, Revised Edition.

He believes that a diet too high in protein is the underlying cause of many of today's chronic illness and even the sudden deaths that have occurred to athletes during competition. He suggests that you evaluate your health by eating a heavy protein dinner, no fruits or vegetables, then test the ph of your urine the following morning. If it turns very dark, you are very acidic and shouldn't even exercise until this is corrected. If it doesn't change at all, you are headed for disaster, but not there yet. If there is a definite change in color, but it's not a deep dark change, then you can assume you are healthy.

He then goes on to explain that the foods we eat either turn to acid or alkaline ash when the body uses them. So it's not what the ph is before we eat it, but what it becomes. The body needs an alkaline environment to function properly. If it's too acidic, your body will first deplete it sodium stores to buffer it, which leads to all kinds of problems such as gallstones, and osteoporosis, just to name a few. Then after the body has used up most of the sodium to buffer the acid it will begin using ammonia, and that's when things get really dangerous and can result in sudden death during exercise.

Fruits and vegetables (with a few exceptions) are our primary source of alkaline ash, protein, grain and dairy are our primary source of acid ash. He suggests that our diet should be made up of 75% fruits and vegetables in order to maintain our health.

He believes that colds are the body's way of cleaning house, and that if you get a fever as long as it is below 104 you should let it run so you body can detoxify. He says that if you can catch a cold, you still have a fighting chance, because he has never seen a person in the final stages of cancer that can catch a cold.

He gives an interesting recipe for lemon egg, which he believes is a good calcium supplement. You simply put clean, uncooked eggs in a jar, cover them with fresh squeezed lemon juice and put it in the frig for 48 hours. You move them a tiny bit during the process. After 48 hours you separate the two then take ½ teaspoon each day of the liquid to supplement your calcium. Of course he says leafy greens would be a better source of dietary calcium, but lemon egg is a good second choice.

It was a good reminder of how important fruits and vegetables are in the diet. It completely convinced me not to do the high protein diet, as that's a sure way to end up with at least gallstones, and possibly worse.

I found the title to be arrogant. How can one book, be the "Official know-it-all Guide to health and wellness." It can't be, and this wasn't. It simply addressed in detail the need for fruits and vegetables. While I agree, that is an extremely important aspect of good health, there are many other factors that can affect a persons health such as exercise, quality of water, mental outlook, stress level, vitamin and mineral levels, immune assaults such as vaccines, and genetically inherited weaknesses just to name a few.

This book essentially talks about our current eating habits and how its the cause of most of our 'lifestyle' type diseases. I think this book may/could a bit dated since it categories food by Complex carbs, etc rather than the using the glycemic index type of categorisation. It would have loved to have seen at least a discussion of this concept.

The basic thrust of the book is we're eating too-much protein which causes acidosis which leads to a whole bunch of problems (I think the author recommends less than 25 grams a day)... which is very little in comparison to our normal diets (at least for the majority of people).

I would have given it a 5, if glycemic index type of analysis would have been covered and reconciled back to the authors diet plan.

P.S. Even my doctor wasn't aware of EXCESS protein causing acidosis...

I ordered this book to obtain a nutrition certification. It contains valuable information for those interested in natural health. I have used it occasionally as a reference book.

This book is filled with great information - I am on my second read. I have read many
books on pH, yet this is the first one that truly explains how the pH of the body
truly works. Just read this one and throw the rest away. Very informative book and
a must read not just about pH, but the body and how it works.

I found this book extremely eye opening. I had heard of the acid-alkaline balance before, and about monitoring your pH. But, I never really made the connection to protein. I had taken a Nutrition class at college, but beyond going over how most Americans get too much protein, we didn't speak much about the history of the USDA protein requirements, or how that history has changed based on increasing rates of chronic disease.

This book will help you start to understand why it is imperative to cut down on protein. The book also helps you understand how important natural sodium and calcium are in your diet. Beside showing you how stomach acid really works, and why it doesn't in so many people, the book really scares you into wanting to eat more vegetables. With good reason.

This book, although not the most informative as to why the problem of acid-alkaline balance exists today, Dr. Morter is very effective at helping us see the damage that the typical Standard American Diet has been causing our body in its effort to maintain homeostasis and high quality of life.

Definitely a must read for all. Especially those with a chronic disease.