The True Health Measurement
August 7, 2008 by Carolin
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There are many different ways to monitor and measure wellness. You can test your BMI, your body composition and so on.
Many of these measurement are focusing on fat. If you’re very fat you’re probably not very healthy. But how about the other way around?
Does being thin or having optimum weight equal to being in good health?
Did you know that you can have a low BMI and still have a dangerous level of fat around your intestines?
There is one measurement that focuses on health not fat.
This is you body’s pH level!
An unbalanced pH level is considered biologically disturbing and harmful to your health.
At pH 7.4 cancer cells becomes dormant!
This video explains why it is so important to be alkaline and what happens i our bodies when our pH level is acidic.
Did you ever test your body’s pH level?
It’s really easy. You can get pH test strips at your local health food store. With mine you can use either urine or saliva and you have your results in 15 seconds.
But I warn you, you might not like what you see.
Here chef Elaina Love explains why it’s important to eat enough alkaline food.
Acidic vs Alkaline Foods
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Weight and fat is actually a poor indicator of optimum health, thank you for pointing it out
Internal Ph, such as your blood, and external Ph, such as urine, are different things. The former is very difficult to change thanks to the body’s extensive buffering systems. Urine Ph can change and has little relation to the body Ph, but does relate to the type of foods one eats.
For example, when one starts on the Atkin’s diet one will usually see a defnite urine Ph change.
BMI is only a first, crude, guess at healthy fat levels. As Tonie said, thanks for mentioning that. For example: a bodybuilder with lots of muscle mass and a 8% body fat will show as obese on the BMI.
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Hum interesting
On an interesting related note, like this post says, some fattiness around the waist has turned out to be a better predictor of type 2 diabetes than overall body overweightedness. I don’t think it’s understood why this is, but perhaps fatty stuff around one’s waist shows that the body is storing the fat in a particular way that is predictive of diabetes.
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That’s interesting!
Thanks Tom
Carolin