I was listening to interesting interviews on the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) this evening. This program was all about the Sandwich Generation which is parents who still have children at home but who are now looking after their elderly parents. All the elderly parents had chronic health problems and sometimes the caregivers did as well. One of the people interviewed had written a book entitled,  You May Live A Long Time.  Are You Prepared?   That might not be quite the tag question, but it meant that. 

So I ask you,  ” Are you prepared for a long old age.   What  are you doing to prepare? “  What am I doing?

One thing we all can do is to eat foods that keep our body more alkaline qnd be moderate in eating of foods that acidify us.  Disease loves an acidic body but cannot survive well in alkaline bodies. 

Foods That Acidify Us

Foods containing sulfur – all meats

Dairy products except milk

Animal fat

Soda drinks – really raise the acidity

High sugar- content foods and those with sugar substitutes

White rice and white flour

refined, canned and processed foods

chemical additives, colourings and preservatives

nuts, beans, beer, whiskey.  ( I think this may mean roatsed nuts.)

Tap  and bottled water if not filtered, and distilled water

It is the combination of white sugar and animal fats that set the stage for Cancer.  The Inuit ate an abundance of animal fat but no sugar and the East Indians eat a lot of sugar but no animal fat.  Neither of these races are riddled with Cancer as our Society is.

I will talk about acidity, Cancer and other modern diseases in my next post.