Fitness By Marilyn

Sunday, July 17, 2005

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Sunday, May 15, 2005

Plain Talk About pH

What is pH?

pH, an acronym for “potential of hydrogen,” is a value that indicates the acidity or alkalinity of a liquid. The measurement of the hydrogen ion concentration in a liquid determines the pH value. Every liquid has a pH value, which falls on a scale between 0 and 14, with 7 being neutral. A pH value less than 7 is acidic; values greater than 7 indicate alkalinity.

Examples: Battery acid and vinegar – two very acidic liquids – have pH values on the lower end of the scale, while baking soda and ammonia, both of which are very alkaline, are on the higher end of the pH scale. Pure water, meanwhile, has a pH value of 7 – it’s neither acidic nor alkaline.

The Optimum Body pH:

The body has a pH value. In fact, each of the body’s fluids has a specific pH value, but the blood most accurately reflects the body’s overall acidic or alkaline level. To maintain a balanced pH, the body uses certain minerals, such as potassium, calcium and magnesium to neutralize acids in the blood. If it can’t do that successfully, the body will restore its optimal pH by depleting certain minerals, such as potassium, calcium and magnesium from organs and bones.

The body needs to maintain a balanced pH, so it is very important to avoid being too acidic or too alkaline. The optimum pH value for urine and saliva should be between 6.3–6.7.

FindingThe Body’s pH:

There are a variety of ways to determine the body’s pH, and the most accurate way to find the pH value of the blood is using a pH meter. However, that can be impractical since it would require drawing blood and purchasing a special meter. A more practical and inexpensive method is to find the approximate pH level of the urine using litmus paper. Since the urine pH varies with what you eat, measure the pH when you get up in the morning before you exercise,
eat or drink anything. Keep in mind that when it comes to determining the body’s pH, look at averages and trends over a period of time.

For urine, the optimum pH value should be between 6.3–6.7, which is in the medium green area of the litmus paper.

How to use litmus paper to test urine:

1. Use 2–4 inches of litmus paper and avoid touching the end being used for testing
2. Quickly dip one end of the litmus paper into the urine sample*
3. Immediately shake off any excess
4. Immediately compare the color of the paper to the chart that comes with the litmus paper

*Note: Holding the litmus paper in a liquid, even for a few seconds, can wash the indicator off the paper and give an inaccurate reading pH.

Plain Talk About pH:
An easy guide to understanding pH and what it means to your health

Saturday, May 14, 2005

From One Of The Pioneers Of The Green Drink

Still True Today.......

Acid: The Trojan Horse

Excerpts from a speech given by Dr. Mary Ruth Swope at the AIM 2003 convention in Vancouver, BC:

Acid is the Trojan horse of health in this day and age. My dictionary states a secondary meaning of Trojan horse to be "a person or thing that is designed to undermine from within." Excess acid is truly a "thing from within" that undermines or destroys the body.

Most Americans are too acidic for whole body health. Even AIM family members that I have tested are still too acidic much of the time. Let's define the meaning of acid/alkaline. The acid or alkaline measurement of your body is classified in what is called pH factors. pH simply means potential of hydrogen. The pH scale ranges from 0-14 with 0 being most acidic, 7 being neutral and 14 being most alkaline.

Ideal pH of body fluids:
Saliva 6.5 to 7.0
HCL 1.0
Gastric juice 1.4
Urine 7.0
Water 7.0

The Problem:

One doctor has stated that he believes there are three root causes to 99% of disease symptoms-genetic weaknesses, toxicity, and overacidity. Overacidity is simply too much acid in our blood, saliva, urine and tissues.

The work of Dr. William Lee Cowden, board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular disease and clinical nutrition, explored the effect of pH on all of the body's systems. Here are just a few examples of his findings.

Circulatory system: In excessive acid conditions, bacteria, fungi or viruses can attach themselves to the inner wall of the arteries. This can cause plaque to form, narrowing the artery and restricting blood flow which in turn restricts the flow of oxygen and nutrients to tissues. Heart attack and even cancer can result.

Nervous system: When brain cells are too acidic they dysfunction and communication between brain cells and throughout the spinal cord is cut off, which can result in dysfunction in other body systems. In the nervous system insomnia, anxiety, depression, neurosis, psychosis and impaired memory can result from overacidity.

Every body system is affected deeply by overacidity.

The Cause:

Many foods in our diet are too acidic-too numerous to mention here. Here are some of our greatest enemies:

Foods made from white flour (white bread, macaroni, noodles, pizza dough, etc.) act like glue in the tissues of our body. This causes an acid plaque to build up leading to inflammation and congestion of tissue and can lead to tissue death.

Cola drinks are one of the greatest offenders in our American diet. Most soft drinks are in the range of 2.3-4.0 on the pH scale. One biochemist discovered that it takes 32 glasses of alkaline water to neutralize the acidity of one Coca Cola.

A third food that needs special recognition as a Trojan horse is sugar. It fills our tissues with toxins that inflame, infect, imbalance and create dreadful havoc in our cells, tissues, and organs.

The Solution :

In order to maintain health and vitality, all of our body fluids should be alkaline except the stomach gastric juices, which are acid. How do we maintain an alkaline system? Here is the plan I suggest.

1. Take plenty of AIM BarleyLife® every day. This is number 1! AIM BarleyLife® is the perfect food to cause a quick and total answer to many of the symptoms we suffer from today. It is the ideal, whole, instant, high octane, highly alkaline food that causes sick cells to change to healthy cells. It also restores the minerals that are leached from our body through an overly acidic condition.

2. Use up to 6 tablespoons a day of freshly squeezed lemon in your drinking water. We are talking about 6-8 glasses minimum per day. Fresh lemon works quickly to alkalize your body.

3. Decrease your consumption of acid producing foods.

4. Eat a source of L. acidophilus bacillus or any mixture of friendly bacteria daily
.
5. Eat 1 tablespoon of raw pumpkin seed, sunflower seed, or flaxseed daily with a palm full of almonds for an excellent health producing habit.

6. Add 2 or more capsules of AIM Bear Paw Garlic® to your daily routine.

7. Laugh! Dr. Contreras said on TV, "One minute of anger causes six hours of hormonal havoc; one minute of laughter produces 24 hours of good results."

It is true that you can literally heal every system in your body by bringing it into homeostasis through balancing your pH levels. Begin to prove this to yourself-and begin sharing this with potential AIM customers. Do you want to become alive again? Do you want to regenerate yourself? Then, alkalize, alkalize, alkalize!

Testing your pH

Use litmus paper (can be secured from your local drug store).
Test urine and saliva in morning before any food or liquid.
Check color of paper with chart that comes with litmus paper.
Keep working on pH until saliva and urine are at ideal pH.

Visit AIM's webcast at www.theaimcompanies.com and click on the AIM convention icon to hear Dr. Swope's entire presentation.

Fitness By Marilyn
Independent AIM Member - Marilyn Wilson Price

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Wednesday, May 05, 2004

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Why an AIM business?

An AIM network marketing business is the ideal business. AIM offers you the opportunity to provide answers to two of the most pressing needs facing people today: economic stability and good health.

Economic stability:

Today, for many people around the world, economic uncertainty reigns. Prices are rising for basic goods such as food and basic services such as water and electricity. At the same time, corporations are downsizing, and many of the newly created jobs do not provide the same benefits—many provide only a salary, and no benefits! People are finding that they are working more for less.

In opposition to the need to work more to earn more is the universal desire for time—time to spend with the family, and time for oneself. There is a great demand for "flextime"—scheduling work hours more in sync with family obligations—and time off, sometimes in lieu of overtime.

This all points to the need for a business that rewards you well for your work and for a business that fits today’s balancing act between work, family time, and personal time. Home-based businesses are one answer.

Home-based network marketing businesses are a dynamic and rapidly growing trend across the United States and Canada. Fueled in large measure by dramatic innovations and cost efficiencies in communications technologies—from cellular phones to laptop computers to low-priced fax machines to the Internet—one-person offices are springing up across North America, producing the same professional-looking work as those located in downtown high rises.

More than 50 million people today are running full-time or part-time home-based businesses in the United States, and growth estimates peg their increase at 10 percent annually. While these businesses run the gamut from consultants to programmers, hundreds of thousands of home-based business owners manage network marketing organizations.

A home-based network marketing business lets you control the hours you work. If it is better for you to work nights, fine, or if mornings are ideal, fine. They allow spontaneity, and you are your own boss—if something comes up, there is no chain of command to follow for permission to do what you want. Finally, many home-based businesses can be lucrative.

An AIM network marketing business is a home-based business where you call the shots. You set your own goals, design your own plan to achieve them, and determine your own hours. No one can hold you back: your reward at AIM is commensurate with the effort you make. If you are looking for the flexibility, convenience, and rewards of a home-based business, AIM is the answer.

Good health:

An AIM business also provides you with the opportunity to address another great concern of North Americans: health and health care. There is a new awareness of the importance of health, and this is illustrated in consumer habits: "health food" and supplements are one of the fastest growing segments in the business world. This is because people are getting wiser; people are beginning to realize that they need to take responsibility for their own health, and that living a healthy lifestyle is one of the best ways to stave off potential health problems.

For more than 21 years and in more than 30 countries, AIM has been a leader in providing whole food and nutritional supplements of the highest quality. AIM provides only the finest cellular-focused products, and all products must meet stringent quality standards, a process that includes rigorous research and laboratory testing.

The opportunity to take charge of your own health, and to help others, by using AIM products and introducing them to others provides a solution to the health dilemma of millions worldwide.

Why an AIM business? Because an AIM business is where good health and economic opportunity merge.

Independent AIM Member, Marilyn Wilson Price

Saturday, May 01, 2004

Breast Cancer Stamp

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We need those of you who are great at forwarding information to your e-mail network. Please read and pass this on. It would be wonderful if 2004 were the year a cure for breast cancer were found! This is one e-mail you should be glad to pass on. The notion that we could raise $35 million by buying a book of stamps is powerful! As you may be aware, the US Postal Service recently released its new "Fund the Cure" stamp to help fund breast cancer research. The stamp was designed by Ethel Kessler of Bethesda, Maryland. It is important that we take a stand against this disease that affects so many of our mothers, sisters and friends. Instead of the routine 37 cents for a stamp, this one costs 40 cents. The additional 3 cents will go to breast cancer research. A "normal" book costs $7.40. This one is only $8.00. It takes a few minutes in line at the Post Office and means so much. If all stamps are sold, it will raise an additional $35,000,000 for this vital research. Just as important as the money is our support. What a statement it would make if the stamp outsold the lottery this week. What a statement it would make that we care.

I would urge you to do two things TODAY:

1. Go out and purchase some of these stamps.
2. E-mail your friends to do the same. We all know women and their families whose lives are turned upside-down by breast cancer. It takes so little to do so much in this drive. I think we can all afford the additional 60 cents for this new book of stamps. Please help & pass this on.

Independent AIM Member - Marilyn Wilson Price