Excerpts from The Acid Alkaline Balance Diet
Soft drinks, particularly
By Felicia Drury Kliment, 2002
[Note: This book denotes that health issues are
caused by acidic wastes and that these issues can be
changed with diet. In reality it is well documented
that our food is devoid of the minerals necessary to
help effect these changes permanently and,
therefore, we need to first replace these essential
minerals before change can fully take place.
However, the following excerpts from the book
should be enlightening.]
Once I came to understand the destruction that
elevated acidic levels in the body could cause, I
made the removal of acidic wastes my first priority
in restoring health. The client of mine who perhaps
benefited most from my new approach to healing
was José, a sixteen-year-old student at one of the
New York City’s most competitive academic high
schools who had had pains in his abdomen for some
time. The doctors couldn’t decide whether the pain
came from an infected appendix or stones in the
gallbladder, so to “play safe,” they had both organs
surgically removed. Shortly after, José developed
systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), José usually
referred to as lupus, an autoimmune disease in
which the internal organs are destroyed by the
body’s own immune system. The disease used to be
fatal, usually within three years of onset. Now a
combination of prenisone and chemotherapy keeps
patients alive for a considerable period of time—
unless the immune system is strong enough to
overcome the toxicity of the chemotherapy and
attacks the kidneys.
This is what had happened to José. His immune
cells had eaten holes in his kidneys. As a result, his
kidneys leaked protein, which pooled in the lower
part of the body and in the urine, causing his ankles
and feet to swell and turning his urine brown.
José had lost fifty pounds. The doctor could not
promise that he would ever be able to return to
school, and a foundation that sponsors free trips
anywhere in the United States for children with
chronic life-threatening disease paid for a one-week
to Disney World for José and his family. Because it
was obvious to José’s mother that he was losing his
battle to stay alive, she asked me for help.
Although José had given up all soft drinks on
orders from his doctor when he became ill, his lupus
indicated that he was suffering the aftereffects of
having drunk six to eight bottles of cola a day,
starting at the age of seven.
colas, are so acidic that José would have had to
drink thirty-two glasses of water to neutralize a
single glass of Coke! I started José out on five
glasses of alkaline water a day to clear out the
acidic wastes that must have accumulated in his
body from his soft drink addiction.
After only one week on alkaline water, José
began to show signs of improvement. At this point,
I recommended two to eight pints daily of freshly
squeezed carrot and beet juice to assist the alkaline
water in cleaning out his liver. Since the Coumadin
(a drug also used as a rat poison) that the doctor had
prescribed for a large blood clot in his leg had not
dissolved the clot, I had José start taking 200 units
of vitamin E a day, gradually increasing the dose to
1,600 units.
Three weeks after his treatment began, José’s
kidneys stopped leaking, the swelling in his feet and
ankles was down, and his blood clot disappeared.
José’s lupus is now in remission.
José was the first of many individuals I advised
who regained their health when the toxic acids that
had injured their bodies were removed. The
successful outcome of this treatment in the vast
majority of cases has led me to believe that the
removal of acidic wastes is the prime factor in
restoring health to the body.
Acidic Wastes: The Real Culprit Behind
Degenerative Disease
French physiologist Alexia Carrell kept pieces of
chicken heart tissue alive in a solution containing
the same mineral levels found in chicken blood
plasma for twenty-eight years. The cells in the
tissue stopped dividing and died out when he
stopped changing the solution, although he
continued to place minerals in the solution in the
same amount. The chicken’s heart cells, although
provided with the necessary raw materials, could
not carry on their metabolic activities because the
fluid in which they were placed had become filled
with acidic wastes.
Scientists have conducted similar experimental
research studies with live human cells in the last
twenty years. But, unlike Carrell, they have not
provided a solution that would keep the cells alive
indefinitely. The fluids in which these cells were
contained were changed so rarely that one scientist
who did a chemical analysis described them as
“fetid swamps.” Not surprisingly, the human cells
divided to form new cells a limited number of times
before they died out. This has led researchers to
conclude that living cells contain a “death” gene or
a hormone secreted from the pituitary gland that
triggers the death of the cell after it undergoes a
specific number of cell divisions. The conclusion
that a death-wielding chemical in the body causes
the death of cells by putting an end to their ability to
divide and generate new cells implies that there is
nothing we can do to prolong life. Carrell’s more
meticulous experiment gives the lie to this fatalistic
attitude, and inspires the hope that human life can
be extended well beyond its current limits.
… Our bodies do have a built-in detoxifying
mechanism in the liver, as well as filtering systems
in the kidneys, lymph nodes, and lungs. The liver
evolved to handle naturally occurring toxic by-
products of foods … not artificial chemicals such as
flavor enhancers, chemical preservatives, and
pesticides. These the liver can’t dispose of, so the
acidic toxic wastes remain in the body, causing
organs to mal-function wherever they settle.
The body, however, does try to place these acids
out of harm’s way. Keichi Morishita, in his book
The Hidden Truth of Cancer, writes that when the
blood is in danger of becoming too acidic, the acid
binds with calcium, an alkaline mineral, and is
deposited as far away from the circulating blood as
possible.
Acid wastes, however, are not always rendered
less harmful by being safely entombed in calcium
deposits. When the body’s acidic load becomes too
large, some acid particles remain in the blood. They
trigger the onset of cardiovascular disease by
making scratches and bumps on the inside walls of
arteries and veins.
....That the injury of arterial walls by acid
particles is the major cause of high blood pressure is
strongly indicated by the clinical studies of Dr.
Kancho Kuninaha, who successfully lowered the
blood pressure of many of his patients with alkaline
water.
While the health of the cardiovascular system is
threatened most by injuries inflicted by acid
particles in arteries, the other organs of the body—
the liver, pancreas, lungs, and so on—are most
likely to degenerate when acidic wastes accumulate
in the nearby capillaries that feed them. The acidic
wastes thicken the blood, and the coagulated blood
cannot carry the quantity of nutrients and oxygen
the organs need to function efficiently.
When we refer to the malfunction of organs, we
really mean the abnormal functions of the millions
of cells that make up the organ. These cells depend,
among other things, upon oxygen to manufacture
energy and upon amino acids for their repair and
regeneration. When the cell is deprived of these
substances, it either dies and turns into acidic waste
or adapts to the new oxygen-and-nutrient-deprived
environment by becoming malignant. The cancer
cell can live in such an environment for two
reasons. First, it obtains its energy from
fermentation, a process that is carried on without
oxygen. Second, multiplying continually, it grabs
the few available nutrients. Normal cells, deprived
of nutrients gobbled up by the rapidly multiplying
cancer cells, stop dividing and die.
Clearly, the prevention of cancer should begin
with removing from the body acidic wastes that turn
normal cells into cancerous ones. If an individual is
being treated for cancer, the removal of acidic
wastes generated by the toxic chemotherapy could
prevent a recurrence.
… Roger J. Williams, a biochemist who did his
research studies around the middle of the twentieth
century … was revolutionary in his assertions that
cellular malnutrition, rather than bacteria and
viruses, was the major cause of disease…. He found
further that cells die off not only because they don’t
get everything they need, but also because they are
poisoned by chemical additives.
Williams not only brought to light the error in the
thinking of doctors and nutritionists that good
nutrition as a disease preventative meant eating
adequate amounts of protein, carbohydrates, fats,
and sugars without regard to vitamin and mineral
content; he also pointed up individual organs
(organelles) within the body’s cells. He concluded
that these structural differences were inherited, and
along with diet had a profound effect on physical
and mental health. Williams, then, recognized two
biological truths that continue to be given short
shrift by the medical establishment: the needs of the
body’s metabolic machinery for quantities of
vitamins, minerals, and amino acids that cannot be
obtained from processed foods, and the connection
between variability in organ structure and function
and the individual’s state of health.