With so many advances in modern medicine, the numbers of people with chronic diseases have continued to increase. Looking at the results from researches all over the world, the advancement in modern medicines has done little or nothing to address the prevention and reversal of these diseases. This is because medicine is only dealing with the symptom from the disease and not the cause as a result; people are not getting well but just maintaining diseases.
"Let food be thy medicine" — Hippocrates
Our nutrition is the master key for great health. Following the right diet can be far more effective against disease than pills. In the book "The China Study", Dr Campbell and his son concludes that people who eat a predominantly whole-food, plant based diet—avoiding animal products as a main source of nutrition, including beef, pork, poultry, fish, eggs, cheese, and milk from animal, and reducing their intake of processed foods and refined carbohydrates —will escape, reduce, or reverse the development of numerous diseases.
Disease is an indicator that the body is attempting to cure itself. When we put poison into our bloodstream, our body will respond by manifesting illnesses with chronic disease or joint pain, cough, weight gain, skin eruptions, gas, constipation, fever, low energy, kidney issues, perspiration and so on. While drugs superficially treat the disease with harmful side effects, nutrition is far better and cheaper to achieve great health with only positive effects.
However, disease results from too much acidity in tissue. The main goal of the human body is to keep its alkalinity at a level supporting cellular life. An easy way to influence our body pH level is through the foods we eat. Indeed, during the digestion process, foods leave either acidic or alkaline by-products which then travel through the blood and later toward the cells.