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Mon, 25 Apr 2005

Ayurvedic Expert Says 99% Of Us Are Too Acidic

A friend in Toronto just sent a link to this article which appeared in the Toronto Star on Mar. 11/05. Star Writer Janice Mawhinney interviewed R.K. Mishra, an Ayurvedic health practitioner, product formulator, researcher and educator born into a family of Raj Vaidyas that boast of a 5000-year-old history of healing. One of his fields of expertise is the body's pH balance - how acidic or alkaline our physical systems are.

According to writer Mawhinney, "Ayurvedic medicine stresses a holistic, natural approach and is considered alternative or complementary by medical doctors who may also regard it as having primarily a placebo effect." Huh! I challenge anyone to name any other "placebo" effect with a 5000 year history of effective healing!

Apart from that gratuitous jibe, no doubt prompted by an editor, it's a great article. According to Vaidya Mishra, besides the obvious and necessary (but difficult) dietary steps like eliminating sugar and eating green veggies, simple things such as the water we drink, our breathing, and moonlight strolls are keys to health. Well! I cut out sugar, but forgot to take into account the long hours every day I spend hunched over a computer, not breathing deeply, and foregoing moonlight strolls.

If you'd like to know much, much more about it, read the real scholarly McCoy: How to balance the "balancing factor" of health: an ayurvedic perspective on acid-alkaline balance