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The Diet to Die for...

It's quite a few days since I reported on my diet to die for. No, I didn't die. I've been very, very good. Three things stand out;

1. Clear Mind

2. Steady temperament

3. Low hunger pangs.

I'm guessing that this means I'm beyond the initial detox phase and beginning to reap the harvest of my saying 'NO" to sugar.

I have cheated a couple of time in small ways. Last Friday evening Cassie and I sat down at the beachfront watching the sunset with a gluten free beer each and a shared packet of crisps. Seriously naughty!

Still keeping up my anti-Altzheimers' coco oil regimen of 2 tablespoons in the morning and two at night, and still bright as a button. Judging from the number of people calling up or ordering our new organic coco oil, there are quite a few people with similar feard for the future in my audience!

Cassie (God bless her socks!) has sourced milk direct from the diary and is bringing how super-creamy bottles. She's making some excellent butter, and using a starter mould we have dubbed 'Clarence", (see pic at left) we are making a litre of Kefir every two days. I use this to mix with the coco oil and green powder in my smoothie. Kefir tastes almost the same as yoghurt but doesn't have a particular sugar that yoghurt generates during fermentation.

Leaks and what to do.

Thanks to jay from Ion Ways for this tech tip.

Occasionally, we'll receive an e-mail or a call from a customer who's experiencing a leaky ionizer.  Often the solution to the problem is easy and can be resolved without having to send the ionizer out for repair.

First, it's important to know from where the ionizer is leaking. If it's leaking from one of the hose connections (acidic hose or ¼" alkaline hose), it's important to make sure that the hoses are correctly installed. Sometimes an uneven cut on the white hose with John Guest fittings can cause leakage and may simply need a new, straight cut. The solution could also be something as simple as removing the hose from the fitting and reinstalling it. With the acidic hose, check the fitting on the back of the ionizer to be sure that it's pushed all the way to the back, not just half way. Double check that the fittings are not broken or cracked.

If the ionizer is leaking at the top or bottom of the filter, remove the filter and reinsert it back into the machine, giving it a twist to ensure a good seal on the o-rings.

Sometimes, there may be a leak at your tap where the diverter is installed. In this case, remove the diverter and add Teflon plumber's tape to the threads and reinstall.  This same technique also applies to the stainless steel flex hose at the top of your ionizer.

These are basic troubleshooting tips for a leaking ionizer. If you find that your ionizer is leaking, but not sure where, it's best that you contact our Technical Service Department for further assistance.

Fascinatin' H2O

I'm fascinated by water. I guess my fascination was assisted by Dr Emoto's work, but it happened well before that - the first time I saw a snow crystal and was told that no two were alike. The Nikon 'Small World' Competition awakened my interest again with this wonderful pic from Yanping Wang of China.

Of course it's history now, but I managed to have Dr Emoto test water from an AlkaWay water ionizer in his Japanese laboratory a few years ago. Our ionizer is still the only water filter currently in the world that has been tested by Dr Emoto and shown to create these amazing crystalline formations.

What you ascribe to their creation is course up to you.
Dr Emoto says that the crystalline form shows that the water has been restructured and 'cleansed' of the negative energy carried by much of our town supply water.

And while you're here, here's another one from Pekka Honkankoski on the Nikon site:

The Diet to Die For... Uh Oh.

I did it. I committed my first 'indiscretion' in the form of two blocks of organic chocolate. I tried to sneak it out of the kitchen cupboard but Cassie caught me out. Anyway.. I paid the price. Next morning my mucus throat returned.

Another friend, Morthern, author of the Gratitude Diary, has joined us. She's using the same guidelines as Cassie, which are here. After two weeks she reports she's lost her cravings.. and a kilo.

Anyway, I'm back on track. The chocolate brought up cravings again for a day or more; a state I am growing less fond of.

What day is it? 8 days? 9 days? Oh! It's ten days on the diet to die for.

Nothing big to report on my diet. I am eating significantly less with no cravings. That's pretty sensational of itself. 

Cassie visited Arpana, our family doc yesterday. After 5 months on the diet she wanted to see whether it really was 'the diet to die for' - and obviously, after a lab test, to see what effect the diet had upon her markers.

She came home elated. Her report was amazing. Firstly, her Bilirubin level was the best it had been for years. It's a great indicator of liver health - very significant given she has relieved it of all that work it had to do previously managing sugars. Secondly, her LDL's - her good cholesterol was also fabulous. This is a test on a 50 year old woman eating what the usual health world would say is 'excessive' saturated fats - in the form of coconut oil. The only down-indicator was calcium, and she'll get back into the water - she had been a little slack recently, and maybe our AlkaBooster.

I was very excited because she did it all on her own with more than one negative comments from me. She kept going and all her indicators are excellent. Energy, awareness, mental clarity. And she's a s trim as I've seen her for years.

Bill Clinton goes Alkaline - and doesn't even realise!

Check this video on Bill Clinton's 'diet'. He's because an Alkalarian without even reading my blog!

Day Nine in a diet to die for... I see the light.

Didn't post yesterday.. just too busy. However I have something interesting.. and to me - excellent to report. I love fruit. Or at least I can now say I loveD fruit. But every morning, even before my banana-and coconut oil- and- green powder smoothie, I'd be hawking up phlegm. Day after day, no idea why. Well, I think I've cracked it. It was the banana. Yes, that favourite potassium laden gift from Heaven.. but it was giving me Hell. I'm phlegm-free. Not the sort of thing you usually 'bring up' in conversation but I hope you are interested enough to forgive me.

What's really coming up with this diet is the relationship of protein and carbs. This works, it appears, as a sort of parasitic relationship, with the carbs as the parasite. Knock carbs out of your diet and none of the rules we've been taught about fats, fruit, dairy make sense any more. Fat in particular  regains its rightful place as a provider of energy, having toppled king Sugar from his overarching reach.Obviously, in relation to protein, you don't over-indulge. Excess protein intake dumps into the system as pure acid, eating away at your bone as you sleep off your overloaded belly.

I seem to have passed through the stages of detox and change that this diet usually serves up in loads more quickly than most. I can only assume that this is because I was already a great greens eater and an Alkalarian. I do believe that a SAD  person would have the symptoms far more than I do. Thank you Jesuss!

Nice...

Human beings were invented by water as a device for transporting itself from one place to another. 
Ed Ford

Day Seven: A diet to die for. Plus "mineralwaters.org"

Off to Brisbane today, and we have a lunch appointment with Dawn and Dr Gerry Brady, old friends. Gerry and Dawn have been on alkaline water for six years now; their trusty Melody just keeps on going. We spent time in Italy last year with them both and they - like us - love La Dolce Vita, especially with food!

So we had to think about how we would prepare ourselves for our visit given that dawn is a great cook and would probably have something ready that 'broke all the rules' of our Diet to Die for. So just before arriving, we stopped at their local deli and bought a  few slices of turkey and beef. So funny - a few years ago we would have been searching for vegetarian items; now we search for MEAT! Anyway, Dawn's rabbit and lentil dish was yummy, and our (unburnt) meat offering was appreciated.

While there, Gerry directed me to mineralwaters.org, a site with the mineral composition of all known mineral waters in the world. You can click on your country and compare alkalizing ability. I looked at the local Coca Cola bottled water, Mt. Franklin, and then at a couple of the Austrian ones. Very clear who cares about health. Take a look at the minerals in Gussinger water here then the Mt Franklin here.

Feeling very clearheaded today; over the foggy mind of yesterday. It seems I'm passing through the detox stage of the diet quickly. It's strange to experience my new food attitude. Normally I love my food and will eagerly anticipate it. Now that's not the case; but I had some grilled tomatoes yesterday - perhaps the best I have ever experienced. It couldn't have been the tomatoes; they were our usual Farmers' market variety, so it had to be me. I changed.

Day 6: A Diet to Die for

Well, feeling much better today. All of yesterday I had no feeling to eat, and was only persuaded into lunch by a luscious vegetable zuppa that Cassie and I whipped up. By dinner I was in company, as Cassie's sister Gina and her husband Mahendra came to see us. Both of them have been on the diet for about 2 months, and we all shared a melt-in-your-mouith leg of organic lamb with rosemary and garlic Cooked in cassie's Romantoff. Mahendra, in his sixties, is looking fabulous, having dropped  kilos worth of belly. Gina is also looking great; with an 'alert' energy emanating from her. Mahendra, a lover of all things carne, loves the diet because he gets plenty of what he likes, but he hasn't missed the absence of bread, fruit, coffee of alcohol.

The big difference with this diet is that it's based on a  radically different approach to any other diet. It's proposing that we don't naturally have sugar in any form, or yeast products, or starchy foods. It's saying we are natural low-to-no carb systems and that the introduction of sugar has caused all of the problems that other diets rave on about so much. Lo-fat food, no saturated fats, less sugar, sure but... all the problem with fats, the problems with diabetes, the problem with our addiction to sugar has all come about through the change to agrarian lifestyle and less natural (close to nature) diet. It's saying give up sugar and carbs and see for yourself. 

What a challenge, and how lucky I am to have people around me doing it and showing me the results. Cassie, Gina and Mahendra are all committed Alkalarians, but it seems to me that this is the next stage. It's no longer the alkaline diet; it's evolving to the alkaline-acid diet; the best of both worlds!

Day 5: Ian's Diet to Die For

Well, if being 'on track' with a diet is good, I'm good. If being on track equals feeling good.. I'm a  failure.

Last night I had the biggest cramp in the leg I've had since my cramps stopped eleven years ago when I began alkaline ionized water. This morning I have absolutely no interest in food.. not assisted by my sugar-coloured view of a  lo-to-no carb breakfast. Then there's the fogginess. Yesterday I had superb clarity of mind. Today I'm a  walking fug, which made Cassie break into a big smile because  she said "Ah! This is the symptoms of candida" Apparently mindfog happens when the candida gets seriously out-of-sorts because of the diet. "It will pass." she said with a self-congratulatory smile. Emotionally, I'm wide open, and Cassie commented that she has never felt clearer and more aware than after her 5 months on the diet to die for.

I opened my copy of Morthern Spears' 2011 Gratitude Diary. It has a wonderful inspired pictures and quotes at the beginning of every month, and I happened to open it at May 2011 headed Addiction.

The quote was from Rumi the Sufi.

"Just sit there and don't do a thing. Just rest.
For your separation from God is the hardest work in this world.
Let me bring you trays of food and something that you like to drink.

You can use my soft words as a cushion for your head."

And suddenly I sobbed. Not from sadness, just from the awareness of the amazing power of our addiction to so many things we take as normal until they are taken away.

Canadian Kids are Dumb.. but it's not their fault., UK kids are having water problems even BEFORE birth!

A new report tells us that Canadian kids' IQ is being reduced by manganese in their drinking water. Wow. I thought that only happened in Bangla Desh, where the lack of iodine is creating mental retardation.

Their study, published in Monday's online issue of the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, focused on manganese levels in drinking water in eight communities along the St. Lawrence River between Montreal and Quebec City.

All the towns chosen for the study rely on ground water for drinking, either from municipal or private wells that aren't specially treated for manganese.

"I studied mercury, lead, PCBs, and usually the associations we see are more in the range of one IQ point, two, maybe three IQ points," said the study's lead author, Maryse Bouchard of the University of Quebec at Montreal's Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Biology, Health, Society and Environment.

"But this is a very strong effect," she added in an interview.

If you are looking for a Canadian water expert to discuss how to get over this, I recommend Stan at Best water, Alberta. he will organise a water report for your region that will put your mind to rest.. or not.

Meantime, UK kids are having water problems even before they are born. This report says that the levels of trihalomethanes and chlorine in UK water DOUBLES the likelihood of birth defects.

lose Weight? Easy! Two glasses of water before you eat.

Yep, the figures are in; it works! Throw away the weight course membership.. drink water! Here's the study.

But do it with alkaline ionised water and see how that does. I'm wondering  whether there would be a difference simply because of our old water - stomach test. Drink 3 glasses of tap water straight. You'll most likely be bloated. Then drink 3 glasses of AlkaWay water and see how it just disappears. No bloat.

Day 4: Ian's Diet to die for

Whoah! The old sugar thing hit hard last night and today. Serious trots last night and extreme tiredness this morning. Exactly as the symptom list said. However I am clear in the head - very. Which makes it even harder to stop thinking about a French MilleFeu.. a Black Forest Gateau.. or even a humble half teaspoon of sugar in my now tasteless tea.....

Hooked.

I'm hooked. Cassie has been on a low-to-no-carb diet for FIVE months! (The courage of that woman!) She did it because she has never been able to overcome her gluten, lactose, potato, prawn etc etc etc allergies. And she did it because she was bloody desperate. After all, who would go on a diet like this unless they were desperate?

You see, the one thing you almost completely cut out of your diet is a wonderful, all-pervasive, powerful white powder. This white powder is such a popular drug that most of us consume about a kilo a week. Thank God we can take it orally rather than up the nose.

Yes, you got it. It's sugar.

The theory behind her diet is that once over her addiction, her body will revert to its original and most natural method of energy generation; ketones. I can tell you, it's been pretty tough going for me as well as her, but in the last month I have witnessed her eat foods she hasn't been able to eat for years.. so... I'm going to try it. 

It's my SECOND day on it and I've spent most of the day flat on my back, exhausted, and when Cassie sent me this piece, I understood what was happening to me. I'm telling you, sugar is a hell of a drug.

"Common, "good" low carb diet side effects include reduced cravings for sugars and starches; increased energy; reduced bloated and gassy, upset stomach feelings; improved bowel movements; regulated blood sugar levels and blood pressure levels; loss of excess water retention; and of course, loss of excess body fat."

Yup, that's me today. Day TWO

Anyway, I'm doing it. Lots of coco oil, meat, fish, chicken, fat, and green vegetables. NO fruit. Can I do it? Is it just another fad diet? What does Cassie give him that makes him do these crazy things? Stay tuned!

And if you are interested here's the web address of the 69-year-old woman who inspired Cassie.

Real Butter

We have found (Shhh!) a farmer who sells us milk fresh from the cow. His dairy has the most wonderful smells, evoking memories of my childhood watching my Grandpa milking his cows. This farmer leaves the huge vat of milk and we scoop it out with a jug into our glass 1L bottles, leaving our $1 per, litre honour system payment.

Cassie is very excited and wanted to buy a separator because skimming from the top of his vat, you can get 90% cream! She settled down and worked out with uncle Google's help that she really doesn't need a separator to make unsalted organic butter; just a couple of bowls, some muslin and the mixer. So now we have half a kilo of the most beautiful butter in the fridge. 

Cassie sent me this.. perhaps to get me keen on devouring her treasured new butter:

"Vitamin K has been known as the coagulation vitamin, because of its role in the blood-clotting process. However, research over the last few decades has shown that the role of K Vitamins – and natural Vitamin K2, the menaquinones, in particular – has been greatly expanded. Of note, K Vitamins activity outside the liver is required for calcium utilization, the key factor in maintaining both bone and cardiovascular health.

Vitamin K2 helps to activate vitamin K-dependent proteins responsible for healthy tissues. In bone, it activates osteocalcin, a protein required to bind calcium to the mineral matrix, thus strengthening the skeleton. In circulation, Vitamin K2 participates in carboxylation of Matrix Gla Protein (MGP), the most potent inhibitor of arterial calcification known, lowering the risk of vascular damage.

As the scope of research expands other new functions, crucial to our wellbeing, are now emerging. The latest studies have not only confirmed Vitamin K2’s positive function towards osteoporosis and cardiovascular diseases, but also revealed new and exciting applications, including the activity of vitamin K and Alzheimer's disease, a variety of cancers, the incidence and severity of varicose veins, skin aging and others.

VitaminK2.org is an International Community founded to explore and understand the emerging role of Natural Vitamin K2 in human health. Please use this as a resource to learn more about Vitamin K2 and check back frequently to find links to the latest studies and findings. "

Raw grassfed butter, it seems has high quantities of Vitamin K. Weston A. Price called it the 'x factor' in this form. 

Thank you Jon Barron

Jon Barron runs the website 'Baseline of Health' and I've had occasion to read quite a few of his well-thought out articles. His rebuttal of Mercola's now-famous attack on water ionizers is both comprehensive and thoughtful. Here it is.

..And while I'm talking about Mercola, even though he received thousands of anti-emails, he has not bothered recanting or even modifying his stance. I can only assume that he is about to release a product of his own and that he sees water ionizers as some sort of threat. Yet, what is more distressing than his poor, poor article and his massive disinformation effect is the fact that not one of the big operators in the US have had the 'bottle' to legally challenge him.

A wonderful story about the kid that cooked his cancer

Here

Have I got a story for you!

Do you have a story you'd like to tell about your alkaline water experience? Rob Thomas is building a  mountain of stories. If you'd like to assist, click here. Anecdotal Evidence versus Clinical Trials