Are There Any Benefits to Drinking Alkaline Water?

As a young person growing up, I was exposed to health issues. My mother was a Nurse and my Cousin a Pharmacist. My mother would always talk about her experiences with patients she took care of and my uncle often talked about his patients. As a result, my passion was always to enter the health care profession. One thing I was certain of though is that I was interested in finding ways to cure illnesses or to prevent them rather than having to treat them. No, I have not found a concrete way to do this, but I have learnt that most diseases need an acidic host to survive. For example, researchers have claimed that cancer cells can only survive in an acidic body. It therefore suggests that someone whose body is more alkalinized than acidic is less likely to develop cancer. One of the ways identified to balance the ph. levels (acid-alkaline measurement) in one’s body is by drinking alkaline water. Is this true or false? This is the question asked by many. While some are condemning traditional bottled water, some are busy purchasing alkaline water machines. From personal experiences and from observation of others it is no secret that many people have too much acid in their body, which results in many diseases and ailments. Bad Diets: fried food, soft drinks, sucrose and other sugars build up acid salts in the body. Stress both psychological and physiological, can also form acid deposits in the body. It is said that the body uses the circulatory system to dispose of wastes; these are removed in liquid form, and are often deposited in the lungs and kidneys. If there is much waste to handle, it is deposited in various organ systems, like the heart, pancreas, liver, colon, or in other locations. Sometimes waste is left on the walls of arteries, and after many years can spread throughout the body. The breakdown of this disposal process, especially of acid waste, is how we