Hello again, folks. I hope all of you are feeling well. Recently, I began to experience some more pain in my lower back, so I kept taking more and more calcium citrate. However, the pain was not completely subsiding, and I do not give up easy and start taking pain pills. I knew it had to be something else, and, yes, I even thought about the “C” word, but told myself that it is not that.

 Well, what could it be? I was not going to go to a doctor, a person with 3 college credits in nutrition, and find out what I was eating wrong. It is not appropriate for me to ingest painkillers into a temple of God, a place where the Holy Spirit lives, unless I know I’m dying or in some kind of pain caused by an accident. So I began to think about my past experiences with pain.

A few years ago I received some literature about eating more alkaline foods, however, I put it someplace and haven’t looked for it in a long time. In the past few days I decided to start eating more alkaline ash foods. Don’t let the word ash scare you. Halloween is over. These are foods that, when digested, leave an alkaline, as opposed to acid, climate in its wake. I knew where my chart was       (it’s been on the refrigerator for a long time) now I had to look and see if I had any of the foods listed on it, in my refrigerator or in my cupboard.

Happy, happy, happy, I had some alkaline foods in the “frig” and in the cupboard. I started by eating some lettuce. Later I had some cabbage. I looked in the cupboard and what did I find, but some crushed pineapples and mushrooms in a can. I kept looking on my list and noticed that I had diced tomatoes in a can, too. I dumped the tomatoes into a strainer basket and rinsed the salt off; since I know that salt is acid. I then sprinkled some sea salt on it, because someone told me that it is alkaline. I have started to feel cooler and more and more pain free.

I’m going to list some of the more common alkaline ash foods. Almonds, apples, apricots, avocados, bananas, dried beans, beet greens, beets, blackberries, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, celery, chard leaves, sour cherries, cucumbers, dried dates, dried figs, grapefruit, grapes, green beans, green peas, lemons, lettuce, dried lima beans, green lima beans, limes, goat milk, millet, molasses, mushrooms, muskmelons, onions, oranges, parsnips, peaches, pears, pineapple, sweet potatoes, white potatoes, radishes, raisins, raspberries, rutabagas, sauerkraut, green soy beans, raw spinach, strawberries, tangerines, tomatoes, watercress, and watermelon all help me have an alkaline climate, if I will only eat them.

It takes a few days to a couple of weeks to get the alkaline where it should go. I’m not expecting all the pain to completely disappear over-night, but I do expect to get rid of most of it quite soon. I hate pain and I hate to take pain medicines. I’m convinced that my Dad overdosed on painkillers over 18 years ago, and met an early demise. He was diagnosed as having ministrokes, which gradually shut his body down so he couldn’t walk. I don’t blame anyone for his demise. He took the pills against the dose listed on the bottle. He began to forget at 75, whether he had taken his pills or not, and my Mom caught him overdosing one day. She then began to give his pills or he would have died sooner.

I hope my experiences with pain, very similar to what my Dad had, have been interesting reading. I hate pain, and don’t wish it on my worst enemies. Jesus tells us to even love them and hope that the Father will draw them to Him (Jesus) someday. Until next time, I hope you all have good meals and are thankful to God all the time where ever you live.