When life hands you lemons...add them to your water!

So now that I have the blog, I get these light-bulb moments of things I want to include in the blog.  So today it was about how simple some changes can be that can mean really good things for your body.  For instance, did you know that adding fresh squeezed lemon juice or lime juice to your drinking water can help alkalize your body?  Our bodies are constantly trying to maintain a pH balance in our blood and other body fluids between being too acidic or to alkaline.  Our blood actually has a very narrow pH range to keep us alive, so doing a little thing like adding fresh lemon juice to your water can actually help to balance pH.  It would seem weird that lemons - which are acidic - would be alkalizing, but they actually alkalize the water and then you drink the alkaline water.   Be sure you are drinking good quality water (reverse osmosis, distilled, or filtered - but preferably not purchased in plastic bottles since the chemicals can leech into the water) and fresh organic lemon juice from a lemon (not the lemon juice you buy in a bottle which have preservatives for shelf-life).  You can juice a few lemons or limes in the morning and put your juice in a container and add it to your water throughout the day.  Instead of that first morning coffee, try some warm water with fresh squeezed lemon juice!  Wonderful, especially in the winter or when you are suffering from a cold or flu symptoms.

Alternate between lemons and limes, which have very different flavors in the drinking water.  Besides helping to alkalize, lemons and limes contain unique flavonoid compounds that have antioxidant and anti-cancer properties.  Not to mention that they are an excellent source of vitamin C!  


Other benefits of drinking lemon water:

• Lemon water has excellent digestive properties and can ease heartburn, bloating and other digestion problems
• Lemon water cleanses and stimulates the liver and kidneys
• Lemon juice contains calcium, magnesium and potassium
• Lemon juice has been known to relieve asthma

Adding lemon water to your day is a very easy thing you can do that will bring health benefits to your body and help balance your pH.  And it tastes good - think of it as lemon-aid without the negative side affects of sugar!

To Your Health!