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BENEFICIAL Try to avoid eating whole cranberries as these are high in oxalates.The juice from cranberries, loganberries,lingonberries, huckleberries, blueberries are beneficial. Avoid cranberry cocktail that contains sugar.  Make juice from raw fresh cranberries. Frozen berries are a good substitute to juice. Northland brand cranberry juice 100% juice contains 17% cranberry juice. If you enjoy eating animal proteins, drink cranberry juice to convert the ammonia buffer to ammonium. This will also lessen possible resultant urinary tract infections.

A few other plants claim the name "cranberry", including Vaccinium vitis-idaea, known to American botanists as Lingonberry, or mountain cranberry, but to the Swedes, it is cranberry. Cramp-bark, as it is most commonly known in the American market, Viburnum opulus, is sometimes listed as "highbush cranberry", but it is a "cranberry" in name only.

If you enjoy meat regularly, try making these dietary changes slowly. Add cranberry juice to the diet to bind ammonia gently changing it to ammonium. Ammonia is a nitrogen based buffer produced to neutralize a heavy ingestion of animal protein foods. Northland brand of 100% juice cran-raspberry, cranberry-peach, cran-orange, cran-grape, cran-apple, cran-blackberry are tasty. Try drinking two (2) ounces of fresh cranberry juice made from raw or frozen cranberries alone or by combining this fresh juice with apples or other favorite fruits.

Within a weeks time you may notice, a beautifying and softening of your skin a resulting side effect results from drinking cranberry juice diluted with water. An anecdotal piece of medical wisdom has at last won scientific confirmation: cranberry juice helps clear urinary infections! Cranberries, lingonberries, and blueberries are among the rare fruits which are acid producing. Drinking the juice from these fruits has lowered the number of bladder and kidney infections. The cranberry has a substance in it which prevents the bacteria from sticking to the cell wall. This substance helps to counteract any micro-hemorrhages that may occur within the bladder and kidney. This is perfect for polycystic kidney disease. For a long time Dr. Grantham (Kansas University) has made the observation that there seems to exist an inflammation of the polycystic kidney which leaves behind some residual scar tissue within the kidney itself. This appears to be present in early in individuals with polycystic kidney disease PKD.

To be assured that I receive the potential benefits from cranberry juice, II drink (2) two ounces of cranberry juice diluted with (1) one ounce of mineral water. I have observed that my urine remains an alkaline pH of 6.5 to 7.5. I feel I am drinking almost a medicinal amount of freshly squeezed cranberry juice. On such occasions when I am experiencing stress from travel, jet leg, tiredness, or going to see the doctor, I will juice some extra citrus fruit— a lemon, an orange, or a grapefruit or kumquats, to assist my urine to remain basic (slightly toward a pH of 6.5 to 7.5). I have been using non-alcoholic organic nettle extract which in addition to alkalizing the urine also decreases uric acid. Uric acid is known to be elevated with PKD. A researcher who has been exclusively researching blueberries and cranberries says her studies show that cranberry is alkaline forming. For interesting web site try Cranberry and Blueberry research.

Along with cranberry juice, try adding cooked vegetables to one meal; raw may be too drastic a change for a 100% meat eater. Perhaps the first week have one all vegetarian meal, the second week have two days of all vegetarian meals until you have slowly made the transition gradually to where you are eating one or two meals a week which contain animal products and the other meals are vegetarian.

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