68 Achieving pH Balance to Treat Specific Ailments
Cheryl fi t into the latter category. She was seventeen years old at the
time I met her, weighed 350 pounds, and was fi ve feet, six inches tall. Cher-
yl’s mother showed me her medical records. Physical examinations by an
endocrinologist, which included blood tests every year since she was twelve,
failed to show any abnormalities in glandular function, blood lipid levels,
or blood pressure. Nevertheless, Cheryl had some symptoms of ill health
such as migraine headaches, depression, and swollen ankles and feet.
A ravenous appetite, however, was not one of her problems. At times
she went all day without eating because she wasn’t hungry. Her one lik-
ing was for sweets, and she ate two chocolate candy bars at a time once
or twice a week, hardly enough to account for being two hundred pounds
overweight. I believed Cheryl when she said she was not addicted to
sweets, because the favorite marzipan cake her mother made her for her
seventeenth birthday was practically intact one week later. Considering
the small quantities of food Cheryl ate—her mother actually worried
because she was hardly ever hungry—it was obvious she was not burning
up her excess body fat. Her body shape was partly responsible. She had
been chubby as a little girl, but before adolescence the fat was concen-
trated around her hips and thighs. As she put on the pounds, the fat crept
up into her abdomen and chest. Excess fat in these regions is broken
down and released into the bloodstream more quickly than the fat in the
lower part of the body. This can lead to heart disease and liver damage.
It was essential for the sake of her health that Cheryl take off the
excess layers of fat around the chest and abdomen. At my suggestion,
she placed three fi ve-by-twelve-inch magnetic pads over her chest and
abdomen at night when she went to bed. Magnetic energy is a useful
adjunct in a weight-loss program, because the negative charge of the
magnets helps the growth hormone pull fat out of the fat cells. Happily,
the removed fat is not deposited elsewhere. Not only do the chest and
abdomen areas fl atten out, weight typically drops by fi fteen to twenty
pounds. After about two months Cheryl’s chest and upper abdomen
were protruding less and she had taken off ten pounds.
Cheryl’s rotund shape was not only dangerous to her health; it also
made it very diffi cult for her to burn up fat. To generate additional
energy for the purpose of losing weight, she took two teaspoons of
coconut oil a day. At room temperature the oil is a solid, white block
because it is supersaturated, but unlike meat and some dairy fats, coco-
nut oil is not converted into cholesterol. Nor does it add to the stores
of body fat. Being made up of medium chains of fatty acids, it gets