ILI: My personal experience;Part 4-Alliin and alkalizing foods

I have also given my children garlic supplements. I believed that garlic is a potent immune system stimulant and a natural antibiotic. Garlic contains an amino acid derivative 'alliin'. When the effect of alliin is observed on blood cells, a noted increase in the engulfing capacity of phagocyting cells is seen.
When garlic is crushed or damaged, the enzyme alliinase converts alliin to allicin. Thus it is important to choose a supplement which still contain alliin, and this can happen only if the garlic is freeze-dried before pulverised and made into pills. Garlic oil or pearls may be good for your heart but it may not have anti-bacterial or anti-viral properties.
Allicin itself has powerful anti bacterial and anti -fungal properties.
Garlic not only has anti-fungal, anti-bacterial and anti-viral properties, but also has more than 70 sulfur-containing compounds that help the body make other immune-stimulating compounds such as cysteine and glutathione.

Garlic is also an alkalizing food. Our body is alkaline by design and acid by function. Maintaining proper alkalinity is essential for life, health, and vitality. Simply put - an imbalance of alkalinity creates a condition favorable to the growth of bacteria, yeast, viruses and other unwanted organisms. All leading biochemists and medical physiologists have recognized pH (or the acid-alkaline balance) as the most important aspect of a balanced and healthy body. They have long known that the maintenance of an alkaline pH in our tissues and cells is critical to cellular health.
All the cells (billions of them) that make up the human body are slightly alkaline, and must maintain alkalinity in order to function and remain healthy and alive. However their cellular activity creates acid and this acid is what gives the cell energy and function. As each alkaline cell performs its task, it secretes metabolic wastes, and these end products of cellular metabolism are acid in nature.
An acidic, anaerobic (lacking oxygen) body environment encourages the breeding of fungus, mold, bacteria, and viruses. One way to keep our body's biological terrain at a healthy alkaline environment is eating alkalizing foods including lots of green foods.

Many of us must have received an email about a student who had suffered from H1N1 but was not given any appropriate treatment for a week in a hospital, he was nearing death, until he was taken home and an Ustaz recommended him to eat 6 apples a day! He recovered a few days later.
I have also bought a lot of green apples for my children too. Perhaps green apples are more alkaline than ripe red apples, definitely it is in the list of alkalizing foods that we should consume! Apples are not only alkalizing, but each apple contains some 15 mg of Vitamin C, and a whole load of rich phytochemicals! However, make sure you consume everything, skin and all, except the seeds, as the phytonutrients are rich at the rind and pits.
I am glad that I have decided to change the diet of my family many months ago, after attending a 2-day wellness workshop under the patronage of open university. Thus I have groomed my family to love eating green foods, such as lettuces, delicious crispy romaine salads, and not forgetting our own "salads", our ulam kampung. My children may be weird as they even love eating the bitter pegaga with dinner!! These ulams are packed with perhaps 100s of phytonutrients!!