>> ... Think of the percentage of people that have had orange
>> juice, apples, tomatoes, etc, and how many of them are still alive.
>> Clearly this stuff kills within 80-100 years.

> It's not that acidic foods are intrinsically harmful, it's that
> consuming them in excess (w.r.t. more alkaline foods) appears to me to
> lead to illness and suffering.

> Sorry I ever mentioned it!

Don't be. Much can be learned when people share disparate views -
sometimes even when they are shared in a sarcastic manner :;-).

It has been my personal experience that food's with high acidity can
cause a degree of indigestion. Reardless of whether this does or
doesn't affect long term health it undoubtedly causes short term
discomfort. Perhaps people with a permanently acidic disposition do
not have the same problem ? ;-).

A relative grows a variety of low acidity tomatoes. I like tomatoes
and had never noticed that they had an overly negative effect on me
until I ate these low acid versions. It was only when I observed the
lack of effect that I realised that most tomatoes cause me a degree of
gastric discomfort when eaten. Also, probably not directly related, I
was inobservant enough to not notice for the first 24 or so years of
my life that onion had a similar effect on me. I only 'discovered'
this when I got married and my wife commeneted on how onions upset her
stomach. In retrospect this was highly obvious but I had never managed
the obvious cause and effect correlation. I like onion but, even in
very small doses, it doesn't like me.


   Russell
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