NO-ACID HOUSE
As a practicing ear, nose and throat physician specializing in voice and swallowing disorders, I have heard laments from frustrated patients for many years about heartburn or throat symptoms, like hoarseness, coughing, frequent throat clearing and postnasal drip. These symptoms are too often the result of acid reflux disease, a condition that affects over 75 million Americans and over a billion people worldwide.
Unfortunately, the solutions offered (a combination of medication and lifestyle changes) were unsatisfactory for my patients. It became apparent that the prolonged use of medications to reduce acid production by the stomach could lead to unacceptable side-effects. I believed that the best and safest way to treat this disease was to come up with a food-based solution, which led to the creation of the Acid Watcher Diet.
In my book, The Acid Watcher Diet, I introduce a 28-day low-acid, high-fiber, nutritionally balanced eating plan that helps heal the body from the damage of acid reflux disease by replacing acidic foods with alkaline ones.
As I was writing The Acid Watcher Diet, a new study came out showing that when an individual ingests an acidic substance, a body-wide inflammatory response takes place. This means that acid damage actually contributes to conditions throughout the body that are caused by chronic inflammation.
What was thought for years to be a limited response to acidic foods had to be reexamined. It was now apparent that we needed to create recipes that would neutralize
