The Acid Watcher Diet

For example, a Mediterranean-style diet can really be as good for you as they say it is (with some modifications made for people with acid reflux;

Cookies, potato chips, microwave popcorn, and most “healthy” butterlike substances like margarine that were wrongly embraced in the 1970s as a “healthy” alternative for butter are examples of trans fat in a pretty package.

Trans fat is formed when hydrogen ions are blasted into vegetable oil under pressure to make the fat stiffer. As a result, trans fat also goes under the catch-all name “hydrogenated oil.”

Worse, they could have caused enough damage at this point that your esophagus has been numbed to the effects of refluxed acid—which is why your heartburn symptoms have mysteriously disappeared, while your throat symptoms have flared up.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

—ARISTOTLE