After eating food containing sugars, acid is created in the mouth.
What happens is that when someone eats too much, too fast, too late or even the wrong kinds of food, the digestive acid in his stomach rises up in the gullet.
Five-year-old Daniel Harrison has a fear of consuming food after he suffered from acid reflux as a baby.
Rory Collins, co-director of Oxford University's clinical-trials service unit (which demonstrated the efficacy of aspirin against heart disease) has managed to piggy-back on a commercial trial in order to test the notion that folic acid, a food-supplement commonly given to pregnant women, may also prevent heart attacks.
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The lower pH level also enables the cancer to spread by using acid dissolved normal cells as its food source.
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He is the reason I try to make sure he has his medicine, clothing to wear, food to eat since he is unable to eat all the food I may like because of a terrible problem with his acid reflux.
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While food is generally thought to be beneficial, the authors maintain that, if eaten to excess, food can actually be harmful, causing such health-robbing problems as acid reflux, obesity, diabetic syndrome, lack of mobility and, in extreme cases, cancer, cardio-vascular disease or even death.
Daniel's refusal to eat or drink came after he suffered from acid reflux as a baby and now has a fear of consuming food.
There they were exposed to bacteria which now had the job of breaking the sugar into succinic acid, a colorless, odorless substance that is heavily used in the food industry as a sweetener but can also be used in the production of a wide variety of materials, including medicines, bioplastics and even laundry detergent.
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