Word: bicarb
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...sure). So some make a fetish of avoiding chocolate, or uncooked cucumbers, or all cucumbers, or uncooked cabbage, or all cabbage. Then there is the fellow who loudly proclaims, "I can eat anything"-and then slips off to the bathroom for a dollop of soda bicarb...
Faltering Kidneys. Sodium bicarbonate is at once the commonest, cheapest, most misused and most dangerous of antacids. In normal people, an occasional half-teaspoon in half a glass of water will probably do no harm. But a teaspoonful of bicarb in half a glass of water is enough to neutralize highly acid stomach contents, with some bicarb left over. The leftover can be dangerous, particularly to a person with an unsuspected kidney ailment. The excess bicarb is absorbed into the bloodstream through the walls of the small bowel, causing excessive alkalinity in the blood. It is the kidneys...
...cucumber salad with vinegar dressing-provided only that he eats a little at a time and often. The tide has turned against the insipid Sippy diet of milk and light cream: doctors are beginning to find that for some ulcer patients this "cure" is worse than the disease-like bicarb it throws them far enough over on the alkaline side that they can develop alkalosis...
...Doctors generally agree. Though bicarb is an antacid, daily doses upset the stomach's delicate acid-base balance, irritating the ulcer even more...
Cordials & Bicarb. In Texas, where most of the cooking is so bad that bicarb has replaced the after-dinner cordial, many topnotch restaurants, such as Azzarelli's in Houston, are ignored. So many routine drive-ins are listed in Arkansas that top-drawer restaurateurs complain that their own stars pale in comparison...