Any soda junkies out there?

You may know your own body best but most people have no idea what it is they're putting in themselves. You have to educate yourself and stop assuming that, if it's on the shelf, it must be safe.

As for the acidity of coffee...how many of you have considered the water you're brewing it with? You know your water can range from very acidic to very alkaline depending on the source. I'm a big coffee consumer and brew my own. Knowing that coffee is acidic, I prefer to brew mine with known, higher PH water to strike a balance. Before that, I was feeling the same symptoms some of you guys described but they vanished when I started using the bottled water I had sitting right in my kitchen vs. the reverse-osmosis stuff from the tap. (almost everyone out here has an R.O. filter system because of the water quality. But it tends to run acidic).