A 55-year-old woman visits a popular eatery for lunch. She orders a cheese and bacon pizza with extra cheese and has about 3 large glasses of cola (ph value 3). On the way back home, she experiences heartburn and abdominal pain, and has difficulty breathing. She drinks a lot of water and has to consume milk of magnesia (pH value 10.5) before she feels comfortable again.
* Classify the liquids that she has consumed as acidic or alkaline.
* State the pH values of water and blood.
* State what the patient can include and avoid in her diet on a regular basis to avoid these symptoms in the future.