James Khan

If you do a Google search for 'Alkaline Water' the first page you get is by a retired chemist Stephen Lower. He says that alkaline water is Snake Oil; Water Ionization is not possible because pure water does not conduct electricity and in any case there would be no more health benefit from it then baking soda! He calls the scientists involved crackpots!

Probably the first scientific studies on digestion were done by Ivan Pavlov who became famous for his 'salivating dogs'. Pavlov showed that the digestive enzymes released and the amount of acid secreted depends on the type of food.

His experiments with rats showed that starches are digested in about two hours, proteins are digested in about four hours but a protein-starch mixture could still be digesting 13 hours later.