Alkaline Water, Alkaline Diet??

I'm sorry that I'm not really answering this, but I find it ironic that while a lot of people are touting the benefits of apple cider vinegear (acidic), a lot of other people are touting alkaline water (basic, so exactly the opposite)...

I work in food science/nutrition, and we have a lot of people dealing with cancer. There is considerable evidence that an alkaline diet is beneficial in these cases, and probably for prevention too. There are foods that are naturally alkaline and naturally acidic. There's a lot you can do with nutrition alone, in produce, in purchased foods and in supplements. I've never seen anyone really benefit from an expensive alkaline water treatment system though - you can certainly do this on your own though, if it's important to you. But treating your water alone doesn't counteract what's in your diet. I have a friend who does what your friend does - and guess what? I'm way healthier with what I do than she is with what she does.

ETA after Christy Lee's response: Yes, water is neutral in pH. Good reminder to everyone! But once it's contaminated by runoff, fertilizer, or local environmental factors (e.g. acid rain), it's not always (and frequently is not). It can be acidic or alkaline. Anyone with a fish tank has been told to test water and adjust the pH, both at the outset and with every single water change. And bottled water is no better because a) it's less regulated than your tap water, b) it's often plain old tap water from another city's municipal supply, and c) there can be contamination from the plastic container depending on how it's manufactured. So our environment in many ways is not what it should be.

There are no benefits to an alkaline diet or drinking alkaline water. Truly, your gut needs to be more acidic to avoid overgrowth of candida and unfriendly bacterium. Your bloodstream is slightly more alkaline, but it and your other organs (which all maintain slightly differing pH levels, based upon their function) do not need alkaline water in order to maintain homeostasis.

Water is good for you. And when people do "detoxes" with water that includes additives, well, it's a crock. Water is a detoxifier. You don't need to add lemon juice, cayenne, honey, or anything else to it in order to get water's detoxifying properties. Take any of these fad diets with a grain of salt (ha). They're not worth your time.

Ya know, anything you swallow - the first stop it makes is right into all that stomach acid in your stomach.
The pH of your stomach acid is pH 1 to 3 when empty, which is a strong acid and pH 5 when it's full.
Do you think drinking alkaline water is going to make a big difference in the pH one way or the other?
It doesn't.
This stuff is snake oil and a hoax.

http://www.apswater.com/article.asp?id=198&title=Alka...

Water isn't alkaline, it's neutral.
From what I can gather all this acid/alkaline diet business is just that - a business, a product someone came up with and then set out to create a need for it in order to market it.

Just the latest fad diet. No one will be doing it in five years.

A co-worker says she gives it to her sister who is in Chemo. She says she can't hold down any other water.

I passed it in Costco and stopped to look it up. There were too many cautions, so I didn't buy it.

There is a lot of research that says people who eat a diet high in vinegar or take vinegar pills don't get bug bites, they don't have some other problems too. One can usually find information on anything they want to research about.