Gastroesophagealreflux disease (GERD, or GORD) is acid reflux more than twice a week when some of the acid content of the stomach flows up into the esophagus. Few foods that cause acid reflux are almost universally problematic. The best strategy is to avoid them, but they often make up over half of many people’s diets. Fried food is the single most recognized cause of reflux. Mints and mint-flavored items, citrus juices and fruits, tomatoes &tomato sauce, spicy foods, onions, garlic.
Chocolate seems to cause more reflux than any other food. Chocolate contains caffeine and other stimulants such as theobromine, high in fat & high in cocoa, all causes reflux. Soda and other carbonated beverages.The bubbles of carbonation expand inside the stomach, and the increased pressure contributes to reflux. Alcohol is believed to relax the valve at the bottom of the esophagus (where it joins…
