Once again you are spot on Lex. Your contributions are so rational, thorough, helpful, honest and well written that I find it almost incomprehensible that anyone would doubt you.
Like you, I found that acidic plant foods--especially tomatoes, green bell peppers and citrus fruits, and more especially tomato sauces and citrus juices (turning fruits like tomatoes and citrus into liquids seems to increase their acidity for some reason)--had negative effects on my entire GI tract. Tomatoes also contain saponins--natural insecticides that plants use to sicken insects (and humans, as it turns out), to discourage the insects from eating the plants. My salads (which tend to be small) these days consist of spring greens, small berries (blackberries, raspberries, blueberries) and occasionally some broccoli or summer squash or rarely radishes with black pepper and flaxseed oil (sorry flax haters--eating flax seeds and oil and using it as a healing medicine is a tradition that goes back thousands of years in my family, and I seem to do well on it, though I am opening to changing my mind about any food). No more tomatoes or bell peppers for me.
And I absolutely agree with Tyler and Lex about dairy. There are a lot of pro-raw-dairy extremists in the low carb crowd who claim that dairy is good for everyone--don't believe them! We are living proof to the contrary, and the only dairy that Stone Agers ate was the occasional full udder they got when they killed a large lactating animal. That has been documented among modern hunter gatherers, but it is a rather rare occurrence. There was no every-day milking of animals in those days.
