Myth destroyed?!?!

Mum has always been a very health conscious person, and she always finds new
bizaare way of staying healthy. Like... about 10 years ago, she was really
into eating black beans, the raw ones, and she had to like.. swallow 40 of them
each day and it was suppose to keep her healthy as well as prevent her hair
from goign white etc... but needless to say that stopped after a while.

But as far as i can remember, mum always believed that drinking vinegar is
really good for you, that of which i can neither confirm nor deny. But the
weird thing is, she always have this concept that vinegar is alkaline @____@
(and well, also don't know how true this is, but a lot of ppl are saying how if
you keep your blood pH on slight alkaline it's better for your health) which is
weird right? coz vinegar taste sour!!! I had numerous debate with her and
she's keep saying how maybe once it enters your body it'll turn into alkaline.

Then recently following the whole staying with alkaline food thing, she found on
the net that lemon water is also slight alkali @_@, so i took samples from home
and tested it and guess what.. it's pH 3.7, and vinegar is pH 3.5.

So after I went home and told mum... she seemed... really.. confused. And at
night she was flipping through all her health books to see where she got the
idea from. It was the weirdest thing..I guess it's like when ppl lost faith in
something they have strong believed for a long time, and now all the effort
they made before seemed well... lost.... maybe... i should've just.. kept
quiet.... *shrug*

All I know is.. from today onwards... if i want lemon water, i have to make it
myself :P

AND.... dad gave me 2 samples of his espresso to see if they are alkali or
acidic ^^: I hope i can 'sneakily' do it without ppl wondering why the lab
smells like coffee :P