I'm dating myself here, but how many of you remember Speedy Alka-Seltzer or the Alka-Seltzer commercials. Now we have all kinds of antacid commercials and products. It seems Americans are consumed with heartburn. It might be the huge portions we eat. But whatever the case we probably have more acid indigestion than any other country in the world. As a result we have Tums, Rolaids, Maalox, Pepcid, Tagamet, Zantac, Prilosec and my favorite Nexium. And those are only the ones I've seen. For years, all I ever knew about was Alka-Seltzer, Tums or Rolaids. But now there are so many more choices.

It wasn't until a little over a year and a half ago that I discovered I had an ulcer. I just thought it was normal to eat Tums. My Dad did it. So when I started eating Tums it wasn't anything unusual fo…