The Chemistry of Milk and Heartburn. First, we need to look at any path of action that milk may be able to use in order to reduce heartburn. The first step is to look at exactly what is in milk itself. Milk is actually a weak acid, with a standard pH of 6.7 (anything between 0-7 on the pH scale is considered an acid).
Chaparral, Santa Ynez Mountains, near Santa Barbara, California. Chaparral is a shrubland or heathland plant community found primarily in the U.S. state of California and in the northern portion of the Baja California Peninsula, Mexico.
Chaparral. Red shanks chaparral Photo by Rick Halsey. Chaparral is Californiaâs most extensive plant community. It is also the stateâs most characteristic wilderness, dominating foothills and mountain slopes from the Rouge River Valley in southern Oregon to the San Pedro Martir in Baja California.n areas with rainfall less than 10 inches or especially high evaporation rates, chaparral is typically replaced by a different plant community, the coastal sage scrub. Above 30 inches, conifer and mixed evergreen forests generally predominate.