Dr. Otto Warburg discovered the relationship between alkalizing the body and the body's ability to fight off cancer and other diseases. Basically cancer and other diseases can not exist in an alkaline body but thrive in an acidic body. He won the Nobel Prize in science in 1931 for this discovery. Why has modern medicine not incorporated this information into treatment and prevention of cancer? Most of the foods and beverages that are popular in our culture are extremely acidic.