[lit-ideas] Re: The flu

I turned my husband on to avocados when we married -- he had never tasted  
them!  They're wonderful with lemon juice and salt.  Olives.....I  can't 
convince him to like....I stock all sorts in my fridge -- oil-cured blacks  are 
my 
fav's, followed by kalamata, the all sorts of stuffed green -- stuffed  with 
almond slivers are wonderful.  But then, I sit and eat boullion  cubes....  If 
you cooked much, I'd give you my awesome recipe for home-made  from scratch 
whole fresh chicken soup, heavily laced with ginger (good for the  sinuses) and 
garlic.  (Robert, you want it?)
 
Julie Krueger
========Original  Message========     Subj: [lit-ideas] Re: The flu  Date: 
11/24/04 7:25:09 PM Central Standard Time  From: 
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Wednesday, November 24, 2004, 9:33:46 PM, Andy  Amago wrote:


AA> A.A. I think you mean to say anti-histamine  properties.

I did


AA> A.A. I never heard of olives or  avocados for colds.  Sounds a bit 
quacked up.

Nobody sold them to me  for colds. My thinking was as follows. A strong 
immune system guards against  viral infection (I assume it also helps mitigate 
its 
effects, but I don't  actually know that; still, general good health mitigates 
them -- I'd have  thought). So healthy foods will help out (etc.). I am sorry 
not to have spelled  out my reasoning in full (not that it is spelled out in 
full here, but perhaps  I've got it across better)


JE> Cod liver oil is good -- a doctor  here did a major study on
JE> it.  I like fatty fish but don't want  to eat it all the time so
JE> cod liver oil is useful.   


AA> A.A. Cod liver oil is quite hazardous in that it's  loaded
AA> with retinol (Vitamin A).  Retinol, or preformed Vitamin  A, is
AA> markedly associated with loss of bone mass and increased rates  of
AA> fracture, it's unclear why. 

It's *too much* cod liver oil  (too much Vitamin A, in the form of retinol) 
that can increase the risk of  osteoporosis. I am not taking too much 
(according to the usual  calculations).  I am theoretically very high risk for 
osteoporosis, but my  bone scan results were fine. 


If you notice, multi vitamin  pills
AA> are reducing the amount of retinol in their formulations for  this
AA> reason. 


No I didn't notice but then I don't take  multivitamin pills usually (I try 
to get everything through diet; the cod liver  oil is an exception, I take it 
because of the finding that it is beneficial for  cartilage injury/loss).




-- 
Judy Evans, Cardiff,  UK    
mailto:judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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