[lit-ideas] Re: The flu
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 20:44:38 EST
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
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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
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