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SUPPER: Detox or Die
SUPPER: Detox or Die
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Last week, I was laid low by a mystery microbe.� I don't know if it was food poisoning or flu, but whatever its name, it tried to kill me.� No drop of liquid or nibble of toast could pass my lips without being express-trained out the way it came in. In Anansi Boys (Harper Perennial), Neil Gaiman unleashes a comparable misery on his innocent protagonist, Fat Charlie Nancy:� "Anything louder than the gentle Brownian motion of air molecules drifting softly past each other was above his pain threshold. Also, he wished he were dead."
I was as helpless as Fat Charlie, but no one will ever write a novel about it.� By the time I could pick my head up off the pillow on Thursday night, I was as dehydrated as a sun-dried tomato without any of the pleasant sweetness.� Since all fluids had been a no-go,� I pondered the contents of the refrigerator for watery edibles that might stay in my stomach for longer than five minutes.
When you are already sick or nauseated,� drinking water can induce vomiting because it is absorbed too quickly across the membranes of your stomach (osmosis).� That's why ginger ale, with its absorption slowed by sugar, has long been a home remedy.� Ginger also alleviates nausea.� Once your stomach can tolerate it, food with a high water content can help rehydrate you.
Hello, crisper.� Out of the fridge came a cantaloupe, a grapefruit, green grapes and a cucumber.� Sliced down and mixed together, they saved my life.� They also tasted amazing, especially after two days of eating nothing.� For just a moment, I understood the raw foodists and vegans who promote fresh and pure plants as the best way to nourish your body.� The next time a born-again prostelytizer asks me if I've heard the Good News, I'll look them right in the eye and say, sure have.
I have seen the Truth, and its name is Melon.
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