SC - food and bug bites

[Susan Fox-Davis]

Garlic lavendar bananas?  Yerch!  <grinning, ducking and running>

Selene

Nisha Martin wrote:

> The latest 'helpful warning' going around Caid is that
> allegedly,
> eating bananas
> increases a person's attractiveness to biting insects.
>  Any info about
> that?
>
> Just eat stuff with garlic in it and you shouldn't
> have to worry about it too much. I have heard that the
> sweeter your diet the more appetizeing you are to bugs
> that bite. But garlic and some say onions in the diet
> are supposed to help keep them away. (along with any
> kissing partners...)
> Something else to keep the bugs away, those lavendar
> baby washes. My husband doesn't use them, my son and I
> do. We were by the river at an evening fighter
> practice, and my son and I didn't get a single bite,
> he got several. (I know that's not food related, but
> it's a good cheap non toxic thing to do that seems to
> help..)
> Nisha
>
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