SC - food and bug bites

[Jane M Tremaine]

This was on the channel 10 news(NBC I think)in San Diego, CAID Calafia. They
do a healthly segment  weekly and this was one of the things they talked
about with the flea season being so bad.

This little tidbit keeps showing up on PBS also as a kids quiz.

Jana

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> From: owner-sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
> [mailto:owner-sca-cooks at ansteorra.org]On Behalf Of Susan Fox-Davis
> Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 9:37 AM
> To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
> Subject: Re: SC - food and bug bites
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>
> 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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