SC - American sugar consumption
Christine Seelye-King
kingstaste at mindspring.com
Fri Apr 27 12:41:08 PDT 2001
>Except for the part about it being a natural laxative. Which I knew
>*before* I watched "Castaway".
>Christianna
>
> > But the 'water' inside the coconut can be used as an IV drip ;-)
>> [provided it is taken in directly and not cross contaminated.
>> They used to do it in WW2 in the pacific theater.]
>>
>> Purportedly, a coconut is fairly close to being a 'universal'
>> food, you can apparently survive on them as your sole food source
>> for a fair amount of time without problems.
>>
> > -margali
Hmmm, i've drunk coconut water (what it's called in Indonesia)
without untoward gastric effects.
Anahita
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