SC - bananas and bowels

[Glenda Robinson]

A quick point, Bear

My father has just (four weeks ago today) had 10" of bowel removed due to
cancer, and is suffering somewhat from aformentioned 'loose bowels' as his
body gets used to having less bowel than it was used to. The cancer council
recommended bananas as being good for this, as they didn't produce
diarrohea, and also replaced some of the Vitamin (K??) that one loses more
in a loose-bowel moment.

However, that's not to say that they didn't THINK it caused this... It does,
however, keep you 'regular'.

BTW: No food content on this post! It just wouldn't be right...

Glenda.

BTW: For those interested, Dad found it quick enough, they removed it less
than a week after he initially went to his local doctor, and he doesn't even
need Chemo. A very happy man indeed!

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Decker, Terry D." <TerryD at Health.State.OK.US>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Thursday, 3 May 2001 6:52
Subject: RE: SC - bananas


> If your intent was sail to Cadiz and you wound up in the Thames estuary
> because of storm, then the import is "accidental" and selling perishable
> cargo a must.  Such a scenario would adequately explain the banana peel.
>
> IIRC, the midden is fairly close to the Thames as part of the area
contained
> abandoned fish tanks.  At the time, London was a port city, so a banana
> could have been delivered directly to the wharf.
>
> In my opinion, bananas are not a fruit one would normally feed sailors
> because they produce loose bowls.  However, they were imported into the
> Canaries (and probably Madeira) as food for African slaves and it's
possible
> the banana represents an artifact of the Elizabethean slave trade,
although
> that is a little late in the game (1562+) for this site.
>
> Bear
>
> > But, how/why would you "accidentally" import a banana peel from the
> > Canaries? And maybe more telling, how would a peel from a maybe rotten
> > banana get from the ship to a midden somewhere inland? I would expect
> > any such refuse to get pitched or swept overboard, not carried inland.
> > Any idea how far this midden was from the ocean? Or maybe
> > more important
> > in this case, from the Thames?
> >
> > Stefan
>
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