Having spent many days throughout the
Caribbean and other countries, I have been fortunate never to have gotten any
kind of food poisoning. I attribute it
to the fact that I don’t travel without the aid of a good rum. I don’t know how true this really is, but for
me I have to agree with the good doctor, one for me and one for the
stomach. Works for me.
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| Dr. Richard Conroy |
Experts have said that properties in wine
could help prevent getting a stomach bug.
Here’s one excuse to enjoy a boozy holiday abroad with experts saying
drinking alcohol could protect you from a crippling bout of food poisoning. With the peak vacation time at hand, food
scientists have advised drinking alcohol could help protect holiday makers from
potentially fatal bugs like E.coli and salmonella. Richard Conroy, world-leading food scientist
and founder of vacation illness compensation firm SickHoliday.com, said,
"Whenever you go on holiday abroad, particularly on all-inclusive trips,
you run the gauntlet of the restaurants and buffet bars. "They can often be breeding grounds for
food-borne pathogens like salmonella, E.coli, Listeria, and even Cholera. "But the good news is that wine, beer,
gin and other alcohols have been found to be great at pathogen prevention."
He said that alcohol concentrations
attacked the bacteria itself, killing any bugs while the acid secretions after
drinking could help to neutralize anything nasty lurking in your stomach which
might make you ill. "It really is
case of, 'One for me, one for my stomach'."
Having spent many days throughout the
Caribbean and other countries, I have been fortunate never to have gotten any
kind of food poisoning. I attribute it
to the fact that I don’t travel without the aid of a good rum. I don’t know how true this really is, but for
me I have to agree with the good doctor, one for me and one for the
stomach. Works for me.
