Last week, I mentioned to the people in my office that I was feeling dizzy at times and experiencing frequent headaches. It’s the heat, they told me, and then began to prescribe a regiment for treatment. No chocolate. No oranges.
“No oranges?!” I cried. You have to expect that chocolate is going to take a hit when people get started on healthy eating, but oranges? I then launched into a spotty account of how citrus had saved the lives of countless seamen. Reaching back into my Forensic Osteology course, I turned to my dean and stated that Vitamin C is necessary for healthy bones.
“Vitamin D,” she said. I’m pretty sure C also plays a part, though. Maybe more in terms of blood vessel walls? Well, as you can see, I’m a little hazy on the subject one year after I took the class. So I let that point slide and just shook my head.
“Vitamin C is very important,” I reiterated.
“You can eat a few oranges,” my dean amended.
“You can get it from other things,” someone said—Yi Jun? Ugh, I do not want to eat that much broccoli and “leafy greens.”
They went over the list with me again. No chocolate. No milk. No cheese. No tea. I have to admit that the “no tea” thing also threw me for a loop. The Taiwanese have a whole tea culture.
“But I drink tea every day,” I said. This is only too true. Between two to four large take-out cups a day. Things were looking grim. “The treatment,” I noted “is worse than the disease.” And indeed it was.
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