TRAVEL AND YOUR HEALTH

TRAVEL AND YOUR HEALTH

by Lawrence Wilson, MD

Travel carries many health hazards ranging from airport x-ray machines and car accidents to poor food, pesticides in hotel rooms and many, many others. It is not recommended any more than is necessary to carry on your business and live your life in a peaceful way.

When To Travel. Travel is sometimes needed for medical emergencies and other reasons, but, in general, it is a bad idea today. This will shock many who dream of visiting exotic lands or gathering with friends for a “geteaway”, or a ski vacation or other reasons. We must tell the truth about it, however, for those who will listen.

Travel endangers not only your body, but your mind, to a degree that few realize. This is because many cultures that are travel destinations have customs and habits that are quite barbaric, including sexual mores that are more fitting for wild animals.

Travel and Cultural Enrichment. While travel has been used for spiritual development in the past, such as pilgrimages people made to Jerusalem, Mecca and to visit the Buddha, for example, today it is not so.

Today the need is for peace and quiet in a noisy world. View the world on television, instead, or via computer, or via telephone, fax, videos and the other wonderful tools that can bring the most exotic places to your living room, and unfortunately to your bedroom as well.

We say this because, unlike earlier times, people watch television when they ought to be resting and sleeping.

Travel is such as hazard today, with little to gain from it, that it is a major stumbling block to spiritual and even physical development for many people. Most of the benefits claimed for travel can be far better gained by staying near home, traveling short distances by car and forgetting about long-distance air travel, in particular.

Future Travel Improvements. Later, I hope the airlines will be better prepared to give travelers more leeway in their needs and will not irradiate everyone three or four times, often, for a simple trip.

IF YOU TRAVEL

The Best Ways To Travel. Train travel is actually the best. Bus travel is the second best. Private auto travel has distinct advantages, but submits the passengers to rather high levels of electromagnetic energy in many cases. Electric cars may be worse, but we will see. Battery power is generally better, but it depends on the system used.

Other travel methods such as ships are not great due to the spraying of pesticides all over the oceanliners, for example. If one could rent the entire ship and ascertain that no spraying takes place, this would be an excellent method, as it has been through history.

Walking, in contrast, is excellent exercise and always to be recommended.

What To Eat. Packaged blue corn chips and even boxes of cereal are often better than one finds at even the best restaurants. Thus, beware of eating out, as they say. It is often not what it appears to be. Chefs are very experienced at disguising junky quality food with spices and herbs and pretty colors, too.

Travel is hazardous enough without these, so if possible, bring your own food or buy packaged food that you know is good, such as blue corn chips, dried vegetables, frozen vegetables you can cook in your hotel room with the steamer you packed with you, and this kind of thing.

The Lowly Egg. The best food, hands down, to eat in restaurants is eggs, soft boiled if possible, or poached, fried, and less so scrambled. This is because except for scrambled eggs, you will know it is a real egg or not. “Egg Beaters” or even totally phony eggs may be scrambled, though, so watch out for these unless you know the chef or the place well.

Restaurants. Ethnic restaurants still have the most integrity, in our view. Fast food restaurants have one advantage and that is cleanliness. They cannot risk a problem, so cleanliness is often better. However, they vary greatly. If you think the place is filthy, walk out without eating. This rule applies even to the fanciest, most recommended places in the world.

Hotel restaurants are usually not the best, though a chain may be better than just a random one.

Foods To Avoid. Salads are sadly among these. Most are not washed well, unless you buy your lettuce and bring it to your hotel room and wash it yourself. Even then, use soap and not just water.

Other foods to avoid are local concoctions with strange ingredients, some of which your system is simply not used to.

Also avoid all raw food for the safest trip. Even then, silverware is often filthy in third world nations, so it is hard to avoid the germs.

Definitely avoid all tap water, even for brushing your teeth. Ask for bottled water, which at least should be government regulated in most nations, a positive idea, by the way.

Also, we would advise against swimming in any water you don’t know well. This, of course, includes hotel pools, hot tubs in particular, and even lakes. The ocean is usually okay except for jellyfish and sharks in some places. The joke is to discourage random travel, which is not as fabulous as portrayed on the television and magazines.

OTHER TRAVEL HINTS

Other points when traveling are to bring sheets. This may sound crazy but many people do it and pay the extra fee at the airport or bus terminal. These help you know you are the first to sleep in the sheets. If you don’t do this, it may be like sleeping with one what is infected with AIDS or 1000 other diseases.

Another travel tip is to bring a food steamer. It is lightweight and takes up relatively little room. It is not romantic, of course, but could save your life, especially if traveling in Mexico of another third world nation not known for cleanliness. Some nations, such as Japan, are much cleaner, but these are few and far between.

It goes without saying to drink only bottled water. Alcoholic beverages are oaky in this respect only, as the alcohol kills germs. This is one reason wine was used, of course.

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