Markku Grönroos wrote:
> "Miguel Cruz" kirjotti:
>> I fully agree with all of this, and my experience has been identical.
>>
>> Street food = never ever sick
>>
>> Restaurant food = sometimes sick
>>
>> Midrange hotel restaurant food = always sick
>
> Perhaps this is something psychosomatic.
Possibly, but the only time I ever eat in hotel restaurants is when I have
to for work (lunch meetings and so on), and whenever I've gotten sick, so
have most of the other people. Perhaps my comments at these meetings are so
offensive that everyone gets sick, and the food has nothing to do with it.
> I am convinced that the frequency among diners at restaurants to get some
> food related illness is no more higher than among those folks who eat at
> foodstalls.
And I am convinced the opposite. I have no scientific data to support it,
but I do live in the developing world, travel to poor countries constantly,
and eat in a lot of places with a lot of different people. I am a keen
amateur observer of this issue because of my self-interest in remaining
healthy.
My observations could all be coincidence, but so far it's keeping my
stomach happy so I'm going with it.
> Moreover, I don't believe a layman can usually say with any certainty what
> is the underlying reason for the symtoms. Even more difficult it is to
> know that badly prepared/stored food is the reason and the time and
> location where this took place. I mean typically after rigorous testing at
> a laboratory physicians cannot deliver these pieces of information in
> their diagnoses.
Sure, but after enough incidents, a pattern starts to emerge. That's how the
brain works - it finds patterns and turns them into understanding.
miguel
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