This Is Public Health

As a public health major at Hopkins, I learned among many things that it is important to address the health effects of social disadvantage and evaluate the risk for health problems among any given population. Now while the readers of this blog certainly do not represent a disadvantaged population by conventional definition, we still have a lot to learn and there are many ways to improve the quality of our lives through public health education. Below is a post to help us do just that. As Bertrand Russell once so rightly proclaimed, "The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge." 知识就是力量. 行千里路, 读万卷书!

Americans are famous around the world for being big eaters and it’s a title well-deserved. We’ve all heard the expression, “you are what you eat” and we know that our food consumption plays a huge role in determining our health status. But what many of us might not know is that food in certain combinations can be very dangerous, or even deadly. The photo on the right, taken near the Bagan Temples – a travel wonder of Myanmar – clearly illustrates the foods that shouldn’t be eaten together. In case the photo is too small or the quality poor, I have transcribed the blends for bad health below:

Neem Leaf + Chicken Egg
Mangosteen + Sugar
Canned Fish + Indian Trumpet
Ice Cream + Ginger Salad
Sour Bamboo Shoot + Tapioca
Waster Chestnut + Pickled Tea Leaf
Coconut + Honey
Lemon + Milk
Pumpkin + Pigeon Meat
Frog Meat + Mushroom
Gourd + Parrot Meat
Shell + Beef
Land Crab + Mushroom
Pomelo + Lime
Gway Fruit + Ice Lolly
Gway Fruit + East Indian Arrowroot
Pork + Lotus Root
Star Fruit + Chocolate
Banana + Toddy-Palm
Honey + Custard Apple
Pigeon Meat + Ginger
Chocolate + Pea Root
Pork + Toddy-Palm Sap
Sane Sar Oo + Ice Lolly
Potato + Bitter Gourd
Chicken + Indian Trumpet
Plum + Green Peas
Durian + Djenkol Bean
Cucumber + Ice Lolly
Eugenia Fruit + Palm Sugar
Watermelon + Duck Egg
Pork + Milk
Chicken + Bitter Gourd
Asafoetida + Durian
Kin Boun Fruit + Sesame
Pea Root + Milo