22 — Sunday, November 23, 1997 — North Shore News

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MY life has taken a
turn.

Funny, isn’t it, that the
scenarios we cherish for our-
selves seem seldom to come
to fruition, or if they do,
there’s a worm somewhere
in the apple. And it’s the
same thing, seems to me, if
we just lie back and take our
chances.

Life will getcha, one way
or another.

In my case, it was the
ghastly fall that undid all my
plans and hurt like the dick-
ens and put me round the
bend for let’s see, a picce of
July, all of August, casing up
a bit in September and
October and here we are
nearly sliding off the end of
the year and I’m still some-
thing of a mess.

But there’s been a

change in the last few weeks

and it’s all because of the
power of a banana. Ora
bunch of same.

It’s been a few short
swecks since my doctor tald
me to cat two bananas every
day.

I was a bit dismayed, fig-
ured J’d get fat and have to
buy a new wardrobe. But
it’s astonishing.

T have been slicing one
on to my wheaties, for
breakfast, and then gnawing
on a second one fater in the
day, just like any monkey,
and [ don’t feel any changes
in my girth.

‘Ttried keeping the sec-
ond one for dessert after
dinner, but I'd forget, and
eat the ice-cream or whatev-
er and then remember the
patient banana.

=F am constantly surprised
that I don’t feel overloaded
after overloading, if you get
me,

~ Tean’t remember when |
had my first banana — they
couldn’t be seen clustered
amongst the basic foodstuffs
we were able to shap for in

vintage
years

the North. Thase shelves
were stocked with cans and
oats and bags of chicken
feed and the odd coyote
skin to wrap your baby-
bunting in.

J can’t recall bananas at
all, or oranges, for that mat-
ter, except the lietle

“There is
a noticeable lack
of sodium in
bananas and a
fair offering of
Vitamin C.
What more
could you ask
for?”

Christmas variety, wrapped
in orange paper — hew
come those, I woade:?

J doubt any fresh truics
would have survis cd the
journey in the «inter
months anyway.

We had dried irait, Hike
apples and prunes hut |
don’t recall banaaas crt. in
the summertime.

My husband, born, in
Vancouver, got a banana
every day in his lunch-pail,
he tells me.

I would guess it was not
because his mother cher-
ished the amount of potassi-
um she was thus loading
into him, but, rather, wel-
comed the fact thar it came

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no fuss either to prepare or
consume.

My source (the library)
tells me that bananas have
been used for a long time to
offset the effects of medica-
tions people have to take for
their blood pressure.

Now they've learned that
the banana itself works its
own control of blood pres-
sure —they can forget the
medications.

Another benefit lies in
the fruit’s fibre value, a
good deal of which is in
itself soluble,

The clincher, for the
health foik, and for you and
me, is that there is a notice-

able lack of sodium in

bananas and a fair offering
of Vitantin C.

What more could you ask
for?

The book telfs me tes
leok for the yellow ones, the
ones that have no brown
spots, and it says that you’re
best co buy them by the
bunch.

Bananas on their own
won't fast as long as those
in a bunch. They last longer,
that way.

Let them sit around in
the kitchen until they are 3
proper yellow colour, but
once they look ready to cat
you should put them in the
fridge.

The skin will turn black if
you leave them there for a
while, but it won't make any
difference to the inside
flesh.

You can bake bananas,
and you can also freeze
them and eat them like a
popsicle or make a trozen
dessert.

They're low-fat as well as
flaunting all those other
blessings to your interior
mechanism. You should
never be without one,
they’re so good for you.

wo

Stephen Wong
Pharmacist

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