Feed A Hangover, Feed A Cold, Feed Everything!

These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This blog posting is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent hangovers or illness.

Every once and awhile comes a night of excess, the kind that kicks your butt for at least 2 or 3 days afterwards. Control, that rigid and binding nuisance, loses to extenuating circumstances leaving more fluid concentrative forms of ourselves. (Like is said on the Lagunitas delivery trucks: Beer speaks. People mumble.) I find this method of letting loose far more productive then more frequent but lesser-grade licentiousness. It accomplishes a month’s worth of vice in a single evening out. Now that’s efficiency!

Alas, the hangover needs to be fed. Get thee to a brunch spot for a restorative and balanced meal, fresh-squeezed juice, black coffee and a jug of water. Try Sacred Chow‘s Breakfast sandwich: a soy buttermilk biscuit oozing tofu scramble and striped with tempeh strips.
Next: get your potassium back the delicious way: chocolate chip banana bread! Spend the rest of the day shut off watching one of the many amazing HBO series. Don’t forget to remember where you left off for next month’s Do Nothing day!
If you find your immunity down and your throat beginning to grow hoarse and achy, get yourself some chocolate! Studies show that theobromine, an ingredient in chocolate, has a valuable medicinal quality: to suppress the *cough *cough. So indulge in real chocolate, not that watered down milk chocolate kind! You need them flavonoids. (An aside: Although there are many, many food items mistaken as unvegan [or vegan] by the omni-world, it irks me when others say “Oh! You can eat chocolate?!” Yes, rich, delicious, real chocolate… not that Hershey’s “fastfood” chocolate.)
Speaking of *cough *cough, it is crazy to me that there once was a time when heroin was used in over-the-counter children’s cough suppressant! Another ancient remedy that has not since been outlawed is tea.
Papaya is amazing. It’s one of the most nutrient-rich fruits and, therefore, great to munch on when immunity is down. In fact, I ate a half of a huge papaya yesterday amidst my achy, feverish pity-party and today I am shimmying and playing apartment soccer with a Diego kickball.

Other yummies that push out germs and viruses:
– ginger! I drank ginger beers.
– garlic.. it even kills vampires
– guava juice.. it has thee most vitamin C out there