permaculture

[Georg Parlow <g.parlow@gmx.at>]

> Eat a lot of turmeric - it is said that is will prevent any cancer.
> Dump a spoonful on your prepared dishes - don;t cook the turmeric. It
> actually has a good flavor, subtle.

Turmeric is a major ingredient of curry. The death-by-cancer rate of India is 
quite low - nr 15 or 20 from the bottom or so. On the 'don’t cook' different 
opinions exist - and since Indians always(?) cook the curry in oil before 
adding anything else, it still seems to work. What is said to greatly enhance 
the availability of the turmerine (or however the active ingredient is 
called) is 1. take it with fat, and 2. combine the turmeric with a pinch of 
pepper (piperitum spp, not chili) - especially the pepper is said to increase 
the uptake of the stuff thousandfold (some sources even say 
'threethousandfold').