Traveling Veg Part 2: Going Abroad
If you read our Traveling Veg Part 1 article, you got a few tips on how to stay healthy by taking delicious and nutritious meals and snacks on the road. Here, we’re taking travel a step further (or a lot of miles farther) and offering you some tips for when you have to get on a plane. Going abroad means you have to be extra practical when packing as well as extra careful, conscious and creative when you get to your destination. Traveling internationally means being exposed to perhaps entirely different food and climate – which can be both wonderful and exciting, as well as tricky and dangerous. When I visit family in Peru, for example, I have to watch what I eat because, as the family doctor says, “You now have American flora.” This refers to the fact that our bodies encounter a host of new bacteria in foreign foods, microorganisms that we’re not used to in our own foods at home, and we have to take precautions because we definitely don’t want a stomach infection to spoil a great trip.
With all this in mind, here are a few tips for staying healthy while traveling internationally: Read More…
