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Marmite vs Mosquito's
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Anyone heard of this before?
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007350248,00.html
Dr Martin Schweiger, a public health consultant in Communicable Disease Control at the Health Protection Agency regional laboratory in Leeds, revealed his secret weapon for the launch of a new advice leaflet for travelers. He told the Leeds Co-op Travel to make sure you pack a jar of Marmite.
"I can't give you an academic, scientific reason - but people who eat Marmite report getting fewer mosquito bites," says Dr Schweiger.
"It's nothing to do with spreading it on the skin - but the effect of eating it could be linked to the Vitamin B1 Thiamin that it contains. This theory is supported by the rise of malaria in countries where staple rice has been de-husked and the thiamine-rich outer coating is discarded.
http://www.ilovemarmite.com/2006/3/14/marmite/143344-5334.asp
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007350248,00.html
Dr Martin Schweiger, a public health consultant in Communicable Disease Control at the Health Protection Agency regional laboratory in Leeds, revealed his secret weapon for the launch of a new advice leaflet for travelers. He told the Leeds Co-op Travel to make sure you pack a jar of Marmite.
"I can't give you an academic, scientific reason - but people who eat Marmite report getting fewer mosquito bites," says Dr Schweiger.
"It's nothing to do with spreading it on the skin - but the effect of eating it could be linked to the Vitamin B1 Thiamin that it contains. This theory is supported by the rise of malaria in countries where staple rice has been de-husked and the thiamine-rich outer coating is discarded.
http://www.ilovemarmite.com/2006/3/14/marmite/143344-5334.asp
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you can make stats mean anything you want them to mean
chuckles.
I tried Marmite as a kid after seeing it on TV and spread it over a bitof toast and hated it.
What someone showed me many years later was to butter the toast and just dab the marmite here and there - that I must say tasted a lot better.
and funnily enough i hardly ever get bitten by anything :chin:
not a fan of rimming then?