It's time to start planning your summer adventure, and for this
week's Travelers' Aid segment, I want to look for ways to stay
healthy on the road. More and more, danger lurks in places you can't
detect, or would never have guessed. Like airplane food, for example.
I asked Charles Platkin, he's the editor and CEO of eFit.com. That's a fitness web site that
recently published an industry-wide survey of airplane food. Charles
found that the average on-board meal has over 1,000 calories, over 50
grams of fat and more than 2,000 milligrams of sodium. That's more
than a Big Mac, fries, and a strawberry sundae!
I also wanted to know about the hidden menace lurking at many of our
nation's beaches: water pollution. Walter MacLeod and his
organization "The Clean Beaches Council" are working to improve our
waterways. This year marks the inauguration of the Blue Wave
Campaign, a national environmental certification process. So far, 30
beaches nationwide have been inspected and approved. I asked Walter
what symptoms you should watch out for, should you unknowingly swim
at a polluted beach.
But what if you're not headed to the beach this summer? Dr. Daniel
Carlin runs the world's first tele-clinic for travelers. It's called
World Clinic, and he gives medical advice ranging from where to find
a pharmacy in Delhi to, get this, he once guided a ship's captain
through a complicated medical procedure, all done over the Internet.
Dr. Carlin says there are a few simple ways to avoid a massive
headache when you get sick on the road.
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