- 1). Be sure to always drink bottled water on your trip. Where ever you go, it is just safer to drink bottled water. Even if the water is safe to drink there are some minerals in the water that may not affect the people that are from there, but may affect you. So, just to be on the safe side, the best thing you can do when traveling is to drink bottled water.
- 2). Don’t eat from street vendors, no matter how clean it looks. You just never know, and your stomach may not be able to take what the locals can eat. You can usually get the same type of dishes in a restaurant; all you need to do is ask. Most street vendors are selling traditional foreign foods, so restaurants usually have a variation of the same thing. Be sure to go to restaurants that are recommended in your travel book or by other travelers.
- 3). Wash fruits and veggies. Be sure to wash them thoroughly and use some type of vegetable wash product, which gets rid of any left over bacteria and insecticides. You can find this vegetable wash at one of the grocery stores in the country you are visiting. They usually keep it in the same section as the vegetables.
- 4). If eating out, be sure that the restaurant is reliable, especially when it comes to fish, vegetables and fruit.
- 5). If you are in third world countries, it is best to avoid pork products. Pork can carry worms and when it’s not cooked right these worms will find their way into the human brain. This is the worst type of disease caused by foreign food because it can appear months or years after having eaten the pork and even at a good restaurant, there is no way for them to tell where the original product came from, so it is just best to stay away from the pork.
- 6). Be sure that fish products are extremely fresh and kept refrigerated. Some of the native restaurants don’t have refrigeration systems for their foods, so be sure that the fish is absolutely fresh. You can avoid this by eating in some of the nicer areas and avoiding the less expensive little cafes.
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