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January 05, 2005
Wednesday
 
 
Spinach is bad for you!
Brian Micklethwait (London)  How very odd!

Here is another health scare to add to the pile. It seems that Pakistani cricketer Abdul Razzaq has been overdosing on … spinach:

Abdul Razzaq's mysterious illness, that he suffered during the Melbourne Test, may be related to his curious addiction to spinach. Razzaq suffered a bout of vomiting, dizziness and breathing difficulties on the third morning of the Boxing Day Test and though he batted in the second innings, he hadn't recovered fully in time for the final game at Sydney.

Razzaq had experienced dizziness and nausea during Pakistan's tour of New Zealand, in early 2004, and he was put on a diet of spinach by a medical guru in Pakistan. "Somebody told him to have spinach all the time," Zakir Khan, the Pakistan board's operation manager, told The Melbourne Age. "So he loves spinach and wherever he goes he says spinach should be part of the diet, in Pakistan particularly. The other team-mates tease him and call him Popeye the Sailor Man."

It is with such stories at this that I am now consoling myself for this fiasco.

Comments

This fiasco was worse.


Posted by Michael Jennings at January 5, 2005 11:19 PM

I seem to recall that fresh spinach is mildly poisonous.
Perhaps a low content of oxalic acid? One would have to eat an awful lot to do much harm however. If it is oxalic acid, cooking should render it harmless.


Posted by Doug Collins at January 6, 2005 03:36 AM

Actually, it isn't the spinich that is dangerous, it's the bow-legged wimmin. The song makes that clear.


Posted by Stehpinkeln at January 6, 2005 03:47 AM

He stood all he could stand, but he couldn't stand any more.

...Hey, that's catchy...


Posted by Just John at January 6, 2005 07:03 AM

For those who have problems with blood clots leafy greens like spinach can be deadly.


Posted by Gary Gunnels at January 6, 2005 09:15 AM

As spinach removes more iron from the body than it deposits, I'm not surprised massive amounts produce unpleasant effects.


Posted by Paul at January 6, 2005 09:49 AM

Personally, I didn't find anything very fiasco-like in either the English or the Australian results. Both games rather enjoyable in fact.


Posted by Tim Sturm at January 6, 2005 12:39 PM
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