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Have you ever felt
completely drained after a very long continental or overseas flight ? Have
you ever been in Paris or Hawaii and been starved three hours before or
after meals but not at mealtimes? Have you ever dreamed of arriving
at your destination feeling synchronized with local time?
This is what Doctor
Charles Ehret of llinois had in mind when he came up with his anti-jet-lag
formula. I've used this schedule and highly recommend it to all those who
travel on business or for pleasure and who hate wasting time feeling
out-of-sync.
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The proposed anti-jet-lag
menu is really very simple
| Find out the day
and time of breasfast at your destination and start to follow the
schedule four days before. (If you are leaving for Europe on
Saturday night, start the schedule on Wednesday morning, or four days
before your first overseas breakfast, Sunday morning, at 8 a.m.)
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| Call
your travelling agent and order lacto-vegetarian meals for the flight.
Before leaving confirm the order at the ticket counter |
| In the four days
prior to the flight, alternate between a "feast" day and a "fast"
day; the day you leave must always be a fast day (see menus, below) |
| On "feast"
days, eat a high-protein breakfast and lunch; in the evening, eat a
high-starch meal |
| On "fast"
days, eat fruits and vegetables, a small amount of grain products at
every meal, and as little fat as possible (no butter on your bread,
hardly any vinaigrette on your salad) |
| During the flight,
drink a lot of water, fruit or vegetable juice; avoid regular coffee
after the evening meal; avoid all alcohol. Drinking wine or other
alcohol at an altitude of 8,000 meters dehydrates and has more effect
than usual |
| Try to sleep until
breaksfast time at your destination, then eat a high-protein meal. Ask
for one or two yogurts or cheese if only rolls and jam are served. Don't
sleep after breakfast. Stay awake until you arrive at your destination.
Once you get there, eat at local meal times and avoid snoozing until
after dinner. (A nap before dinner could ruin the whole plan !
Why not a good walk or a game of tennis if you can ?) |
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SUGGESTED MENUS FOR "FEAST"
DAYS (DAYS 1 and 3)
Breakfast: Fruit, poached
eggs or cheese, bread
or
fresh
fruit, cereal with chopped nuts or milk
Lunch:
Green salad, broiled chicken,
bread, fruit or
vegetable juice, poached fish and rice fruit
Dinner:
Green salad, pasta with tomato sauce,
fresh fruit or
raw vegetable sticks, rice pilaf with vegetables, bread, fresh fruit
SUGGESTED
MENUS FOR
"fast" DAYS (DAYS 2 AND 4)
Breakfast:
Fruit as you want, bran muffin
or
cereal, milk, fruit
Lunch and Dinner:
Green salad, cooked vegetable plate, bread, fruit
or
raw vegetable sticks,
vegetable soup, bread and fruit
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If the four-day schedule
seems too complicated,
at
least try to follow the instructions for the flight:
lacto-vegetarian meals, lots of water or juice, and no alcohol.
For more information on
anti-jet-lag, consult:
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