Olympics, Lindsey Vonn and the amazing anti-inflammatory cheese
The Winter Olympics have started and the bizarre prevails.
Vancouver is in the midst of a heat wave with more rain than snow. Asia is in a furor because a 21 yo Japanese snow boarder with dreadlocks wore his pants sagging and shirt untucked...Say it ain't so!! Tragically a young man lost his life on a high-speed luge sled during a freak training accident. May God rest his soul.
But the biggest story so far seems to be cover girl and US skier Lindsey Vonn's curious use of dairy products.
As the entire world knows, the media darling has a nasty injury to her shin acquired during a training crash just several days prior to the opening of the Games. Apparently, she is doing all of the usual home remedy and physical therapy modalities but that's where the story takes a hard left.
Somewhere she heard that a 'special' yogurt-like, fermented Austrian cheese, topfen curd, when applied to injuries has unique medicinal powers. She apparently hopes that topfen cheese will speed her recovery and allow her to cash in on potential Olympic gold.
I did a bit of research on the medicinal value of topfen cheese and if she is counting on this Austrian wonder cheese she better go see a doctor.
Vancouver is in the midst of a heat wave with more rain than snow. Asia is in a furor because a 21 yo Japanese snow boarder with dreadlocks wore his pants sagging and shirt untucked...Say it ain't so!! Tragically a young man lost his life on a high-speed luge sled during a freak training accident. May God rest his soul.
But the biggest story so far seems to be cover girl and US skier Lindsey Vonn's curious use of dairy products.
As the entire world knows, the media darling has a nasty injury to her shin acquired during a training crash just several days prior to the opening of the Games. Apparently, she is doing all of the usual home remedy and physical therapy modalities but that's where the story takes a hard left.
Somewhere she heard that a 'special' yogurt-like, fermented Austrian cheese, topfen curd, when applied to injuries has unique medicinal powers. She apparently hopes that topfen cheese will speed her recovery and allow her to cash in on potential Olympic gold.
I did a bit of research on the medicinal value of topfen cheese and if she is counting on this Austrian wonder cheese she better go see a doctor.
Posted by Johnny Benjamin MD at 2/14/2010 9:16 AM 
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