Marc Lurie wrote:
On Mon, 29 May 2006 20:35:50 +0200, "Peter H.M. Brooks"
wrote:


Talking of which, why is is so difficult to find sugar free tonic in SA?

Woolworths has recently launched a WW branded sugar-free tonic water.
It's available at all stores in Johannesburg. I imagine it must be
available in Cape Town too.

I'll look out for it - I've found some sugar-free tonic, but, so far,
it has only been in those tiny little tins that ought to have been
thrown back as not yet ready for catching. I'd like to buy it in two
litre bottles.

BTW, the levels of quinine in tonic water will have no effect on
preventing, curing, or treating malaria... but it's a good excuse to
drink the stuff :-)

Surely that depends on how much of it your drink - or, I suppose,
whether you've had enough drink to turn you into a homeopathy believer.
Not, of course, that believing in the nonsense will save you.

I mentioned here that, a few years back, I found a chemise (in
Constantia, actually) offering tablets that claimed to be homeopathic
malaria prophylaxis - I reported them to the pharmaceutical society for
what was, as I said, effectively a conspiracy to murder and I think
that the practice stopped after that.