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SOUTHERN VOICE
OCTOBER 14/1993
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Miami Beach, FL—Frank Wager had no
idea how to eat healthy, and his ignorance
was helping HIV kill him.
Then he met chef Kathy Raffele on trendy
South Beach, who has come up with special
dishes for people with diminished immune
systems. Now he’s one of about a dozen
people with HIV or AIDS who cat Raffclc’s
cooking regularly.
“For the most part, people who have AIDS
have no idea about the nutritional aspects
that arc very important to their health;” Wa
ger said. “Unfortunately, we don’t have the
time or the background to eat what is good
for us.”
Raffele, a transplanted New Yorker, says
offering a special menu emerged from neces
sity earlier this year when she was cooking at
Falcon’s Lair on the Beach. She now cooks
at nearby Coral Cafe.
“The restaurant I was working at was
next to a gay club and most of the customers
were gay,” she said. “We were getting a lot
of customers in, requesting Caesar salad with
no egg and pasta with no dairy. To make it
easier on the waiter and myself, I just thought
we would do a menu with items on it for
people with compromised immune systems.”
One concern was that other customers
would not feel uncomfortable ordering dishes
especially intended for people with AIDS.
Special dishes are marked discreetly on the
menu with asterisks.
“Everybody told me I was crazy,” Raffele
said. “They said I would turn people away
when they see there are this many items for
HIV. But once they eat the food and they
think it’s OK, that’s what counts.”
She created a variation on ravioli that
uses pureed vegetables with a sauce made
from soy milk instead of cream. Many of her
speciality dishes use garlic, basil and fruit—
always fresh.
She had to shelve her French method of
cooking and began to concentrate on lighter,
healthier ingredients.
To develop a strategy for such a menu.
Raffele consulted nurse Susan Luck of the
nettrby SLraioGcn Clinic. Luck, also from New
York, had worked in Manhattan under a grant
putting together healthy diets for people with
HIV.
“The medical mode has approached their
nutrition with food that is high in fats for high
calorics,” Luck said. “They want to fatten
them up, but very often the fats themselves
are problematic.”
Luck said some raw foods, such as an egg
in a Caesar salad, contain bacteria an im
mune-deficient body can’t tolerate. Dairy
products also contain lactose, a sugar she says
many with HIV can’t digest.
Raffele uses lots of pasta because it’s easy
to digest and high in nutrients.
Wager said his health improved immedi
ately after he began eating her food.
“You can actually improve the immune
system by eating right,” the 41-year-old real
estate agent said. “If you don’t, your immune
system is going to decline faster, you have
more of a chance of losing weight and more
of a chance of getting an opportunistic infec
tion that can kill you.”
Raffele, who is currently working on a
cookbook, said having a place where people
with AIDS can sit down to have a specially
designed meal is as healthy psychologically
as it is physically.
“Sometimes they get depressed when
they’re home by themselves, and they don’t
eat good or they eat junk food,” Raffele said.
“Someplace like here, they can come in with
their friends, sit down in a nice atmosphere
and not have to worry about what they are
going to eat.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Herbal HIV treatment under study
Boulder, CO—Hauser Chemical Research
Inc. has won a $500,000 grant to continue
researching naturally-occurring chemicals that
may be helpful in treating HIV-positive people
and people with AIDS.
The grant from the National Institute of
Allergy and Infectious Diseases, a division
of the National Institutes of Health, will al
low Hauser to expand research into natu
rally-occurring chemicals called artemisinin
derivatives.
Artemisinin derivatives, which Hauser
isolated from the herb Artemisia annua, may
be helpful in treating parasitic infections that
include toxoplasmosis and cryptosporidiosis,
common causes of death in people suffering
from unintentional suppression of the immune
system. The Chinese have long used
Artesmisia annua to treat malaria, also a para
sitic infection.
The grant will be used for research into
selecting compounds that may be effective in
treating the parasitic infections.
"At the end of the program we should
have data on which [compounds] we want to
use,” said Dean Stull, Hauser’s chief execu
tive.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
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