RE: Travel Pro Answers #2: @Chefsteve Asks: How Do you Avoid Food Born Illness When Traveling?
Thank you. you're English is really good. Especially for never having left your own country. Impressed. The thing is that being a traveler especially from the western world, we simply don't have the proper kinds of good bacteria and populations of it in our stomachs to handle what you can. You and your countrymen have been eating food of a different level of hygine your entire life, there for your stomachs are prepared and can handle it no problem.
In America everything is under plastic and is basically obsessively clean, which actually weakens our immune system and ability to digest things like people from your country. The concept is that when you introduce germs into you your body, your body is forced to build up it's immune system, and develops natural defenses.
I haven't been to Venezuela but I've tried the food. Very similar to the rest of central south America, as the ingredients are basically the same.