Olsemwanem kastom blong tring kava i save afektem tingting blong man mo wei we man i draev (Traditional kava-drinking, cognition and driver fitness)

Kava, we oli singautem tu se ‘plant blong ol god’, hemi gro plante long ol tropikol aelan blong Pacific. Ol man oli yusum kava olsem lokol meresin. Mo tu, oli kranem rus blong hem, afta strenem long wota blong oli save tring blong mekem oli fil rilaks. Long saed blong kastom, kava i kat impotent mining, be naoia we man i stap tring tumas kava, i kat wari i kamaot from ifekt blong hem long saed blong seifti taem man i draev. Dokta ‘Apo’ Aporosa, we hemi stap karem aut risej long Waikato University long Aotearoa New Zealand, hemi bin stadi wei we kava i afektem tingting blong man taem man i draev. (Kava, or ‘the plant of the gods’, grows widely across tropical Moananuiākea (the Pacific). Used in traditional medicine, its roots are also pounded and strained through water to make a drink with relaxant effects. Kava has deep cultural significance, but because it is drunk in large quantities over several hours, concerns have been raised about its effects on driver safety. Dr ‘Apo’ Aporosa, a Research Fellow at the University of Waikato in New Zealand, has studied the impact of traditional kava use on cognition and its implications for driver fitness. The findings of that research are presented here in Bislama/Pidgeon language.)