Non-Vegetarian food
The belief system
It is the general belief that animal food is rich protein and is very much useful for the humans. The word 'protein' has a magic spell in the mind of man and therefore people go after non-vegetarian food. Behind this lie, lies also the secret of 'taste'.
Nutrition value
The word protein does not mean one variety. Protein is of different types. There are simple proteins digested easily and complex proteins not digested easily. The meat has only complex proteins The modern man due to his wrong eating habits is already having poor digestion. At this stage it is not advisable that he should go in for complicated proteins. .
Some people think that the flesh contains fat and is good for our health. Here again we need to note that fat is also of two varieties, saturated and unsaturated. All animal foods contain saturated fat which if we consume, can lead us to heart trouble, blood pressure and hardening of arteries called arteriosclerosis, decomposition of liver and kidney. From this point also non-vegetarian is not suitable for humans.
Issue of Ethics
Man talks from platforms and podiums that we should love animals. Religions also talk of compassion for all living beings. Call it temple, church or anything, what does God want? He wants compassion and without compassion human race cannot exist. A person who lives by the principle of religion and compassion can never take a non-vegetarian food. If you have no kindness, you can do violence to anybody. Let us just see around us and look into this world of demonstrations and violence. You will mostly see that those crowds comprise more of people who are non-vegetarians. Vegetarians cannot and would not kill anyone. Because their mindset is not accustomed to killing. Morally therefore non-vegetarian food is not meant for human beings.
Do we need Decomposed food?
Any food is to be consumed fresh. We will all agree tht any food that is decomposed is not good for health. The animals like lion, tiger, etc. which are seen to eat non-vegetarian food remain healthy because they do not take the dead animals. Because flesh of dead animals stand always decomposed. The above animals go, jump upon a prey, tear it up and drink the blood warm and eat the flesh immediately. If man can also do it, he can also take the meat. Since man takes old flesh he is said to be opting for decomposed food which gives more acidity.
Wild animals have no hospitals because they never take decomposed food. They always take fresh ones. Human beings with all their nutrition, need hospital and medical aid because they never take food fresh and they always take decomposed food. Now would you like to add to this list, the decomposed meat also?
· Do you know how long after the animals are cut in the butcheries, the meat reaches you?
· Did you consider in what hygienic conditions the meat is carried and kept in the shops before it reaches you for consumption?
· Can you think of how the open meat kept attracts flies which again carry and deposit germs onto the meat before you buy them?
· Do you know how they are cooked in hotels and how old they are by the time they reach you for consumption?
More of poison
Whether it is human body or that of animals, every part of the body works continuously and creates certain wastes. At any given moment of time, wastes are always present in our cells. So the flesh of the animal which is taken not, only contains the proteins and fat, but also lot of waste matter. And this is what is also consumed by a non-vegetarian. These wastes getting into the humans, become their poisons.
Now, beyond this normal wastes present in the animal meat, there lie certain additional poisons.
In the meat trade, they overfeed the animals with some special chemicals to fatten them deliberately before they are being killed. In such situation, these animals accumulate more wastes. This is poison No. 2
In butcheries, these animals are killed in hundreds in front of other waiting animals. The animals waiting are gripped with fear, pain and agony and that creates further poisons in their body. Poison No. 3. So when you take meat, you have to take this poison also. Do you think this has nutrition value?
The Structural differences
Let us now see structurally how far non-vegetarian food is not suitable to human beings. Science divides living beings into herbivorous and carnivorous. Carnivorous animals are purely meat eaters and herbivorous are purely vegetarian. God has given different structures for both these categories.
Let us consider the teeth. The carnivorous have been provided by God lot of sharp teeth both above and below to cut and tear the flesh. We have more of grinding teeth not suitable for meat eating. Look at the structure of jaw also. The jaws of carnivorous and herbivorous also structurally vary.
Now let us view the stomach. The stomach of herbivorous secretes less hydrochloric acid, i.e. only 1/10th of what the stomach of carnivorous produces. So if man takes meat, there can be no proper digestion.
Let us move on to consider the small intestine which is one of the main digestive systems. The small intestine of herbivorous animals are very long. This length is provided because herbivorous eat food with lot of roughage. As food with high roughage pass quickly, the path needs to be long so that there is digestion. On the contrary the carnivorous animals have the small intestine. Therefore the man becoming carnivor is not suitable to him.
Don't be pro-disease
Because of the above differences in the meat eating nations the incidence of disease is very high in those countries. India is also fast catching them up with their increasing non-vegetarian population. It is not that vegetarians are healthy. They too are falling sick because they too don't eat right food and what ever they eat they do not eat it rightly too. But the fact that someone else is not healthy, does not give us the justification to acquire disease.
The horror mindset
Once started taking non-vegetarian food, man systematically starts losing his equilibrium. From chicken and meat, the man had started moving on to beef and pork. The different animals consume different kinds of food. Animals like pigs are essentially created to consume human wastes. And when the man consumes pork, he effectively re-takes his own wastes.
In certain countries, the human beings take other animals and reptiles including snakes. They take such things because they have acquired a mindset to try anything and everything, just promoted by the tastes they produce, not minding what could be the side effects on health.
The picture below would indicate that human beings have started eating human beings themselves. Just a horror mindset!
Roadside eatables
Many people have the habit of taking food or drinks like sharbat or water from road side vendors. The water they provide could be polluted and the items like bhelpuri, panipuri, kulfi, etc. could be contaminated and adulterated. These could cause hepatitis.
Milk and Milk Products
As a consumer I had always been bewildered and confused by the raging controversy on milk. We all know that we had been brought up with a belief that milk is very good for our health and we should take milk every day. But there are other powerful opinions about milk and its harmful effects. The naturopaths have been saying that
· in this world no other species takes the milk of any other creature, except the human being who takes the milk of other animals.
· the milk of cow or any other animal is meant for its calf and is never designed for human being and is thus not digestible by our organs
· even the calf would not take its mothers milk beyond certain age, whereas we continue to take the milk for years and that is harmful to us
The modern researchers say that
· the milk can cause osteoporosis and easy fractures
· milk contributes to obesity, fat and cholesterol formation
· milk products are linked to ovarian cancer and insulin destruction causing diabetes
Well, I am a mere consumer and these expert opinions thoroughly confuse whether milk is good or bad for our health.
At a time I was really confused, I came across reports in the newspapers that the milk we get in the name of milk in metropolitan cities and towns is not milk at all, because it is heavily adulterated with unthinkable chemicals. Then the advertisement brought out by Delhi Milk Scheme sometime back about the milk adulteration prevalent in the market thoroughly convinced me that I should totally avoid milk and milk products.
In this context I would also like to give below a write up from an official connected with Milk industry.
Sometime ago, the National Institute of Nutrition [NIN] conducted a study and found that antibiotics like Gentamicin are being used for adulteration of milk to increase its shelf life and detergents used to emulsify the added fat. They also found that adulteration in children’s milk powder is significant.
There was also a news item on July 14, 1999 that the then Union Minister Maneka Gandhi made a public demand to ban the use of medicine oxytocin which is widely used by unscrupulous dairymen on diary cattle to increase milk yields. This medicine is reportedly injected indiscriminately into cows and buffaloes in an attempt to get more milk from them. Consumption of this milk is harmful to humans especially to pregnant ladies.
As for the milk products, less said the better. The quantity of ghee, vanaspathi or other ingredients added to it and more so the colors mixed, make it dangerous for various body parts, especially the stomach and the kidney.
Baby foods
India is increasingly becoming a dumping ground for seconds and defective steel items and tin plates which are banned in western countries. And these tin plates are widely used in the manufacture of containers for baby food and edible oils. These tin plates are more prone to rust and corrosion as a result of which it is dangerous to pack food items in them. It is precisely for this reason these are banned in western countries. But traders pick up these items very cheap. And you know its implications for your child.
Well, in addition to the above, there are lots of possibilities of adulterants entering the baby food. Tests have revealed that baby food is adulterated with starch and sacrose.
Parties
Stretched up evenings, cocktail parties and, rounds of liquor is another thing to be avoided. These parties mean spices, deep fried items, sweets, additional salt and other unwanted additional toxins to your body. They help you add up your tummy and weight. These sweet things turn sour within your body, cause indigestion and gas thus making you need antacids. What is the great need for you to increase your cholesterol? Realise that when you add more toxins within your body, it adds to the burden of each of your cells and you add up to your blood pressure levels.
Soft drinks
Take one glass of water
Add to it eight tea spoons of sugar
Add the specified additives, chemicals and ice
You have the soft drink you need.
Wow! It quenches your thirst instantly.
But what else they do, once inside you?
The additional sugar going in, rises your blood sugar level and gives you a kick
To pull the raised blood sugar level, your pancreas immediately pours insulin
You take soft drinks frequently - your pancreas has to overwork to release insulin again and again
One day, your pancreas stops to function
You become a diabetic
When you take soft drinks, you increase calories suddenly
The stomach has to handle the inflow of sudden additional calories
It has to stop its digestion activity and attend to the inflow first
You develop digestion problems
The additives used for flavor, color and preservation are pure unfriendly chemicals
They irritate the lining of your stomach walls
Result is ulcer
You already know that sweets create problems to your teeth
So more soft drink, more cavities in your dental area
One dental expert said
· Take a glass of soft drink
· Take out one of your teeth and put it in the glass
· Wait for 10 hours and see, the tooth is dissolved
Most soft drinks contain phosphoric acid
Excess phosphorus is thrown out by kidneys by combining it with calcium
Where from would the kidney draw the calcium needed to throw the phosphorus out?
Of course from your bones
So you lose your calcium stock, every time you take a soft drink
Then you lose your bone mass, i.e. bones become weak and you suffer osteoporosis
Thus the higher quantity of phosphorus in soft drinks the more your bones weak and make you a target for osteoporosis.
Cigarette
Research indicates that most adult smokers started puffing in adolescence due to peer pressure and family stresses and that these young smokers entered adulthood bringing with them more psychological and family problems. The problems the smokers bring with them is more physical and consequently familial. What problems the smokers encounter are explained below.
Immediately after a person starts smoking, the nicotine present in the cigarettes rushes to his brain and makes the brain crav for more and more of cigarettes. It is this substance that makes smoking an addiction to the smoker. This is the reason why, once started for fun and diversion, the smokers are unable to get rid of this habit.
The nicotine present in the above elements also affect the absorption of calcium. Smoking and chewing tobacco thus rob the body of its calcium stores.
Smoking increases the deposition of cholesterol in the coronary arteries and causes the blood vessels to constrict. The constricted blood vessels affects the blood flow making it necessary for the heart to work harder and creating heart problems for us. In addition, smoking increases the levels of carbon monoxide in our blood, depriving our heart of much needed oxygen. All these cause our heart to beat faster raising our blood pressure. To be precise, our blood pressure shoots up by 15 to 20 points immediately after the cigarette is smoked.
When you become a heavy smoker, your sputum slowly turns pink and then red when blood starts coming out of it as an indication of onset of lung cancer. You don’t need any elaborate examination to confirm that smoking can cause bronchitis and cancer. Non-smokers have a pink and healthy lungs while that of smokers is discolored and foul tissues.
The problem with smokers is that they don’t really care whether they live or die. It is this indifference that prevents them from stopping the bad habit. In fact nobody fears death. But what we worry about is the process of dying, i.e. pain, suffering and terror which are very frightening. So it is better we give up smoking and prevent future suffering.
It is said that smoke and marriage don’t always go together. Apart from the fact that wives in general do not like constant smell emanating from their smoking husbands, the researchers say that those who smoke have the characteristics that make them more divorce prone than non-smokers.
Yes, many people stop smoking but are unable to resist the temptation of re-starting. As President D’Gulle of France said, ‘Who said it is difficult to stop smoking? I have myself stopped smoking a hundred times.’
One may develop withdrawal symptoms and the kind of symptoms one develops depends on the degree to which he is addicted. There are a number of things one can do when he gets an urge to restart smoking.
· Many people smoke to occupy their hands. There was a gentleman who used to take up his calculator when his hands wanted to take up a cigarette. He would take out the calculator and start pushing buttons.
· When you feel an urge, you can start humming. That is one way of avoidance. You can opt for relaxation exercises, deep breathing, gardening, jogging, etc. to avoid the urge for re-smoking.
· You can also imagine how smoke affected and black your lungs are. You can also imagine positively about the congratulations you got the previous day for stopping smoking, from your spouse and friends.
· In general it is better you stay away from parties and other smoking conducive situations.
Alcohol
Alcohol rises your level of triglycerides, i.e. the bad cholesterol
It leads to high blood pressure, stroke, cancer and gout
It eats away essential nutrients from the other intakes and denies it to other cells
If heavy intake, it affects brain capillaries and neurons
It tends to dehydrate you. You would wake up thirsty after a night drink
People who drink complain more of stomach pain, tiredness and shortness of breath as compared with ‘normal’ people. Which means that too much drink can turn people into hypochondriacs. Then the number of health complaints rise with the level of depression and anxiety which are normally associated with drinks.
Across the counter pills
Many people opt for across the counter pills for various reasons, such as weight loss, building muscle, boosting energy, sleeplessness, memory increase, family planning, boosting sexual power, etc. These pills contain Ephedra supplements, some where very different ephedra doses than the packages promise and somewhere lots less and sometimes lot more. They have lots of side effects such as anxiety, sleeplessness, migraines, high blood pressure, seizures, irregular heart beats, heart attacks and strokes. There is a danger of addiction with every such pill. Thus people who opt for these drugs should know that they may provide us a ‘high’ temporarily, but would really get us ‘down’ in the long run.
Multivitamin tablets, antacids, cough syrups etc. which one opts for across the counter purchasing, are made of irrational drug combinations. For example, for dry cough, suppressant is to be prescribed and for wet cough, an expectorant. But the cough syrups have the combination of both which produce contradictory effects because of the presence of the other element. Several brands are combination of various drugs, which if taken separately and at the right dose are effective. But the combination is not. Further, most syrups contain alcohol as the base, though in small quantities, but enough to stimulate. Some cough syrups contain codeine like narcotic substance. They slowly develop dependency in individuals.
Let us take the pain killer paracetamol which is available under various names. In these various brands, the same paracetamol is mixed with many unnecessary elements to make it ‘new and more powerful’. This exposes the consumer to other unnecessary drugs. In these combinations, some are to be taken on an empty stomach while another after meal. Now the consumer takes the whole either before or after meal and it causes side effects.
In addition to the above, around 60% of the medicines given by various practitioners are antibiotics which itself poses a health hazard. They prescribe antibiotics because they are under tremendous pressure to give quick results. In fact prescribing antibiotics is found to be the first line of treatment in most cases. In certain cases, say of private hospitals, the more the purchase of antibiotics, the more they gain because they are high priced items and the hospitals have their own medical shops within the premises.
Scratching your ears
Scratching your ear with match sticks, pins, pencil, etc. we are likely to introduce tetanus spores into our ears. Same thing can happen when you make your ears attended by road side hakeems. Avoid doing these and avoid bacteria entering your ears.
Crackers
Diwali is an occasion for lighting your home. But Diwali is not an occasion for creating destruction to your life and property. Therefore, say “NO” to crackers.
The Diwali crackers
· Increase the air pollution by 6 to 10 times
Surphar dioxide in the air 140%
Nitrogen dioxide in the air 180%
Carbon monoxide in the air280%
Suspended particles in the air 390%
Invades your lungs, ear, heart, arteries and eyes
· Increase the incidence of asthma, bronchitis and heart attack
· Make the lives of new born and small babies miserable
· Make our children prone to diseases as they can’t withstand the pollution
· Increase the chances of injuries, body burn and scalding
· Increase the chances of damage to limbs and property
· Burns a whole in your pocket and makes you poorer
If you are still determined to use crackers either for you or your children, then
· Elders should accompany the children while using crackers
· Use the crackers in an open space, away from home
· Make sure there are no inflammable articles around
· Make sure there are no obstacles around which can prevent your running
· Keep two water buckets and sand bags nearby
· Use spectacles for eye safety
· Wear thick tight cotton clothes
· Do not store crackers around a burning candle
· Do not light crackers near vehicles
· Never fire crackers inside house, on the staircase or in the narrow lanes
· Avoid trees and electric wires while firing the crackers
· Do not hold live crackers on hand
· Do not use bottles or containers for firing crackers / rackets
· Do not throw live crackers
· Always use a long candle for firing the crackers
In case of burns:
· Do not apply any cream or ointment or oil on the burnt area
· Pour large amount of water on burnt area
· In case of eye burns wash the eye with copious amount of tap water for ten minutes
· Rush the patient to any burn specialist or hospital
· In case of major burns,
o Extinguish the fire
o Remove all smouldering clothes
o Wrap the victim in a clean bedsheet
o Do not give anything by mouth
o Take the patient to the hospital
o Do not get panicky while driving the patient to the hospital
o Drive slowly and patiently
A delay of fifteen minutes would not make matters worse
Next Diwali
· Light your home with joy
· Not with flames and sorrow
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