– it is time we stop kidding ourselves that we
cannot attack the core of our CULTURE of eating three meals of white rice!
This
is a SERIOUS PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE THAT AFFECTS ALL
I
may be blasted as a heretic and hounded out of this Island, but if I save just
one life, so he or she can tell the tale of the disappearance of the people who
inhabited this Serendipitous island of Lanka, so be it.
The article in the link is
self-explanatory and if you study the scientific glycemic index, you will see
that of all staples, white rice as we eat is the WORST food for you, yes WORST,
and there is no other word I can use.
So let us start at the beginning.
Everyone agrees that consumption of white rice three times a day is bad for
you, but no one is publicizing this. So at least the Media in this Country is
not doing its part, in warning the public, their responsibility surely, as the
Fourth Estate.
We consumed unpolished rice in the past,
which has a much lower glycemic index, and so why can’t we slowly as an act of
self-discipline switch back to our old ways? After all we are all willfully
killing our kids, by feeding them meals that will likely leave them dying
before us, and we seem NOT TO CARE.
Where are the nutritionists exhorting us
to improve our diet? They are there, but are not heard above the crowd. Why? Are
their vested interests preventing the message from reaching the public?
It is now clear that ONE significant
cause of CKDU is the farmer eating three meals of rice from HIS field, which is
severely degraded with poisons in the soil. Therefore if the cadmium levels are
high in his soil and they eat ONLY that rice, the body will be poisoned, as the
Kidneys just cannot flush out all the poison it ingests. Doctors have yet to
explain this simple bit of science, delaying their recommendations to the
public on how to reduce the CKDU. No one has addressed the core issue of why
CKDU is high in a few pockets of the Country.
I did not mean to mix CKDU in this
argument, but we have to in a short while change our nutrition and eating
habits very fast if we are to avoid the first big health issue we face, namely
DIABETES epidemic that will kill half the people in a matter of years, the result
of WHITE RICE consumption, and no one is talking about it. WHY? First step
then, accept that we are eating poison.
4 comments:
CKDU issue is chicken feed compared to this. We must immediately insist on changing our rice to red, if that is better and less polishing, and start getting used to eating fewer meals of rice anyway, and go back to batala and manioc like in the history.
In ancient times we never ate 3 rice meals and had enough for export. So we must learn to eat less rice and more vegetables and leaves and roughage and get our energy from more whole grain sources.
There is simply no other choice if the Country is to survive into the future.
None of the leaders want the Country to survive, they only want to survive in luxury and power for their lifetime, not afterwards, so we cannot expect any solution from those in power, we have to change our eating habits ourselves.
Just because the rest of the world is getting obese we should not follow it. Just look at our fat people. We never had this level of obesity 50 years ago.
So let us re think Nutrition and use the media for publicity
Three meals of rice let alone white rice was never part of the Sri Lankan culture of the past, though people for convenience and laziness made it our new culture.
Remember that eating rice makes you sleepy too. So when our workers bring their rice to eat in the morning after clocking in at work (mainly public servants) they are not going to be productive.
Then when they go on their lunch break, they are further sleepy all afternoon, before they clock off and go home at 4pm.
So no wonder Sri Lanka is the laziest Country on earth. The cause eating rice no less
Like you said the most productive people in Sri Lanka and the rest of the world don't eat this quantity of rice, not even the Chinese or the Japanese, the main rice eating developed countries, as we should consider China now almost the largest GNP in the world developed
We must learn from others what we should consume. How about protein in Pulses like Green Gram and Lentils?
In any case when we run out of water we may not have enough to grow rice, better learn to eat less water requiring crops.
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