Those who have been following what is being written in these columns on balanced diet will not have failed to understand the vast importance of bran which we simply throw away and give to our cattle. I do not grudge
First is the statement that food taken in excess of actual requirement for repair and energy is as much food actually wasted. Excess food is not only wasted food, but this excess also places a tax on the organs of
What can be and should be aimed at are common dishes for common people. I believe that we should be able to accommodate ourselves to the food eaten in the provinces other than our own. I know that this is
It is waste of money and ‘good’ taste to cook these leaves or tubers. The vitamins contained in these vegetables are wholly or partially lost in cooking. Take up any modern text-book on food or vitamins, and you would find
Rice is the most important cereal grain in the diet of more than half of the human race. It is used especially in the wettest parts of the world. It has never found much favour in the United States but
You ask about food values. Data on this point are being rapidly gathered here and elsewhere in India, and I hope that at no very distant period an authoritative book or pamphlet giving the chemical composition, vitamin potency, etc. of
I dealt with rice. Let us now take up wheat. It is the second most important article of diet, if not the first. From the nutritive standpoint, it is the king of cereals. By itself, it is more perfect than
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was undoubtedly one of the wisest men ever to roam the earth and even had great insight as far as food was concerned. In his book Key to Health he said: “Whilst it is true that man
One friend has asked, “There is so much corruption, so much bribery, so much favoritism going on in the present capitalism! Do you support this as well? This bribery, this corruption, this favoritism is not because of capitalism. Its causes
You can’t buy experience and wisdom in the super market but the company of noble, learned and experienced people guarantees their free supply in abundance. Sage Charaka and other contemporary Rishis, being aware of unruly tendencies of the mind, laid
