Extracts from Letters written by Gandhiji to Uruli-Kanchan Workers Take only as many patients as you can attend to well. Our main object is to prevent disease. I would regard our treatment as perfect if we could teach the people
Whilst it is true that man cannot live without air and water, the thing that nourishes the body is food. Hence the saying, food is life. Food can be divided into three categories: vegetarian, flesh, and mixed. Flesh foods include
I have always been in favour of pure vegetarian diet. But experience has taught me that in order to keep perfectly fit, vegetarian diet must include milk and milk products such as curds, butter, ghee etc. This is a significant
The body requires other things besides milk, whole or skimmed. I give the second place to cereals , etc. These are used as the staple diet. Different cereals are used as staple in different provinces of India. In many places,
Use one grain at a time. Chapati, rice and pulses, milk, ghee, gur and oil are used in ordinary households besides vegetables and fruit. I regard this as an unhealthy combination. Those who get animal protein in the shape of
A correspondent is born in a meat-eating family. He has successfully resisted the pressure from his parents to return to the flesh-pot. “But”, he says, “in a book I have before me, I read the opinion of Swami Vivekanand on
I do not propose to take up your time by giving you my various experiences of vegetarianism, nor do I want to tell you something of the great difficulty that faced me in London itself in remaining staunch to vegetarianism,
Abstemiousness from intoxicating drinks and drugs, and from all kinds of foods, especially meat, is undoubtedly a great aid to the evolution of the spirit, but It is by no means an end in itself. Many a man eating meat
Where rice is the staple diet, and there are hardly other articles of food like wheat to supplement it, the miracle that unpolished rice can work within a few weeks of its taking the place of polished rice is apparent
I had faith in hydropathy and little faith in allopathy. The doctors could not guarantee recovery. At best they could experiment. The thread of life was in the hands of God. Why not trust it to Him and in His
