Slow Collapse of American Intellectual Capacity
I won't touch Epstein Case, here.
Even though, this analysis applies especially to politicians, even an Average American should read it for their own consumption and solace.
They do believe in their politicians who are driving me nuts.
Stop believing them.
I think Elon Musk got the sense but I do not think his new party will succeed.
But Epstein case may be an imputeus.
This is coming from my long experience in Ceylon.
We tried but failed miserably.
I have chosen only the top level politicians.
Some senators are much worse when I see how they analyses events in Ukraine.
Zelensky is a drug addict, and believing him was the beginning of the end of American Hegemony.
Boris Johnson was a crook who cheated British on the case of Coronavirus spread and caused untold number of deaths of senior citizens who had done their duty in their time but unceremoniously perished.
I followed these episodes (both Coronavirus and Ukraine War) from the very beginning.
Russia started stupidly by believing that Woman Cheat of Germany.
President Putin has now gone back to sorting out "The Spy Cabinet" and prioritizing threats to him personally and the country at large. Of course, that includes interference in Russia by Mossads and Israel radicals.
I am looking at Americans with a Medical Brain (Out of Practice for 20 years).
American Meal (Pie)
Comparing an average American’s eating habits with ours is a revelation by itself.
An American eats a cow / bull every ten years.
In every American there are at least 5 cows in him / her by the time s/he is fifty.
If he has not got Mad Cow Disease or Alzheimer’s disease what s/he eats in the rest of his life is any American doctor’s guess.
He eats a pig every three years.
He eats at least 50 chickens and one turkey a year.
Some Americans of course eat much more than that.
My worry is every cow/bull s/he eats, at least an equivalent of 8Kg of fodder is needed
To support its life to obtain 1Kg of meat.
If an American stops eating 1Kg of beef s/he is saving about 8Kg of grain for a poor soul in Africa or Bangladesh.
Out of the tons of grain produced more than half (this ratio has gone up with the increase of Chinese Middle Class population) is spent on animal feeds and some American cows are better fed than African kids.
Only to be sacrificed as human food.
The current Pope should give due consideration to these facts and he should give a hearing to this fiasco and if the grain saved by saving the poor cows / or bulls is multiplied by the factor of eight by 1000 (the well fed cow’s weight), there is an excess grain in this world to feed everybody.
Equally FAO should take this into cognizant.
Looking by some of Ceylonese who lavish on food I cannot say there is any difference to American mentality, here in Ceylon (especially who visit here to take a break from the winter).
Coming back to a single meal, if an American or Western guy sacrifices a single meal a week, like our Buddhist monks who live on a single meal a day, we would be able to feed some hungry children in Africa and Asia without any problem or NGOs.
WHO also should take this fact to their cognizant.
I don’t believe in what our agriculture minister who says, that food prices have gone up because of biofuels.
The production of biofuels has being going on for over 25 years.
One should realize that the ancient man and his closest friend the dog survived on a single meal in spite of their aggressive hunting skills.
Eat less is my recipe!
Three rice meals a day is too much (unless one is in heavy manual labour).
I lost my weight only after I stopped eating rice.
I was like a pig when I was eating meat including pork!
Dhana and Single Meal
June 9, 2011 by asokaplus
Single most important principle in Buddhist Practice is its Dhana, the giving away ones possessions, without expecting anything in
return.
This is something of an antithesis to modern world, where, self, image and one’s possessions are dear and belonging.
How it is practiced by Buddhist monks is discussed here briefly to make a novice monk adopt to modern trends in a demanding world.
A Buddhist monk ought to be light in baggage and belongings.
A monk could have only two cloths (Chivara), one for wearing and another for change.
How it should be made is also under strict and elaborate instructions.
The eating habits are also under strict code of practice. I would discuss that in detail here. When it comes to eating, if one ignores the morning meal, which is very light indeed, a monk has to survive on a single meal, and that has to be taken in the early evening not late as is modern day practice.
You may wonder why I took some interest in this.
This examination is scientific in nature and if you need satire read
American Pie.
There are many reasons, and I would jot down only a few.
If a monk in the west practices this according to the strict code, it is a severe test for them, adopting this regime in the winter months.
Equally, I have seen some monks who try to adhere to the regime regimentally and religiously have ended up sick and malnourished.
If one becomes a Buddhist monk in adult life who had enjoyed somewhat a liberal life, changing to a single meal is a severe restriction on their diurnal habits.
One’s hormonal status, glycogen storage and status of the acid secretion in the stomach are habituated by ones daily routine (life style).
Changing this having become a monk should be done on a staggered basis giving time for the body to adjust.
Additionally, many of them do not have an understating of what is a balance diet.
What I stated above is obvious, but over years, I have seen many Buddhist monks suffering from food related diseases, especially diabetes mellitus.
This is something not welcome and unexpected for my own consumption. I have no intention of going into how one becomes a diabetic but for me somebody on a single meal getting diabetes mellitus was something of an enigma.
In this scenario, having thought a bit about it, I put the blame squarely on the layman.
Hope one is not amazed by this statement.
I would go into this briefly.
The upper and the higher middle class families are the ones who get quota for the Dhana for the residential monks in the city.
Their, idea of a meal is a lavish one.
Many of them are also diabetic because of their over indulgence.
The offer of Dhana is not done on a regular basis.
So on the day all the sugary, starchy, heavy but nutritionally unbalanced is offered. These Dhana days also happen to fall on weekends and holidays. The monk has no choice. They consume a diet heavy in carbohydrates which stimulate their pancreas to the limits on weekends and practically having an austerely meal rest of the week.
My theory of this up and down (erratic) stimulation of the insulin status, make them prone to diabetes in middle age.
This may be aggravated by lack of exercise and having sugary drinks (tea) to counteract the late evening hypoglycemia.
It is the duty of the layman to look after their welfare on a regular basis instead of lavish feast once a month.
Medical education is in its prime stage now especially on nutrition, the doctor should advise the upper middle class families what is a balance single diet for a monk who are practically at the mercy of the rich laymen who impart their inherent diseases to the clergy.
I would give some advice later regarding what to be offered and what ought not to be but for now let me digress a little.
I wanted to test myself whether I can survive on a single diet.
(For the record, I have not taken a single rice meal over 12 years and it is my health secret!)
I am more than convinced that it is possible and healthy.
But it takes time and it cannot be practiced overnight.
Prehistoric Man
Prehistoric Time -15,000 to 30, 000 ago
Having proved it to myself, I delved into man’s prehistoric period and how man survived in adverse climatic conditions and food scarcities.
Hunter gather never had three meals a day.
At best he had only a single square meal never three meals.
He mainly survived on big games in a community life style. He was
omnivorous and supplemented his diet with fruits and nuts. They
probably did not suffer from diabetes mellitus and his teeth were
strong, the enamel was thin but the dentin was thick, hardly had
caries. In times of food shortages and diseases there were signs of
enamel deficiency and bone diseases. These changes are recorded in
prehistoric fossils which date back to 15,000 to 30,000 years. Until
such time he became nomadic man milk was in short supply. Only
milk supply was maternal. The average woman was thin, and she
only had children once in four years or so. (It is now believed that
when a woman is thin -prehistoric women had to work hard, almost
equaling man’s efforts-like modern day women athletes the ovulation
does not occur. Additionally, prolong breast feeding without weaning
suppresses ovulation).
The man probably was sturdier and taller but comparatively thinner
since he had to work hard in hunting exercises. He probably lived a
shorter life than a woman (45 years), probably 35 years or so died
not of modern day diseases but by injuries sustained in hunting.
As far prehistoric man is concerned a single diet existence is not a
fantasy but a fact.
Paleolithic Period- 5000 to 13 000 years
Why man became an agricultural man is a mystery but available
evidence suggests dramatic changes in climate at the end of the ice
age and population expansion. With the emergence of the nomadic
life and mans entry into agricultural endeavours, he entered into a
sedentary life style.
However, he never gave up game and hunting until such time he
domesticated adequate livestock.
I would like to figure out that he was never a pure vegetarian.
The Asian wolf became associated with man around 13,000 years ago probably scavenging around man’s domain. The dogs and wolf can live on a single diet perhaps even longer and with the loss of mammoths and huge games, wolf also found living difficult but drifted with the man for game. His eating pattern, scavenging to begin with which our present day dogs inherit and illustrate by scavenging city dumps, is a reminder that even this period the man existed (present day practice of feeding a single meal to a pedigree dog which I don’t agree with) on a single main diet.
Even though, the agricultural practices were extensive, failure of crops were common phenomena, the demise of Maya Dynasty was a true example of catastrophe in history. In spite of extensive agriculture, food was not plenty and the food preparation from harvest to meal was labour extensive and man continued to supplement meal on animal and animal sacrifices. In this period population expanded probably because women becoming comparatively fatter and fertile (it is interesting to note that when a woman is too fat, like present day, fertility drops) and their body composition was ideal for reproduction. But with success there was impending catastrophe too. Famines were common due to reduction of crops, failure of rains or floods.
The man became shorter and less sturdy due to sedentary life.
We may be able to surmise that even in this period man ate a variable diet, characteristically a single meal which was supplemented by animal, fish, shells, fruits and nuts.
How and when man discovered use of salt and spices is open to question probably towards the latter stage of Paleolithic time.
Contemporary History from 5000 years to 2500.
During this period man was eating mixed diet containing milk (animal), sugar, salt, spices and animal and fish products. In spite of agriculture man never ceased to consume animal food, in fact it became a major constitute, judging by the tribal and religious practices from 5000 to 2000 years.
This is probably the period where single supper or a single meal changed to multiple meals especially in the upper classes but slaves and lower classes subsisted on an average single large meal.
The longevity and average health increased proportionately to double the prehistoric period.
Most of the sages and philosophers except hedonists lived an austere life while recommending the same to the masses.
2500 and the emergence of the Vegetarian Life
Even though some Jainers advocated vegetarian life, it was with the emergence of the Buddhists way of life in India that preceded the current wave of vegetarian (purported to be healthy) food fads.
Neither, Ten Commandments, the Jesus Christ’s Sayings nor Muslim Koran abhors sacrifices of animals.
The vegetarian life is comparatively new one probably only 2500 years old in the history of mankind and that is why, there are so many misconceptions.
Unlike monkeys, baboons and gorillas who are mostly vegetarians, from which man originated in an evolutionary point of view, the man had always been a carnivorous mammal.
2500 years is a small time in evolutionary time scale, a healthy dialogue on vegetarian diet is mandatory in the present context.
Our intestine and teeth bear different relationships to tree dwelling mammals, some are morphological in nature (genetic) and some are based on the diet (environmental) we eat.
That is the view I hold, an opinion not substantiated.
As far as the growth and development of children are concerned my view is that single diet is not adequate.
That is my entry point to discuss another point of view.
Can a young novice monk who has not gone through puberty be sustained on single diet?
This is a question I find it difficult to answer even thought I have stated my gut feeling above. This is another reason I defer on ordaining young underage monks (there are other reasons stated elsewhere) apart from psychological maturity to go on an austere life as prescribed by Vinaya.
Parents should have a critical say in these issues.
They should not plunge a young one into priesthood early in their tender years.
What should an average Dhana (Single Meal) should contain?
The physiological effect and the calorie intake of an average meal should last 18 hours. That is the time when the glycogens storage starts to become depleted. The diet should not have high sugary (desert) components that stimulate surge of insulin and late dumping syndrome due to insulin surge at the time of the meal. The vegetarian diet has no problem since the fiber makes the release of dietary sugar gradual.
The best desert for the monks is not ice cream but fruits.
Out of the fruits, the best is bananas which releases its sugars slowly without upsetting insulin surges and maintaining a stable blood sugar. Milk and curd are preferred, since they give a supply of fat for starving intervals.
Missing ingredient is nuts, not only they contain short fatty acids which supply nutrition for starving intervals and also healthy vitamins.
I would encourage the young monks to go liberal on fruits and nuts.
A supply of nuts (not aggalas and jaggery and sweets), fruits, papaw, banana and proper breakfast cereal containing millet (Kurrakkan) should be the breakfast for our monks.
Somebody should invest and develop a proper breakfast cereal for our kids (which can be used by young monks in their growing years) instead of foreign breakfast cereals. For the monks in the West a Buddhist dietitian with knowledge in Vinaya practice should investigate how their mid day Dhana should be constituted.
My belief is many of them are having an inappropriate diet for winter conditions. I hope a good breakfast cereal will emerge from the West for the monks on a meagre diet.
My prescription for priesthood is entirely different. When I see young monks in the TV giving emotional speeches rather than mature sermons, I become sometimes terrified.
Even my twilight years, I sometimes reserve my judgment or giving
One can do more damage by volunteering advice not appropriate. My advice goes as this. Let the young one follows a simple observational life. In other words learn to observe in a simple scientific and logical fashion.
Teach them science in simple terms as we tend to understand them from facts to fiction.
Children learn fiction better in the early years and they should be allowed to mature into scientific and factual way. They have the philosophical views embedded in their brains. Encourage them as much as possible.
This is why they always asks mommy why?
Encourage the philosophical views at an early age, even though we do not have ready made answers always.
Then only they should be allowed to think of a religion or religions in their life. If we are to stop, young from being taken into terrorist or religious cadres, that is the only way out left. That is the very thing we are not doing at present and ignoring. We are slowly encouraging and allowing young militants being made out of innocent minds because of our failure in commonsense education. Most of the religious and militant groups know this very well, the best currency to propagate their rigid views is the young mind.
Dhana and Single Meal
Single
most important principle in Buddhist Practice is its Dhana, the giving
away ones possessions, without expecting anything in return.
This is something of an antithesis to modern world, where, self, image and one’s possessions are dear and belonging.
How
it is practiced by Buddhist monks is discussed here briefly to make a
novice monk adopt to modern trends in a demanding world.
A Buddhist monk ought to be light in baggage and belongings.
A monk could have only two cloths (Chivara), one for wearing and another for change. How it should be made is also under strict and elaborate instructions.
The eating habits are also under strict code of practice.
I
would discuss that in detail here. When it comes to eating, if one
ignores the morning meal, which is very light indeed, a monk has to
survive on a single meal, and that has to be taken in the early evening
not late as is modern day practice.
You may wonder why I took some interest in this.
This examination is scientific in nature and if you need satire read American Pie elsewhere.
There are many reasons, and I would jot down only a few.
If a monk in the west practices this according to the strict code, it is a severe test for them, adopting this regime in the winter months.
Equally, I have seen some monks who try to adhere to the regime regimentally and religiously have ended up sick and malnourished.
If one becomes a Buddhist monk in adult life who had enjoyed somewhat a liberal life, changing to a single meal is a severe restriction on their diurnal habits. Ones hormonal status, glycogen storage and status of the acid secretion in the stomach are habituated by ones daily routine (life style).
Changing this having become a monk should be done on a staggered basis giving time for the body to adjust.
Additionally, many of them do not have an understating of what is a balance diet.
What
I stated above is obvious, but over years, I have seen many Buddhist
monks suffering from food related diseases, especially diabetes
mellitus.
Single Meal
Single
most important principle in Buddhist Practice is its Dhana, the giving
away ones possessions, without expecting anything in return.
This is something of an antithesis to modern world, where, self, image and one’s possessions are dear and belonging.
How
it is practiced by Buddhist monks is discussed here briefly to make a
novice monk adopt to modern trends in a demanding world.
A Buddhist monk ought to be light in baggage and belongings.
A monk could have only two cloths (Chivara), one for wearing and another for change. How it should be made is also under strict and elaborate instructions.
The eating habits are also under strict code of practice.
I
would discuss that in detail here. When it comes to eating, if one
ignores the morning meal, which is very light indeed, a monk has to
survive on a single meal, and that has to be taken in the early evening
not late as is modern day practice.
You may wonder why I took some interest in this.
This examination is scientific in nature and if you need satire read American Pie elsewhere.
There are many reasons, and I would jot down only a few.
If a monk in the west practices this according to the strict code, it is a severe test for them, adopting this regime in the winter months.
Equally, I have seen some monks who try to adhere to the regime regimentally and religiously have ended up sick and malnourished.
If one becomes a Buddhist monk in adult life who had enjoyed somewhat a liberal life, changing to a single meal is a severe restriction on their diurnal habits. Ones hormonal status, glycogen storage and status of the acid secretion in the stomach are habituated by ones daily routine (life style).
Changing this having become a monk should be done on a staggered basis giving time for the body to adjust.
Additionally, many of them do not have an understating of what is a balance diet.
What
I stated above is obvious, but over years, I have seen many Buddhist
monks suffering from food related diseases, especially diabetes
mellitus.
Nuts
I have excluded the most important Coconuts and Cocoa Nuts in this discussion.
Going Nuts
If one walks along the streets of Kandy or Colombo it is quite obvious how thoughtful all our road users are?
Both drivers and pedestrian are all in a mighty hurry?
It looks as every body is on a hitchhike and the situation is free for all.
Nobody seems to spare a thought for another.
It looks as if all of them have gone nuts.
Whether
they have gone nuts or not what I would like to talk about is not the
nuts and bolt inside one’s skull but the nuts that we eat with our
bites.
The
amount of money we spent to keep our spirits high on holidays may be a
bonanza for the exchequer but a bit of nuts with the spirits that one
consumes might keep one’s health in trim condition without any help from
the doctor.
All nuts come from plants and are cholesterol-free.
They
are rich in mono and polyunsaturated fats and help lower cholesterol.
They are high in folate (prevent hardening of blood vessels) and help
lower blood homocysteine levels and more importantly blood pressure and
thereby reduce the risk of heart attacks.
Soybeans
are extremely low in saturated fat and free of cholesterol. Consuming
25 grams of soy protein daily has shown to lower blood cholesterol.
Beyond cholesterol reduction, soy foods may favorably affect other risk
factors for heart disease (i.e., makes arteries more flexible).
Therefore, soy may be helpful for everyone, not just those with high
cholesterol. The B vitamin they contain helps the metabolism of alcohol
and that is an added advantage for the regular users (I mean alcohol).
Eating lot of meats with alcohol is a bit of a myth that we carry on from our early days.
Valuable
potassium, magnesium and copper are all linked to heart health and
probably nuts replace most of the salt losses that result from
alcohol-induced diuresis.
One
can go on and on, with the benefits of these plant products which
include various phytoproteins and phytochemicals (plant proteins and
plant chemicals) and the antioxidant Vitamin E (also heart protective).
If with the holiday consumption of alcohol cannot be cut down a bit of
nuts might save one’s nut in posterity. Additionally extra sweets that
one indulges in holiday time soy may be a blessing in disguise. Soy
foods may slow absorption of glucose into the bloodstream. May also
protect against damaging effects of glucose-induced oxidation, common in
people with diabetes. The only controversial area probably is its
content of phytooestrogens and I had the belief that it may in one-day
help very elderly with prostate cancer. Limited data available indicate
that it may be so. For the very old who enjoy a bit of spirits having
few soy nuts may be desirable after all.
Soy contains high
levels of the phytoestrogens (also known as isoflavones) genistein and
daidzein, which mimic and sometimes block the hormone oestrogen.
I
had my reservation of soymilk for children and this reservation may
have to be extended for girls going through their puberty because of its
high content of phytooestrogens. But that reservation cannot be
extended to the elderly females. Apart from some beneficial effects of
post-menopausal symptoms the soy protein helps conserve body calcium
better than that of animal protein. Compounds in soy called isoflavones
may simultaneously increase bone formation while decreasing bone
breakdown.
The next question is what the best nut for the purpose?
We have a narrow selection.
Peanuts,
cashew nuts and soy nuts are the ones available and unfortunately the
cashew nuts are not within the reach of our purse nowadays.
Since all the foreign nuts are expensive I go for the soy nuts.
It
is pertinent to talk little about the soy nuts since it is
comparatively cheap and readily available because of its high nutritive
value (proteins).
I had my reservation about soy because of high
aluminum content but 20 years ago when I was searching for the reason
there was no literature available. Now it appears the aluminum came from
the tanks (aluminum) used in soy preparation. It was common sense that
aluminum kitchenware is not safe but why the researchers kept this as a
secret for so long if not to kill the soy industry (just like the way
coconut industry was sabotaged) is obvious.
Now
that the bio-diesel is emerging, if the food industry is not destroyed
by it (now, before it is firmly established in the West) the price of soy nut is going to go up since production cannot keep pace with the demand.
Surely peanut price is going to go up.
I
am relaxing my reservation little by little. For children the best milk
is the breast milk and I have no reason to change that and I do not
recommend soymilk for children. There is concern for mercury in soymilk
and this is probably as a result of some contamination down the
production chain. There should not be any concern about soy yogurt. The
choice of nuts depends on the price and the availability. Cocktail of
nuts is probably the best choice. For price soy beats all the other nuts
in price. It is probably the best nut commercially exploited in our set
up.
All nuts have common features than not.
A
few differences set some apart from others. Walnuts are highest in
omega-3 fatty acids (also found in fatty fish), popular for helping
lower cholesterol. Almonds are good source of calcium. Brazil nuts are
high in the antioxidant selenium, linked to helping prevent some
cancers. Chestnuts have the least calories and fat, while macadamia nuts
have the most. Dry-roasted nuts have the same fat and calories as oil
roasted. Nut butters have the same nutritional advantages as nuts.
Peanuts
are similar to other nuts nutritionally, but are part of the legume
family, which includes dried beans and peas. Fortunately the high fat
content of nuts makes them very filling, helping curb hunger for long
periods of time. An ounce or two a day of nuts or nut butters is all you
need for valuable health benefits.
Health
Canada recommends we enjoy at least two plant-based, vegetarian meals
per week; hopefully nuts will find a place in your home.
2nd of January 2006
Coconut or Pol Kiri
Bashing
the coconut milk and coconut oil is the standard practice in Ceylon and
abroad. This has become a significant propaganda in America since there
is a lobby in America who benefits from this misinformation campaign.
They have done this little over a half century and now only our people are asserting ourselves.
My intention is to bash the nuts of these people who probably do not have nuts as strong as coconuts.
Before that I should briefly state few of the conditions that would likely to give a heart attack to a susceptible candidate.
There
are so many of these variables or the predisposing factors (that one is
likely or not to get a heart attack) pondering about them is actually a
research work shrouded in mystery.
It is difficult to decide
which ones is the most important and the most likely cause to increase
the incidence of heart attack in spite of the proliferation of the
literature.
Pointing a finger on one single variable especially on coconut milk is the most inappropriate.
It is not prudent in a scientific sense.
I have seen a debate on local papers (on coconut and its usage) but resisted any comments.
I thought the wiser counsel should prevail and avoid engaging in conflicting dialogue.
But
now there is another debate on local paper whether "plant can sense or
not" I think it is better to voice an opinion and arouse thinking habits
in the minds of young ones.
The plant can sense but their
sensing of events without a neural system is very advanced and they can
sense the time of the day and night more accurately than an electronic
clock.
They
use nano-particles and nao-systems to sense the ecosystem and weather
that now only we are beginning to discover the true secrets.
So any prejudice is not warranted.
The probable variables of the likelihood of getting a heart attack are more that 20 and a few of them are as follows.
1. The diet containing many refined sugars and starches
2. Consumption of western food
3. Consumption of animal foods
4. Lack of exercise
5. Smoking
6. Alcohol consumption
7. Hypertension
8. Diabetes mellitus
9. Adaptation of western life style
10. Stress of any kind from money to domestic to work
11. Lack of antioxidants in food
12. Lack consumption of fruits and vegetables
13. Factors that encourage thrombosis
14. Poor oral hygiene and related minor infections
In
this list I have no intention of putting coconut milk or Pol Sambol
since we eat a combination of food items and not single items like
fruits.
Furthermore, we eat after some preparation or preservation which increase or decrease the food value.
In the above list the least understood but the most common cause of heart attack is thrombosis.
It
is not possible to accurately discern this element (thrombosis) as at
present and that is the most common precipitating and damaging factor.
The research should be directed there but not on atherosclerosis.
My belief or the gut feeling is that the smoking is a major contributor (direct as well as indirect) to thrombosis.
In
some way vehicle exhaust fumes and air pollution also contribute
significantly to thrombosis by cell damage by releasing mediators
causing diseases known and unknown.
Air pollution has a major contribution to the increase in heart attacks in urban areas.
We
were made to believe that carbon is an inert particle and does not do
any damage and this view is fast changing in the West where research
indicates that the air pollution due to vehicle exhaust impair physical
performance in young children.
Winding, I should say, Maw-Kiri
(Breast Milk), Pol-Kiri (Coconut Milk) and Piti-Kiri (Powdered Milk)
kept me going on from my childhood to adulthood (in that order of
sequence of introduction of milk and milk products to me in my young
age).
I believe if not for the Pol-Kiri, I would have been dead
in my childhood (there were no antibiotics except, Penicillins and
Sulphas, those days) even following a simple diarrhea episode.
My mother's care and the Pol-Kiri, (Kiri Hodda) saved my life.
Probably my parents and my grand parents, too.
The
rich "polkiri hodi" given to us in the recovery period of any febrile
illness including diarrhea not only provided the energy (excellent
readily available energy of short chain fatty acids) and nutrition but
also the very valuable and non toxic antibiotics (some of the fatty
acids).
Polkiri was the essence that contained all the other antibiotics that came in the way of onions including garlic.
They were the basic antibiotics that we consumed in our childhood with no side effects of the modern antibiotics!
Any attempt at discrediting the polkiri or pol sambol is bashing at the wrong thing for the wrong reason.
It is an offense.
We
are what "we eat" and their consequences and putting the blame on a
single element of coconut milk is the lack of the ownership of one's own
responsibility for the mistakes of wrong habits (including smoking and
drinking) and of dietetics.
24th November 2006
Coconuts
One must replace "Coconut Oil" with "Pol Kiri" and "Pol Sambol".
However, Oil can be used on hair and skin liberally.
Abstract to begin with.
Coconut oil consist of Medium-Chain Fatty Acids (MCFAs).
It is a ready made energy source which can replace sugar (10 grams sugar = 1 gram of Coconut Oil roughly) weight for weight.
One does not become hungry.
It does not stimulate Insulin.
It gives more energy and it is not stored as body fat.
Body fat is long chain fatty acids.
It is useful both in Diabetes and Hypothyroidism.
In diabetes it replaces carbohydrates as an energy source, so Insulin requirement is reduced.
In
hypothyroidism since it provides freely available energy, it cuts down
the need for more thyroxin for metabolism keep warm. Not only that it
probably helps in hormonal balance (homeostasis) of the thyroid. Goitre
is rare in countries where coconut oil is the staple oil.
In pre-diabetes and early hypothyroidism it retards obesity due to above two actions.
I am not sure about its role in normal adults.
There is a caveat, if you take more “Oil” than YOU need for your metabolism, all the benefits are nullified.
One should avoid other fats including hydrogenated coconut oil.
For
thousands of years, coconuts have been a staple of tropical cuisines,
and those who followed a traditional coconut-based diet, such as Pacific
Islanders, had none of the heart disease, cancer, diabetes, or other
illnesses that plague modern America (at least until they switched to
Western oils and diet).
Coconut had a solid reputation in America in the first half of the last century, at
least for those who knew about, especially after it's benefits became
well known from soldiers in the Pacific Theater of World War II.
However, this all changed in 1950s, from “Three "Tragic" Research Papers", whose data were doctored to suit American Conspiracy.
One
lady researcher in America fed mice with hydrogenated (not pure coconut
oil) coconut oil and doctored a paper to say coconut oil is bad to
promote Pea Nut Oil. She committed suicide when it was widely known that
she manipulated the data.
In
1954, a researcher D. K. published two academic papers. The initial
research described the effects of feeding cholesterol to rabbits and
indicated that this may lead to the formation of blocked arteries and
thus contribute to potential heart disease.
In
his second paper he described the beneficial effects of consuming
polyunsaturated fatty acids from the oil of corn, soybeans, safflower
and sunflower seeds for the lowering, at least temporarily, of
cholesterol in the blood.
Although
many studies at a later time had also shown research to the contrary,
the mud stuck and by the mid 60’s the reputation of all saturated oils
in America had been destroyed.
Then comes the "Marketing Machine" of big business.
The
well oiled marketing machinery funded by the soy bean and corn industry
and supported by the American Heart Association was committed to change
the American Diet, calling among others, for the substitution of
saturated fats for polyunsaturates.
Today worldwide heart disease is still on the increase and obesity, linked to the “new” American diet is a major social problem.
All saturated fats are not created equal.
The
travesty of these actions was that one of nature’s most amazing
resources, tropical oils, and especially coconut oil with all its
functional, nutritional and pharmaceutical possibilities, has been lost
to modern medicine for decades.
Although saturated, coconut oil is structurally, pharmaceutically and behaviorally different to any other natural oil or fat.
Coconut Oil is one of the healthiest things you can put in [and on] your body!
What are some of the health benefits of coconut oil being reported?
Some
of the most recent research has come from people suffering from
Alzheimer’s disease, with reports of people improving or even reversing
the effects of Alzheimer’s by using coconut oil, as drug trials on
Alzheimer’s drugs continue to fail.
We have also seen a lot of
reports of coconut oil health benefits from those suffering from
hypothryroidism, as coconut oil helps boost metabolism and raise body
temperatures to promote thyroid health.
Restricting carbohydrates (do not eat RICE) and increasing coconut oil in the diet has also led many to report losing weight with coconut oil.
Candida
sufferers also report health benefits with coconut oil as research now
confirms, and those suffering from various skin diseases are also seeing
tremendous health benefits by applying coconut oil directly on the
skin.
The benefits of coconut oil for healthy hair are also well
known, and other healthy benefits of coconut oil included fighting off
bacterial infections and viruses.
Coconut oil (Pol Kiri with Divul was my prescription to Sanath when was in his peak)
is also increasingly being seen to benefit athletes and fitness
trainers giving them an advantage in sustaining energy levels longer
without drugs or stimulants.
To date, there are over 1,500 studies
proving coconut oil to be one of the healthiest foods on the planet.
Coconut oil benefits and uses go beyond what most people realize.
Research
has finally uncovered the secrets to this amazing fruit; namely healthy
fats called Medium Chain Fatty Acids (MCFAs), these unique fats
include:
Caprylic acid
Lauric acid
Capric acid
And
around 62% of the oils in coconut are made up of these 3 healthy fatty
acids and 91% of the fat in coconut oil is healthy saturated fat.
Most
of the fats that we consume take longer to digest, but MCFAs found in
coconut oil provide the perfect source of energy because they only have
to go through a 3 step process to be turned into fuel vs. other fats go through a 26 step process!
Unlike long-chain fatty acids (LCFAs) found in plant based oils, MCFAs are easier to digest
Proven Alzheimer’s Disease Natural Treatment
The
digestion of MCFA’s by the liver creates ketones which are a readily
accessible energy by the brain. Ketones supply energy to the brain
without the need of insulin to process glucose into energy. Recent
research has shown that the brain actually creates it’s own insulin to
process glucose and power brain cells. As the brain of an Alzheimer’s
patient has lost the ability to create it’s own insulin, the ketones
from coconut oil could create an alternate source of energy to help
repair brain function.
