Coconut Cookies

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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 dialoge.
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