By Dr.Gauthama Bhat, Kulamarva
MRCS,MS(ENT),DNB
( Vienna,29-09-2007:Internet communication has
permitted every one easy communication world wide.
The communication line is open to the informed and
uninformed as well as semi informed. When informed
and uninformed use the opening for interaction the semi
informed use the life for interruption and causing
confusion.The targeted audience should be careful. It
should first identify the aggressive intruder and his
intentions.Undesirable elements should be excluded
as junk mail. All questionable, should be segregated
until they are validated. It is in this context,I am
publishing the comments of Dr.Gautham Bhat,my
guest author,who is bombarded by a questionable
intruder on the organic acidic ill effects of natural
fruit diet,without undergoing an =eating school=)
Fruits
Eating lot of fruits is good for health, I support this.
But to say we don't know how to eat it fruit is wrong.
The intruder tries to say that to save fruits from
encountering acidic environment of food eaten earlier,
saying we have to eat fruits before meals, it is wrong.
If we give it a thought, when we don't eat food,what
is left in the stomach is Acid!! The normal HCl, with
a pH of approximately 0.9 !! I don't think any acid
produced by putrefaction can be as strong an acid as
after all they are all organic acids and are less stronger
as compared to inorganic acids like HCl. So that theory
goes into dust.
If it is said that the bread can coat the intestines
and block the absorption of fruits, I differ with it. The
entire surface area of our absorptive surface in the
intestines if displayed on a surface is comparable to
a football field area!!How many bread blocks will we
have to eat to cover all of this area and block the fruits
from being absorbed?
Fruits though important for health, if taken alone in an
unbalanced way, will only cause harm. I'll just give a
personal example of this. When Ashay,my 18month old
son,was weaned off his mother's milk, we were giving
him fruit purees/pulp as he was very fond of them. After
a while, we started realizing that he was not getting
enough in the way of nutrition and was growing
thinner! That's when we started feeding him
carbohydrates and fats and milk, causing him gain
weight afterwards.Fruit by itself doesn't have much
"food" value speaking medically. It mainly provides us
with the volume and fibre, essential vitamins and
minerals and hardly any fat or proteins. Therefore,
it can't be used as growth building blocks in our body.
If we understand the purpose of the fruits existence,
they are there with their own purpose.They are there
to attract other species of "mobile" animals so as to
propagate the seeds and advance in nature the
particular race of the plant. The plant has only one
intention in producing the fruit and that is to
propagate its own family. It doesn't care for our
nutrition. In the bargain, it gets its seeds dispersed
and propagates its own family. It is a way of
paying us the dues for propagating its family.
Roots tubers and seeds
The fibres,tubers and roots are different.They are
rich in carbohydrate and proteins and are
good in the form of food. That is why, rice and
wheat and potatoes are great food based on which
nearly all our population of six billion plus
survive.Yes there are advantages in eating fruits
as everyone knows. Apart from providing us with the
essential 'micro nutrients' they help us reduce the
consumption of "Unnecessary food" If we are living
like animals like Tiger/Lions who don't eat more once
their stomach is full, we don't have to follow any of
these fads. It is our different way of "modern" living
which is making us hungry for such information
hoping to rectify our years of wrong doing by following
some small tips. By nature we as humans tend to find
comfort in things which says that =if only we were to
do and act as X way rather Y way we also would have
been equally good like others. In essence, majority of
people who do not have healthy life style tend not to
agree with their wrong habit and tend to seek short cuts
or easy solutions for things the only solution is nothing
but well thought out hard work,pure and simple. (end)
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