Mrs.Sushila's advise of not cutting down entirely on sweets & fats is absolutely right. Cutting down entirely on the same would surely have adverse effect on your body system.
I think our sedantry lifestyles are the cause of our woes...added to that is the influx of Western media invasion with its concepts of emotional dieting, need for being anoerexic....Atkin's diet by the way has been rejected the work over..so wakey..wakey..rediff...better research you articles before you advise poor denizens or citizens.... I think its good to be conscious though, and thank you for bringing that to the fore....its just that awareness levels among people are so poor that by the time they realize its a kaput time of no return or too much hard work besides the added responsibilities... The key is to understand that our bodies can eat anyhting but it needs to be burnt off...digested..most of Indians do not even know how to eat properly...look at the way people eat their meal as if they were in a jiffy all the time..and as if there is some sort of food insecurity prevailing....chew man...it makes for less effort while being digested....and also gluttony is a crime...no one got satisfactions..in the end I mean..by being gluttonous or eating a lot....eat right...give your body what it needs..and for God's sake EXERCISE..
Always everyone talks about without telling what to eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner for veg and nonveg. It is better to give menu with options that way it is usefull for a common person to fallow
The main issue of diet and nutrition is AWARENESS but sadly diet and nutrition is such a neglected subject of study that the doctors specialists and surgeons do not study for more than a single semester on nutrition and diet but go thro a course of nine to thirteen semesters of education and qualification. Is it true that the majority have an absolute trust on these doctors whereas the dietician is actually the person they meet on their way out.Take a look at the major hospitals and the place where the hospital dietician sits if at all they have one. Unless we give diet and nutrition a top priority and preventive health care takes priority over curative therapy we are bound to suffer.Not only is prevention better than cure it is safer and less costly. A recent book currently available in book stores titled "what your doctor does not know about nutrition may be killing you by Dr.Strand M.D. is worth reading No I didnt write the book
RE:do or diet
by pankaj arora on Sep 03, 2004 09:21 PM Permalink
Absolutely...diet, i.e a healthy diet is the way to go.We always have a choice...to go for the fruits in our b'fast or for the quick bite of bread in any form along with so called healthy fruit juices flooding the market which prettily sits on our dining tables...(all are synthetic...directly affects the number of free radicals attacking our our body.)
Anti-oxidants which our body requires are always less for fighting the free rads that're all the growing with the stress, polltution and improper fooding habits.
Get good food supplements and watch your diet,exercise and see your body changing into a ever youthful,energetic state.
You choose....in our youth we spend all our health to make wealth and in our old age we spend all that wealth to regain our lost health!!!
Your story on a protein diet is accurate. Our bodies are not designed to store protein. We need a daily intake of protein (10 gms of protein for every 10 kg of body weight). Sprouts,dals are a good source of protein for a vegetarian diet.
Yes Ms.Sushila; I fully agree with you. I have been praticing this way since 3 decades.I always tell patients 'if you do not cut on sythetic (crytaliine)sugar , you will never lose weight". and that works for grossly over-weight (obese) for a long time 7 many times permanently. Thanks for the your article. Dr.Shafique Pathan.
Much of Western diet is pure garbage.Oh yes,US,Europe and Australia,haul in almost all the gold and silver in Olympics.The diet part of the story therein is very short.It would be futile to argue on those lines.What is very significant for every Indian to know is that nearly 36% of US and 30% of European populations are grossly overweight.Another 30% are borderline, tottering with fluctuating waistline.Thus the normal girth is possessed by a minority in these societies.That is the measure of success of the Human-Engineered Food industry of the West which has permanently changed the human anatomy by letting out the genie of corpulance!Do we want to replicate that?Then go ahead and follow their wonder diets.Coming to Indian diet, the truth is much has already changed, for the worst, in urban middle-class homes.We can see its effects already by visiting big corporate hospitals in all major cities.It is only the urban poor and rural middle-class and poor who still follow the traditional Indian regional diets.And they are relatively unaffected by the scourge of the elite obesity-sedentary lifestyle induced diseases.But India is sitting on a health time bomb much as the West.
RE:Do or DIET!
by Mohd Azad on Sep 03, 2004 09:59 AM Permalink
Murli, you have written very right. This has become the trend in India that whatever US people do is right and they want to imitate them in every aspect of life, be it food, cloth, even the culture and traditions. We'll have stop it and retain our own culture.
Re: RE:Do or DIET!
by sheila somera on Mar 01, 2009 10:10 PM Permalink
yeah. retain ur culture but imitate them to remove poverty, slums , and advance in scientific research. as doctors we r only following the west whether we obtain degrees fr there or study only in our universities. but in practice , instruments , materials we use we follow them.it's to comment on them but see most of our diets in villages are rice , dal , achars , chutneys.
