CHAPTER 3
BAD FOOD FOR THE BODY
We have seen in that raw food is the best food
for the body. Raw food is full of fibre and hence it helps the digested food to
get out of our body as quickly as possible in the form of faeces. Having learnt
what the best food for our body is, I am sure that you will be able to tell me
what the worst food for the body is.
All foods that delay the passage of
digested food through the intestines are considered as bad foods for the body.
Food without fibre like bread and biscuits made of maida are bad foods. The
digested food gets stuck to the intestines and remains there for days producing
bad smelling gas. The food rots in our body unable to go out. Assimilation
process is still going on. If this rotten food is assimilated, you are sure to
get sick.
Food that is difficult to digest also has
to remain in the body for a long time leading to all sorts of problems. Due to
the temperature of our body, the food rots soon. That is why people living in
cold countries suffer from indigestion when they eat meat in India. They put
the blame on bad quality of meat. But the real reason is that meat takes a long
time to digest. Hence it rots in the body producing stomach pain and
indigestion.
Another favourite food of the people is
fried stuff. Food fried in oil is called fried food. Oil can reach temperatures
of 175 to 195 degrees. The food loses all its nutrients and becomes
indigestible after it is fried in oil. Also it is harmful to the body due to
the conversion of soluble fat into insoluble fat. This type of fat found in
fried stuff is absolutely a waste. And you will have to undergo some fever to
remove this stuff from your body. Hence whenever you put any type of fried food
into your body; remember that soon you will have to suffer to remove it from
your body. If you do not suffer from minor fever, then you will soon suffer
from some major disease to remove the dirt from your body.
Unfortunately, due to the experiments made
in the kitchen, we have stopped eating food in their natural form. Unless we do
all sorts of things to the naturally found vegetables and fruits, we are not
satisfied. It is horrifying to note that such a wonderful fruit like banana too
is eaten by many people only after coating it with red chilly powder.
Many of
the drinks we take regularly like tea and coffee are addictive. Many people
suffer from headaches if they miss their morning or evening cup of tea or
coffee. This shows that tea and coffee are bad drinks for our body. What about
the soft drinks? Most of the fruit juices available in the market do not
contain even a drop of fruit juice!! They contain artificial fruit flavours and
fruit colours which are harmful to our body. Many of us know this and yet we
are not able to keep our hands away from bottle of soft drinks.
What about salt we use in all our cooked
dishes? This salt is jut a chemical and is the cause of many of our diseases
like asthma, heartburn, stomach cancer, high BP, etc. Salted potato chips are absolute
poison. It is a fried food and also full of salt. No artificial salt can
replace the natural salt found in fresh fruits and vegetables.
What about sugar? People love to eat sweet
items. But sugar is also a poison which we intake daily. Sugar is the cause of
so many diseases like diabetes, obesity, gout, etc.
Nowadays we find people grabbing a slice of
bread for breakfast since they have not time to prepare any other dish. This
slice of bread is made of maida and has absolutely not fibre. After digestion,
it gets stuck to the walls of the intestine and causes constipation. You will
need tablets to remove this digested bread from your body!! Bread has no
nutrition at all. It just fills the stomach and that’s it!
I have no words to say about smoking, drinking
and taking drugs. Everyone knows that they are bad for the body. All these are
slow poisons and people who are addicted to them are slowly taking their body
to the grave. A grave bad karma is created due to knowingly harming the vehicle
called the ‘body’.
