Diet by Sanatana Sai Sanjeevinis and other notes. 3

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Light and Love By Sanatana Sai Sanjeevinis not only meat, eggs and fish

but also refined sugar, sweets, chocolates (prepared from refined products),

bottled drinks, aerated water and juices with artificial additions are not

welcome. These products consist in "empty calories" for the body. The

so-called "juices" and "fresh juices" in packets have made from concentrate

and/or pure chemicals - they contain water, sugar, artificial flavor citric

acid, preservative compounds. Sugar by its properties is near to acid

what may damage inner tissues. The process of refining requires several

corroding chemicals have added to the sugar. The number of diseases, which are

caused/aggravated by sugar, would fill a book. Sugar unbalances human

being and can cause brainstorms. People suffering from psychiatric disorders,

depression, phobias, fears, paranoia, compulsive behavior and epilepsy must

omit refined sugar and other products containing much sugar from their diet.

Many people like to add sugar to their tea by eating sweets and chocolates,

gulping down colas and other bottled "soft" drinks. An eight-ounce "soft" drink

contains 8 teaspoons of sugar; one square inch of chocolate can contain up to 20

teaspoons of sugar. Besides sugar, 'soft drink' (Cola, Pepsi) contains

phosphoric acid, which is corrosive and prevents calcium from being utilized in

the body. It makes mush out of children's teeth and can actually retard their

physical and mental growth. Drinks containing caffeine (all colas) are

addictive and can ruin our kidneys. Several 'light' drinks contain no sugar but

other sweeteners, which are so dangerous that they require a statutory warning

in some countries (like cigarettes). Soft drinks are dangerous especially for

children.

 

Not welcome to healthy diet are packaged foods -chips, soups, sauces,

cornflakes. They all contain many artificial additions. Most additives are well

known carcinogens (cancer promoting). MSG (monosodium glutamate), which is

added to most of these foods, is responsible for nerve impairment, can, and

does retard mental growth of children. It is responsible for hyperactivity,

loss of concentration, headaches and neck pains. Cornflakes contain 80%

sugar and refined flour. The remaining 20% are chemicals with different c

names. "Vitamins added" is another gimmick in fact these are in a form, which

is impossible for our bodies to assimilate, and end up being treated as toxins

by human’s body, which of course means that one’s liver and kidneys take a

beating.

Nota Bene! Cornflakes and snacks prepared from natural products by soft

technology without chemicals and refined flour, sugar and artificial trans

-fats 'transforms' to healthy diet products. However, it is easier to produce

the junk food than near to natural dietary products. Especially in India there

are many plants as natural additions for health and taste what is possible to

add to this products.

Such is brief information by Sanatana Sai Sanjeevinis about danger for

health caused by junk food, what is popular among consumer-society includes

children. Swami in his Works has explained the same in more detail years ago.

It is interesting to underline that to the same position has reached the

modern science. The latest science news (Sept 2003 - May 2004) from different

groups of researches warning the parents that junk food is the source of

several diseases of children and adults. Click to the site

http://www.cspinet.org/ and be convinced of this truth through scientific

discoveries when Vedic's and Swami's wisdom is not enough clear. News in May

2004 what this site reflects on governmental level USA, Canada, concern to

refined sugar, flour and not healthy artificial additions in snacks and soft

drinks. 75 % of drinks and 85 % of snacks are unhealthful, declares CSPI

(Center for Science in the Public Interest). Another latest research is

about dangerous properties trans-fats what is widely used in cookies,

chocolates, trans-fatty margarines, snacks, and other kinds of fast foods.

Nutrition experts call for ban on hidden food villain. (Many analyses have

made by Elaine Turner at the University of Florida and by nutrition expert

Alice Lichtenstein of Tufts University in Boston. Yet in 2002, a US expert

committee charged with making nutritional recommendations concluded that there

was no level of trans-fats in the diet that could be deemed safe. In 2003, the

Danish government issued regulations slashing the amount of trans-fats allowed

in foods). Trans-fats are received by special technology - adding hydrogen

to unsaturated oils. The process rearranges the hydrogen atoms around the double

bonds so they are on opposite sides of the carbon chain. The artificial solid or

partially solid trans-fats (margarines) are formed. Such fats are preferred by

industry because they are versatile and last longer. Human body does not accept

trans-fats. However, they are world widely spread in our food. Small

quantities of trans-fats occur in meats and dairy products, but most arrive in

our stomachs through processed foods. Nutrition experts say trans-fats

are disastrous for humans' health. Whereas saturated fats raise both 'bad'

low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL) and 'good' high-density lipoproteins

(HDL), trans-fats boost LDL without affecting HDL, increasing the risk of heart

disease. Nutritional guidelines have long advocated cutting back on the

saturated fatty acids found in meat and dairy products, and boosting

unsaturated fats abundant in nuts, seeds and vegetable oils. For healthy life,

it is important plant oils rather than even butter. (Fatty acids are the

building blocks of fats, and the different types are distinguished based on

their chemical structure. All are made up of strings of carbon atoms with

hydrogen atoms attached to them. In saturated fats, each carbon atom is bonded

to as many hydrogen atoms as it can hold. Unsaturated fats contain fewer

hydrogen atoms, and one or more pairs of carbon atoms are linked by double

chemical bonds. A fatty acid with one double bond is called monounsaturated;

those with more than one are called polyunsaturated).

 

Additional brief information one can receive from 'Nature. Science Updates'

Article by Helen Pearson "Trans-fats come under fire." 19 May 2004,

http://www.nature.com/nsu/040517/040517-6.html .

 

Reference: http://www.saisanjeevini.org/frames.htm To be continued

soon. Namaste - Reet