Diet by Sanatana Sai Sanjeevinis and other notes. 5

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This part is about refined food products. In refined products, their

natural state of the products have been changed by removing the nutrients and

adding several chemicals that the product's life would be longer and taste

better. Among these products is refined oil. Studies have shown that the

chemicals added to the oil during refining may promote cancer. Such oil is no

better than butter and ghee in preventing heart disease. Unrefined oil is a

much better, be it bet mustard oil, coconut oil, sesame oil, olive oil, etc.

Sea salt and rock salt was provided by nature and that is the way they must

be had. Is there a need to add iodine to salt at any case? "Commerce

scientists" have declared that thyroid problems are a result of a lack of

iodine. In fact, those thyroid diseases have increased today in spite of the

most thyroid patients answered that they have been using always refined with

iodine salt. Salt is an essential product for human body, but it has to be

under control as senses. Iodine salt one can use as medicine, but in some

cases. Refined salt has more than natural one a property of water

retention. It causes that tissues to become clogged, capillaries, arteries,

and veins to get choked and leading to high blood pressure. High blood pressure

patients are given diuretics. However, such organism has several acid waste

products what irritate skin after taking diuretics. This is the waste products

which trying to excrete itself through the skin. Many such patients also end up

damaging the kidneys. Wheat and rice are nutritious as widely spread

food. When they are refined all the goodness is removed, but in such state

flour and rice can last longer on the supermarket shelf. Flour with artificial

vitamins and other additions cannot be fully absorbed by body. Healthy diet

product is whole-wheat. It is quite easy to make bread with whole-wheat flour,

without preservatives, eggs, color, milk. Brown, unpolished rice is

nutritionally sound for them who can digest it. (Many people today are

allergic to wheat and others who convert every grain of wheat they eat into

mucous which causes several disorders like chronic sinusitis, pus in the ears,

bronchitis, etc). By Sanatana Sai Sanjeevinis there is an advice to

remove cooked tomatoes from food, as they turn acidic. Healthy food is ripe

uncooked tomatoes. (In India, tomatoes have entered into diet some hundred

years ago and replaced tamarind). Tamarind has a unique quality of binding

fluoride and removing it from body thus preventing fluorosis in populations

where concentration of fluoride in drinking water is high. By healthy

diet customs, by Swami there is no place for alcohol, drugs, and tobacco

products for people who are on the way towards spirituality. "Research

has revealed that non-vegetarian and alcoholic addicts are more prone to heart

ailments than vegetarians. If the vegetarian food that is consumed should be

balanced and wholesome, it should contain liberal doses vitamin C and vitamin

E, which are available in vegetables like carrots. The presence of these

vitamins prevents hearts ailments in a large measure.... Birds and beasts do

not suffer from cardiac and digestive ailments to which man is prone. The cause

can be traced to the natural food, which animals consume, unlike human beings

who consume all sorts of fried and cooked items of food being slaves to the

palate. Modern man consumes many artificial foodstuffs and variety alcoholic

drinks, which are injurious to health... When man observes moderation in diet

he can be saved from most diseases." (Sri Bhagawan Sathya Sai Baba. "Sathya Sai

Speaks." Vol. 27, Chapter 3).

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

soon

Namaste - Reet