Raw food slowly picking up in Kerala, India

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Dear Rawfood Friends

As you might be knowing know India is a country where a large section

(particularly the Hindus in N.india) are against cow slaugher and are

vegetarians, partly due to the belief that we are not supposed to kill other

creatures because in the other births we could be reborn as any creature and

therefore one should desist from sins of hurting other creatures.

But in Kerala state of India where the population of 30 million people (With

22% christians and 12% muslims) are mostly non-vegetarians and in the past

two decades fast food, chicken corners etc and eating out habits have become

common. Also we see a spurt in hospitals as diseases like cancer, heart

problems, kidney etc have also gone up tremendously. The poor cannot afford

speciality treatment in private hospitals and there are so many families

spending all their money for treatment of a kin. When they go bankrupt many

families commit suicide and we see very high rate of suicide in Kerala, and

many are commiting suicide along with whole family - mother, father, small

girls and boys. The modern allopathic medicine with costly pills, diagnostic

techniques etc is no solution to medical problems in our state as they can

be afforded only by the rich and upper income groups.

But Natural hygiene and raw food is a great solution to these problems, not

only in curing the ill, but also in preventing occurance of chronic

diseases. And it is cheap. You don't need to spend money on medicines.

However there is pressure from the drug lobby and allopathic doctors against

spreading of natural hygiene. However activists are trying to spread the

message about the wonder of rawfood among the people

Regards

Sreekumar B