SCARECROWS IN MEDICINE : -


Medicine has successfully erected some really frightening scarecrows which prevent people from feeding in the field of health. The scarecrow does not allow birds to alight in the field and eat. In a similar way scarecrows in medicine do not allow people to eat happily. Cholesterol is one such and by far the biggest scarecrow erected by medicine. Although there is no substantial proof that cholesterol is indeed the culprit in bringing in heart attacks medicine declared it to be the rabid dog so that it was easy and moral to kill it. Cholesterol levels are different in different races. They are different at different times of the day and night. If cholesterol level is found high at the time of heart attack it does not necessarily provide the reason for the heart attack. It is like saying that riot police are found in large quantities at the time of riots therefore they cause riots. Such perverted logic of medicine has helped in developing an industry which provides anti cholesterol drugs. Salt is another scarecrow. Sugar is the third. Everybody is interested in telling people what they should eat and not HOW they should eat. Eating has to be a meditation because we are what we eat. The food which goes in stomach actually gets converted into our body. We have to eat available food which is as close to nature as possible. There should be minimal processes in between. All advertised food should not be eaten because the very fact that it is advertised means it is not necessary. Nobody advertises bananas. But wheat floor with added bran is advertised. Wheat itself has enough bran no one advertises wheat. Present civilisation has four types of food available. First is natural food which can be eaten as found in nature. Second is civilised food which includes all cuisine in the world. Third is advertised food which is advertised for some extra qualities unnecessary for human consumption. Last is things drunk or eaten which are not food at all but some synthetic chemicals masquerading as food. Last two items should not be eaten as far as possible. We must eat at the time of eating and not think, or watch Television or read news paper. All attention must be directed at our tongue and all taste and flavour fully savoured before it enters the stomach. Stomach should get food and tongue should get the taste and flavour. We must only if we are hungry. Desire to eat food is not necessarily hunger. Every dinner can be our last dinner on this earth. This remembrance in itself will make our eating that much more intense. All sedentary people who do not use their bodies to earn their daily bread should not eat at night. The right to eat at night only belongs to people who work with their bodies throughout the day. If we eat like this we need not be worried about scarecrows which have made life miserable for millions of people around the world.