Supporting of Coonoor Publication
Milk, dhal, vegetables, greens and oils must be taken in the daily diet along with rice. This mixed diet must be balanced to give necessary quantities of heat energy, protein, vitamin, etc. Failure to secure this balance will result in thinning of the body. Deficiency diseases also will crop up. The significance of this balanced diet has been well brought out in the Coonoor publication. Two drawings given illustrate the whole problem graphically.
The calories of heat energy secured from a diet proportioned as above will be 2,600. This represents the daily need of the average individual.
Judged according to the balanced diet our food becomes deficient in many respects. Milk used is negligible. Some good soul, may he continue his rest in the eternally warm place, had imported coffee into unfortunate India! From the date onwards, this coffee established its supremacy over milk and reign, unchecked, supreme! The ravages of coffee and Tea (some call these Devils) in the realm of Health, cannot be described. To save this child ‘Milk’ (say Prahladha) from the Puranic Asura-like-Hiran-yaksha and Hiranyakasipu, (Coffee and Tea) an eleventh Avatara (incarnation of Lord) will have to descend on Earth. Nothing short of that may kill these. There are the poor who cannot afford fruits. What could they do? The ingredients available in these should be provided to them at a very small cost in some other way. There is an illustration in point. This also came out of the Research Institute.
All in One
Mix half pound of whole-meal wheat flour with one-third of the quantity of Bengal gram dhal flour and make the same into a paste using milk. It can be even buffalo milk. Add one and a half ounce of butter or ghee and a small spoon full of salt. Make into big sized paste balls. Flatten them and bake on the pan and on live charcoal. If the chappaty (flat bread) prepared like this is eaten with jaggery powder to make it tasty, the individual will get all the food he needs, balanced, capable of giving 2,600 calories of heat.
The chappaties prepared out of the above articles of consumption can be eaten in two or three instalments. This food will suffice to meet the bodily needs of even the labourers. During ordinary times, the cost of food will not be much. Groundnuts also can be added judiciously and properly in the diet to increase the protein and other contents to restore balance.
There are crores of people who on the average earn enough to satisfy their hunger. By using discretion one can easily satisfy the demands of a balanced wholesome diet.