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The food for the prisoners in Southern jails is the Ragi Ball. Let not the readers feel pity for them. So long as this Ragi Ball does not grow hairs and teeth (stones), the ragi cater needs no pitying! From the point of view of nutrition and food economy, only those who do not eat it have to be pitied. It is said that in the good old days, in the pre-prison reforms era, this ragi ball, before its journey from its place of birth in the kitchen, to the prisoner (some say political) plate used, to age like this, grow hair and teeth!

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Animal protein

We have said before that animal protein is superior in quality for the building of the body. To secure this it is not necessary to take to non-vegetarian diet. There are other means of getting this. The grain protein though numerically high cannot compare to the animal protein. The grain protein when actually transformed into amino acid takes numerically lesser index. Hence the necessity to supplement by animal protein. Milk completely do away with the necessity of a non-vegetarian diet as the protein it contains is only animal protein. We have already mentioned that the hand-pounded unpolished rice has got a great quantity of amino acid.

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Milk or Medical Bill

On what do you want to spend your income? Ten rupee could be saved from the medical bill if a rupee is spent for milk. This fact is easily verified by experience. Dietetic science also affirms this truth. The diseased stunted youths, should ponder over this. Those who are ill, not all of them suffer from poverty!

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Mother’s milk is the best for the child. This is very essential till the teething is over and the growth is sufficient to masticate and swallow the principal diet. After eight months or one year of the birth of the child, the mother’s milk should be supplemented by cow’s milk. Even after fifteen months of the child’s birth some mothers have got enough milk generated to feed the child fully for an efficient and healthy growth. It is not possible to find a substitute for mother’s milk. In many cases poor India can afford and have only this.

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The quality of the milk depends on the cow from which it is drawn. The protein, vitamin and fat contents will change according to the feed of the cow. Many purchase milk for some purpose or other. There is no guarantee that full benefit will result. If the cow from which it is drawn is poorly and inadequately fed and maintained, the milk have only the name and the quality will be poor. There are starved cows and stingy cowherds.

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Animal flesh

Protein is the ingredient most needed in food. This has to be obtained through staple articles of diet. Rice is mainly consumed by the South Indians and Bengalis. Protein is the lowest in machine Rice. This available quantity of protein must be supplemented if health and longevity are to be secured. The poor should not also be taxed with any great increase in cost. Bearing this in mind we have been trying to find ways and means for augmenting the protein content in the Daily diet. The protein increasing factors are hand-pounded rice, whole-meal wheat flour, millets and pulses.

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Unreasonable habits

We see many habits prevailing with us. There are such habits which are meaningless and devoid of any benefit but harmful. These are chiefly found in our daily diet.

The Tobacco is just having its innocent growth in nature. We take the trouble to bring it, roll it, inhale its smoke, acquire ‘tobacco hearts’ and suffer. Why this suffering?

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Strength of an Elephant

Is the elephant deficient in strength? The longevity that is of the elephant, which animal or man can boast to have? The carnivora does not certainly claim to have this longevity. The food of the former is only leaves, plants, creepers and grains! The lion may have sporadic ferocity. It can win the fight only when it jumps on the elephant from behind on its back. It can never face the elephant and fight. It will be crushed to pulp. Consider whether the carnivora apart from its outbursts of short ferocity and violence, have the endurance for sustained labour or utility to the human race!

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The talk of Vitamin

The sound of Vitamin one hears everywhere. Even the unknown vegetable products are raised to dignity by the use of this term. This term has become more fashionable than fashion itself. With the advent of a great soul, his name comes to be attached to all sorts of things. His principles and practices in life may be diametrically opposed to the articles to which his name is attached. But what does the sordid being who wants to make rupees annas pies out of everything care? Thus you hear of Gandhi Astrologer, Gandhi beedi, Gandhi Restaurants and what not. When the west boosted the term Vitamin, everyone began to echo the word and now you hear that name attached to all things deserving and destroying. You hear of Vitamin Greens, Vitamin Vadai, Vitamin seeds, Vitamin Chutney, etc. It is all one vitamin fashion. But this stops with this fashion only!

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Next to protein comes fat. It also should get a prominent place in the daily diet. Its needed proportion in the daily diet does not seem to have been fully investigated. One should take in at least one and a half ounce of fat.

The diet of an Indian is very deficient in fat. The Tamilian in this respect is very much worse off. The fat is used in the body for various purposes. The absence of fat will also result in the loss of various essentials for the up keep of the body.

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