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Misrepresentation of food

भाद्र ११, २०८१

अरुणा उप्रेती

डा. उप्रेती जनस्वास्थ्यविद् तथा लेखक हुन् ।

Misrepresentation of food
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Highlights

  • In any case, it cannot be considered that eating potatoes can benefit the body. Voices are being raised against the company that makes patru food in America. Food is not just food. It is also connected with culture, religion, lifestyle.

Now a new commentary on nutrition and food is being sought in Nepal. "Food is not bad or good", "any food is eaten in moderation", "there is no such thing as junk food, all food is healthy" etc.

A food research officer has gone so far as to say that 'noodles are high in calories, salt and sugar, giving them enough calories for poor, malnourished children in Nepal.' has issued.

Cigarette companies also used to advertise that 'cigarettes are good for health' in the 60s and 70s. So much so that doctors used to advertise in magazines asking 'Which brand of cigarettes do you like?' There are also those who say, "No food is harmful if you eat a little." Considering the health of children in particular, I say - infants and two-year-old children should be given a little sour, sweet food? Is it then not harmful to give 'a little' cigarettes and tobacco?

In any case, it cannot be considered that eating potatoes can benefit the body. Voices are being raised against the company that makes patru food in America. Food is not just food. It is also connected with culture, religion, lifestyle. Before a human being is born, the fetus in the mother's stomach also needs healthy food. If the mother eats bad/unhealthy food and the mother becomes malnourished, anemic, the baby is also born weak. That is why it is said that pregnant women should eat healthy food.

The World Health Organization has defined what 'Patru Khana' means junk food. The magazine called 'Lancet' is a reputed name in the field of medical science. It has published an article on 'Patru Khana Companies, Policy and Political Complexity'. It is about how children in India, Brazil, Mexico 'demand' similar food after an advertisement for feeding Patru food. Parents meet their demands.

Unfortunately, children gain weight, develop diabetes at a young age, and have problems with fat accumulation in the liver. A pediatrician named Robert Lusting has launched a kind of "war" against the company that makes "Patru Khana". The doctor first studied science, and then studied medicine. After that, he became a pediatrician for 20 years and treated obese, diabetic, and hypertensive children in America. What he experienced while being treated in this way was not to treat the patient, but to prevent the patient from becoming sick.

He wrote the book 'Metabolic', asserting the fact that 'unhealthy stomach' is the root cause of many diseases in the body and junk food is unhealthy food. There he shows how junk food can deprive us of health. He says – 'Drugs given for chronic diseases do not cure the disease, they only cure the symptoms. The habit of eating junk food is as bad as alcohol. Junk food companies, big pharmaceutical companies and the government that ignores public health are in the same place. This book, written considering the background of America, is very important for countries like Nepal and India.

So we have to change the way we eat. One way to do this is to make food as natural as possible for the community and the individual. It will help fight epidemics like covid by increasing the power to fight disease. Lusting wrote in the book - "During the Covid epidemic, Dr. Fauci did a great job. But I am angry with him about one thing. He never spoke about the importance of food in fighting the covid infection. If he had spoken about it, there would have been a very positive impact on the community.'

प्रकाशित : भाद्र ११, २०८१ ०६:३४
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