Astrology  Chat  Cityscape  Classifieds  Entertainment  Health  Matrimonial 
Music  News  Panorama  Search  Shopping  Services  Tours & Travel  Home

Food Style Society Children Science & Environment Chennai Citizen Artscene HR & Education Home Decor Festivals & Religion Columns Mail us your feedback Recommend this page

Download Tamil Fonts

There are 50 essential elements that each one of us must get to be healthy. Take any one of them away, and we will eventually die for the lack of it. There are five widely separated groups of people, on planet Earth, who traditionally live well past 100 years. Studies have shown in each case these agrarian societies get all the 50 essential elements in their diets because of the unique circumstances of where they live. They also possess a pollution-free environment. This includes clean air and water, lack of pesticides and artificial fertilizers. Cancer and heart diseases are virtually unknown among them, as they live out their lives in seclusion. 

That being the case, for argument sake, it is not a very big stretch of the imagination to propose that most people on Earth are dying prematurely. It is a sad commentary that with all our resources, we have only gone down hill within the last 100 years. In 1900, cancer killed 3.3% of the population. Today it kills 25%. Heart diseases killed 14.2% in 1900. Today it kills 33%. Hundred years ago our diet was vastly restricted from what it is now. On the surface, one would think these figures would drop as our food production methods and distribution have improved. But the opposite has happened. Much of the blame lies with the way we process our foods and the importance we give them. 

Let us see what we need and how much we need : 

Published on 10^th March 2002

(Based on Net resources)