In Kaliyuga Being a Vegetarian itself is not going to be easy.
Namaskaram to all.
I just spent my 2.5 hours to go through this interesting thread and I was wondering why our powerful vedic brahmins put us into a very inconvenient position when most of us surviving based on some holy principles. . Initially, I was surprised to read that our vedic brahman used to eat meat. During my stay in Bengal, my neighbor brahmin,would buy fish, chicken (with some asattu expressionoda), everyday. When I asked about this, he said, since the fishes were from Mother Ganga's (river) they treat this as prasadams, I asked about its neighbor which was lying near to the holy prasadam (chicken). He said, due to the taste of fish, they upgraded their system.
Eventhough there is no relationship (I find) between the vedic brahmana and most of the present world brahmin, i don't know why we should follow them and eat NV. I just can not digest (may need some digene tablet) eating NV, and doing sandhi, doing pooja, simultaneously. It may be because of the Belief and
internet-illiteracy:tsk:of the parents.
While we are discussing about killing animals for food, I wonder, why the food only restricted upto sadhu animals why not lion, tiger, bear, snake etc etc. I think in that case, there will be a different discussions - killing human for self-defense is dharma or not?
Is it oK if we kill defenseless animals for food?. Even in Mahabharata or BG, the killing is justified against those doing adharma or sides adharma. I also think, food is by choice by birth and taste. If somebody loves the taste, he can eat anything. It is matter of taste and cholesterol level.
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I have lived in Mumbai & Calcutta. But I never faced Anti-Brahmin sentiments as is in TN. Because of my friends, i used to visit some of the Tamil Forums. I feel that they are very angry with Brahmin because, according to them,TB brahmins twisted Hinduism by introducing countless rituals and prohibited anybody reading vedas, and even suppressed and not highlighted the fact that the Poonool is for 3 varnas. Because of their knowledge in sanskrit, they have bent the rules to show that they are superiors. As long as King, Prabhus were there, they were happy to share the power behind the POWER. Against their profession, they started to amass wealth. And too much madi acharam, made them more different group than the rest of the community. All in the name of caste. Once the king/Prabhu (Jamindar's) times collapsed, they became easy target and that is the only factor which is the lifeline of Dhravida கழகங்கள். I think these things only, separated TB from the rest of the T community. (I have read and understand from the discussion with some of the TB friends. So it may be researched further- if it is required). So, eating NV is not a bad idea to remain with other T community like inter-cast marriage, drinking, smoking etc etc to merge with the main stream. என்ன, by the time some of the other T community will become upgraded...
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This is different from the above 'feelings'. I am a fan of Dr Young. While "All the modern doctors" Sorry most of the modern doctors make a patient as a potential regular customer, I was so interested with this Dr Young who is the believer of Antoine Bechamp (1816-1908) (virus and germs are inside ones own body always) and who was opposed to the theory of Pasteur (virus or germs are coming from outside) who is the darling of the modern pharma MNC companies.
Mr Young is a micro biologist, he says, all the dis-eases are curable by food alone (suited me ), i enrolled myself and started to follow. He advocates complete vegetarianism. He has given examples of blood samples under microscope and advocates his findings and given the food characteristics, which may be of some interest. Since brahmin also evolved from (before)vedic times to present day, lets see what he got to say about the present human body.
He says, a dead body is acidic in nature. A living body should have good ph balance slightly more alkaline to kill the germs inside. So consumption of alkaline food that too plenty will only arrest the growth of all the bacterias (including cancerous ones which are already in everybody's body).
According to his information Estimated total death and percentage of total deaths for the 3 leading causes of death: US 1987
1. Heart Disease (total)- 35.7%
2. Cancers 22.4%
3. Strokes 7%
(I think now the percentage in US stays around 24% due to heart disease alone with 77years of life expectancy)
Accoding to his research we should avoid the following foods completely
1.Non Foods - Refined, over-processed and loaded with salt, sugar,coloring, additives and hardened (Hydrogenerated or partially hydrogenerated), veg oil, margarine, butter, and hidden ingradients in fiber and many essential nutrients- even the so called enriched one. (please refer to "sick and tired" by Dr Robert Young (micro biologist) for the effect of these foods).
2. Avoid Fruits
Because of sugar in fruit. It is the main fertilizer for the yiest and fungus in our body.
Exceptions - Lemon, Lime, nonsweat grape fruit (not orranges), tangerines.etc chemically acid at first but turns to alkaline ash after consumption.
3.Avoid Pork Beef Chicken Eggs Dairy Animal food in General
Whatever nutrients may be in animal food, it is not worth the stress put on the body and the energy required to extract them. Animal food is highly acid-forming and, as grown in the US, has high level of bacteria, Yiest/fungus, and associated toxins.
The methods involved in utilizing domesticated animals for human food involves a number of steps which increase the exposure of Yiest/fungus and their mycotoxins. He also advises to avoid all processed, Pickled and smoked meats such as sausages, hot dogs, corned beef, pastrami and pickled tongue or geet. Animal foods is a DEAD in every respect including a lack of enzymes. Alive with enzymes energy and phytonutrients, veg foods are far superior.
Here comes the interesting part.
Anatomically and physiologically, humans are just not carnivores or omnivores. Designed for the slow absorption of complex and stable plant food, the human digestive track is long and complicated. Unstable, dead animal food requires short, simple bowels, such as carnivores have, for minimum transit time. The intestinal flora of carnivores is different from that of human.Starch digestion in humans is quite eloborate, wheras carnivores eat little or no starch. If humans were carnivores, we would be sweating through the tongue instead of the skin. Flesh-eaters have teeth and jaws designed for tearing apart freshly killed animals. Only our hand tools allow us to override this obvious natural limitations, not to mention the fact that we get none of the nutrition that may be contained in fur (!) feathers, organs and bone, as do carnivores. Finally, we seldom eat raw flesh, but almost always have to cook it to kill parasites and morbidly evolved microforms, and to disguise it from the corpse that it is.
4. No commercially stored grains.
stored grains will begin to ferment in 90 days under most conditions. In a short time they will be full of mycotoxins.
5. No to all products containing baker's brewers yeast
Bread, muffins, pies,cakes,and pasteries.
6. No dairy products
8 ounces of milk have approximately twelve grams of lactose that can break into yiest and fungus feeding sugars.
7. Avoid condiments
Mustard Ketchup steak sauce soy sauce tamari mayonnaise salad dressings chili sauce horseradish and monosodium glutamate are no-no
8 avoid malt products
9 avoid edible fungi
10 Avoid alcohol
11. Peanuts and butter nuts to be aovided completely- it contains 26 different carcinogenic fungi.
12 corn and corn products
13 Smoking and chewing tobaccol
14 All caffeine products
15. Avoid Heated oils at all cost
16 Avoid all microwaved food - PERIOD.
WHAT TO EAT THEN?:typing:
Best foods
1. Dark Green Yellow Veg.
2. Sprouts
3. Carbohydrate Vegs, legumes and unstored grains (except corn)
4. Soy products for protein and other nutrients.
5.
Fresh Freshwater fish is OK. (i am thinking about bengal brahmin babus)
Because of potential pollution better to avoid ocean fish and under no circumstances eat shellfish.
Freshwater fish is great.
6. WATER WATER WATER WATER
7. Take daily Vitamin and mineral supplement
8, Fresh herbs and spices
I have extracted from the book Sick and tired. So doctors in our forum can throw more light.
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