Rice: Source of excessive carbohydrate

USA NEWS DESK: Dr. Bashir Mahmud Ellias What is the main obstacle of our country’s(Bangladesh) development ? If it is asked, certainly different people will give different answer. But if you analyse it from the view-point of medical science, then I will say rice is our worst enemy. Rice is a prominent food item which contains excessive amount of sugar (starch/carbohydrate). So it hastens our physical growth and we become adult (mature) very quickly. That’s why we get married promptly and start having babies speedily. Sometimes it seems to me that just a few days ago a guy who himself was a boy now he is completely exhausted being a father or grandfather of many children. That means eating rice is the root cause of population explosion in such a dreadful manner. If you don’t believe you can look on the rice-eating countries, like China-India-Indonesia-Bangladesh-Thailand-Japan-Korea, all of them are going through population problem in the highest degree. For the unimaginable explosion of population, government becomes a failure even spending billions of dollar annually to provide our basic needs like food, cloth, residence, education and health. Rice not only make us adult (mature) very quickly, but also rapidly converts us to old guys. As a result we become incompetent (and worthless) for any jobs and turn to a burden to the family (and thus to the society and country). As because in old age we lack energy to work and various diseases invade our body and mind. It is true that sugar (starch/carbohydrate) is the only source of our physical energy and we can not survive without it. But it is also true that excessive supply of sugar is horribly harmful for us. It can be reasonably compared to water. We all know that normal water is the root cause of our life and flood (i.e. excess) water causes our death. In our country almost ninety per cent of people found to have gastric ulcer who visit doctor. Excessive amount of sugar in rice causes flatulency (gas) in the stomach, gas formation tends to the acidity and acidity leads to ulcer. Perhaps nobody will deny the fact that rice is the root cause of diabetes (I mean from the imbalance of carbohydrate produced by rice in our body for many years). You will not find gastric ulcer and diabetes epidemic in those countries where (wheat) bread is the main food item. This poor country has to waste millions of dollars every year to import the medicines only for this two diseases. Some may say that most of the medicines of the two diseases are manufactured in our country. Yea, that’s right ; but raw materials, machinery, packing items all have to be imported. There are many pathological test done to diagnose these diseases and these diagnostic machineries and chemical reagents also have to be imported spending lot of foreign currencies. Yet we can ignore the squandering of invaluable time (working hour) in the doctor’s chamber, hospital and sick-bed. Not only these two diseases but hundreds of diseases can be named having link with the notorious rice. According to the physicians, there is no difference between eating a handful of rice and a handful of sugar. You may say that laziness is the main obstacle in the way of our country’s development rather than rice. Then I will say that rice creates laziness in our body and mind. The excessive amount of sugar/carbohydrate in rice is the real cause of laziness. As it is usually seen we become exhausted from least exertion, excessive amount of sugar in rice is responsible for this situation. As rice contains immoderate amount of sugar and after eating rice it is digested quickly and the principal ingredient (sugar) is quickly absorbed in our bloodstream and the sugar level suddenly become high, so we begin to feel drowsy, weak and lazy like a diabetic patient. You can say, Japanese, Chinese and Koreans are also rice eater and still they are not lazy (like us); on the contrary they are very much active and hardworking and they don’t become tired from little labor. Yea, in this regard they got some climatic advantage. They don’t sweat so much even during hard work because of their cold weather, as we do. As a result they don’t break-away easily from little labor like us. Moreover people of Mongolian origin (flat-nose) are anthropologically very much energetic and industrious. On the contrary we sweat much because of our hot and damp weather and that’s why we get easily tired, exhausted through losing essential mineral salts with sweats. So excess sugar in rice and excess sweating both are equally responsible for our laziness, debility and inactivity. Some pundits oppose that not rice but excessive eating of rice is injurious to health. But the problem is that rice has such a peculiar uncontrollable temptation to eat excess that few of us have the power to knock out such seduction. Contrarily it is very difficult for anybody to eat excess of wheat bread. As because rice is soft and wet (that’s why easy to eat) and wheat bread is hard and dry. Somebody may say that poverty is our most vital problem. If you think little deeply then you will realise that rice is the basic cause of our incurable poverty. As because if we fill our stomach with rice unto the nose, it will be digested and absorbed so quickly that within two hours we will become hungry again. So we have to eat too much and our expenditure on food purpose become high and it forces us to reduce expenditure on other fields (like health, education, infrastructure etc). Look at our physical strength or (slender) physical structure ; both are ridiculous, pathetic. Rice is responsible for this poor status. You will obviously understand the demerits of rice if you compare the physical structure of rice-eater Indians, Chinese and Indonesians with wheat-eater Arabian, European and American. You will certainly notice that players of rice-eating countries can not do much well in the strenuous games (like football, marathon, wrestling etc). The reason is same and that is if we eat rice our blood sugar level (energy) rises to the highest level for a short time and then it is again reduced to an alarmingly lowest position. On the contrary, if you eat wheat (bread) it will be digested steadily taking much time and that’s why your blood sugar level will not suddenly jump to highest level for a little while. As a result your calorie/ energy level will remain in standard position comparatively for longer time. Like rice it does not suddenly rise to the highest level and then fall to the lowest level. If we do not start eating wheat bread quickly instead of rice, then the millions of dollars our government is spending every year for family planning, will have to be continued for how many years Allah knows ! On the contrary, governments of the wheat-eater countries (like Middle east, Australia, Europe, America, Russia etc) are facing failure to increase their population even offering billion dollars bonus to their couples. Some analysts thinks that poverty and ignorance are responsible for overpopulation, not rice. If you look at the Arab countries you will see that their education rate is very low and still they are free from overpopulation. And there was no population problem even (a few decades ago) when they were poor. Some people think that illiteracy is the main problem in the way of our national prosperity. In this point we can say that poverty is responsible for illiteracy, over-population is responsible for poverty and rice is responsible for over-population. Recently many people are claiming that corruption is our main national problem. Think in this way that poverty-illiteracy-unawareness is responsible for corruption and in our country the primary cause of poverty and illiteracy is overpopulation. Population not being a blessing rather has become a curse and rice is mainly responsible for this kind of consequence. Some savant says that Japan is an overpopulated country and still there is no problem as their people are highly skilled. Really Japan is an exception and exception can not be taken as a formula. So we should give up the habit of eating rice from right now and start having wheat flour bread in order to build a healthy and happy nation. (Common oat (avena sativa) flour is more healthier than wheat flour. Because one of the greatest vitamines are usually made from its juice. I know this is a difficult job and it can not be done overnight but we must try our best. Another problem is that our women community are more interested in cooking rice than baking wheat bread. Because cooking rice is very easy but baking wheat bread is much hard. At the same time women should think that to eat rice we need to cook many delicious curry but to eat wheat bread these are not essential. Only potato fry or pulse’s soup is enough. At this cost we can buy seasonal fruits with the money usually spent for vegetables. That would be also better for our health. As the vegetables price is sky-high, it would be wise to consume one kilogram fruits in lieu of three kilogram vegetables. As we know vegetables contain less nutrient and yet most of them are spoiled by heat during cooking. To save our women from the hazard of baking wheat bread, the owner of hotel, restaurant and food industry can play a vital role. They have to give up the habit of preparing incredibly small and thin bread fried with six month old burnt oil and rather have to begin making mega-size wheat bread like middle east countries, one of which is enough for an entire family. Moreover we can make wheat bread machine available in every family like Europe and America. Some may argue that wheat flour is more costly than rice, but at the same time they should also consider the facts of various diseases like diabetes and premature senility. According to the experts, wheat flour’s price can be easily reduced by mixing corn maze with it. We should also think about huge amount of water is needed to produce paddy (rice), which will be a real problem in our country in near future (also for many other countries). On the contrary so much water is not necessary for the cultivation of wheat. To acquire hundred per cent benefit from eating wheat bread we have to consume unfiltered natural flour ; because the food companies (market packed flour) greatly reduce its nutrient quality by excessively straining it (to make flour white). So our request to the government is that govt. should encourage people to produce and consume wheat every way and discourage the rice. If it is necessary we can depend on and produce genetically modified (GM) wheat. As GM food has gained acceptance in Europe and America, then we should not remain hesitated about it. Moreover our holy Prophet (pbuh) has given his opinion in favor of genetically modified (GM) food. In one of his sayings he said, ‘in the last age there will be superabundance of food grains’. That means rice, wheat, onion, garlic, fruits, vegetables etc of mega-size will be invented and people will be obliged to consume those (to get ride of famine). (Dr. Bashir Mahmud Ellias is Author, design specialist, and Homeo consultant E-mail : [email protected] Website : http://bashirmahmudellias.blogspot.com).New Nation