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DIET AND DIET REFORM
DIET AND DIET REFORM
Table of Contents
PART-I
- SECTION I: General
- My Faith In Vegetarianism
- The Moral Basis of Vegetarianism
- Diet For Brahmacharya
- Green and Dietetic Ahimsa
- 'Food Faddists'
- Unfired Food Experiment
- Unfired Food
- Unfired Food
- Unfired Food
- National Food
- Minimum Diet
- For Four Rupees A Month
- A Talk to Village Workers
- Minimum Diet
- Plea for More Fruits
- Carrion-eating
- SECTION II : Rice, Wheat and Gur
- SECTION III : Soya Beans and Ground-nuts
- SECTION IV : Green Leaves, etc.
- SECTION V : Milk
- SECTION VI : Ghee and Oil
PART-II
- SECTION I : General
- Precautions Against Ills of The Season (M.D.)
- Dietetic Changes (M.D.)
- Mortification of The Flesh (M.D.)
- Vitamins - I (P. C. Ghosh)
- Vitamins - II (P. C. Ghosh)
- Physiological Basis of Nutrition
- Are you acid? (H. C. Menkel)
- What And How Much To Eat? (H. C. Menkel)
- Question on Diet (H. C. Menkel)
- Improved Diets (A. K.)
- Place of Cereals in Food (I. Amin)
- An Experiment in National Diet (Pyarelal)
- Revealing Figures (A. K.)
- SECTION II : Rice, Wheat and Gur
- The Miracle of Unpolished Rice (M.D.)
- Unpolished v. Polished Rice (Prof. Basu)
- Saving Cereals (D. K. Gupta)
- Useful Suggestion (M. A. Chadray)
- White v. Brown Sugar (M. D.)
- The Havoc of Sugar (M. D.)
- Bad Teeth and Refined Carbohydrates
- Potentialities of Palm Jaggery (Gajanan Naik)
- Nira - A Nutritious Beverage (Gajanan Naik)
- SECTION III : Soya Beans and Ground-nuts
- Warning against Soya Beans (M. D.)
- Soya Beans (M.D.)
- Soya Bean Recipes
- A Soya Bean Book (M. D.)
- The Utility of The Ground-nut (A. K.)
- SECTION IV : Fruit
- The Merit of Amla (A. K.)
- SECTION V : Milks
- Kimmed Milk and Buttermilk (W. R. Aykroyd and S. C. Dasgupta)
- SECTION VI : Ghee And Oil
- Edible Oils (P. C. Ghosh)
- Blindness At A Price (J. C. Kumarappa)
- Nakali Ghee (J. C. Kumarappa)
- SECTION VII : Tea
- Another Rising Menance (J. C. Kumarappa)
- Non-English Words With Their Meanings
About This Book
Written by : M. K. Gandhi
Edited by : Bharatan Kumarappa
First Edition : 5,000 copies, July 1949
ISBN : 81-7229-062-4
Printed and Published by : Jitendra T. Desai
Navajivan Mudranalaya,
Ahemadabad-380014
India
© Navajivan Trust, 1949
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Chapter 30: Gauva Seeds
Col. Sumshere Singh sends me the following:
"I have been at pains for some time to gather what information I could on the subject of guavas and their seeds. All that 1 could elicit from my environment was the fact that the seeds of this fruit were as a rule swallowed down without masctication, probably for their laxative effect. A few indigenous practitioners of medicine stated that the seeds also possessed cardiac tonic properties. "I was very glad, therefore, to be furnished with the following authoritative note on the subject by a friend from Calcutta:'Guava has been shown recently by Dr. B. C. Guha of the Bengal Chemical & Pharmaceutical Works Ltd., to be quite rich in vitamin B. Its seeds have got the following constituents:
| Proteins | 15.25 per cent | |
|---|---|---|
| Fat | 14.3 | " |
| Starch | 13.25 | " |
| Sugar | 0.1 | "etc. |
showing that these (i.e., the seeds) are quite rich in nutritive value. Consequently, the seeds and fruit should be well masticated. If eaten without proper mastication, the seeds will only act as laxative. No work has been done on the cardiac tonic properties of Guava.'"
Harijan,
18-5-1835