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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 36: Buffalo Milk-fat v. Cow Milk-fat
Dr. Godbole, Professor of Industrial Chemistry in the Banaras Hindu University, has sent me at my request an elaborate and critical analysis of these two fats. It is far too technical for the lay reader. I shall gladly lend it to any student of this important subject. Meanwhile I content myself with giving his conclusions:
- "Cow's butter-fat is known to have iodine in its composition, whereas no data is available on this point in the case of buffalo butter-fat."
- "Both cow's butter-fat and buffalo-butter-fat contain vitamins A and D; but cow's butter-fat is richer in vitamins A, while the other is richer in vitamin D."
- "Butter-fat as such is any time better than tallow, lard or vegetable ghee."
- " Cow's butter-fat is richer than the buffalo-butter-fat in the total assimilable and digestible part and is, therefore, comparatively more suitable for children and weaklings. "
- "From an economic point of view, the buffalo is a better butter-producing machine than the cow."
"Of the two butter-fats, cow's is in a sense nearer to the composition of human body-fat than the buffalo-butter-fat."
Harijan,
29-3-1935