Thanks Mr. K. Raisuddin for your nice mail, now i add a new point in favour of rice that rice is one of the main source of protein in our country. The information may coufused you and other people but it is true. Rice and only rice meet up about 80% of total calorie need in our country where majority of our people live below poverty line, we should thaked almighty Allah that rice contain 7-8% protein. This information is not familier to all but the people who deals with nutrition and food science must agree with me. Though rice is not a source of protein, the amount of rice we take daily as food meet a considerable amount of our daily need of protein. On the other hand most of our people have not enough money to buy protein rich foods like fish or meat. On an average an adult people need 1g protein/kg body weight and if an adult person eat 400g of rice daily then approximately 50% of his protein come from rice. So dont blame rice as enemy, we should greatful to rice. The limiting amino acids of rice are Lysine and Isoleucine, so in this case we my mix rice with pulses which are rich in these amino acids that may supplement each other. Thanks to all Md. Alamgir Kabir Scientific Officer, Biochemistry Resesarch Division, BCSIR Laboratories, Ctg-4220 Chittagong, Bangladesh.
--- On Tue, 11/18/08, Ali Chowdhury <ali_a_chowdhury@hotmail.com> wrote:
From: Ali Chowdhury <ali_a_chowdhury@hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: [Diagnose] FW: [ALOCHONA] Rice is the Worst Enemy of Mankind - By Bashir Mahmud Ellias
To: diagnose@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 1:57 AM
Mr. K. Raisuddin, Enjoyed reading your informative writing, and hope to read more of your notes in future. Ali Chowdhury
To: diagnose@yahoogroup s.com From: Kraisuddin@hotmail. com Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:55:59 +0000 Subject: [Diagnose] FW: [ALOCHONA] Rice is the Worst Enemy of Mankind - By Bashir Mahmud Ellias Dear All, Rice is the worst enemy of mankind - This is a wrong statement. Rice like wheat, barley, potato, maze, corn, dates, grapes, watermelons, too sweet fruits, etc. are the supplier of excessive amount of carbohydrates, if eaten in excessive amounts. The genetic programs in mankind have been written in the codes of carbohydrate. It is the main source of energy for humans and many other living beings. Carbohydrate metabolizes and produce energy like gasoline/diesel etc. do produce mechanical power for running the vehicles. Carbohydrates are broken down into glucose, which is the "fuel" that gives our bodies energy. Insulin's important job is to help glucose get into the body's cells. Glucose gets inside the cells of the body with the help of insulin and produces energy for the body. Carbohydrates provide the energy for the body to function. Carbohydrate can be metabolized only with insulin that body produces. Some people can not produce enough insulin to metabolize the required amount of carbohydrate to convert into body's need of energy. These people have type 2 diabetes. Some people can not produce insulin at all. They have type 1 diabetes. Medication, diet and exercise can take care of the diabetes problem. It is not curable but is manageable at present. In future, cures may be invented by the medical and bio-researchers. After eating the carbohydrate (no matter it is from rice, wheat, barley, potato, maze, corn), it gets digested in the stomach, producing the main ingredient called glucose. Insulin looks for the glucose in the body. Insulin is like a key that opens up the locks on the body's cells so that gAdditionally, when blood sugar reaches a certain level, the kidneys try to get rid of it through urine - which means that you'll need to urinate more often. Frequent urination can make someone feel tired, thirsty, or hungry. S/he may also start losing weight. The body also gets energy from a complex sugar called glycogen, which is stored in the liver and muscles. The liver converts glycogen to glucose and releases it into the body's bloodstream when someone is under stress and/or when extremely hungry. When enough insulin is present, muscles can use their glycogen for energy, but cannot release it directly into the blood. In type 2 diabetes, the liver releases too much glucose, especially at night (when the liver normally releases some glucose), resulting in high blood sugar levels in the morning. Insulin injections help bring down the amount of glucose released by the liver during the night, bringing morning blood sugars levels back to normal. When someone is sick or injured, or if someone is recovering from surgery, insulin helps to heal by bringing amino acids (the building blocks of muscle protein) to the muscles. Amino acids repair muscular damage and help them regain their size and strength. If there isn't enough insulin in someones' body when the muscles been injured, amino acids can't do their job, and the muscles can remain damaged and very weak.
When the author is saying, "....rice is our worst national enemy. Rice is such a prominent food item which contains excessive amount of sugar (carbohydrate) . So it hastens our physical growth & we become adult (mature) very quickly. That's why we get married promptly & start having babies more speedily. Sometimes it seems to me that just a few days ago a guy who himself was a baby, now he is completely exhausted (-fagged-worn- out) being a father or grandfather of many children. That means eating rice is the root cause of population explosion in such a dreadful manner." - Why someone has to eat excessive amount of rice to have excessive amount of carbohydrate? . It is not the problem of rice, it is the problem of someone's bad habit of filling the stomach with excessive amount of rice. It is not only rice, if excessive amount of wheat, barley, potato, maze, corn, dates, grapes, watermelons, too sweet fruits, etc., all will supply excessive amount of carbohydrate if eaten in excessive amount. So, whatever type of carbohydrate is eaten, most important thing to know, how much of these foods, contain how much carbohydrate and how much is the daily carbohydrate requirement for an individual. based on that information, eat only the required amount of carbohydrate, not more or not too less. Eat other things in addition to carbohydrates such as protein (meat, fish, egg, tofu, etc.), vegetables, fruits, salads, lots of liquid (at minimum, double the amount of solid, shall be the liquid in the meals). Please fill the stomach with all the other food ingredients than just the carbohydrates. Don't blame the rice or any carbohydrates (that are very essential for the energy of the body), blame the bad eating habits. Brain tissues basically live and function with the energy of carbohydrates.
People become habituated in foods that are abundant in an area. Bangladeshis are mostly habituated in Rice, Fish, Vegetables, and Fruits because they are abundantly grown there compared to the other types of human foods. That is why the people of china-india- indonesia- thailand- japan-korea eat rice abundantly. It is not true that the rice just produced so many people. It is the life-style, weather, environment, social norms, peoples' habits that caused over populations, not just the rice.
The author states that hundreds of diseases can be named having link with this notorious rice. This is a very wrong and over statement. Rice is sometimes the cure for many dieses rather than causing hundreds of dieses. Rice water cures dehydration. Rice water is often the treatment for gastro-intestinal disorders for the minors. Eating excess of rice may make someone sick but it is not the rice, it is the human habit and the ignorance about food ingredients. Excess of everything is bad. Specifically consuming any excess food is seriously bad.
The author wrote, "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 & rice is responsible for over-population. Recently many people are claiming that corruption is our chief national problem. Think in this way that poverty-illiteracy- unawareness is responsible for corruption & in our country the primary cause of poverty & illiteracy is overpopulation. Population not being a blessing rather has become a curse & rice is wholly responsible for this kind of consequence. So we have to entirely give up the habit of eating rice from right now & start having wheat bread in order to build a healthy & happy nation. But our women community are more interested in cooking rice than baking wheat bread." - It appears that the author is quite ignorant about many things and that is precisely our national problem, and definitely not rice. If someone is not ignorant and precisely know how much rice is needed for daily consumption for maintaining good health s/he is in good shape. Have stomach full of only rice and then start blaming the rice is really a serious twist in the fact. Only an idiot can think of replacing the rice as staple with wheat because the production of wheat in bangladesh is very limited but rice is produced in abundance, not only someone wants to do so, it is the soil condition, monsoon, water, weather, temperature, and thousands of years of know-how to produce rice, made it happen. Does the author want people starve. If someone is that ignorant, should not spread his ignorance all the world over. Chepe jawa bhalo. It is the illiteracy which is our main national problem, not rice. Rice producers must be encouraged and helped by researches for better productions, better technology, better seeds, enhanced procedures in cultivation and harvesting, such that the country can become self sufficient in the staples. Other foods must be tried to grow and produce, but the plan shall be realistic that becomes result oriented, not just based on the hypes. Over-population shall be controlled by proper education, family planning, assessing means to be able to support and educate the children, innovation, privatization, and achieving overall skill growths for all spectrum of the population. It is not only the number of people to see for overpopulation but counting the number of unskilled, unproductive, and ignorant people in the society. Japan is overpopulated but the second richest country in the worlds after USA because of their skilled people in the nation. Similarly Bangladesh can be converted from scarring humans into human resources, if can be made everybody skilled utilizing their good hard work to produce and create wealth by the efforts of the self; rather than being engaged in hoarding and corruptions just being motivated to try to live on someone else's wealth. Corruption is the biggest problem of Bangladesh, not the rice, that is keeping 160 million people living. Without enough rice production, this enormous population would not survive. Don't listen to this author and do not blame the rice. Blame the bad food habits. Just be curious and learn the good habits in consuming foods, do hard work, do necessary exercise, take minimum medications if at all needed, avoid grease, keep yourself lean and strong, have good sleep, avoid stress, laugh as much as you can, you will be OK. Blaming the women community ( is a sign of chauvinism) not to want to make bread is really ridiculous. Women are not a different part of any society. It is the chauvenist male who sees it that way, and it is an utmost ignorance. Please understant the structure of the human society first, before advising the others, not to eat rice. Wheat by no means is better as a human food than rice. It is the wrong perception, not a reality. Thay are all carbohydrates. Difference is made in the amount, not in the kinds. A sudden unnecessary change from one food to other is rather bad for health, taste, attitude, and contentment.
Genetically Modified (GM) food has caused havoc in the western world specifically by the fast food industries that have the widespread selling the genetically modified (GM) meat, poultries, fruits, veetables, fish and other types of foods. In many countries genetically modified (GM) food that are causing enormous problems for the people are being legally band. Not all genetically modified (GM) foods are bad but must remain careful and watch the results of GM intakes.
Thanks and have agreat day.
Regards,
KR
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Bashir Mahmud Ellias (Bashirmahmudellias@ hotmail.com) wrote on Wed, 12 Nov 2008:
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From: skchandon@yahoo. com
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 06:13:37 -0800
Subject: [ALOCHONA] Rice is the Worst Enemy of Mankind - By Bashir Mahmud Ellias
Rice is the worst enemy of mankind What is the main obstacle of our country's (Bangladesh) development (-prosperity- improvement- betterment) ? If it is asked, certainly different people will give different answers. But if you analyze it from the view-point of medical science, then I will say rice is our worst national enemy. Rice is such a prominent food item which contains excessive amount of sugar (carbohydrate) . So it hastens our physical growth & we become adult (mature) very quickly. That's why we get married promptly & start having babies more speedily. Sometimes it seems to me that just a few days ago a guy who himself was a baby, now he is completely exhausted (-fagged-worn- out) 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- thailand- japan-korea, all of them are going through population problem in highest degree. For the unimaginable explosion of population, government become a failure even spending billions of dollar annually to provide our basic needs like food, cloth, residence, education & health. Rice not only make us adult (mature) very quickly, but also rapidly converts us to old guys. As a result we become incompetent (worthless) for any jobs and turn to a burden to the family (thus to the society & country). As because in old age we lack energy to work & various diseases invade our body & mind. In our country almost ninety percent of people found to be have gastric ulcer who visits doctor. Excessive amount of sugar in rice causes flatulency (gas) in the stomach and gas formation tends to the acidity & ulcer. Perhaps nobody will deny the fact that rice is the root cause of diabetes. You will not find gastric ulcer & diabetes epidemic in those countries where bread (wheat) is the main food item. Now I am to say that 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 this two diseases are manufactured in our country. Yea, that's right ; but raw materials, machinery, packing items all are have to imported. There are many pathological test done to diagnose these diseases and these diagnostic machineries & chemical reagents are also have to import spending lot of foreign currencies. Yet we can ignore the squandering of invaluable time (working hour) in the doctor's chamber, hospital & sick-bed. Not only these two diseases but hundreds of diseases can be named having link with this notorious rice. 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 & 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 & after eating rice it is digested quickly & the principal ingredient (sugar) is quickly absorbed in our bloodstream & the sugar level suddenly become high, so we begin to feel drowsy, weak & lazy like a diabetic patient. You can say, Japanese (, Chinese & Koreans) are also rice eater & still they are not lazy (like us); on the contrary they are very much active & hardworking & 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 labour like us. Moreover people of Mongolian origin (flat-nose) are anthropologically very much energetic & industrious. On the contrary we sweat much because of our hot & damp weather and that's why we get easily tired, exhausted through losing essential mineral salts with sweats. So excess sugar in rice & excess sweating both are equally responsible for our laziness, debility & inactivity.
Somebody may say that poverty is our most vital problem. If you think little deeply then you will realize that rice is the basic cause of our incurable poverty. As because if we fill our stomach with rice unto the nose, it will digest & absorbed so quickly that within two hours we will become hungry again. So we have to eat too much & our expenditure on food purpose become high & it force 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. And the notorious (black sheep) 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 & Indonesians with wheat-eater Arabian, European & American. You will certainly notice that players of rice-eating countries can not do much well in the strenuous games (like football, cricket, 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 & then it again reduce to an alarmingly lowest position. On the contrary, if you eat wheat (bread) it will digest steadily taking much time & 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 & then fall to the lowest level. If we do not start eating wheat bread quickly in stead of rice, then the millions of dollars our government is wasting every years for family planning, will have to continue for how many years Allah knows ! On the contrary, governments of the wheat-eater countries (like Middle east, Australia, Europe, America etc) are facing failure to increase their population even offering billion dollars bonus to their couples.
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 & rice is responsible for over-population. Recently many people are claiming that corruption is our chief national problem. Think in this way that poverty-illiteracy- unawareness is responsible for corruption & in our country the primary cause of poverty & illiteracy is overpopulation. Population not being a blessing rather has become a curse & rice is wholly responsible for this kind of consequence. So we have to entirely give up the habit of eating rice from right now & start having wheat bread in order to build a healthy & happy nation. But our women community are more interested in cooking rice than baking wheat bread. As 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 case 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 & 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 & food industry can play a vital role. They have to given up the habit of preparing incredibly small & thin bread fried with six month old burnt oil & 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 & 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 & premature senility.
According to expert, wheat flour's price can be easily reduced by mixing corn maze with it. We should also think about huge amount of water needed to produce paddy (rice), which will be a real problem in our country in near future. On the contrary so much water is not necessary for the cultivation of wheat. To acquire hundred percent 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 & consume wheat every way (and discourage the rice). If it is necessary we can depend on & produce genetically modified (GM) wheat. As GM food has gained acceptance in Europe & 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 people rice, wheat, onion, garlic, fruit, vegetables etc of mega-size will be invented & people will be obliged to consume those (to get ride of famine).
Bashir Mahmud Ellias
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