Plant based Whole Food

So this movement of plant-based whole food doctors, they say that you must avoid all animal food, including dairy, no yogurt, no cheese, no ghee, and no butter or chaach or anything like that. So we need to eat food from the five categories of food, which is we need to eat for vegetables, we need to eat fruits, we need to eat cereals, the rice, wheat, corn, and we need to eat beans and daal, chana, chola, rajma, and things like that.

And then we need to eat nuts and seeds. We group them into one category. If everybody and that includes pregnant mothers and new mothers, they would eat from these five food categories. They will not develop any shortages, none at all. And the idea is you eat as much as you feel like as long as you’re eating from these five foods.

You will not put on weight. Your weight will stabilize where it needs to be. When we eat processed food, processed food is very calorie-dense. When you eat a sugar candy or a donut or you are having a lot of calories but very little nutrients. When you eat natural food, natural food is nutrient-rich and calorie poor.

So most vegetables, leafy vegetables, non-starchy vegetables are about a hundred calories a pound. That’s 220 calories a kilo. When you eat fruits, they are 300 calories a pound. When you eat starches like potatoes or rice or roti that is 500 calories a pound. Now, when you go to process foods such as bread that you buy a loaf of bread that’s 1500 calories a pound because the bread has butter in it and other ingredients in it.

When you eat a chocolate that’s 2,500 calories a pound, and when you eat butter, that 3,500 calories a pound. So the more oil or butter is in your food, the more calorie-dense it is, which means it’s empty calories taken away an opportunity for you to have something else, which might have had more nutrients in it.

See, the nutrients were discovered in 1937, we discovered protein. When we discovered protein, we realized that it’s a very important substance for the human body. At that time, Western science did not think that there was protein in vegetables only at turn of century, around 1900 we realized that there is protein in vegetables.

Now a cow or a lamb or a goat eats grass. So a goat gets its protein by eating grass and the protein is really a combination of various amino acids in a link form. So even if you eat animal protein, it goes to your liver and gets converted into amino acids. Now you might as well have amino acids directly from plants. Why have a second-hand amino acid coming from?

So the plant-based whole food doctors believe that eat only plant-based food in the least processed form and that is the best for all, including children, including elderly people in 70 plus range, and everybody in between that range, including expecting mothers. If you eat that food, you will not be deficient in any nutrient.

Yes, there are two items that you could be deficient and you might be, one is called vitamin B12. Vitamin B12 is found in soil, and we have stopped working with soil, playing with soil, walking bare feet on soil, or drinking water, which is in contact with soil. The water that comes from rivers or streams or underground wells, we get our water from the municipality.

And they chlorinate water, which kills vitamin B12, so we have to have vitamin B12 supplements. The second nutrient that we can be deficient in is vitamin D3. Vitamin D3 our body makes when we go out in the sun and a lot of people are not choosing to go out in the sun, which I think is a wrong trend.

And rather than taking a supplement of vitamin D3, I advise that you at least spend some time outdoors, not only for vitamin D3 purposes. It’s also important for you to have visual contact with the sky and because your body needs some ultraviolet rays penetrating you or reaching your retina in your eye.

There’s a very old practice. There’s a Punisher on it, which is called sun gazing. Looking at sun like surya namaskara, which you do in the morning. Or you find people in Banaras and Allahabad and Haridwar doing morning ritual, offering water to the sun. It allows us to look at the sun, not necessarily directly, but around the sun.

So if one can practice that for a few minutes, either early in the morning, within the first hour of sunrise. Or later in the day, within an hour of sunset, if you can spend five minutes looking around the sky around the sun, it’s very beneficial for our eyesight and for health in general. There’s a whole new Punisher that is dedicated to subject, so that covers the subject of what to eat.

There is one other nutrient that is important and not easily available. And that is called, essential fat, which is an Omega3 and Omega6 they call essential fatty acids because your body cannot make them. So we must every day consume some Omega3 and Omega6. Omega6 is found in plenty, but Omega3 is not.

And the sources of Omega3 are walnuts. Flax seeds, chia seeds, and mustard oil. So these are four sources of Omega3. Mustard oil consumed in smaller amounts is, probably the best, source of, cooking oil. Plant-based whole-food doctors discourage all consumption of any oil. But I think that is true for people who are over the age of, 45 50, who I have already developed cardiovascular problems and other diseases for most of the people.

I think I recommend a couple of teaspoons of oil per day and in that connection yes, a little bit of ghee – a teaspoon per day is also fine because ghee also has Omega3.