Super markets are really useful in a way that we get all the
products required for household maintenance at one shot. They have changed the
way people used to shop for different things at different shops. They have
brought the convenience factor into play which people of this generation would
love to explore/use.
We get both regional and international products at super markets.
One need not have to say what the perception among people upon imported
products is. Everyone reckons they are quality and pure ones. Our own regional
products (Made in India) are however looked down upon thinking that they do not
have sophisticated machines that can give a quality output.
But one thing people forget about imported goods is their shelf
life. They are very high, in fact some might have taken months to reach the
shelves. Whereas our regional products are fresh and hidden from the stardom.
This is somewhat acceptable for non-food products. When it comes to food-based
products we must carefully reflect upon this point. This is where people turn a
blind eye.
We get lot of
processed food in super markets in the name of Macrons, Noodles, Pasta, Ready
mix powders, so on and so forth. Though we have the foreign vendors manufacture
them in Indian premises, we must carefully explore their ingredients and
nutritional information. Here is the recent case of a famous Noodles vendor going in a
soup. Reason being they have high levels of lead and MSG. This is uncalled for
and unwanted ingredients in a processed food. They are the prime reasons for
causing cancer in our human body. The research has exposed this lately. But do
you think people didn’t know the ill effects of such ingredients while making
this product? Were they blind eye to this fact? Why to have them in accepted
levels at all, if that is what the vendor is claiming as in the case of the
above said one? Poison is a poison be it consuming a table spoon or ten table
spoons!
Now let’s shift our attention to vegetables and fruits. We get
export quality vegetables and fruits from super markets and other markets too.
But when you closely look them, especially in the case of apples, they have a
sticker stuck to it with some other country’s name. Even the vendor selling
that apple knows how bad that apple for our health is. It has high level of
preservatives applied to make sure that it travels all across the border for
months and stored in multiple places/climate/environmental conditions before
coming to our place. If we eat such an apple, we get many diseases which goes
unnoticed with time. We all assume that we had healthy fruits/vegetables and
yet we get ill and blame it on the pollution outside.
We can apply the same to all vegetables. We have lost the nutrient
value of vegetables due to high application of fertilizers and pesticides.
Affording Organic vegetables is also out of reach for middle class. Still some
argue that those who sell organic products are also lying and using pesticides
and fertilizers instead. This leads to a void on whom to trust and whom not to.
Then we think about growing fruits and vegetables at home, which is not
feasible for all.
Our daily diet should be divided into three. Breakfast, Lunch and
Dinner. I need not have to remind you how each should be since there is an old
age adage to this. We are sacrificing our healthy diet to the likes of Noodles,
Cakes, Burgers, Oats, Corn flakes etc. We do not realize that they are not of
Indian origin and that we have even forgotten what our Indian diet consists of.
How many of our households cook breakfast for us? How many of us eat outside
for breakfast and lunch? How many of us have homemade food at least once per
week? Thanks to this competitive world, it has given birth to TWO minutes
noodles which comes as a boon to most of our folks to cook this unhealthiest of
food and bill ourselves in hospitals within 10-15 years of time.
It is time to go back to basics, ask your grandma, grandpa, your
old age friends and relatives what they have for breakfast. I am sure there
will be some who stick to the ancient diet of Idly, Dosa etc. They were the
best scientists to date. They knew that really needed for our body to sustain
it without any diseases for 100 years. They are your best doctors. We must
learn from them. We must stick to their diet plans. We must get their opinion
on food matters. If you haven’t done it yet, I request you to do it right away.
Now a days even water is packaged, and people have forgotten about
the tap water filtering and boiling it for consumption! Let us understand how
the foreign multinationals are exploiting our life style to sell their products
to support the medical industries. Let us not give a chance for them to exploit
our future generation at least. Let us choose healthy diet, a regional diet
that your forefathers used to have. Let us say no to Noodles, Pizza, Burger,
Coke etc. Let’s bring back the good health. Are you ready to take the oath? I
have taken already.
Live and let live!
