Mahavira Jain Vidyalaya Rajat Jayanti Mahotsava

SR No.: 011563
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Mahavir Jain Vidyalaya Mumbai
Publisher: Mahavir Jain Vidyalay
Publication Year: 1940
Total Pages: 326
Language: Gujarati
Classification: Smruti_Granth
File Size: 14 MB

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CHIMANLAL N. SHROFF
[M. J. VIDYALAYA
tion. It is regrettable that utility and consequences are not properly understood. In order to maintain good health, it is desirable to have quality food properly cooked in right proportions and combinations. Human body is very much like a locomotive. It needs fuel to keep it running. What is needed is 1. Fuel food, 2. Building food, 3. Regulating food.
1. Fuel foods :
There are three groups of fuel foods, viz. starchy foods, sugar and fats. Starches and sugar are included in the carbohydrate element. About eighty or eighty-five per cent of the fuel for the body come under this category. Starchy food should be used in the largest amount, fats next, and sugars the least. The starches are derived for the most part from cereals but roots and vegetables are also rich in starch. Starch has an advantage over sugar as a carbohydrate food in the fact that it has a natural flavour, and is bland and absolutely unirritating. Another advantage possessed by farnaceous food stuffs over sugar consists in the fact that the carbohydrates are not isolated, but are associated with lime, iron and other salts as well as the precious vitamins, all of which form an essential part of the day's ration. Cane sugar differs from the natural sugar found in the dates and raisins. So far as dates are concerned, the sugar is associated with other essential food constituents, especially protein, which is necessary for tissue building, iron which is necessary for the blood, lime which is essential for the bones and vitamins which are necessary for the maintenance of nutrition and to stimulate growth and development in young ; all these food essentials are found in dates but none are present in cane sugar. Cane sugar is of great disadvantage as it is irritating as well as difficult to digest, Cane sugar should be used sparingly and should be avoided in all forms of gastric catarrah. People should be encouraged to eat dates and raisins instead of sugars.
Fats :
Fats like starches and sugars are fuel foods. Their chief function in the body is to furnish fuel to maintain heat and to serve for the energy expended in the muscular work, heart and lung work, gland work and other forms of vital activity. Fats usually furnish more than double the energy furnished by carbohydrates. Usual sources of supply of fats are Ghee, Butter, Cream and Vegetable oils. It is better that ghee and butter should be preferred as the sources of fat whenever possible. Where ordinary oil is to be used for cooking purposes, it is better that the free use of greens should be made which