Tulsi Prajna 1994 10

SR No.: 524581
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Parmeshwar Solanki
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 1994
Total Pages: 152
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India
File Size: 7 MB

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problem without any extra food production. The most efficient use of plants is made when they are eaten directly by men without converting them to animal proteins. Food and their Importance :
Human require a balanced diet full of the desired components for proper growth and health. Plants and their products are the cheapest and best sources for the human diet. Carbohydrates can be obtained from sugar, rice, wheat, beans, dried milk, potato, banana, proteins from soya flour, grounds-nuts, dried milk, cheese, beans; fats from butter, groundnuts, cheese etc. The major sources of the calcium necessary for bones are milk, cheese and green vegetables whereas sources of iron necessary for the haemoglobin of blood are spinach, peas, beans, wheat and potatoes. The major sources of vitamins, essential for normal growth are milk, butter, carrots, toma. toes, green vegetables, peas, beans, yeast, wheat, citrus fruits and pine-apples. The roughage, which can be best developed from undigested cellulose of vegetables is necessary in strengthening the walls of the colon and in stimulating reflex persistalsis. 'A-ama', a Nigerian best baby food, contains proteins from groundnut flour, dried yeast and milk, carbohydrates from sugar with minerals and vitamins all from plants.
• Carbohydrate deficiency causes weakness, fatigue, underweight, restlessness and liver troubles whereas protein deficiency retards growth and causes anaemia and delayed healing of wounds. The rickets are due to lack of calcium, anaemia is due to lack of iron, dwarfism and goitre are due to lack of iodine, renal diseases are due to lack of magnesium, nausea and diarrhoea are due to lack of sodium, pigmeatation of hair and skin are due to lack of sulphur and so on. The vitamin deficiency diseases like night blindness, due to lack of vitamin A, beri-bari and constipation due to shortage of vitamin B, scurvy and weak bones due to scarcity of vitamin C. rickets and fatbelly-due to vitamin D deficiency are well known to all of us.
Human in Animal Kingdom :
Biologically the human has the highest position in the animal kingdom with his well developed brain. He belongs to the order Primate with his other biological mates like gorilla, chimpanzee, gibbon and baboon. It is believed that the needs and opportunities in an arboreal habit at and ability to climb by grasping a limb resulted in the development of the brain and powerful hands in the members of this order. The champanzee has a less arboreal b and the gorilla is nearly terrestrial in habitat and can move on two