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Zero
Fish
[contents per 100 grams) Carbohydrate
Fats
Nutrients Eggs
Zero 0.6 to 1.33
27.88 Meat
-do
33.40 Zero -do
24.11 Food grains/Cereals 56.6 to 78%
0.6 to 5.33
85.20 to 90.63 Leave aside food-grains and cereals; more nutrients compared to eggs are available in relatively unimportant substances e.g. Roasted Gram Dal and 'Kurmura' (made of rice) contain 87 units of nutrients per 100 grams. The laddoos of 'Til' and laggary contain 95 units of nutrients per 100 grams. iii) Do then eggs etc. contain more of iron? Food-grains and cereals contain 2 to 9.8 milligram of
iron per 100 grams whereas all the three above items which create poison in the body, contain
only 0.9 to 2.5 mg. of iron! Further, who suffers from malnutritional diseases? The rich or the poor? Can the poor, who are unable to afford food grains/cereals even when these are cheaper then eggs, meat and fish, afford to buy eggs etc? The food-grains are also costlier now with added burden of chemical fertilisers and pesticides costs. Still they are beyond the reach of poor and hence the malnutritional diseases.
Further, will the malnutrition patients, i.e. those who get less calories, less food and suffer from iron-defficiency; get strength if they are stuffed with eggs, meat and fish in the name of protien? When people do not get even a square meal, their calory deficienty cannot be taken care of by feeding them with ineffective substances like eggs. On the contraray, this increases, the defficiency of carbohydrates and fats.
If the food that we consume, does not contain sufficient carbohydratees and fats, howsoever it be supplemented by Protiens, the protiens become useless; they get burnt out. Protiens can perform their function- i.e. to keep the muscles toned up only if the body gets sufficient carbohydrates and fats.
When a person becomes very weak and his blood pressure becomes low, doctors do not advise him to eat meat or eggs. They give him Glucose orally or administer Glucose intraveinous. This is because Glucose is carbohydrate and it gives strength to the body.
And the basic question is whether Protiens are contained only in eggs, meat and fish? Don't the food-grains and cereals contain protiens, Yes, those do contain. The following table effectively answers this;
[Protien content per 100 grams] Two eggs
13.3 grams Meat
18.5 grams Fish
22.5 grams Moong/Arhar Dal
22.3 to 24 grams. The advocates of meat who want to be fool the people, lastly argue that the protiens in food-grains and cereals are of sub- standard quality, whereas the protiens in eggs, meat and fish are of a higher standard. But even the western scientists agree that when two sources of even sub-standard protiens come together, then the combined protiens become better than the so called high standard protien of meat.
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