[nukkad] Nutritional value of veg/nonveg diet

["Mahesh chandra gupta" <>]

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Net Geek wrote:

:A. Vegetarian diet can be fully nutritious, even without animal 
milk
B. Vegetarian diet is more healthy.

I'm in no way refuting your statements, but many health magazines 
(including the food pyramid diagram given to my daughter from her 
school) prescribe a balanced diet comprising of leafy vegetables, 
cerals, dairy products and fish rather than vegetarian only diet. 
Perhaps the quantum of vegetarian content should be much more 
comapred to the rest."
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Comment:

You are right in your statement. It is a pity, but a fact, that 
what to say of magazines or school teachers or nurses or even 
dieticians, even many, rather most, doctots do not have correct 
knowledge about nutrition. I can say this with certainty because i 
was heading the nutrition department at AIIMS and taught 
undergraduate and postgraduate students there, as also researched 
and published in this area, and was also a post-doctoral fellow in 
nutrition at United nations University, working at the premier 
international Nutrition Institute [INCAP, Guatemala]. I write this 
not to extoll myself, but to impress that my comments aboit many 
doctors being ignorant about nutritional facts are genuine. The 
reason is that nutrition is not a specific subject in MBBS 
curriculum, lectures being interspersed among subjects like 
physiology, biochemistry, pathology, medicine, pediatrics and 
public health, with no concerted effort to impart proper 
nutritional knowledge to medical students and doctors.
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N.B.: to shri SC Gupta: You might like to bring this to notice of 
Meenu.



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