Re: [nukkad] Highjacking a thread

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Vegetarians have to just eat a well balanced meal, that is all.. they will
get all the minerals required.  Withregards to tables, the absorption rate
is very poor. All we will get is expensive stools!

Personally I don't buy any bull from modern non-vegatarian pseuco scholars
who try to impute that a vegetarian diet is not sufficient!!

On 4/29/08, Dr.M.C. Gupta  wrote:
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> Hihgjacking is always sensational and never beneficial.
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> Amir bhai started a thread with the following mail--
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> [1]Listen Now [4 min 28 sec] [2]add to playlist
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> [3]Michael Pollan in his garden
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> Michael Pollan stands in his garden. Growing his own food is not only
> healthful, he says, but it's also cheap.
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> [6]Day to Day, April 24, 2008 ** If your great-grandmother wouldn't
> recognize it as food, then neither should you, award-winning writer
> Michael Pollan is wont to say. He shares additional tips on how to eat for
> a healthier body and planet, the focus of his latest book, In Defense of
> Food: An Eater's Manifesto.
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> The above lead to affirmative expression of views by Sai about
> vegetarianism, leading to questions about nutritional adequacy of
> vegetarian
> foods in reference to anemia, which is most commonly due to iron
> deficiency.
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> MCG posted the following info:
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> QUESTION--How to increase iron entering the body through vegetarian foods?
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> 1. Increase intake of green leafy vegetables in diet. Most are good
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> of iron. Also, of vitamin A, folic acid and vitamin C.
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> 2. Vitamin C increases iron absorption from gut. So, it is good to use
> lemon
> as part of salad.
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> 3. Those who do not mind taking non-veg flesh foods may take a small
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> of animal flesh along with food. This addition, in small amounts only, is
> not for its protein or iron content, but for an as yet unidentified factor
> in flesh foods that increases iron absorption from vegetable foods.
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> 4. Tea taken with food slightly decreases iron absorption.
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> 5. Try tp use plain iron knife, tavaa [hot plate for cooking chapaati],
> karaahee, tongs [chimtaa] etc. in place of stainless steel or brass ones.
> There is evidence that the iron varieties add a significant amount of iron
> to food through normal contact.
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> 6. The cheapest and very effective way to treat iron deficiency anemis is
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> take 2-3 iron sulfate tablets a day. These are very cheap. [That is why no
> medical sales agents ever push for their sale--the profit margin to the
> company is low]. Fersolate is a common brand by a good company. Iron
> syrups
> and capsules are often comparable in effect, and maybe upto 100 times more
> costly for the amount of iron gained.
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> AND, THEN, A BOMB WAS DROPPED.
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> Do bombs achieve anything?
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> Ask USA. The answer would be--Yes
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> Ask the rest of the world, especially those who don't have bombs to drop.
> the answer would be no.
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> Choice is ours.
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> Do highjackings achieve anything?
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> Ask the highjackers. They would defend highjacking.
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> Ask the passengers. They would oppose it.
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> The choice is ours. The silent majority of the nukkad are the passengers.
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> MCG
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