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Rice: Source of excessive carbohydrate

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Dr. Bashir Mahmud Ellias What is the main obstacle of our country's development ? If it is asked, certainly different people will give different answer. But if you analyse it from the view-point of medical science, then I will say rice is our worst enemy. Rice is a prominent food item which contains excessive amount of sugar (starch/carbohydrate). So it hastens our physical growth and we become adult (mature) very quickly. That's why we get married promptly and start having babies speedily. Sometimes it seems to me that just a few days ago a guy who himself was a boy now he is completely exhausted being a father or grandfather of many children. That means eating rice is the root cause of population explosion in such a dreadful manner. If you don't believe you can look on the rice-eating countries, like China-India-Indonesia-Bangladesh-Thailand-Japan-Korea, all of them are going through population problem in the highest degree. For the unimaginable explosion of population, government becomes a failure even spending billions of dollar annually to provide our basic needs like food, cloth, residence, education and health. Rice not only make us adult (mature) very quickly, but also rapidly converts us to old guys. As a result we become incompetent (and worthless) for any jobs and turn to a burden to the family (and thus to the society and country). As because in old age we lack energy to work and various diseases invade our body and mind. It is true that sugar (starch/carbohydrate) is the only source of our physical energy and we can not survive without it. But it is also true that excessive supply of sugar is horribly harmful for us. It can be reasonably compared to water. We all know that normal water is the root cause of our life and flood (i.e. excess) water causes our death. In our country almost ninety per cent of people found to have gastric ulcer who visit doctor. Excessive amount of sugar in rice causes flatulency (gas) in the stomach, gas formation tends to the acidity and acidity leads to ulcer. Perhaps nobody will deny the fact that rice is the root cause of diabetes (I mean from the imbalance of carbohydrate produced by rice in our body for many years). You will not find gastric ulcer and diabetes epidemic in those countries where (wheat) bread is the main food item. This poor country has to waste millions of dollars every year to import the medicines only for this two diseases. Some may say that most of the medicines of the two diseases are manufactured in our country. Yea, that's right ; but raw materials, machinery, packing items all have to be imported. There are many pathological test done to diagnose these diseases and these diagnostic machineries and chemical reagents also have to be imported spending lot of foreign currencies. Yet we can ignore the squandering of invaluable time (working hour) in the doctor's chamber, hospital and sick-bed. Not only these two diseases but hundreds of diseases can be named having link with the notorious rice. According to the physicians, there is no difference between eating a handful of rice and a handful of sugar. You may say that laziness is the main obstacle in the way of our country's development rather than rice. Then I will say that rice creates laziness in our body and mind. The excessive amount of sugar/carbohydrate in rice is the real cause of laziness. As it is usually seen we become exhausted from least exertion, excessive amount of sugar in rice is responsible for this situation. As rice contains immoderate amount of sugar and after eating rice it is digested quickly and the principal ingredient (sugar) is quickly absorbed in our bloodstream and the sugar level suddenly become high, so we begin to feel drowsy, weak and lazy like a diabetic patient. You can say, Japanese, Chinese and Koreans are also rice eater and still they are not lazy (like us); on the contrary they are very much active and hardworking and they don't become tired from little labor. Yea, in this regard they got some climatic advantage. They don't sweat so much even during hard work because of their cold weather, as we do. As a result they don't break-away easily from little labor like us. Moreover people of Mongolian origin (flat-nose) are anthropologically very much energetic and industrious. On the contrary we sweat much because of our hot and damp weather and that's why we get easily tired, exhausted through losing essential mineral salts with sweats. So excess sugar in rice and excess sweating both are equally responsible for our laziness, debility and inactivity. Some pundits oppose that not rice but excessive eating of rice is injurious to health. But the problem is that rice has such a peculiar uncontrollable temptation to eat excess that few of us have the power to knock out such seduction. Contrarily it is very difficult for anybody to eat excess of wheat bread. As because rice is soft and wet (that's why easy to eat) and wheat bread is hard and dry. Somebody may say that poverty is our most vital problem. If you think little deeply then you will realise that rice is the basic cause of our incurable povert