Saturday, October 17, 2009

Oil – The One that Spoils You

Oil is a fat. Fat is helpful for the body in storing energy. Oil converts itself into
energy, when required. The food items that contain fats are – oil, ghee, meat, milk,
seeds, fruits, coconut etc. We should provide the fats required for the body through
harmless means and not through harmful food.
The food we take daily, if we take it more than the required quantity, turns itself into
fats and gets stored in the body. Many creatures just thrive on green vegetation.
What fats are making them energetic, healthy and reproductive? Then why should
man need oils, ghee, meat to give him energy and fats?
Why are you consuming oil? Is it because you need it for the body, or is it because
you are used to the taste of it? Try to drink a spoonful of oil directly! Observe if it is
absorbed by the body or sent out through stool. You will understand what discomfort
the intestines undergo. The food that isn’t harmful for the body moves easily into the
intestines, gets digested quickly and joins the blood.
If you are causing harm to your body in so many ways, isn’t it natural that you
should fall sick? In fact you should wonder if you don’t fall sick. You don’t have to be
surprised if you get some disease!
Now let’s analyze the harm caused by oil to the body.
1. Oil increases cholesterol in the body hardening and narrowing the blood vessels
wherever it concentrates. Hardened blood vessels affect free blood circulation. As a
result air and food do not reach properly and the respective parts of the body start
getting a pain. If this problem occurs in the heart, you get heart trouble that may be
called heart attack. If it happens in the brain it causes paralytic stroke, affecting your
speech, writing and movement. To avoid such a situation better you refrain from
oily stuff, dairy food, eggs and meat.
2. It is observed that the usage of unsaturated and polyunsaturated oil is one of the
reasons for increase in the number of cancer patients.
3. When oil is boiled the water molecules mixed with the carbon chains in the fat go
out and oxygen molecules come back this time with carbon chains. That’s why oil
changes its smell and taste when boiled. Oxygen mixed thus with carbon chains is
called free radical. The change that occurs in the fat cells during the boiling of oil is
called polymerization.
When boiled at 375 – 400 degrees, all the fat cells in the oil come closer to each
other, thereby forming new cells. These new cells instead of helping the body cause
harm. Oil gets thickened, at the heat of 200°c itself. Thickened oil cannot be easily
digested in the intestines.
Unless heated at 400 degrees vegetables or any item cannot be fried properly. Will
there be any life left in the vegetable if it is boiled at that temperature. Don’t you call
a lifeless creature a dead body? Will such a dried, heated, dead item be helpful for
anybody’s health? No! Nobody eats it for health; he eats it only for taste.
Most of the snacks are deep fried in oil! That is why you feel very thirsty after you
eat them! The body requires more of water to digest unnatural food and to send out
its waste! Researchers observed that the foodstuffs with less cholesterol, fried in oil
at 375 to 400 digress caused blocks in blood vessels of rats, though that foodstuff
had less of cholesterol. When they tried again with unboiled oil the blood vessels
remained normal.
4. Oily food causes wrinkles and makes the skin look old at young age. The reason
behind this is the free radicals produced at the time of boiling oil.
5. Even after entering the body, the oil pulls out the oxygen from the cells and
thereby forms the free radicals. As a result the oxygen supply is reduced weakening
the cells.
6. When you eat oily stuff, the intestines have to produce a larger quantity of
digestive juice. When the quantity is more than the required measure, the quality of
work automatically lessens. The intestines have to work hard. Since they work more,
they lose their energy. Consequently the intestines lose their resistance power
against diseases.
7. The production of hydrochloric acid in the stomach doesn’t stop at once even after
the digestion of fats. The acids formed in the stomach in the absence of food lead to
ulcers.
8. When we eat oily stuff, we feel thirsty during and after eating that food. By
drinking water before food gets digested, the process of digestion slackens and our
stomach will be heavy for a longer time.
Oil is more in groundnuts, pulses, coconut and sesame. By extracting oil from them
and by using that oil in food we are only causing more harm to the body. If you eat
groundnuts, coconut, sesame etc., as they are, it doesn’t do any harm. They have
Vitamins, minerals, lecithin and fiber in addition to oil. If you eat them as they are,
the oil content will not be left stagnated in the body with little chance for conversion
into fats.

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