Cooking oil, salt and sugar are the culprits

These are hunter gatherers. They are our ancestors
.(stone age)

They were nomads, moving from one place to the other, hunting for the meat,collecting root and tubers and wild honey on the way.

Every day was stressful. They had to fight with wild animals for the survival.



What was their food?

• Meat (when they could hunt the animal)
• Roots and tubers
• Wild honey (sweet dish)
• Mongango nuts

About 25 year ago, American nutritionist knew that the decedents of these hunter gatherers are still existing in a remote part of the Africa which is not shown on the map of the world.
They are still living the same nomadic lifestyle and same food habits.They are not aware of the modern world and modern lifestyle. (totally disconnected) 


American nutritionist reached the site, lived in the neighborhood, tried to talk with them in sign language, won their confidence and somehow convinced them to examine them and take out the blood samples.

What was found?

• No obesity
• No malnutrition
• No vitamin deficiencies
• B.P. decreased with age
• Normal blood sugar
• Blood cholesterol 120 mg% (Lowest in the world)

Modern lifestyle:



We discovered cooking oil, salt and sugar, which is the base of modern fast foods, processed and ultra processed foods,junk foods and ready to eat foods.




We cannot turn the clock backwards but at least think and select our food which is very less in oil,salt and sugar

Pure ghee as a cooking oil

The profile of pure ghee:

Saturated fats: 65%

Monounsaturated fats; 32%

Polyunsaturated:
PUFA -6     2% (omega -6)
PUFA -3     1%  (omega -3)


 PUFA-6 and PUFA -3 in the cooking oil should be in the ratio of 6;1 or less


There are 4 such cooking oils;

Mustard

coconut

pure ghee

soybean

You can choose any of them





We are not familiar with the idea of pure ghee as a cooking medium.But you can try it

Advantages:

Excellent flavor 

Foods cooked have long shelf life.

Fatty acids in ghee are short and medium chain which are not stored as fats but used for energy production

It resists oxidation during frying, and does not generate free radicals.
Oils with high PUFA -6 (unsaturated oils) are not resistant to oxidation. On prolonged / repeated heating they liberate free radicals which are toxic.(This does not happen with pure ghee.)

What about cholesterol?

100 g of ghee has 300 mg of cholesterol.

100 g is 20 teaspoon. Do we eat 20 spoons of ghee every day? We eat about 2 spoons which has only 30 mg of cholesterol.

There are 3 options:

If you do the cooking in ghee then it should  be 5 teaspoon per person daily. If you have 4 members in the family, then it will be 20 spoons for the family. The housewife should take out 20 teaspoon of ghee in a vessel and the cooking from breakfast to dinner should be within this limit. 

If you do not like this idea, then use ghee for giving Tadka (seasoning) while preparing dal,dal khichdi, upma  

                

Or at least, you can have a  teaspoon of ghee on your rice. 

Ghee is not known in the West. They have margarine (trans fat) which has adverse health effects.

In India, pure ghee is prepared at home from ancient times.
It is a meticulous and elaborate process. Many housewives are unable or not interested in this.They think it is time consuming

The common man has aversion to eat ghee, because it has cholesterol. However one can have up to 150 mg of cholesterol per day. Zero cholesterol diet is not ideal, even for a heart patient.

Eating 1 -2 teaspoons of ghee is healthy.