He is trying to wean people off high glycemic foods like polished rice and wheat and introduce millets instead, mainly as they regulate blood sugar very well and keep diseases off for a longer time because of their rich nutritional content. He says we have forgotten how to eat in a simple satwik way and modern food is all about satisfying our palate without thinking about the benefits for the body.
Food Science is relative because it does not take into consideration the local conditions, the general occupation, and the mental / genetic / heredity conditioning of human beings towards the foods they eat.
Firstly, Nature provides certain foods suited in certain climatic conditions.
Secondly, the body and mind adapt to foods that have been staple for long in a community. To say that a particular food will or must create certain affects invariably is too mathematical to be true.
Thirdly, – and I am bit surprised at this, that the person considers Millet as Sattwic based on its ingredients. The guna classification of things has little to do with the quantitative composition but more with the quality.
Most importantly I find this excessive preoccupation with food, even so-called healthy food, so silly. Food should be simple, freshly prepared, natural to a place, taken in moderation and then forgotten completely. All this obsession with food is so harmful for the consciousness in general. I have seen children suffering from these food obsessions who have stopped rice and wheat and take only Millet, have anorexia and other issues. Food has its place but a relatively small place in our overall well-being, not something to be so much occupied with.
As to diseases there are many factors of which food is perhaps of little importance.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
