Of the 4 deaths reported on account of CoronaVirus in a nation of 1.3 billion even on the 50th day of the #CoronaVirusPandemic, all of them are comorbidity cases, meaning that they were already severely ill from lifestyle diseases.
So, if we really care for human lives, and I agree with fellow traveler Smita Sharma that every life is precious, we should do the utmost to change our diseased lifestyles. Where do we start? In this note, I will just focus on Food Culture. Subsequently, I shall touch upon the other “holy cows” – private motorcar and the insatiable demand for road expansion and fly-overs, air-conditioners at home and in offices, heaters and geysers, fancy schools with air-conditioned classrooms that send children faraway on air-conditioned buses, eating outside junk, air travel, vacuous vacations etc..
Food Culture: Junk is not Food. Grow locally in every inch of space available. If you don’t get pure and natural indigenous food sourced locally, go hungry even for a few days. You are far more likely to get diseased and die from viral infections if you eat junk rather than from starvation. As the filthy rich too begin to practise this and allow pure and natural food to be grown in the enormous private proerty that they occupy, surprise of all surprises, more pure and natural food will be available not only for all humans everywhere but also for domestic and wild animals as we are likely to trespass less on to their habitats. For a healthy human race, growing fresh leafy and other seasonal vegetables, grains, pulses and oilseeds could alone provide 90% of the nutrition that our body truly needs. Sadly, wen it comes to filling petrol in our motor vehicles, we want “Pure for Sure”, but I find it appalling when most people shirk when you point out that Junk is not food. They say some junk is ok. And then brag their filthy rich status to justify that they are still alive after feasting on saucy junk food for years and feeding it to their obese, bespectacled children. they are the once supporting junk politician Narendra Modi in a big way and the ones who are morbidly and macabrously scared of CoronaVirus.Some of the commonly consumed but strict no-nos are these “whites: 1. refined sugar 2. refined oil – soya, plamolein, canola, sunflower etc. 3. refined flour 4. synthetic milk from Amul, Mother Dairy etc. 5. synthetic ghee fro Amul, Mother dairy, Patanjali etc. 6. refined polished rice 7. broiler industrial eggs
As I share further in this series, LACE-GAIA Model that is just beginning to gain popularity as a comprehensive set of systemic policy changes worldwide that will induce behavioral changes for a Disease Free Human Race and for health, well-being and all round proseperity for now and sustainably for our children and future generations.
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“When people with diabetes develop a viral infection, it is often difficult to treat them due to fluctuations in their blood glucose levels and the presence of diabetes complications. Their immune system is compromised,” Dr Mahesh DM, a consultant for endocrinology at Bengaluru’s Aster CMI Hospital, told ThePrint in an earlier interview.
Similarly, people who have a stent implanted in their arteries may be more vulnerable to COVID-19 infection, as the virus can cause tears in a patient’s blood vessels.
“Influenza virus is already known as a propellant for heart attacks. The patients who are on blood-thinning medications, their chances of bleeding from lungs become high in case of coughing, such as in the case of coronavirus infection,” Yugal Kishore Mishra, head of cardiac sciences at Manipal Hospital in Delhi, said. “
On the whole though, despite all the hype and hoopla for forceful isolation over prolonged period of time, the best and perhaps the only protection is herd immunity. Let life return to normalcy and let natural forces play it out. We might lose some of the comorbidity patients a little earlier but with the economy back in action, millions of daily wage earners and vulnerable salaried folks in financial markets, airlines, railways etc. will be saved.
As such, even if the momentum stays with the lockdown, healthy people with good immunity have everything to cheer about. With the dirty and polluting industrial civilization getting every passing day closer to collapse and the raging fires of meltdown reduce it to ashes, a new naturally harmonious and indigenous human civilization will spring up from beneath its debris like the Phoenix rising up from the ashes.
Only the indigenous shall survive.
– Chandra Vikash Convener – GAIA
Global Academy of Indigenous Activism
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GAIA - Global Academy of Indigenous Activism 