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Not An End In Itself : Health with Mahatma Gandhi

Abstemiousness from intoxicating drinks and drugs, and from all kinds of foods, especially meat, is undoubtedly a great aid to the evolution of the spirit, but It is by no means an end in itself. Many a man eating meat

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National Food : Health with Mahatma Gandhi

What can be and should be aimed at are common dishes for common people. I believe that we should be able to accommodate ourselves to the food eaten in the provinces other than our own. I know that this is

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Green Leaves : Health with Mahatma Gandhi

It is waste of money and ‘good’ taste to cook these leaves or tubers. The vitamins contained in these vegetables are wholly or partially lost in cooking. Take up any modern text-book on food or vitamins, and you would find

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Neem Leaves and Tamarind : Health with Mahatma Gandhi

You ask about food values. Data on this point are being rapidly gathered here and elsewhere in India, and I hope that at no very distant period an authoritative book or pamphlet giving the chemical composition, vitamin potency, etc. of

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Wheat and Gur : Health with Mahatma Gandhi

I dealt with rice. Let us now take up wheat. It is the second most important article of diet, if not the first. From the nutritive standpoint, it is the king of cereals. By itself, it is more perfect than

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