DRK's Newsletter 36

DRK’S NEWS LETTER Issue 036 DRK’s News Letter Issue No: 36 August, 2020 Email: [email protected] FOOD AS MEDICINE….. Website: www.goodgovernance.in www.lifepositive.com “When diet is wrong, medicine is of no use. When diet is correct, medicine is of no need” - Ayurvedic Proverb “Living creatures are nourished by food, and food is nourished by rain; rain itself is the water of life, which comes from selfless worship and service.” -Bhagavad Gita “The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be thy medicine, thy medicine shall be thy food.” – Hippocrates “The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.” - - William J Mayo Food is Medicine is a term which was originally coined by Hippocrates, the father of Western medicine; it was his belief that eating wholesome food is the basis for good health. Hippocrates said almost 2500 years ago “Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient with food.". Message from Sadhguru Shri Jaggi Vasudev, ISHA DRK’S NEWS LETTER | Issue 036 2 Ambulance Service GVK-EMRI 108 Dr GVK Reddy. I wrote one newsletter after my participation in an ISRO event delivering the Dr. Abdul Kalam Memorial Oration and staying in their campus for a couple of days at ISRO HQ at Bangalore. The Chairman of ISRO appreciated that letter on functioning of ISRO and circulated it to several thousands of ISRO employees. With Hon'ble President of India Shri Ramnath Kovind Mr Ganesh Mathur, a very senior Using food as medicine starts by changing functionary in the World Bank, your approach to food from that of Washington informed me “I find your restriction to introduction—of an newsletter of immense value. So I have abundance of the right foods. Take on the forwarded the same to the United Nations role of a scientist and become an expert on – World Bank– IMF India Club, the UN the study of your own body and find out Worldwide India Club and has reached what makes it tick. over 3870 Senior Officers around the Most of us are conditioned to think that Globe.” taking a pill out of a bottle will make us feel Many informed me that they have shared better. We don't generally think that fresh the contents with their colleagues, vegetables and fruit count toward healing. associates, students and employees. But it's true, food is the most powerful drug Encouraged by such positive response, I we have. continue the practice of sharing my Why these periodic long newsletters? experiences, though the newsletters can be lengthy at times depending on the subject It all started with my writing brief letters to matter. my daughter Kanchana living in Melbourne, who desired to know about my So far 35 Newsletters have gone out on constant travels and activities. various themes of relevance and interests. Now they reach several thousands around Encouraged by her response, the letters the World! became longer and reached more and more well-wishers. So why the subject "Food As Medicine"? I was further encouraged by receiving Today I can claim to be totally cured of 30 complimentary comments from different years of diabetes. With only Food As walks of life, including celebrities like Medicine, besides regular walking in the Sadhguru Shri Jaggi Vasudev, the Hon’ble Vice President of India Shri Venkaiah Naidu, former Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, eminent Agro Scientist Prof. M S Swaminathan, Iconic entrepreneur Dr. Ratan Tata, eminent Industrialist Dr Venu Srinivasan, Universally respected health expert Dr BM Hegde, Chairman of the most successful and fastest growing Star Health Insurance company Mr V Jagannathan and the Chairman of the world’s largest Emergency With Hon'ble Shri Narendra Modi DRK’S NEWS LETTER | Issue 036 3 century in the TADA courts. All this stress resulted in my being diagnosed as having diabetes, by the time we filed the charge sheet against the accused in the TADA court. That was three decades ago. Even thereafter I had to handle two full time jobs in the CBI- Central Bureau of Investigation and the CRPF-Central Reserve Police Force, the largest paramilitary organisation in the World fighting insurgency, terrorism, naxalism and ensuring internal security. With Hon'ble Vice President of India Shri Venkaiah Naidu and Governor of Tamil Nadu Hon’ble Shri Banwarilal Purohit Even otherwise I had not had a smooth sailing in my life. I have gone through sun, and Nano Curcumin of turmeric, tragedies in my family. Many challenges in plenty of citrus and other fruits, and my hectic official life being entrusted with vegetables in addition to regular practice of more than one full time job most of the yogasanas learnt from great masters, time. pranayama and meditation learnt over the years from various established systems. I was on medication of all sorts including insulin for a long period. I did however try It is a long story known to many, how I was to keep up yoga, gym, swimming and persuaded to agree to the request from the walking, though not very regularly in view highest levels of Government of India to of constant travel commitments and heavy take up the Rajiv Gandhi Assassination responsibilities. Investigation which was thought insolvable by most at that time, and that came with In the last couple of years, I am totally free unprecedented challenges and enormous off any allopathic medicines and insulin, security risks. taking only herbal supplements twice a day. I had to work 20 hours a day, 7 days a week, I attribute it totally to my regulated life all the whole 12 months without any style of yogasanas, increased pranayama breaks. Tremendous stress and tension and meditation and more than anything was caused by several factors. There were else by treating Food as Medicine-eating hundreds of legal issues to be handled day the right food at the right time and in right to day in higher courts. We had to save the quantities. investigation and trial from the In the last few months I have further manipulations of the accused, their improved my health and never felt better. supporters and, and many busy bodies including politicians of various hues. I remained undeterred by constant threats to my life by the most deadly terrorist organisation in the world at that time. There was constant travel between Chennai, Hyderabad, Delhi dealing with two high powered Commissions of enquiry. Also the preparation of thousands of objects of evidence and several thousands of pages of documents for the trial of the With Hon'ble Minister for Ayush Shri Shripad Naik DRK’S NEWS LETTER | Issue 036 4 Modern research both in the west and the east also have come out confirming the validity of the ancient traditions and teachings of value of food as medicine. Using food as medicine starts by changing our approach to food from that of restriction to introduction—of an abundance of the right foods. Take on the role of a scientist and become an expert on the study of our own body and find out what At the Vipassana Meditation makes it tick. Centre, Hyderabad, 1992 “Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you Recently during the lockdown, I have been what you are." The words of the 18th following Breath Mindful Meditation-Aana century French epicure Jean Anthelme Pana Sati a vital component of Vipassana, Brillat-Savarin hold true even today in with which Lord Buddha attained more ways than we can imagine. Enlightenment. Ayurveda goes a step further to say “You My breakfast consists of sprout and salad-a are what you digest, If digestion is strong, normal simple vegetarian lunch of millets, we can turn poison into nectar, but if greens, vegetables and pulses-and for digestion is weak, we can turn nectar into dinner I have only fruits including banana poison.” and mango. We will learn how to eat simply in I feel naturally pleasantly surprised when accordance with the right time and nature even high functionaries and many support to maximize our health and well participants in the ongoing countless being. Daily habits and patterns will give us webinars compliment me that I look calm, enormous long-term benefits along with healthy and 10 to 20 years younger than my short term tangible gains. The body is actual age of 80+! intelligent and self regulating and healing if we support and not hinder its functioning. We are all aware that impermanence is the It is also essential to remember we are a only reality – truth. Everyone born on the composite of body, mind, emotions and planet has to go one day. Otherwise there consciousness, all layers affect and will be no place for the new arrivals. influence each other. Why wouldn’t we give ourselves the best chance to thrive rather The idea is not at all to prolong one’s life - than just survive? but to lead a healthy life as long as we are destined to live and to be happy and useful. To a large extent it is in our own hands. We create our own health and destiny! So I thought why not I share with all that food alone can act as medicine, both preventive as well as curative. Hence this humble effort! Ancient scriptures and books from India and many parts of the world contain enormous material on the various aspects of good health. DRK’S NEWS LETTER | Issue 036 5 who eats it, becomes part of the body of a woman, a man, or a cow.

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