The disconnect between our body and metabolism, on one hand, and modern food and beverages, on the other, is causing most of the present-day pandemics of obesity, heart disease, diabetes and some forms of cancer.
Such is the global epidemic, the World Health Organisation has now defined “Metabolic Syndrome”, known also as “Syndrome X”, as a pathologic condition characterized by abdominal obesity, insulin resistance, hypertension, and hyperlipidaemia.
Central to this is the body’s exposure to refined starch and sugar. Sugar-based carbohydrates have come to dominate to the food economy.
The food economy is dominated by modern food processing technologies, which in turn laid the foundation of contemporary advertising and hence consumer demand. This is not just limited to highly processed convenience foods.
For instance, people have been told to believe that white starch, such as white rice, is good for them, while in fact ancient rice grains were actually red or black, as it was also for corn and wheat.
This metamorphoses only occurred recently, in the 1960’s, when Shri Bhubaneshwar Barthakur patented the Modern Rice Mill.
Highly important bran fragments were totally stripped away producing a polished, glossy, white rice grain that looks pretty but is pure starch.
