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बासी भोजन और महिलाए

कल सुबह मेरी सहेली मणि के बहुत तेज पेट दर्द हुआ. फोन आते ही  मैं उसके घर भागी. वो चुपचाप लेटी थी और घर के सभी सदस्य ऐसा लग रहा था कि नाराज हो. मैने सोचा कि अरे … बेचारी की तबियत ठीक नही और आप नाराज हैं इस पर वो बोले कि नाराजगी वाली तो बात ही है. महीने के बाद  आज मणि फ्रिज साफ कर रही थी. बर्फ भी बहुत जम गई थी इसलिए साफ कर रही थी और फ्रिज में खाने का छोटा मोटा सामान भी पडा हुआ था. थोडी बहुत सब्जी, दाल कटोरियों में बची हुई थी. (बासी भोजन और महिलाए )

कुछ तो शायद इसने फेंक दिया पर एक सब्जी नही फेंकी. उसे ठीक लगी और उसने बासी( Stale food)  परौठी के साथ खा ली. वो सब्जी हफ्ते पुरानी थी. ऐसे में तकलीफ और दर्द  नही होगा तो क्या होगा वो तो बचाव हो गया कि फूड पायजनिंग नही हुई. अब तो मुझे भी मणि पर गुस्सा आ रहा था. वैसे हम महिलाए जरा भी अपना ख्याल नही रखती. जहां परिवार और बच्चों की सेहत की बात हो वहां समझौता नही करेगी पर जब अपनी सेहत की बात आती है तो लापरवाह हो जाती है. वैसे आप तो ऐसी नही होंगी … और अगर है तो जरा नही बहुत सोचने की दरकार है !!

 

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कहने को तो हम प्रतिदिन भरपूर मात्रा में हरी सब्जियाँ, अंकुरित अनाज, फल, जूस, सूप, सलाद व संतुलित मात्रा में पोषक तत्वयुक्त भोजन करते हैं। वहीं दूसरी ओर लगभग 90 प्र.श. व्यक्ति विभिन्न पोषकजन्य बीमारियों, कमर दर्द, सिर दर्द आदि व्याधियों से पीड़ित हैं। नेत्र ज्योति कमजोर होना, थकान होना, हाथ-पैरों में सूजन आम बीमारियाँ हैं। आखिर हमारे खानपान, पाक विधि में कहीं न कहीं कोई त्रुटि अवश्य है जिससे हमारे द्वारा लिया जा रहा उत्तम आहार भी उतना प्रभावी नहीं होता जितना होना चाहिए। भारतीय पाक कला, व्यंजनों की विविधता, लजीजता विश्वविख्यात हैं। भारतीय महिलाएँ तो इस कला में निपुण होती हैं, किन्तु भोजन बनाने के दौरान वे ऐसी गलतियाँ कर बैठती हैं जिससे उसकी पौष्टिकता बहुत कम हो जाती है अथवा नष्ट हो जाती है। अतः आवश्यक हो जाता है कि भोजन पकाते समय कुछ जरूरी बातों का ध्यान रखा जाए। जिस समय भोजन करना हो उसी वक्त बनाएँ। बार-बार गरम करने से विटामिन नष्ट हो जाते हैं। जरूरत से ज्यादा भोजन न बनाएँ। बासी भोजन स्वास्थ्य पर प्रतिकूल प्रभाव डालता है अथवा उसे फेंकना पड़ता है। दोनों ही स्थितियाँ हानिकारक हैं। दाल, चावल आदि रगड़-रगड़कर न धोएँ, इससे ऊपरी सतह पर विद्यमान पोषक तत्व नष्ट हो जाते हैं। कोई भी अनाज एकदम बारीक न पिसवाएँ, विशेषकर गेहूँ तो चोकरयुक्त ही पिसवाएँ। हरी सब्जी, दाल, चावल फ्राइंग पेन अथवा प्रेशर कुकर में ही पकाएँ। इससे ईंधन तो बचता ही है, पोषक तत्व भी कम से कम नष्ट होते हैं।

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बासी भोजन और महिलाए

 

भारतीय लड़कियों में सुस्त जीवनशैली, बासी भोजन की आदतें और मोटापे के कारण पोलीसिस्टिक ओवरी सिड्रोम फैलने की सम्भावना बढ रही है.

स्वास्थ्य विशेषज्ञों ने बताया कि एक अनुमान के मुताबिक, 10 से 30 फीसदी महिलाएं इससे प्रभावित हो रही हैं।

इंद्रप्रस्थ अस्पताल में वरिष्ठ प्रसूति रोग सलाहकार रंजना शर्मा ने बताया, ‘मोटापा और पीसीओएस का गहरा संबंध है, खासकर जब यह किशोरावस्था के समय होता है .

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बासी भोजन और महिलाए

अक्सर अखबार में भी खबर आती रहती है कि बासी खाना खाने से चार लोग अस्पताल में भर्ती या पूरे परिवार की तबियत बिगडी. वगैरहा वगैरहा… इसी के साथ साथ तो कुछ  पंडित जी तो यह भी मानते हैं कि बासी खाना, बासी रोटियां दान करने, गाय को खिलाने से बच्चों पर बुरा असर पड़ता है. यही नहीं, गाय को खराब सब्जियां खिलाने का बुरा प्रभाव भी बच्चे की जिंदगी पर पड़ता है.

बेशक, बासी खाना हमें बहुत टेस्टी लगता है. आलू मैथी की सब्जी हो और बासी परौठीं या ताजे निकाले मखन्न के साथ बासी रोटी या बासी खिचडी और कडी….  एक रात की बासी हो जाए तो कोई दिक्कत नही पर अगर 5-7 दिन पुरानी हो जाएगी तो कैसे चलेगा… फिर तो वो शरीर को हर हालत में नुकसान ही देगा इसलिए ….

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A few authors of contemporary literary fiction have used unconventional styles or non-grammatical constructions in writing novels, and it poses questions about the pros and cons of doing this.  A classic example may be Joyce's "Ulysses," with its stream-of-consciousness narration, which has its delights, but makes for difficult reading over the lengthy work.  Another classic example can be found in Cormac McCarthy's writing, including "All the Pretty Horses." No quotation marks enclose any of McCarthy's dialogue.  It did not seem at all distracting or confusing, and it could be said that it produced a cleaner, less busy-looking text.  Such an approach might need a closer editing by the author, however, to avoid any ambiguities for the reader.

Gathering swell of fertile bud catches whisper of Memento Mori: Remember (you have to) die, and hastens to loose unripe seed

A more complex questioning arises where an author chooses to use non-grammatical constructions, as in a recent novel, "A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing," by Eimear McBride."  In a review by Fintan O'Toole in the NY Review of Books (Nov. 20, 2014), he characterizes the book as a feminist novel. He draws on a statement made by McBride that since men had already written everything, there was, for the female novelist, "only one small plot left to tell: the terra incognito of herself, as she knew herself to be, not as men had imagined her."

In McBride's book, the thematic structure portrays a female narrator (she remains unnamed throughout the book) who, in the words of O'Toole, "cannot build a self because the foundations of her childhood have been undermined by sexual exploitation.  The central event is the rape of the narrator as a needy, rebellious thirteen-year-old by the uncle who takes advantage of her as-yet indistinct desires. It is an event she is compelled to repeat again and again in crude encounters with strangers and with the uncle who abused her."

It seems there is a lot of subjective psychology used in the review, and the book, to see the girl's actions as self-punishment ("horrible can be a good act of contrition"), but let's go on to the grammatical construction that is so unique to McBride.  In a passage quoted in the review, the girl tests any power she may have over the uncle by forcing him to replay the original rape:

So he hits til I fall over.  Crushing under.  Hits again.  He hits til something's click and the blood begins to run.  Jesus he says.  I feel sick.  But I'm rush with feeling.  Wide and.  He thinks he's bad when he fucks me now.  And so he is.  I'm better though.  In fact I am almost best.

 The cognitive and grammatical form certainly elicit anguish, despair, and revulsion in the reader, but aside from questions about how reliable a state of mind might exist in the narrator, can such form sustain a memorable reading experience over some 227 pages? Evidently it did for O'Toole.  "McBride is not playing with form, she is playing with what has yet to be fully formed: language caught in its moment of transition between thought and articulation...The brilliance of the book is that this linguistic strategy exactly parallels the struggle of the narrator, who is also trying to come into being."

I shall read the book through mostly because I'd like to better assess the overall effect of McBride's writing strategy, but I would not be pleased to find to the end an unrelieved construction of the victim mentality.  Some captivating literature has included works of protagonist as victim, though they seem to show more hope and energy of the protagonist, if not some native intelligence, in trying to find a personal salvation or epiphany.

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Normally I review chidren's or YA books on this blog, but during my recuperation period I've been catching up with some adult reading. What a treat, really. I love kid lit, but occasionally I miss, you know, fat paragraphs, long sentences, bigger vocabulary. So I'll be reporting on those good reads for awhile, some as reviews, and some simply as musings on what I've read.

Recently I had the pleasure of reading J. L. Campbell's fine book, Dissolution, set in contemporary Jamaica.

Sherryn and Reece (short for Maurice) have a nice home, a passionate relationship, and five children that brighten their lives. Reece owns his own business. Sherryn has her own home business baking and decorating cakes. Life is good. Then one day the doorbell rings, and Sherryn opens the door to find a scantily clad, bejeweled woman who thrusts a young boy into the room -- a boy who looks exactly like Sherryn's husband and is even named Maurice. Thus begins a painful journey for both Sherryn and Reece as they struggle with the unintended consequences of a festering and prolonged quarrel that led to Reese's sole one-night stand five years earlier.

Both Sherryn and Reese are likeable characters with a mixture of sterling virtues and all too human flaws.  Reece grew up in a ghetto, abandoned by parents, semi-raised by another tenant, and determined to make something better of his own life.  He's a good father, a devoted husband, a proud businessman.  But he can't break ties to friends in his old neighborhood, especially Rodney, who seems always in trouble.  And his early life has made him controlling, wanting to keep his wife dependent.  Sherryn has a big heart, loves her husband and family and friends.  But, when angry, she shuts down and won't communicate, resorting to the cold, silent treatment.  And she's very independent.

Gloria, the one-night stand, has been blackmailing Reece for years.  She has two other children by another blackmail victim, vindictively delivering the children to their fathers when they don't agree to her higher priced silence.  Rodney proves a complicated friend: He's the one friend Reece can talk to, but solves many of his own problems by violence and gives very poor advice.

All of the characters are beleveably portrayed, including the children.  I feel I would recognize any one of them were I to meet them in person.

As for plot, the author keeps things moving:  Stunned by her husband's infidelity, Sherryn is nonetheless filled with compassion for the little boy, Maurice Jr., who has obviously been neglected and mistreated. She can't help nurturing him, while still torturing herself about what kind of relationship exactly her husband had with Gloria.  Their children accept the situation, but even as Maurice is welcomed into the family, Sherryn cannot forgive her husband.  All of this is just for starters!  Then, when things seem to be getting better, they get worse.  Just when you think they can't get any worse -- they do.  Lots worse!  Before the books end someone is murdered.  Who is the victim?  And who did it?

You'll have to read the story.

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Leslie Francis is Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Law, and Adjunct Professor of Internal Medicine in the Division of Medical Ethics and Humanities at the University of Utah.  Together with Margaret P. Battin, Jay A. Jacobson and Charles B. Smith, she wrote The Patient as Victim and Vector: Ethics and Infectious Disease which explores how traditional and new issues in clinical medicine, research, public health, and health policy might look different if infectious disease were treated as central. The authors argue that both practice and policy must recognize that a patient with a communicable infectious disease is not only a victim of that disease, but also a potential vector- someone who may transmit an illness that will sicken or kill others.  In the post below Francis looks specifically at the H1N1 outbreak.

The recent outbreak of H1N1 influenza in Mexico has been greeted with great concern to prevent spread. Trips have been cancelled, travelers have been quarantined, schools have been closed, and sporting events will go uncontested. Preventing spread is important, to be sure, especially of a novel agent with unknown infectivity and lethality. But there is a down side to all the worry about spread: it encourages us to think of each other as vectors, sources of disease to be feared.

We are all vectors or potential; that’s a biological fact. But it’s only one side of our biology. We’re “way-station” selves, breeding grounds and launching pads for literally trillions of microorganisms, all the time—but we’re also recipients of them too. In short: we’re all victims,
just as we are vectors. We live in a state of perpetual uncertainty about whether we’re victims, vectors, or both, at any given time.

As we are caught up in the fear of pandemic spread, we need to remember our victim-side, too. There’s been some discussion of this in the press reports: stories of empty hotels, the cancelled U-17 Concacaf tournament, travelers quarantined in airports, workers without
childcare, or pigs slaughtered unnecessarily in Egypt. But there have been no comprehensive reminders that people stricken with the flu or suspected as vectors are victims as well and in need of support: medical care if they are ill, economic consideration if their livelihoods are
lost, and just plain concern when events that are important to them must be cancelled to enforce the social distancing that is hoped to prevent spread.

In pandemic planning, much effort has been devoted to preventing disease spread. We are seeing the importance of these measures in the current situation. As fears wane, or refocus on later, perhaps more virulent phases of an epidemic or on future emergences of new infectious diseases, however, it is equally important for us to plan for victims and to ask what we owe them. Such planning efforts may be particularly important to encourage the sharing of epidemiological data in the future, if the economic impacts on Mexico are dire and left unattended, where data sharing and international cooperation is crucial in disease control. That’s a prudential imperative, but it’s an ethical one, too. After all, we’re all in this together,working together not only to prevent the spread of infectious disease but also to mitigate the impact of disease where it strikes.

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