Diet and Diet Reform
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Diet and Diet Reform

Written by: M.K. Gandhi

Edited by: Bharatan Kumarappa


First Edition: July 1949


Printed and Published by:

Navajivan Mudranalaya, Ahemadabad 380014, India.

@ Navajivan Trust, 1955


» Editor's Note
» To the Reader

PART I
SECTION I : GENERAL

» My faith in vegetarianism
» The Moral Basis of Vegetarianism
» Diet for Brahmacharya
» Green and Dietetic Ahimsa
» 'Food Faddists'
» Unfired Food Experiment
» Unfired Food
» Unfired Food
» Unfired Food
» National Food
» Minimum Diet
» For Four Rupees A Month
» A talk to village workers
» Minimum Diet
» Plea for more fruits
» Carrion-eating

SECTION II : RICE, WHEAT AND GUR

» Polished v. Unpolished
» Rice, Wheat and Gur
» Unpolished Rice
» Wheat and Gur
» All About Rice
» Waste into Wealth

SECTION III : SOYA BEANS AND GROUND-NUTS

» Green Leaves
» Soya Beans
» Soya Beans
» In praise of ground-nut cake

SECTION IV : GREEN LEAVES, ETC.

» Green Leaves
» Neem Leaves and Tamarind
» Need for Care
» Gauva Seeds
» Mango Seed Kernel

SECTION V : MILK

» Cow's Milk v. Buffalo's
» Skimmed Milk
» Cow's Milk for Lepers

SECTION VI : GHEE AND OIL

» Cow's Ghee v. Buffalo's Ghee
» Buffalo Milk-fat v. Cow Milk-fat
» Ghee
» Adulteration of Ghee
» Adulteration of Ghee
» Vanaspati and Ghee
» The danger of 'Vanaspati'

PART II
SECTION I : GENERAL

» Precautions against ills of the season (M.D.)
» Dietetic Changes (M.D.)
» Mortification of the flesh (M.D.)
» Vitamins - I (P. C. Ghosh)
» Vitamins - II (P. C. Ghosh)
» Physiological basis of nutrition
» Are you acid? (H. C. Menkel)
» What and how much to eat? (H. C. Menkel)
» Question on Diet (H. C. Menkel)
» Improved Diets (A. K.)
» Place of cereals in food (I. Amin)
» An experiment in National Diet (Pyarelal)
» Revealing Figures (A. K.)

SECTION II : RICE, WHEAT AND GUR

» The Miracle of Unpolished Rice (M.D.)
» Unpolished v. Polished Rice (Prof. Basu)
» Saving Cereals (D. K. Gupta)
» Useful Suggestion (M. A. Chadray)
» White v. Brown Sugar (M. D.)
» The havoc of Sugar (M. D.)
» Bad teeth and refined carbohydrates
» Potentialities of palm jaggery (Gajanan Naik)
» Nira - A Nutritious beverage (Gajanan Naik)

SECTION III : SOYA BEANS AND GROUND-NUTS

» Warning against Soya Beans (M. D.)
» Soya Beans (M.D.)
» Soya Bean Recipes
» A Soya Bean Book (M. D.)
» The Utility of the Ground-nut (A. K.)

SECTION IV : FRUIT

» The Merit of Amla (A. K.)

SECTION V : MILK

» Skimmed Milk and Buttermilk (W. R. Aykroyd and S. C. Dasgupta)

SECTION VI : GHEE AND OIL

» Edible Oils (P. C. Ghosh)
» Blindness at a price (J. C. Kumarappa)
» Nakali Ghee (J. C. Kumarappa)

SECTION VII : TEA

» Another Rising Menance (J. C. Kumarappa)
» Non-English words with their meanings