Today's topic is how important it is for us to maintain a clean diet and eat healthy food. Often, we eat food from roadside stalls, oily food, and other things that aren't good for our health, like street food. Street food is often cooked in very poor quality oil and contains a lot of refined flour, and we don't know what ingredients are used, how old the oil is, or how old the potatoes are. Eating this kind of food is completely unhygienic for our bodies. That's why eating healthy food is so important, because it provides our bodies with energy for a long time, keeps us healthy, and makes our lives more meaningful. We should always eat food that provides us with protein, vitamins, and many minerals, and avoid food that contains nothing but palm oil or other unhealthy oils, which can harm our health and upset our stomachs.
What we say has a direct effect on our bodies. For example, if we eat very heavy or oily food, our minds will slow down, and this is scientifically proven. When we eat unhealthy food, our minds become completely focused on digesting it. The digestive system has to work very hard to process and digest that unhealthy food. Because of this, when you eat a heavy meal, you'll feel like your brain isn't working properly, and you'll respond very slowly. Your mind won't be able to think or speak quickly. Therefore, you should always eat food that gives energy to your mind and body and is easily digestible, such as vegetables, sprouts, or fruits. Eating these kinds of foods will allow your mind to respond quickly and is very beneficial for your mental health.
We've noticed a major problem in today's world. A huge problem has emerged in the market. People are developing a strong craving for soft drinks and sugary beverages, and they're consuming things they shouldn't be. These drinks are loaded with sugar, which increases body fat and is bad for your health. It raises cholesterol, and all of this is very harmful. People are drinking three liters of these drinks a day these days. What are the consequences? There was a man in China who had eight stones removed from his stomach after surgery. Eight stones! He was drinking three liters of Coca-Cola every day. So you can imagine how much damage all of this does to your body and how harmful it is. That's why you shouldn't consume cold drinks, wafers, or chips, because they cause many problems and shorten your lifespan.
Children have also become major victims of this, because nowadays children love to eat processed food, sweets, and chocolates. And all of this has become very harmful these days. If you give a child chocolate, which contains a large amount of sugar, it will be very bad for their body. And if you give them things like Coca-Cola, which are full of chemicals, you can imagine how much harm it will do. Processed food should absolutely not be given to children, such as chips and other snacks, because they are very harmful. Chips contain a lot of palm oil, which can be very bad for children's health. And the problem with processed food is that it contains a lot of chemicals to increase its shelf life. If you feed all these things to your child, imagine how much harm it will cause. And nowadays, parents give their children Maggi noodles because they're quick and easy to prepare. Maggi is one of the worst things you can give them. Preservatives are added to it so that it doesn't spoil quickly. You'll see that even if you leave Maggi outside for 10 days, it won't spoil because it's full of so many chemicals. Not even bacteria will eat it because it's so bad.
That's why people in the olden days lived longer because they ate home-cooked food. They had their own farms. They ate fresh vegetables from their own harvest. They didn't consume a lot of oil. In the past, people cooked with pure ghee. The concept of cooking oil didn't even exist back then. Everyone milked their own cows and converted the milk into ghee. That's what they used for cooking because there was no cooking oil available. Even now, cooking oil hasn't reached many places. But in the past, there was nothing like cooking oil. Ghee was the main cooking medium, and that was it. Food cooked with ghee is easily digestible and very beneficial for the body. We should learn from these practices of the older generation.