Rice is the worst enemy of mankindWhat is the main obstacle of our country's (Bangladesh) development (-prosperityimprovement-betterment) ? If it is asked, certainly different people will give different answer. But if you analyze it from the view-point of medical science, then I will say rice is our worst national enemy. Rice is such a prominent food item which contains excessive amount of sugar (starch/carbohydrate). So it hastens our physical growth & we become adult (mature) very quickly. That's why we get married promptly & start having babies more speedily. Sometimes it seems to me that just a few days ago a guy who himself was a baby, now he is completely exhausted (-fagged-worn-out) being a father or grandfather of many children. That means eating rice is the root cause of population explosion in such a dreadful manner. If you don't believe you can look on the rice-eating countries, like china-india-indonesia-Bangladesh-thailand-japan-korea, all of them are going through population problem in the highest degree. For the unimaginable explosion of population, government become a failure even spending billions of dollar annually to provide our basic needs like food, cloth, residence, education & health. Rice not only make us adult (mature) very quickly, but also rapidly converts us to old guys. As a result we become incompetent (& worthless) for any jobs and turn to a burden to the family (& thus to the society & country). As because in old age we lack energy to work & various diseases invade our body & mind. It is true that sugar (starch/carbohydrate) is the only source of our physical energy & we can not survive without it. But it is also true that excessive supply of sugar (starch/carbohydrate) is horribly harmful for us. It can be reasonably compared to water. We all know that normal water is the root cause of our live & flood (i.e. excess) water causes our death. In our country almost ninety percent of people found to be have gastric ulcer who visits doctor. Excessive amount of sugar (starch/carbohydrate) in rice causes flatulency (gas) in the stomach, gas formation tends to the acidity & acidity leads to ulcer. Perhaps nobody will deny the fact that rice is the root cause of diabetes (I mean from the imbalance of carbohydrate produced by rice in our body for many years). You will not find gastric ulcer & diabetes epidemic in those countries where (wheat) bread is the main food item. Now I am to say that this poor country has to waste millions of dollars every year to import the medicines only for this two diseases. Some may say that most of the medicines of this two diseases are manufactured in our country. Yea, that's right ; but raw materials, machinery, packing items all are have to import. There are many pathological test done to diagnose these diseases and these diagnostic machineries & chemical reagents are also have to import spending lot of foreign currencies. Yet we can ignore the squandering of invaluable time (working hour) in the doctor's chamber, hospital & sick-bed. Not only these two diseases but hundreds of diseases can be named having link with this notorious rice. According to the physicians, there is no difference between eating a handful of rice & a handful of sugar. You may say that laziness is the main obstacle in the way of our country's development rather than rice. Then I will say that rice creates laziness in our body & mind. The excessive amount of sugar/carbohydrate in rice is the real cause of laziness. As it is usually seen we become exhausted from least exertion, excessive amount of sugar in rice is responsible for this situation. As rice contains immoderate amount of sugar & after eating rice it is digested quickly & the principal ingredient (sugar) is quickly absorbed in our bloodstream & the sugar level suddenly become high, so we begin to feel drowsy, weak & lazy like a diabetic patient. You can say, Japanese (, Chinese & Koreans) are also rice eater & still they are not lazy (like us); on the contrary they are very much active & hardworking & they dont become tired from little labor. Yea, in this regard they got some climatic advantage. They dont sweat so much even during hard work because of their cold weather, as we do. As a result they dont break-away easily from little labor like us. Moreover people of Mongolian origin (flat-nose) are anthropologically very much energetic & industrious. On the contrary we sweat much because of our hot & damp weather and thats why we get easily tired, exhausted through losing essential mineral

salts with sweats. So excess sugar in rice & excess sweating both are equally responsible for our laziness, debility & inactivity. Some pundits oppose that not rice but excessive eating of rice is injurious to health. But the problem is that rice has such a peculiar uncontrollable temptation to eat excess that few of us has the power to knock out such seduction. Contrarily it is very difficult for anybody to eat excess of wheat bread. As because rice is soft & wet (that's why easy to eat) and wheat bread is hard & dry. Somebody may say that poverty is our most vital problem. If you think little deeply then you will realize that rice is the basic cause of our incurable poverty. As because if we fill our stomach with rice unto the nose, it will digest & absorbed so quickly that within two hours we will become hungry again. So we have to eat too much & our expenditure on food purpose become high & it force us to reduce expenditure on other fields (like health, education, infrastructure etc) . Look at our physical strength or (slender) physical structure ; both are ridiculous, pathetic. And the notorious (black sheep) rice is responsible for this poor status. You will obviously understand the demerits of rice if you compare the physical structure of rice-eater Indians, Chinese & Indonesians with wheat-eater Arabian, European & American. You will certainly notice that players of rice-eating countries can not do much well in the strenuous games (like football, cricket, marathon, wrestling etc). The reason is same and that is if we eat rice our blood sugar level (energy) rises to the highest level for a short time & then it again reduce to an alarmingly lowest position. On the contrary, if you eat wheat (bread) it will digest steadily taking much time & thats why your blood sugar level will not suddenly jump to highest level for a little while. As a result your calorie/ energy level will remain in standard position comparatively for longer time. Like rice it does not suddenly rise to the highest level & then fall to the lowest level. If we do not start eating wheat bread quickly in stead of rice, then the millions of dollars our government is wasting every year for family planning, will have to continue for how many years Allah knows ! On the contrary, governments of the wheat-eater countries (like Middle east, Australia, Europe, America, Russia etc) are facing failure to increase their population even offering billion dollars bonus to their couples. Some analyst thinks that poverty & ignorance are responsible for overpopulation, not rice. If you look at the Arab countries you will see that their education rate very low & still they are free from overpopulation. And there was no population problem even (a few decades ago) when they were poor. Some people think that illiteracy is the main problem in the way of our national prosperity. In this point we can say that poverty is responsible for illiteracy, overpopulation is responsible for poverty & rice is responsible for over-population. Recently many people are claiming that corruption is our chief national problem. Think in this way that poverty-illiteracy-unawareness is responsible for corruption & in our country the primary cause of poverty & illiteracy is overpopulation. Population not being a blessing rather has become a curse & rice is mainly responsible for this kind of consequence. Some savant says that Japan is an overpopulated country and still there is no problem as their people are highly skilled. Really Japan is an exception & exception can not be taken as a formula. So we have to entirely give up the habit of eating rice from right now & start having wheat flour bread in order to build a healthy & happy nation. (Common oat (avena sativa) flour is more healthier than wheat flour. Because one of the greatest vitamines are usually made from its juice) I know this is a difficult job and it can not be done overnight but we must try our best. Another problem is that our women community are more interested in cooking rice than baking wheat bread. As because cooking rice is very easy but baking wheat bread is much hard. At the same time women should think that to eat rice we need to cook many delicious curry but to eat wheat bread these are not essential. Only potato fry or pulses soup is enough. At this cost we can buy seasonal fruits with the money usually spent for vegetables. That would be also better for our health. As the vegetables price is sky-high, it would be wise to consume one kilogram fruits in lieu of three kilogram vegetables. As we know vegetables contain less nutrient & yet most of them are spoiled by heat during cooking. To save our women from the hazard of baking wheat bread, the owner of hotel, restaurant & food industry can play a vital role. They

have to given up the habit of preparing incredibly small & thin bread fried with six month old burnt oil & rather have to begin making mega-size wheat bread like middle east countries, one of which is enough for an entire family. Moreover we can make wheat bread machine available in every family like Europe & America. Some may argue that wheat flour is more costly than rice, but at the same time they should also consider the facts of various diseases like diabetes & premature senility. According to the experts, wheat flours price can be easily reduced by mixing corn maze with it. We should also think about huge amount of water needed to produce paddy (rice), which will be a real problem in our country in near future (also for many other countries). On the contrary so much water is not necessary for the cultivation of wheat. To acquire hundred percent benefit from eating wheat bread we have to consume unfiltered natural flour ; because the food companies (market packed flour) greatly reduce its nutrient quality by excessively straining it (to make flour white). So our request to the government is that govt. should encourage people to produce & consume wheat every way (and discourage the rice). If it is necessary we can depend on & produce genetically modified (GM) wheat. As GM food has gained acceptance in Europe & America, then we should not remain hesitated about it. Moreover our holy prophet (pbuh) has given his opinion in favor of genetically modified (GM) food. In one of his sayings he said, in the last age there will be superabundance of food grains. That means rice, wheat, onion, garlic, fruits, vegetables etc of mega-size will be invented & people will be obliged to consume those (to get ride of famine).

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People's feedback......Dear Bashir, Thank you very much for the time you have taken for writing this long article. It gives us immense pleasure to find out our own people (Bengalee) to think something like this in so much scientific details. But I think you would not mind if I have some differences at a few points. I would be happy if you continue this discussion, for the fact that I am a rice eater but at the same time like to have wheat breads. The relationship of rice to obesity, diabetes etc. are unquestionable. No one is compelling us to eat rice only. So in India, we are having a combination of rice and bread everyday. In fact, wheat breads of different compositions like Aloo Ka Paratha, Luchi, Puri, Khasta Paratha etc. are very popular here. Obesity, diabetes etc. are international problems. Everyone is now changiing habits. So far as the relation of rice with population is not understood. If you have been married early, your parents did not do that because of their fear of aging due to having rice. It is a purely cultural affair. We have taken many good things from the west through TV and cinema and obviously given them many bad things. But we have to maintain some balance. Surely, we are not having so many babies because of RICE. We are not taking some scientific steps ourselves to curb the population. Also, getting tired is a mental phenomenon. Go to the interior of Rajasthan in India and find out how hard a man is working because he has to survive. On the contrary, we give up once we start sweating. Regards, Sakti. Rice is the Worst Enemy of Mankind - By Message List Bashir Mahmud Ellias Reply Message #11353 of 17073 < Prev | Next > RE: [ALOCHONA] Rice is the Worst Enemy of Mankind - By Bashir Mahmud Ellias re: Bashir ----------Many thanks...for your brilliant + thought provoking comments. I hope someday, someone will be funded...to explore more...about all the scientific facts... you have mentioned in your article.

Sadly, when President Ayub...advised Bengali citizens...to reduce dependency on rice,.....many years ago, some un-educated, uncivilized politicians in East Pakistan, led by AL morons.....opposed that advice....and promised us ...that we will get cheap rice..when AL comes to power.!!! It will be wonderful, if you can recommend...further reading...on this topic. Khoda hafez. dr. maqsud omar

To: alochona@yahoogroups.com From: jalaluddin_md@... Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 13:55:53 -0600 Subject: RE: [ALOCHONA] Rice is the Worst Enemy of Mankind - By Bashir Mahmud Ellias Bashir Bhai: Thank you for your effort. You have invested a great deal of time writing this essay. However, we cannot do much about rice other than modifying our dietary habits. Two-third of the world grow and eat rice because the land, topography and climate suit growing rice more easily than anything else. You can advocate mixing rice with other nutritious food stuff to reduce carbohydrates, but making rice responsible for our irresponsible behaviors and habits are not to produce good results. Regards, M. Jalaluddin Re: Maqsud Omar, You are a very good Bengali. Ayub Khan blamed Bengalis for not choosing Urdu as the only national language of Pakistan and called us "Crooked Bengalis" in his book "Dairies of Field Marshall Mohammad Ayub Khan: 1966-72". Jinnah and many other Pakistani leaders advised us on so many things for 24 years: why Urdu is better and should be only state language, how to live as second class citizens, how to forget about rights and believe only in Muslim brotherhood, how not to complain about discrimination, how to interpret election result correctly if it favors the Bengalis etc. Some un-educated, uncivilized politicians in East Pakistan, led by AL morons (AL thugs sounded better in your previous posting)......opposed those advices....and look what we got......independent Bangladesh. How can a proud Bengali tolerate that? re: musasarkar ----------------i hope you were not drunk / half-asleep, when you wrote your comments. i have written about rice.....why you are talking about urdu, and other irrelevent points!!! we all know that. Are you reacting , to my comments about corrupt+ unwise AL + other politicians? What made me a bad bengali? Talking about Ayub Khan? That is just a part of history....whats wrong with that? Dont get too excited and dont demonstrate childish attitude, when you discuss history and other facts of life. Have I made any comments about urdu, Jinnah etc?? It will be interesting to know why you brought up these points? Do you always react..if someone exposes inefficiency, corruption, immorality, mismanagement of AL + other politicians?

I hope you are not trying to divert our attention...from the black chapters of Bdeshi politicians. By the way, we are talking about RICE...do you want to offer any scientific facts? Do you want to tell us about other Carbohydrates...and why those are different from Rice? Tell us about the metabolism of carbohydrate, negative effects of rice in elderly people, costeffectiveness of rice as a major food. You can talk about AL garbage on another day...you can defend your CHOR politician-friends later......you can tell us how much AL thugs + few other politicians have damaged Bdeshi society, since Jan 1972!!! Cheers. Khoda hafez. dr. maqsud omar http://groups.yahoo.com/group/alochona/message/11353 Dear All, Rice is the worst enemy of mankind - This is a wrong statement. Rice like wheat, barley, potato, maze, corn, dates, grapes, watermelons, too sweet fruits, etc. are the supplier of excessive amount of carbohydrates, if eaten in excessive amounts. The genetic programs in mankind have been written in the codes of carbohydrate. It is the main source of energy for humans and many other living beings. Carbohydrate metabolizes and produce energy like gasoline/diesel etc. do produce mechanical power for running the vehicles. Carbohydrates are broken down into glucose, which is the "fuel" that gives our bodies energy. Insulin's important job is to help glucose get into the body's cells. Insulin Helps Build Muscle in the body. Glucose gets inside the cells of the body with the help of insulin and produces energy for the body. Carbohydrates provide the energy for the body to function. Carbohydrate can be metabolized only with insulin that body produces. Some people can not produce enough insulin to metabolize the required amount of carbohydrate to convert into body's need of energy. These people have type 2 diabetes. Some people can not produce insulin at all. They have type 1 diabetes. Medication, diet and exercise can take care of the diabetes problem. It is not curable but is manageable at present. In future, cures may be invented by the medical and bio-researchers. After eating the carbohydrate (no matter it is from rice, wheat, barley, potato, maze, corn), it gets digested in the stomach, producing the main ingredient called glucose. Insulin looks for the glucose in the body. Insulin is like a key that opens up the locks on the body's cells so that glucose get into body's cells. If the glucose can't get into the cells, it builds up in the blood stream and people become diabetic. If the diabetics is left untreated, high blood glucose can cause long-term complications. Additionally, when blood sugar reaches a certain level, the kidneys try to get rid of it through urine - which means that you'll need to urinate more often. Frequent urination can make someone feel tired, thirsty, or hungry. S/he may also start losing weight. The body also gets energy from a complex sugar called glycogen, which is stored in the liver and muscles. The liver converts glycogen to glucose and releases it into the body's bloodstream when someone is under stress and/or when extremely hungry. When enough insulin is present, muscles can use their glycogen for energy, but cannot release it directly into the blood. In type 2 diabetes, the liver releases too much glucose, especially at night (when the liver normally releases some glucose), resulting in high blood sugar levels in the morning. Insulin injections help bring down the amount of glucose released by the liver during the night, bringing morning blood sugars levels back to normal. When someone is sick or injured, or if someone is recovering from surgery, insulin helps to heal by bringing amino acids (the building blocks of muscle protein) to the muscles. Amino acids repair muscular damage and help them regain their size and strength. If there isn't enough insulin in someones' body when the muscles been injured, amino acids can't do their job, and the muscles can remain damaged and very weak. When the author is saying, "....rice is our worst national enemy. Rice is such a prominent food item which contains excessive amount of sugar (carbohydrate). So it hastens our physical growth & we become adult (mature) very quickly. That's why we get married

promptly & start having babies more speedily. Sometimes it seems to me that just a few days ago a guy who himself was a baby, now he is completely exhausted (-faggedworn-out) being a father or grandfather of many children. That means eating rice is the root cause of population explosion in such a dreadful manner." - Why someone has to eat excessive amount of rice to have excessive amount of carbohydrate? . It is not the problem of rice, it is the problem of someone's bad habit of filling the stomach with excessive amount of rice. It is not only rice, if excessive amount of wheat, barley, potato, maze, corn, dates, grapes, watermelons, too sweet fruits, etc., all will supply excessive amount of carbohydrate if eaten in excessive amount. So, whatever type of carbohydrate is eaten, most important thing to know, how much of these foods, contain how much carbohydrate and how much is the daily carbohydrate requirement for an individual. based on that information, eat only the required amount of carbohydrate, not more or not too less. Eat other things in addition to carbohydrates such as protein (meat, fish, egg, tofu, etc.), vegetables, fruits, salads, lots of liquid (at minimum, double the amount of solid, shall be the liquid in the meals). Please fill the stomach with all the other food ingredients than just the carbohydrates. Don't blame the rice or any carbohydrates (that are very essential for the energy of the body), blame the bad eating habits. Brain tissues basically live and function with the energy of carbohydrates. People become habituated in foods that are abundant in an area. Bangladeshis are mostly habituated in Rice, Fish, Vegetables, and Fruits because they are abundantly grown there compared to the other types of human foods. That is why the people of china-india-indonesiathailand-japan-korea eat rice abundantly. It is not true that the rice just produced so many people. It is the life-style, weather, environment, social norms, peoples' habits that caused over populations, not just the rice. The author states that hundreds of diseases can be named having link with this notorious rice. This is a very wrong and over statement. Rice is sometimes the cure for many dieses rather than causing hundreds of dieses. Rice water cures dehydration. Rice water is often the treatment for gastro-intestinal disorders for the minors. Eating excess of rice may make someone sick but it is not the rice, it is the human habit and the ignorance about food ingredients. Excess of everything is bad. Specifically consuming any excess food is seriously bad. The author wrote, "Some people think that illiteracy is the main problem in the way of our national prosperity. In this point we can say that poverty is responsible for illiteracy, over-population is responsible for poverty & rice is responsible for overpopulation. Recently many people are claiming that corruption is our chief national problem. Think in this way that poverty-illiteracy- unawareness is responsible for corruption & in our country the primary cause of poverty & illiteracy is overpopulation. Population not being a blessing rather has become a curse & rice is wholly responsible for this kind of consequence. So we have to entirely give up the habit of eating rice from right now & start having wheat bread in order to build a healthy & happy nation. But our women community are more interested in cooking rice than baking wheat bread." - It appears that the author is quite ignorant about many things and that is precisely our national problem, and definitely not rice. If someone is not ignorant and precisely know how much rice is needed for daily consumption for maintaining good health s/he is in good shape. Have stomach full of only rice and then start blaming the rice is really a serious twist in the fact. Only an idiot can think of replacing the rice as staple with wheat because the production of wheat in bangladesh is very limited but rice is produced in abundance, not only someone wants to do so, it is the soil condition, monsoon, water, weather, temperature, and thousands of years of know-how to produce rice, made it happen. Does the author want people starve. If someone is that ignorant, should not spread his ignorance all the world over. Chepe jawa bhalo. It is the illiteracy which is our main national problem, not rice. Rice producers must be encouraged and helped by researches for better productions, better technology, better seeds, enhanced procedures in cultivation and harvesting, such that the country can become self sufficient in the staples. Other foods must be tried to grow and produce, but the plan shall be realistic that becomes result oriented, not just based on the hypes. Over-population shall be controlled by proper education, family planning, assessing means to be able to support and educate the children, innovation, privatization, and achieving overall skill growths for all spectrum of the population. It is not only the number of people to see for overpopulation but counting the number of unskilled, unproductive, and ignorant people in the society. Japan is overpopulated but the second richest country in the worlds after USA because of their skilled people in the nation. Similarly Bangladesh can be converted from scarring humans into human resources, if can be made

everybody skilled utilizing their good hard work to produce and create wealth by the efforts of the self; rather than being engaged in hoarding and corruptions just being motivated to try to live on someone else's wealth. Corruption is the biggest problem of Bangladesh, not the rice, that is keeping 160 million people living. Without enough rice production, this enormous population would not survive. Don't listen to this author and do not blame the rice. Blame the bad food habits. Just be curious and learn the good habits in consuming foods, do hard work, do necessary exercise, take minimum medications if at all needed, avoid grease, keep yourself lean and strong, have good sleep, avoid stress, laugh as much as you can, you will be OK. Blaming the women community ( is a sign of chauvinism) not to want to make bread is really ridiculous. Women are not a different part of any society. It is the chauvenist male who sees it that way, and it is an utmost ignorance. Please understant the structure of the human society first, before advising the others, not to eat rice. Wheat by no means is better as a human food than rice. It is the wrong perception, not a reality. Thay are all carbohydrates. Difference is made in the amount, not in the kinds. A sudden unnecessary change from one food to other is rather bad for health, taste, attitude, and contentment. Genetically Modified (GM) food has caused havoc in the western world specifically by the fast food industries that have the widespread selling the genetically modified (GM) meat, poultries, fruits, veetables, fish and other types of foods. In many countries genetically modified (GM) food that are causing enormous problems for the people are being legally band. Not all genetically modified (GM) foods are bad but must remain careful and watch the results of GM intakes. Thanks and have agreat day. Regards, KR K. Raisuddin This original email was a very unscientific claim. I think member Raisuddin has answered it very well. This original email claims that eating rice causes diabetes. in my family there are multiple diabetes patients. No Doctor has said that eating rice caused that. However, if you have diabetes, you need to control your carbohadrate (rice, sweets, sugar, sweet fruits and so on) . Many asian countries eat rice (china/japan/vietnam). That does not mean they are doing bad. South Indians cannot live without rice. They are doing good. But in general, our eating habit should change like lowering carbohydrate, increase protein intake (non-meat), increase vegetable-fruits, etc. I do not think having the price of rice within the reach of common people is a bad thing. We could not keep the price of other food items within the reach of common people that is our failure. (Unfortunately I have to blame all governments, not just 2 Awami League governments, as many of us would like to do) About Ayub Khan's comment, I think his advice was based of pure hatred to us (Bangali/Bangladeshi whatever you say). I do not remember anywhere he appreciated Bangalees/Bangladeshis. I would stay away from any dictator. jahid russel re: jahid russel ---------------Is it not wise to refer/ quote articles, when u talk publicly about medical issues? You have honestly and openly expressed yourself, without much thought about facts + figure. Rice does not cause diabetes, but people who have diabetes in the family...can invite diabetes prematuredly, by? excessive eating, particularly of sugar + sweets + other carbohydrates lack of excercise overweight so a population...in bdesh...with rate of diabetes....will certainly do better...by reduing

carbohydrate intake, INCLUDING RICE.. I have borrowed all these informations...from medical text books. Just open google...and type..diabetes...you will get all these info. dr. maqsud omar Rice is the worst enemy of mankind Monday November 17 2008 21:28:42 PM BDT Tayeb Husain , Sweden Mr. Bashir Mahmud Ellias is completely wrong when he says that rice is the worst enemy of mankind. There is no empirical evidence supporting such a view. No scientific research has ever proved what Mr. Ellias has written. It is highly misleading and this write-up should not have been published in any public media. Bangladeshs poverty has a long history. In short poverty in Bangladesh is due to foreign rule (since ancient time) and bad management. Even today Bangladesh is very badly governed. But it is also true that Bangladesh was never better of than it is today (due to government by her own people, however inefficient and corrupt the government may be). Bangladesh and all the poor countries on earth, if we look carefully we will find, have awfully corrupt and incompetent government. Over population is the result of poverty and certainly not rice eating. Mr. Ellias can find truth of this statement just looking at his own well to do friends; they do not have many children if they are not just stupid. I have many educated friends in Dhaka and hardly anybody has more than 2 children. The case is not so with my lesser educated friends. Education is a great factor and lack of education makes many people doing many stupid things. When people are rich and educated, they do not produce children like rabbits even when they eat only rice. That is what statistics and empirical evidence prove. I live in Sweden and the country was poor until 1945. Swedish people eat potatoes and not rice. This very Swedish people used to produce children like people of Bengal and many had to leave the country due to poverty. Sweden became the richest country on earth in 1972 and she is now one of the finest countries on this planet to live in. Swedes do not produce children now in spite of much incentive given by the government for doing so. Most Pakistanis do not eat rice but bread. Population of Pakistan was less until Bangladesh seceded and now population growth in Pakistan is higher than Bangladesh. Over population is due to many complicated economic circumstances and Mr. Ellias may not make it more complex and confusing by giving a wrong theory. __________________ Tayeb Husain e-mail: th12sw@yahoo.com http://www.bangladesh-web.com/view.php?hidRecord=231847From: owaissafety@hotmail.com To: bashirmahmudellias@hotmail.com Subject: RE: Rice is the worst enemy of mankind Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 11:46:46 -0600 Whoever has written this paper, did not provide any scientific reason. Just to remind you that Europe has the highest population per squire kilometer since before 20th century. Europe had real bay boomer era after world war II. Most of the developed countries now want their population to increase because they realize the importance of human resources. Last but not least far eastern countries all eating the rice but they never look older rather always having baby face. Being a doctor you should know that the more you eat the red meat earlier you look older,

like many Americans. ........ It is my advise, don't make any comments unless proven. Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 20:17:04 +0400 Subject: Re: Rice is the worst enemy of mankind From: shams.mahe@gmail.com To: Bashirmahmudellias@hotmail.com Dear Dr, Before acquiescing the Rice, Tell me what wl happened if U convert Rice X = energy,& other foods,Rice is a food which gvs lots of by fiscal activity, Off coz if U eat a lot & U R not active it wl gv other result,It dos not mean Rice is the enemy of the Human, This has been using 4 long time & most of the population, So don't declare ur self, Tanha khalid ----------------------------Whoever has written this paper, did not provide any scientific reason. Just to remind you that Europe has the highest population per squire kilometer since before 20th century. Europe had real bay boomer era after world war II. Most of the developed countries now want their population to increase because they realize the importance of human resources. Last but not least far eastern countries all eating the rice but they never look older rather always having baby face. Being a doctor you should know that the more you eat the red meat earlier you look older, like many Americans. Arthur Jones .................................. It is my advise, don't make any comments unless proven. Dear Dr.Bashir Mahmud Ellias Sb Your given below email is really very shocking for me. Since after my marriage and almost from last 1.5 years i felmy self that i am going lazy and my memory is also going down. Infact i feel that slowly gradually i am going in backward direction cant concentrate on studies and othera ctivities cant drive etc etc but your given below email make me very very shocking. If this is reason than i will definatly think about this. Sir if you do me 1 favour I feel that i have acidity problem and when i wakeup early morning and going for toot brush i feel vomating. I am 33 Years old but my weight is under weight 47 Kg and i tried lot but cant gain wait. When i eat Egg or Fish or some other food i face pimples problem. In this situation please advice what i do. Your advice will be very very helpful for my life because now i deciced to continue further studies so please help me through your guidence. Regards

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