Cancer update: Johns Hopkins

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> Cancer update: Johns Hopkins

>

> Cancer News from Johns Hopkins:

> 1. No plastic containers in micro.

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> 2. No water bottles in freezer.

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> 3. No plastic wrap in microwave.

 

How about NO frozen (and microwaved) at all? Giving it up is probably even

healthier, for those who are into that kind of stuff. But what is more

important, Srila Prabhupada wanted that we give it up, and try to live pure

life!

 

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As he lay in the half-light, I mentioned that I had heard some of the

temples were using frozen foods for their Deity offerings.

Prabhupada shook his head and gave a sour look. "Tamasic food, tamasic

activities! It is going on simply by Krsna's mercy!"

>>> Ref. VedaBase => TD 3-5: Paris and New Mayapur

 

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Hamsaduta: No, he said, "I was able to get frozen vegetables from the south

of Russia. They freeze it and then they sell it," he said, "but it is very

expensive, very costly." He was getting frozen.

Prabhupada: That is also nasty. Frozen means nasty. I never take frozen. In

the beginning I thought, "Oh, it is very nice, you can get fresh vegetable."

But they are not at all fresh.

Hamsaduta: No.

Prabhupada: All rotten, rather the same vegetable, as we have got in India

practice, we dry it and keep it. That is tasteful. In season time -- suppose

this season there is huge quantity of vegetable -- so here the system is

they cut into pieces during the season and dry it in the sun and keep it.

And during out of season it is soaked in water, it revives the old taste,

then you can cook. (Hindi or Bengali)

Devotee (1): Tastes as though it is different. The fresh vegetable the taste

is very good.

Prabhupada: Fresh vegetable must be, but still there is some taste. But this

frozen it has no taste.

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Room Conversation -- November 3, 1976, Vrndavana

 

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Prabhupada: So you will never discover the cure, and he will never come out.

Now somebody was saying that this freezing, the body within, they decompose.

The parts of the body are separate. That is... As we have... You take the

frozen vegetable. It is tasteless. It is decomposed.

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Morning Walk -- July 24, 1975, Los Angeles

 

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For weeks Srila Prabhupada had been taking a commercially prepared food

supplement, Complan, but now he refused it. "What is the use of artificial

food," he said, "when there is natural? You Westerners like the taste of

canned, frozen, preserved, rotten food. You eat and then keep the leftovers

for seven months, and this you like.

>>> Ref. VedaBase => SPL 53: Krishna's Great Soldier

 

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Prabhupada turned to Rama dasa. "This is very nice. Are the peas fresh?"

Rama dasa, embarrassed, explained that they were frozen. Prabhupada gave

Rama dasa an intense look. "Frozen peas should never be offered to Krsna."

>>> Ref. VedaBase => GTA 13: ‘The Southernmost Part of this Globe', Part II

-- Auckland, 1976

 

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Common forbidden foods include meat, fish, eggs, onions, mushrooms, garlic,

masur-dal (red lentils), burned rice, white eggplant, hemp (marijuana),

citron,* saps from trees (if not boiled first), buffalo- and goat-milk

products, and milk with salt in it.* Also, one should not offer canned or

frozen foods to the Deity, and it is best to avoid offering foods containing

unhealthy substances such as yeast and white sugar.

>>> Ref. VedaBase => PP 1.13: Gathering Items for Worship (upadana),

Pancaratra-pradipa, ISKCON GBC Press

 

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your servant Giri-nayaka das

 

 

 

 

>

> Johns Hopkins has recently sent this out in its newsletters.

> This information is being circulated at Walter Reed Army Medical

> Center.

>

> Dioxin chemicals causes cancer, especially breast cancer.

>

> Dioxins are highly poisonous to the cells of our bodies.

>

> Don't freeze your plastic bottles with water in them as this

> releases

> dioxins from the plastic.

>

> Recently, Dr. Edward Fujimoto, Wellness Program Manager at

> Castle Hospital, was on a TV program toexplain this health hazard.

> He talked about dioxins and how bad they are for

> us.

>

> He said that we should not be heating our food in the microwave

> using plastic containers. This applies to foods that contain fat. He said

> that the combination of fat, high heat, and plastics releases dioxin into

> the food and

> ultimately into the cells of the body.

>

> Instead, he recommends using glass, Corning Ware or ceramic

> containers for heating food. You get the same results, only without

> the dioxin. So such things as TV dinners, instant ramen and soups,

> etc.,

> should be removed from the container and heated in something

> else.

> Paper isn't bad but you don't know what is in the paper. It's just

> safer to use tempered glass, Corning Ware, etc.

>

> He reminded us that a while ago some of the fast food restaurants

> moved

> away from the foam containers to paper. The dioxin problem is one of the

> reasons.

>

> Also, he pointed out that Saran wrap is just as dangerous when

> placed over foods to be cooked in the microwave. As the food is nuked, the

> high heat

> causes poisonous toxins to actually melt out

> of the plastic wrap and drip into the food.

>

> Cover food with a paper towel instead. This is an article I believe

> you

> should

> forward to your family and friends-- anyone who is important

> in your life!