Traditional Rice, A Mental Health Perspective


A Research done by Clinical Psychologist Dr.Julia, University of Carlgary, says that Mental health is directly related to nutritional intake. Her research shows increase in nutritional intake not only helps to cure mental illness like depression, ADHD(Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder), autism, bipolar disorder but also act as a prevention measure for many mental health disorders. It has been proven that high nutritional intake was very effective in treating ADHD children who were failed by ordinary Psychiatric medication.

India's rice seed diversity is so large that there was more than 2 lakh varieties of rice seeds grown throughout the country.That is, if one tastes, one rice for a day, it would take more than 200 years to taste all different types of rices of India.


.                                  A Traditional Brown Rice

Our research shows that our indigenous traditional rices varieties are found to be nutrition rich with many essential micro-nutrition needed for our human body. There are a lot to research in this field to support this. Now, its obvious that, if we want a mental healthy society, then we need to switch to indigenous traditional nutrition rich foods and reject hybrid and GM foods.

Almost all food we eat today are produced from hybrid seeds that were introduced during Green revolution in 1960s. Foods of hybrid seeds have high toxic pesticide residue that are proven to be carcinogens. Also, these foods don't have adequate nutrition in them. But anyways, they were peddled successfully by Indian Government as a part of commercializing Indian agriculture for the corporate welfare.

Now, we have only 3% of indigenous traditional rice seeds out of 2 lakh traditional rice seeds. Remaining, 97% seeds are extinct from the farmers. But, Bill Gates's agri-business Corporate Empire, Bayer, has all extinct indigenous rice seeds stored in their laboratory. They are waiting for us to fall, so that they can capture the food supply chain by controlling seeds.

Its high time we understand the importance of traditional seeds and politics behind it, for achieving food sovereignity and for a safe food.

The Author, Selva karthik is an indigenous rice seed and organic farmer, at Dr.Richhariya in-situ Rice Seed Centre.

Click here to know more about Dr. Julia's research.

Comments

  1. AnonymousOctober 27, 2024 at 6:01 PM

    Can you please point a source for the 3% and 97% numbers? Also, doesn't the indian government, despite its pro imperialism capitalism bias, keep any vault of indigenous seed at par with gates or monsanto? Thanks, Abhishek

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