I believe that naturopathy is the best way to approach any health issue instead of considering allopathic treatment as one and only solution. I don’t need to mention the side effects and all the harm that allopathic treatment has done to humanity. Don’t get me wrong, I am not opposing allopathic treatment but simply saying that it should be used in case of emergency only when you need immediate result. If you have time and patience (which most of us have) naturopathy will be the best way to solve our health problems

As it is said that WE ARE WHAT WE EAT. Eating right gives us sound health while eating wrong can cause serious health problems. Here are five white slow poisons that we use daily which should be replaced by healthy food.

1. White/Polished Rice

Rice is one of the slow poisons that we use daily. White rice is considered as a slow poison because rice is in brown form naturally. It becomes white only after polishing in the mill. When brown layer from rice is removed it loses its vitamins and minerals particularly, vitamin B and roughest. Lack of vitamin B can cause loss of memory power, sleeplessness and other mental imbalance while lack of roughest can lead us to constipation.

                                 White rice is simple carbohydrate so the glucose contained in white rice mixes directly into blood stream and the amount of glucose increases dramatically which gives us instant energy but if the amount of glucose is high for long time then it can cause sugar. Due to the presence of brown layer, the brown rice only release required amount of glucose in the body gradually which allows you to stay energetic all day long.

So it is wise idea to use nutritionally rich brown rice instead of white rice.

2. Flour

             It is the second slow poison which we consume. It is used more widely than white rice. It is used to make different food products like pizza, cake, biscuits, breads etc. It is as harmful as white rice because most of the nutrients are destroyed in the process of making it white and roughest free. The amounts of nutrients which get destroyed are as follows:

Manganese	60%
Iron	70%
Calcium	70%
Zinc	70%
Vitamin B2	50%
Vitamin B5	40%
Vitamin B6	75%
Vitamin E Vitamin B1	30% 20%

Therefore it is clear that consuming flour (flour without roughest) is just the waste of money and health.

3. Vegetable Ghee

It is the third slow poison which is mainly used in Indian and Nepali cooking as the alternative of traditional ghee. It is better to avoid vegetable ghee because it is obtained from vegetable oil which is boiled in 700 degree Celsius. Even a trace of nutrition is not left after exposing vegetable oil in such a high temperature. It only acts as the liquid plastic disturbing the whole digestive system.

4. White salt

White salt or simply salt which we use on daily basis is another slow poison that have negative effect in our health. This doesn’t meant to say that one should stop using salt right now but scientists suggest that we should not use more than two gram of salt per day. Over use of salt in food can lead us to different kind of diseases like high blood pressure, heart diseases and it also increase the probability of cancer. So it is wise to use salt not more than two grams a day.

5. White sugar

It is the most dangerous among all the slow poison mentioned because it directly affects our mind. Researchers conducted a research among Australian students and they found out that the students who have difficulty in concentration and other aspects of study were using white sugar much more than other students. Based on this fact Australian doctors warned all the parents saying “If you don’t want to make your child stupid, please don’t give him/her white sugar.”

                                                                                                                The reason behind this is that white sugar takes out magnesium from food which passes out of our body with urine instead of being utilized. It is suggested to use brown sugar as far as possible.