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Are You Eating Dead Food?

20 Jun 2023 · 1 min

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In this short monologue, the speaker labels processed, packaged foods as “dead food” and warns that they lack life‑energy. He advises that freshly prepared home‑cooked meals such as chapati, sabzi, rice dishes, or biryani should be consumed within about three hours of cooking to retain maximum “life energy.” As time passes, the food’s life‑energy diminishes. The speaker contrasts this with packaged foods that are often prepared years in advance and preserved with chemical additives. While preservatives extend the product’s shelf life, the speaker claims they reduce the consumer’s own lifespan, arguing that the chemicals compromise human health and longevity.

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All these products, what we call them is dead food. If you make some fresh chapati and sabzi at home, in how long should you eat it? Ideally, अगर अभी कुछ पकाया उसको तीन घंटे के अंदर अंदर खालो। That's the time it has most life energy. As time passes, it starts to reduce its life energy. Why only apply this three-hour rule to roti sabzi, chawal sabzi, biryani? That we make at home. What about all this? What about all this? Forget 3 hours, forget 3 days, forget 3 months. Many of the things lying in these packets were cooked 3 years in advance. Chemical preservatives might, and they do, increase the shelf life of these products. But what do they do to your shelf life? They reduce your own life expectancy, your own life.