{"id":219531,"date":"2021-05-28T23:25:05","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T17:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=219531"},"modified":"2021-06-02T23:29:01","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T17:59:01","slug":"a-critique-of-the-youtube-broadcast-by-dr-anuruddha-padeniya-entitled-western-doctor-gives-a-thundering-slap-to-western-methodology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/a-critique-of-the-youtube-broadcast-by-dr-anuruddha-padeniya-entitled-western-doctor-gives-a-thundering-slap-to-western-methodology\/","title":{"rendered":"A Critique Of The YouTube Broadcast By\u00a0Dr. Anuruddha Padeniya, Entitled: Western Doctor Gives A Thundering Slap To Western Methodology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">By <a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Chandre+Dharmawardana\">Chandre Dharmawardana<\/a> &#8211;<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_171829\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Chandre-Dharmawardana.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-171829\" class=\"size-full wp-image-171829\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Chandre-Dharmawardana.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Chandre-Dharmawardana.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Chandre-Dharmawardana-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-171829\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Chandre Dharmawardana<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">We recognize that <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Anuruddha+Padeniya\">Dr. Padeniya<\/a><\/span>, being a medical trade union leader, is also a consummate politician. So, it is not surprising that he comes forward to \u201creveal\u201d various conspiracies and alleged corruption in some government departments. His explosive claim is that such corruption made Sri Lankans to eat poison in their food since 1960, and that they are still continuing to do so. He says that \u201cwe must go back to \u201c<b>traditional Knowledge, and traditional ways of producing food<\/b>\u201d, and that we must NOT EAT POISON. It is part of the Sri Lankan culture to take at face value what a doctor says, and say \u201cSaadhu, Saadhu\u201d, what a good, socially concerned doctor! But some readers may wish to read the <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/public-fears-about-modern-agriculture-pesticides-the-emergence-of-the-two-tier-food-market\/\">following report<\/a><\/span> in the Colombo Telegraph from 6 years ago to orient themselves on the issues involved before going any further.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VvfXzXXvgRU\" width=\"900\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">However, how much of what Dr. Padeniya says is true? How much of it is fiction?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>We must determine if Padeniya is capable of critically evaluating information. After all, we know of so-called \u201cspecialist Western<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>doctors\u201d who are turning to \u201c<b>traditional knowledge<\/b>\u201d to sell doubtful products that are claimed to fight even viral diseases. We know of doctors in Kurunegala who<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>supported the \u201cDhammika Paeniya\u201d, a concoction made by a devotee of the Hindu Godless \u201cKali Amma\u201d following a \u201cvision\u201d. We know of \u201cWestern doctors\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>from Karapitiya who falsely claimed that they were backed by the Karapitiya Hospital, and the Ruhuna University, in marketing an untested<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>anti-Covid concoction. We also know of \u201cwestern\u201d doctors who invoke God Natha to market their smoke pot (\u201cdum hattiya\u201d) and other \u201dtraditional\u201d treatments claimed to cure Covid in 3-4 days!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>We discuss Dr. Padeniya&#8217;s false propaganda, treated in three parts in the foregoing.<\/i><\/span><span class=\"s3\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Part I: Does Dr. Padeniya have any capacity for critical thinking?<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\"> Dr. Padeniya begins his U-tube talk by citing history, a subject where he is a layman. Reviewing what he says here is a strong test of his capacity for critical thinking.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">Dr. Padeniya tells us that in ancient times Lankans lived to 140 years of age. This type of claim is used<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>by Dr. Padeniya to tell us that the diet of the ancients ensured their longevity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">To support his<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>belief he claims that<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Pliny the Elder who wrote an encyclopedia in the 1<\/span><span class=\"s4\"><sup>st<\/sup><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> century has said so. He also claims that Pliny&#8217;s Encyclopedia is the best in the world. Pliny has also said that in theses tropical countries people had<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>one leg that they could use as an umbrella against the sun&#8217;s heat. He also claims that some people had dog heads. So, does Dr. Padeniya believe that ancients Lankans were like that? That Pliny&#8217;s encyclopedia is an uncritical collection of<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>information and mis-information current at the time is well recognized not only today, but even in 1646, by Sir Thomas Browne who made a study of Pliny&#8217;s work\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">Dr. Padeniya tells us that King Pandukabhaya lived to an age over 100 years, and that King Mutaseeha reigned for 70 years, and that any one who died at 100 was a \u201cyoung man\u201d dying. That very little is known with any certainty regarding the period of Pandukabhaya and Mutaseeha is the view of respected Historians like Prof. K. M. de Silva. Dr. Padeniya should at least learn something of<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Sri Lankan history by reading, say, Prof. K. M. de Silva&#8217;s History of Sri Lanka, Penguin Edition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">Is this the kind of \u201cevidence\u201d that the \u201cspecialist\u201d doctor Padeniya has to prove that the diet of the ancient Lankans ensured a long life?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>He could have considered<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>archaeological material like bones and teeth, fossilized feces etc., of the ancients to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>show what type of diseases they had, and even what they ate. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s3\">[<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Click for <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Natural_History_(Pliny)#\/media\/File:Nuremberg_chronicles_-_Strange_People_-_Umbrella_Foot_(XIIr).jpg\">picture<\/a><\/span> of tropical man with a foot adapted as a sunshade, according to Pliny<\/span><span class=\"s3\">]<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">In contrast, is said perhaps more truthfully that the Buddha died in his eighties. On the other hand, the Bible says that Methuselah lived to 969 years. So Dr. Padeniya should advocate that we return to the diet the ancient Jews; after all, if he can accept Pliny the Elder without question, why not the Bible, accepted by billions of people?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><b>Miraculous increase of life expectancy of people who eat poison!<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\"> Dr. Padeniya says that the multinationals and scientists of the agriculture department have conspired to feed poison to the Sri Lankans since 1960. Hence we examine the life expectancy of Lankans from 1950 on wards.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Miraculous-increase-of-life-expectancy-of-people-who-eat-poison.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-219537\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Miraculous-increase-of-life-expectancy-of-people-who-eat-poison.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"695\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Miraculous-increase-of-life-expectancy-of-people-who-eat-poison.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Miraculous-increase-of-life-expectancy-of-people-who-eat-poison-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Miraculous-increase-of-life-expectancy-of-people-who-eat-poison-768x593.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">So, Dr. Padeniya, <\/span><span class=\"s2\"><b>if Lankans have been eating toxins since 1960, by what miracle can their life expectancy increase?<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> If the food has poison, <b>how can the percentage<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>infant mortality (deaths per 100 births of infants) for pregnant mothers decrease drastically,<\/b> as seen in the<\/span><span class=\"s3\"><b> red curve<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s1\">? <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Recollect the Jataka story of the hare who, lacking any critical ability, frightened all the animals in the forest by claiming that the sky is falling. As in the Jataka, we extend our compassion to Dr. Padeniya.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><b>Part II: The Green Revolution, and Western Medicine <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Dr. Padeniya claims in an \u201cAyubovan Lanka U-tube that Lankans have been eating poison since 1960. And yet, as the accompanying graph shows, the life expectancy <b>increased<\/b>, while the infant mortality drop from 1950 on wards, steadily?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">There were two main reasons, among others for this miracle!.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">(1) The <b>Green revolution in agriculture that Dr. Padeniya condemns<\/b>, <\/span><span class=\"s1\">demanding a return to \u201c<b>traditional<\/b>\u201d Practices and seeds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">(2) \u201c<b>Western\u201d medical treatment and public health<\/b>. Dr. Padeniya gives them <b>a thundering slap<\/b>.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">His resort to violence fits with his wish to go back to \u201ctraditional methods\u201d!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><b>Agriculture and Fertilizers<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In earlier times, farmers used composted farm refuse, bone-meal, sulphur, and added oxides of arsenic and lead as pesticides. A farmer was lucky to get over 1.5 tonnes of harvest per hectare.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>When the <b>Harber-Bosch<\/b> method of converting atmospheric N into Urea became industrial in the 1930s, the compost-bonemeal &amp; sulphur agriculture was discarded. For the first time a majority of people, at least in the industrial world vercame malnutrition. Their life expectancy began to rise steadily..<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">But there was imminent famine in the poor countries that had just gained independence. The Indian government that faced a desperate death of millions accepted Dr. Norman Borlaug&#8217;s proposals and adopted modern N, K, P fertilizers, and modern high-yielding seeds that needed less water. This spectacularly successful agricultural transformation was named the &#8220;Green Revolution&#8221;.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>It replaced the dangerous pesticides of traditional farming, (i.e., oxides of arsenic, lead, sulphur) with much safer chemical pesticides. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">So, even in Sri Lanks, from 1950 on-wards, methods of the green revolution were steadily applied, and the \u201c<b>Mother of All Illnesses<\/b>\u201d, namely \u201c<b>Malnutrition<\/b>\u201d was increasingly avoided, leading to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>increased life expectancy etc., as shown in the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>graph. Lankan scientists developed new rice hybrids. They are heroes of this Green Revolution though slandered<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>by the like of Dr. Padeniya. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Dr. Padeniya wants to return to old, low-yielding grain like \u201cSuvanael, Kalu-Heenati\u201d etc., even though they take more water and more time to grow. He thinks they have medical properties! <b>This is an unproven conjecture, with no double-blind experiments to prove it.<\/b> A slightly lower glycemic index proves nothing as that depends on the level of \u201cpolishing\u201d of the grains used.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Interestingly, Dr. Padeniya admits that no one really knows the aetiology of high blood pressure or diabetes, while recommending traditional rice in the same breath!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">If organic fertilizers were exclusively used, following Dr. Padeniya, the harvests will fall to 1\/5 of conventional farming. If traditional grains are used, it will drop even further, bringing back the famines, malnutrition and short life expectancy, and high<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>mortality that preceded<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>the green revolution. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Some politically powerful Sri Lankans support an exclusive organic agriculture, and brashly say that they can provide ALL the food needed organically. Why the current world production of organic food (2% of the total food needed) cannot be jacked up to 100% as need is explained in the following web document. It is a review of the research article by <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/dh-web.org\/place.names\/posts\/CD-Mueller-OrganicL.pdf\">Dr. Adrian Mueller<\/a><\/span>, a leading agricultural authority and supporter of organic agriculture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Green Revolution is just the early dramatic effect of the launch of modern agriculture. But it has evolved to generate <\/span><span class=\"s5\">Good Agricultural Practice (GAP)<\/span><span class=\"s1\">, <\/span><span class=\"s5\">artificial intelligence-based Smart Farm technology (SFT),<\/span><span class=\"s1\"> g<\/span><span class=\"s5\">row-tower technology<\/span><span class=\"s1\">, GM foods<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>etc. Modern agriculture<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>has extended and superseded the Green Revolution. Carotene contains Golden Rice, a GM product opposed by Luddites like <i>Vandana Shiva, <\/i> epitomizes the Hippocratic dictum that food is also medicine. Dr. Padeniya also utters Hippocratic quotes, but to justify the unjustifiable objective of creating a<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>wasteful food system catering to the frightened rich.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In any case, what fertilizer should be used, and how much N, K, P and humus matter (organic matter) must be used should be determined by a soil analysis, and not by the dicta of Dr. Padeniya or Ven. Ratana. Almost a decade ago the Agriculture Department issue booklets for each district, giving recommendations of how much mineral, or organic fertilizer should be used for the optimal mixture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">But the problem faced<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>by the Lankan farmer is not whether to choose mineral fertilizer, organic fertilizer, or an optimal mixture. His problem is, once he has farmed using what ever fertilizer that he can find and grow his crop, he has nowhere to sell his product and get a fair prince. After successive build up of debt, ma ny farmers simply committee suicide. Dr. Padeniya has nothing to say about the central problem of the typical Sri Lankan farmer who cultivates a few hectares for his perilous living. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><b>Western medical system<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The \u201cWestern Medical system\u201d evolved from the old traditional herbal medical systems of earlier times. Western medicine in Lanka led to the control of most infectious diseases caused by pathogens. This task was<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>beyond the capacity of traditional indigenous medicine. The latter is strong on treating other physiological ailments, but not diseases caused by pathogens.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">So, infectious diseases like smallpox, measles, mumps, whooping cough, typhoid, diphtheria, dysentery, cholera, polio, TB, leprosy, as well as hookworm, tape worm, malaria etc., have all been put<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>down thanks to \u201cWestern Medicine\u201d.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>It is these successes that increased the life expectancy and reduced infant mortality. So, is Dr. Padeniya giving a thundering slap to \u201cWestern medicine\u201d to please the \u201cdesheeya vedakam-Ayurveda\u201d lobby? <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Dr. Padeniya says that some members of the GMOA prescribe a whole handful of pills when a slight change in diet suffices. So, the fault is not in Western medicine, but in the practitioners who collect commissions from every blood test done, every X-ray, and from every prescription filled. Even today 40% of rural children come to school hungry, and so, the prevention of disease still needs to target food production for the poor, and NOT organic food for the Elite who will still need those pills, needles and vaccinations.. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Many members of Dr. Padeniya&#8217;s GMOA prefers making money to disease prevention or even simple humanity to patients, or even to the dead. The following <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/dh-web.org\/place.names\/posts\/kafkaesque-SL-CoronaDeath1.html\">link<\/a><\/span>, where a doctor recounts how the practitioners play their game is illuminating.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><b>Part-III: Chronic Kidney Disease<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Dr. Padeniya claims that the chronic kidney disease now endemic in the Rajarata is caused by the use of imported fertilizers and agrochemicals. He claims that unless we exclusively use organic fertilizer, a new pandemic of Kidney disease more dangerous than <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Covid-19\">Covid-19<\/a><\/span> will engulf the country soon. Dr. Padeniya supported the \u201cNatha Deviyo click\u201d who claimed that arsenic and glyphosate in fertilizers caused the Rajarata Kidney disease. One of the \u201cNatha Devio\u201d people even became a minister, and Dr. Padeniya maybe keeping that in mind.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">If Dr. Padeniya cannot sort out the chaff from the grain of historical accounts or in Pliny the Elder, he is unlikely to sort of the complexities of the aetiology kidney disease or keep abreast of research. As the following link shows, Dr. Pasdeniya went directly counter to cutting edge research even prior to this:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The GMOA Guns Glyphosate &amp; Misses A Milestone Study On 90,000 People? See the <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/the-gmoa-guns-glyphosate-misses-a-milestone-study-on-90000-people\/\">report<\/a><\/span> in the Colombo Telegraph, 19-04-2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Initially every one thought that Kidney Disease in the Rajarata must be connected to the run off of agrochemicals<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>that flow down various rivers into agricultural areas. If that is so, those who consume the water in rivers, canals and tanks should be getting the disease. They did not, but those who live on high ground away from these agricultural waters, and drink water from their dug wells on higher ground are the ones who contract kidney disease! <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The wells used by affected people <b>contained an excess of fluoride and magnesium ions, of geological origin.<\/b> Furthermore, the well water did NOT contain any agrochemical pollutants. This was confirmed by experiments on laboratory rats conducted at the Institute of Fundamental studies and the Peradeniya University who fed rats with hard water containing fluoride. <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1704.07906\">It was shown<\/a><\/span> that the Mg ions in the hard water was implicated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Analytical work on the pollutants collected<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>by reverse-osmosis plants in endemic areas by Tokyo University, iresearch from the Kidney Unit of the Kandy Hospital all confirmed this origin of chronic kidney disease in the Rajarata., and <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s12403-019-00340-w\"><b>showed that agrochemicals are NOT linked to this disease<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">So, Dr. Padeniya is invited to brush up his knowledge of Kidney disease to avoid disseminating false information.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Dr. Padeniya&#8217;s proposal to install oxen-powered stone mills or \u201cSekku\u201d!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Dr. Padeniya attacks use of Palm oil, and wants Lankans to install \u201cKekku\u201d (traditional stone mills<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">for extracting oil, see Figure) in every village to extract oil using artisanal methods..<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A false prophet is admonishing the people to grow coconut without modern fertilizers or pesticides against beetles and other pests. People are to harvest the coconut, dry the flesh in the sun and them in use a \u201csekkuwa\u201d to make oil. Shouldn&#8217;t the GMOA establish a model village and show how to do it. If the model does not produce enough coconut, do you plan to import from Malaysia? This way of drying in the sun is sure to encourage the formation of te fungus Aspergillus which generates afflotoxins. If even a bit of poonnack gets trapped inside the crevices of the Sekkuwa that becomes a center for infection. Just because the ancients ate contaminated food as they were unaware of all these, why should we revert to these primitive and unsafe methods of oil extraction that leave half the oil in the poonack.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p7\"><span class=\"s6\">[<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Click for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.ca\/imgres?imgurl=https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/JIIIpy1yJcU\/maxresdefault.jpg&amp;imgrefurl=https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v%3DJIIIpy1yJcU&amp;h=720&amp;w=1280&amp;tbnid=9C-7w4OcrgVjdM&amp;q=oxen+powered+oil+mill&amp;tbnh=84&amp;tbnw=150&amp;usg=AI4_-kSNRCEB1FJQgfZFXxIXFcSdYJ6FdQ&amp;vet=1&amp;docid=xNEq3Xx7QfvSjM&amp;hl=en-CA&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwj2_6H1lOrwAhVdFlkFHWwcCiIQ9QEwBnoECAYQBA#spf=1622132510097\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">image<\/span><\/a> of oxen powered \u201cSekkuwa\u201d<\/span><span class=\"s6\">]<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p7\"><span class=\"s1\">Dr. Padeniya is seemingly unaware of the shortage of coconuts in the country. Palm oil is a safe inexpensive vegetable oil which is far better than animal fats or most other oils, and is the oil most used in the food industry. Professor Rajapaksa of Peradeniya University, Chemistry, wrote as follows;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cPadeniya is condemning palm oil without any scientific reason. &#8230; Coconut oil has the highest amount of saturated fat and palm oil is next. Sunflower oil and olive oil have the highest amounts of unsaturated fats&#8230;.Sunflower oil and olive oil are the best if not heated to high temperatures. However, for deep frying they are the worst because of the conversion to the trans form and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>carcinogenicity associated with reactive oxygen species production. These oils should not be used for deep frying.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>As regard to deep frying coconut and palm oils are the best.\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">What Prof. Rajapaksa says is well established. While saturated fats are toxic to insulin producing cells, unsaturated fats like Oleic acid may even be protective at normal temperatures. But the Lankan consumer needs a safe, inexpensive oil and they do a lot of frying. So, palm oil and coconut oil qualify. But coconut oil may be 5-10 times more expensive that palm oil. In extracting oils, low temperature methods, e.g., centrifugal extraction under sanitary conditions should be used. The artisan mills (Sekku) are open to dust, acid rain, insects, even mice that come to eat poonack residues. They leave their droppings in the mill. The miller comes next morning, ties the ox, and with the same hands roughly wipes the interior of the \u201cSekku\u201d and proceeds to extract oil.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Even the mouse droppings wash into the oil, and that is the quality of Dr. Padeniya&#8217;s traditional sekku oil! <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Some \u201cenvironmentalists\u201d object to palm oil claiming that palm plantations have destroyed virgin forests in, e.g., Indonesia. But such objections do not apply to converting derelict rubber<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>plantations to palm plantations, esp. in Lanka where an inexpensive frying oil is needed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><b>Conclusion<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> Dr. Padeniya is falsely claiming<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>that Lankans have been eating poison since 1960. He predicts an epidemic of Kidney disease more frightening than the Covid pandemic, although he clearly knows nothing about the statistics, or the causes of the disease. Just as for the hare in the Dadabbha Jataka, this very naive Dr. Padeniya earns our compassion. However, because he is a \u201cDoctor\u201d some people may accept his falsehoods at face value.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em><span class=\"s1\">*<a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chandre_Dharma-wardana\">Chandre Dharmawardana<\/a> &#8211; <\/span><span class=\"s1\">National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa &amp; <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Canada<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":158801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,46,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-constitutional-reforms","category-editorial"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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