HOW BAD IS THE VEGETABLES, FRUITS AND OTHER EATEBLES WE SWALLOW


Almost everyone is doing the best possible to keep the body healthy. Keep themselves away from all that can cause anything harmful to the body. Whether it is Corona or Nipa viruses the government and people together take all sorts of precautions and quite successfully could overcome these deadly diseases. While this is a joyful story there is a tragic one on the other side of it.

The highest number of cancer cases in India is detected from Kerala, followed by Mizoram, Haryana, Delhi and Karnataka, while it is the lowest in Bihar. This is reported by Times of India in September 2018. In 2016, cancer incidence rate in India was 106.6 per 1 lakh people, while in Kerala it is 135.3 per 1 lakh people. Even mortality and disability rates due to cancer are high in this state, a new study shows. Kerala witnessing 73.5 deaths per 1 lakh females and 103.4  per 1 lakh males. Kerala has roughly 35,000 new cases of cancer every year. There are 913 male and 974 female cancer patients per million in Kerala. With a prevalence of 1.1%, there are more than 100,000 cancer patients in the prevalence annually in the state.

Factors related to work and living environments, bacteria and viruses, radiation and some drugs are chief promoters of cancer.  While these are all generally natural elements that may cause cancer, the state of Kerala is buying cancer from other states in the forms of vegetables, fruits, food components and packed food. The state media is constantly reporting about dangerous use of pesticides in vegetables and fruits, mixing mobile oil in coconut oil, destructive chemicals in food components, cooking food in unhygienic kitchens and umpteen other things.

The government has seperate department to prevent adulteration in food articles. For unknown reasons these departments fail to detect and prevent such adulteration. The government is also not bothered about any such foul play by the manufacturers, cultivators, traders or even by their own concerned departments.

It is the duty of any government, irrespective of political affiliation, to maintain the health of their people. They must prevent anyone, knowingly or unknowingly, pumping in deadly diseases to their people in any forms.

KV George
kvgeorgein@gmail.com

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