1960 Medical batch, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Below-knee prosthesis, product of Sri Lanka. email from Dr. Susiri Weerasekara.

The 'all locally made' functional, low cost 'Below knee prostheses' on a

bilateral amputee at Colombo FINS.

Coconut oil - The great coconut debate. email from Dr.JKS Weerasekara

Below is an article with favorable comments on coconut and coconut oil.

My studied views on just one aspect are these;
How or who gave coconut oil a bad name?
A University (not sure of ? Pensylvania in the early 1950s?) experimented on rats with intent to produce atheroma in blood vessels of rats.
They deprived the rats of some essential amino-acids for some weeks and then fed margarine in abnormal amounts to these rats. Atheroma was produced in their blood vessels. They succeeded.
But today we know that margarine in any form is bad due to hydrogenation creating transfats. Further, the rats were unhealthy being deprived of some essential amino-acids for weeks intentionally. And overfed.

So the university published it (quite properly).

But we note that giving hydrogenated fats to deprived rats was just an artificially created scene.
Not normal dietary quantities by healthy rats.

A similar situation was 100 years ago when Russian doctor Anitshkov produced atheroma in the aorta by feeding egg and also milk to rabbits.

But Rabbits are vegetarian!
So they got an unnatural diet just as with the margarine given to sick rats!
( he did not plan to criticize eggs. Only to produce artheroma somehow. It had not been done before)
Rather late, today we know that eggs are acceptable in spite of their cholesterol content. Exonerated after 100 years. Perhaps due to the clout of rich egg producers.

The rat experiment too was (presumably) not to run down coconut oil but somehow to create atheroma. By hook or by crook. So they did.

Then the fun started.
The Oil producers Association in the U.S. (not petroleum) jumped on the news. They had prospered during the 2nd world war 1939 to 1945 selling their local stuff(corn oil, sunflower oil etc) since during the war cheap coconut oil imports from Asia ran dry.

So they set about running down the cheap coconut oil!

Soon the administrator of the university got a top post at the Oil producers ASS. And the top man in the Oil producers Association got the university post ensuring propaganda success for the American oil producers.( not on the net now)

Asian Coconut producers are not in the same league financially as rich egg and poultry producers. So Dr. Janaki Gunaratne’s research will be ignored by the rich oil merchants.

It is not difficult to get at some of this information on the net, but now all the details cannot be got.
Shall write on coconut oil and fiber another day.
Dr. jksweerasekera

http://healthimpactnews.com/2011/new-extensive-research-from-sri-lanka-shows-coconut-oil-has-no-risk-to-cvd-and-that-coconut-residue-has-great-promise-for-treating-heart-disease/

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Eyes

Video link sent by Piyaseeli Wedisinghe.

Monday, November 12, 2012

email from Drbdes

Drbdes@fuse.net

15:03 (16 hours ago)

to me

Dear batchmates and other Alumni

Many have come and gone, many names only in distant memory

Many faces hardly recognizabe.

But among. Buddhas

Disclosures was

Rupan jeerathi

Nama gothram

Naji rathi=

physical aspects

Are transient, may not be permanently stored in the mind or memory

Its the acts, Karma,

That is permanently , embedded,

And not subject to decay, death, and never really forgotten.

This is firmly embedded in some form, in all beliefs, all teachings.

Dr de s

Usa

Saturday, November 10, 2012

Having a Ball for Diwali, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

I came across this large bill-board near the Galla- Face Roundabout. They were advertising for a 'Ball' on Deepawali day. An evolving culture of the leisured class in Sri Lanka.