Way to an Objective Perception

Way to an Objective Perception

Six Seeds of Human Civilization

Six Seeds of Human Civilization

Nutritional Constitution of Living Organisms

Every living organism, including human body, is constituted and organised at four levels – cell, tissue, sub-system and the whole organism. The ultimate level of the organism is what is visible from outside and it only interacts with the external world. Here, I intend to discuss some issues relevant to human body, hence in the discussion that follows, the whole system is meant to be the human body.

Human Body

Human body is constituted of various sub-systems such as blood-circulation, digestion, breathing, sexual organism, excretion, etc, which interact with each other to make the whole organism to function. These sub-systems have tissues which, in turn, are composed of cells. Substances keep on flowing in these levels from cellular to subsystem levels, as essential to and indicative of their working. These substances work as nutrients for different levels of the constitution. All the conveyances of nutrients and products made from them by cells are in fluid form, making the life an intricate composition of fluid flows from cellular to sub-system levels.      

Nutrients, absorbed from the food we eat by our intestines, reach liver to get mixed up with the blood for being reached to cellular levels throughout the body. It depends on the nutrients quality, quantity and type how these nutrients are shared by various sub-system cells.

At cellular level, these processed nutrients manufacture new cells for growth and replacement of the damaged cells in tissues and for forming new tissues for growth. Some nutrients are further processed to be sent to tissue level to strengthen them. Here again, some nutrients are further processed and conveyed to sub-system level to provide immunity to the subsystem. Thus, at sub-system levels in the body, we have the finest of the nutrients pre-processed and pre-refined at cellular and tissue levels, while those at tissue levels are of medium quality and those at cellular levels are just raw. Thus, nutrients have three major roles in the body – growth, strengthening and immunity.

These multi-level processes are there in all living organisms including plants and trees and their produces – the seeds, which too are complete living organisms in their own rights, having all the four levels of their existence - cellular, tissue, sub-system and the whole. Similarly, human sperm and ovum too are complete living organisms.

Foods and Supplements

Some living organisms, such as food-grains, fruits, vegetables, animals, etc are used as foods by some other living organisms such as humans and wild animals, and also as raw materials for manufacturing food supplements, drugs and medicines for curing diseases in humans and pet animals. These raw materials too have four level constitutions as discussed above with storages of nutrients at the cell, tissue and subsystem levels. It is these nutrients that serve as foods and drugs.  

When we try to extract oils from oilseeds, at the first and the easiest way, we get the nutrients from the sub-system level, the finest of nutrients contained in the seed. Next, with more efforts and processes, we get the medium quality of oil from the tissue level, leaving behind the raw nutrients at cellular level. The whole residual produce is often called pomace. Nutrients contained in pomace  may be obtained through further processing of it.  The same concept is applicable to getting other extracts from living organisms.

Various nutrients extracted from living organisms, such as food-grains, fruits, vegetables, animal fleshes, etc, too have three qualities as discussed above and they provide the same services to the consumer for which they were meant in the living organism – growth, strength and immunity. Thus, a nutrient affects the consumer depending on which level of constitution it has been taken from. The first extractions work for providing immunity, the second provide strength while the third obtained from cells contribute to growth of the consumer. This is how drugs are made from nutrients for various treatments.   

Since, every living-being needs all the three attributes – growth, strength and immunity in differing proportions depending on the stage of growth, foods need to have all the three types of constituents to be full-fledged. This underlines importance of whole grains, fruits, etc in human foods.   

Roles of Parents in a Person's Life

Roles of Parents in a Person's Life

Get Freedom from Others for Being the Self

Get Freedom from Others for Being the Self

Replace your Jealousy with Envy

Jealousy and envy are two mean-alike words in general, but have quite different senses and influences on persons with these human traits. Each of us seems to be a victim of being jealous of others on some pretext or other. Most interestingly, one often become jealous with a person of his close acquaintance.

What is Jealousy
Jealousy is getting a heartburn when somebody else appears to be better off than you. It may be better treatment in the society, more wealth, or more beauty in the other person. When you are jealous, you don't try to analyze the realities of yourself and the other person, but get worried for harming the other in order to bring him/her down below your level. Indeed, this is a highly negative approach to things of competing negatively. 

What is Envy
When you are envious of some one appearing to be better than you in social respect, wealth, health or beauty, etc., you try to find out why he/she is better placed than you. Instead of harming him/her, you try to make yourself better than him/her so that you are more respected in the society, or have more wealth, or look more beautiful, etc. than the other person.

This sets in a positive competition between the two of you to better than the other without harming each other, but by improving yourself. In the process, both of you improve your own characteristics. Thus, envy improves the whole society while the jealousy degrades it.

What to do to in an Jealous/Envious Situation 
Firstly, if you are jealous of someone, replace your jealousy with envy. This is felt to be difficult when you find that the other person's capabilities are unsurpassable by you for your circumstantial limitations. this makes you helpless and you feel there is no way except to have jealousy and harm the other person to downgrade him/her to a level below that of yours. My advice is never do that.

There is always a better and positive solution to each and every problem faced by us. When you are jealous, find out the area in which the other person is superior to you as the cause of your jealousy. Then, look at your own situation. Instead of competing with the other person in the field of his/her superiority, find a field in yourself, where you would be superior to him/her and project this field of yours to the society to prove your worth better than the other person.

This way, you would easily become superior to him in your own field without disturbing his/her superiority in his/her own field. For each of us, there is always a field where one can be superior to others. This is the way of competing positively.   

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