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Devotees urged to give healthier food to monks
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December 17, 2012, Monday
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SRI Lanka yesterday unveiled new guidelines encouraging devotees to donate low-sugar, healthier food to the country's Buddhist monks after warnings that half of them risk developing diabetes.
Sri Lanka's monks eat food containing on average 12 teaspoons of sugar a day, but it should be cut to a maximum of eight, while salt intake must also be cut sharply, the health ministry said.
"Diabetes and other non-communicable diseases among Buddhist monks can be reduced if the faithful follow the new diet guidelines."
Fifty percent of the island's 40,000 venerated monks face the risk of diabetes compared to the national average of 10 percent and the clergy also suffers a higher risk of heart disease, the ministry noted.
Buddhism is the religion of the majority of Sri Lanka's 20 million people, who believe offering meals, cakes, biscuits and sweets to monks will bring them good karma in this life as well as in the next.
Sri Lanka's monks eat food containing on average 12 teaspoons of sugar a day, but it should be cut to a maximum of eight, while salt intake must also be cut sharply, the health ministry said.
"Diabetes and other non-communicable diseases among Buddhist monks can be reduced if the faithful follow the new diet guidelines."
Fifty percent of the island's 40,000 venerated monks face the risk of diabetes compared to the national average of 10 percent and the clergy also suffers a higher risk of heart disease, the ministry noted.
Buddhism is the religion of the majority of Sri Lanka's 20 million people, who believe offering meals, cakes, biscuits and sweets to monks will bring them good karma in this life as well as in the next.
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