Millet Man Dr Khader Valli, a US-returned scientist has dedicated his life to building a healthy society after resigning from a lucrative job in an MNC. His research on millets and health benefits of millets for everyone is now in the form of a book ‘Siri Lokam’. He was born in Andhra Pradesh but based in Mysuru. He talks of his inspiration behind leaving a comfortable job to pursue research in millets – “When I heard that a six-year-old girl menstruated, I was shocked at the news, which is unnatural, and I started exploring healthier options.”
According to him it is time people shifted to eating millets that have more fibre and are extremely beneficial to people especially those suffering from chronic conditions like Diabetics, Thyroid, PCOD etc., He especially stressing on the five magic millets – Foxtail Millets (Korra Biyyam), Little millet (Saamelu), Kodo Millet (Arikalu), Barnyard (Oodalu) and Browntop Millets (Andu Korralu).
The generation of the coming age should menstruate at the age of 14. But now many girls are getting their first period below 10 years; this is something that says we are going in the wrong direction. No scientist, doctor, or a politician is bothered about this issue, and this is the real problem. I want the common man to know how to stop early puberty by not taking milk. Drinking milk is not good for anyone. Oxytocin/ estrogen hormones are injected into cows to increase milk yield, micro levels of those hormones present in milk are one reason for early puberty in girls. Replace your milk with till laddu (sesame), take 100 gm in a week which will give you calcium.
