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A sustainable Diet Sri Lankans should eat- by Dr Harold Gunatillake Website: www.Doctorharold.com “Sri Lankan diet is an anti-inflammatory diet getting adequate nutrients, including herbs and spices with no calories, unlike the Western diets, mostly included meat, dairy and eggs, that poses an environment problem because the current food system already emits about one- quarter of the world’s greenhouse emissions”. Sri Lankans world-wide eat a well-balanced diet. The staple dish of the people is rice and curry eaten daily, sometimes more than once a day. It is still the cheapest food that most Sri Lankans living in Sri Lanka can afford. A street packet of rice and curry in Colombo is priced within the range of the average person’s pocket and costs about 2-3 dollars. ...