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The #Centre launched a standardised national protocol to identify and provide extensive care to malnourished children in the country which includes fresh initiatives like appetite testing and “buddy mother” concept. trib.al/SYttOyk

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Don’t know what in my Delhi riots judgment upset the government; any other judge should have done the same: Justice S Muralidhar report by @ayeshaarvind barandbench.com/news/dont-know…

A survey of 545 undergrad students revealed that while 75% SC/ST/OBC students were found to be negatively affected by casteist comments, 59% students from GC reported they either agree with or are neutral to casteist remarks, reports @al_lakshman. trib.al/XJZBNwp

Really shocking how much damage a single scaremongering article by the @nytimes has done to journalism in India. And they were warned that this would happen. scroll.in/article/105714…

The broad social composition that Bihar Caste Census shows isn't completely new information. Here is what the data released so far shows and what it is expected to show if released in full. With @Roshanjnu in today's @htTweets hindustantimes.com/india-news/4-c…

Today @RahulGandhi has truly elevated the public discourse by this deeply personal and thought-provoking piece. This is in keeping with the personality who showed his real self all through the 4000-km long Bharat Jodo (pad)Yatra.

“He was hungry, repeatedly asking for water. They were saying Lodhas are thieves. They must be taught a lesson.” 12 year old. Adivasi. Starving. Lynched for allegedly stealing food in the world’s fifth largest economy. thewire.in/rights/12-year…

Between February 2023 and June 2023 kidney doctors at Aster MIMS Hospital, Kottakkal, in Kerala started getting a series of patients with a rare and strange type of kidney disease. They were baffled. They called it Neural epidermal growth factor-like 1 protein (NELL-1) associated membranous nephropathy - a weird disease where the the body's immune system was attacking the filtering membranes of the kidney. The disease was characterized by massive loss of protein in urine (>3.5 g/day) and clinically presented with severe leg and face swelling, high blood pressure, frothy urine, and clot formation in blood vessels of legs or lungs and sometimes strokes. The first patient was a 14 year old girl, followed by her relative. Both their kidney biopsies were positive for NELL-1 kidney disease. Then came a completely unrelated 29 year old man. The doctors were alarmed. And they looked at their records. There were five more such patients within the past 4 months. They looked at published literature and found a common culprit among most NELL-1 cases recorded. Mercury. Blood levels of mercury in patients were checked and the doctors were stunned. Levels were 100 times more than normal limits of detection. But what was common to all these mercury poisoned unrelated patients? And a thorough clinical history in retrospect found the culprit. Fairness creams. All patients were using locally made fairness creams to lighten their "naturally-beautiful dark skin." Fairness creams contaminated with mercury, causing chronic mercury poisoning and NELL-1 kidney disease is well known. See this report from Akola and Mumbai - tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108… Another cause for Nell-1 kidney damage is presence of lipoic acid which can by itself cause membranous nephropathy. Lipoic acid is a common constituent of fairness creams and many oral antioxidant supplements - be wary of this. Check your supplements. See here sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Not only fairness creams, but traditional herbal medicines, especially Ayurveda & Siddha formulations which Indian "wellness gurus" such as Sadhguru so passionately promote, have been implicated in multiple cases of mercury-induced severe Nell-1 kidney disease. See here kidney-international.org/article/S0085-… here kireports.org/article/S2468-… and here ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P… Be wary of locally made cosmetics, lipoic acid based oral supplements and Ayurvedic and Siddha herbal products. Know what is good for you. And more importantly, know what is not. Avoid unwanted troubles. Use the knowledge from medical science as a shield to defend yourself against unscientific practices and bad science. Sources: 2023 Kerala: Want To Become Fair? Beware Of MN Syndrome - timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/tracking… 2022 Mumbai: Mumbai doctors link fairness cream to kidney illness in family - timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/mu…

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Call it Bharath or India, the fact remains that financial savings of households fell to a 50 year low. - Medical inflation here is the highest among Asian countries, The cost of treatment has doubled in five years. - Education inflation has risen by over 12% - 74% in India can’t afford a healthy diet - Price of a Veg thali has increased by 24% Net household assets: FY21 ₹22.8 trillion 🔻 FY22 ₹16.96 trillion🔻 FY23 ₹13.76 trillion 🔻 Modi Sarkar is rigging data on economic growth. Bharath v/s India, Santana Dharma, unveiling of new Parliament, G20 etc etc, all are diversions from real issues. Will the BJP Govt ever speak on these issues?

To give people some context, Inner Engineering is a Yogic process designed by a guy named Jaggi Vasudev, popularly known as Sadhguru who has also claimed that 1) consuming mercury improves health, 2) in twin pregnancy one breast produces one type of milk while the other produces another type, 3) water has memory, 4) genetic make up can be changed through yoga and 5) a woman is the flower of human species.

Thanthai Periyar: Revolutionary icon & iconoclast who gave us the radical praxis which informs our politics day after day -- Self Respect, Rationalism, Caste Annihilation, Women's Liberation. As we celebrate his birthday as the Day of Social Justice as announced by our Hon'ble CM @mkstalin, let us pledge and renew our commitment to his ideals. #Periyar145

“Education is the key to breaking the chains of superstition and ignorance.” ~ Periyar Our homage to the great social reformer, champion of social justice and equality, Thanthai Periyar on his birth anniversary.

What happens when a bullsh*tting integrative holistic wellness coach meets the pseudoscience poster boy of India? Intense mental constipation and explosive verbal diarrhea. In todays edition of "This Does Not Happen", we discuss "Fasting, Gut Health and Gut "Reset." First, intergrated medicine is a fraudulent practice. And make no mistake, functional medicine is too. See here thehindu.com/podcast/can-an… and here sciencebasedmedicine.org/functional-med… Fasting is overrated. For those who did not understand that Overrated meaning: valued too highly or have a higher opinion of (someone or something) than is deserved. There is nothing called as "gut health." Microbiome scientists have never identified or defined what a "healthy microbiome in the gut is," but have only figured out some beneficial gut bacteria. Every holistic coach, every alternative medicine practitioner, every half-baked gastroenterologist (*cough* Pal *cough* *cough*), every overconfident nutritionist and science-defying dietitian-influencer on the internet has abused the word "gut health" so much that it has started featuring on Ayurvedic, Homeopathic and Naturopathic products which science-illiterate people lap up wholesale. Trust me, none of them have any clue what the gut microbiome means and what its functionality & potential truly are. No one knows in fact and medical science is only figuring it out - one step at a time. The only time where medical science actually found value of a "gut reset" is the role of healthy donor stool transplant to treat severe, recurrent Clostridium difficile infections. uptodate.com/contents/fecal… Fasting does modulate the intestinal bacteria. But NOT so much that it RESETS the whole gastrointestinal system. It is quite stupid to think of it that way. Fasting was shown to increase populations of certain bacteria. But this is in no way a "detox" (another fraudulent wellness selling term) and no way a "reset." For example, when the gut is empty, mucosal slime inside intestines increase and a specific bacteria that feeds of the slime outcompetes other bacteria and increases - called Lachnospira. That is not a reset at all. Every study on fasting and "gut health" has been very basic, based on biochemical or molecular parameters and none clinically translated into beneficial interventions. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jo… Even the other commonly used term "autophagy" in the exercise/diet/nutrition/health-influencer circles is complete hocus pocus. Yes, autopaghy exists, but there is absolutely NO clinical evidence that such a process with fasting does anyone anything good. "Fasting and autophagy" related speculative benefits have NOT yet been demonstrated in real-world clinical trials involving people. time.com/6216011/does-f… Fast is you feel like it. If you can tolerate it. If you are pious and your religion warrants it. But dont think its resetting anything, other than your confirmational bias, which has been strengthened by your personal, anecdotal experience which is further strengthened by your exposure to videos that "hijack science sounding terms" narrated by "overconfident medical-science-pirates," who keep lying, day in and day out on the internet.

तू इधर उधर की न बात कर, ये बता कि क़ाफ़िला क्यूँ लुटा ? मोदी जी, इधर-उधर की बातें कर के जनता का ध्यान, 'महँगाई द्वारा महालूट', से हटाना चाहतें हैं। मोदी सरकार की महालूट के चलते, कमरतोड़ महँगाई का सबसे अधिक खामियाज़ा 20% सबसे ग़रीब लोगों को भुगतना पड़ रहा है। खान-पान की चीज़ों के दाम आसमान छू रहें हैं और देश अब ये जान गया है कि उनकी तकलीफ़ों का एकमात्र कारण भाजपा ही है। आने वाले चुनावों में जनता भाजपा को सबक़ सिखाकर, इस महालूट का बदला ज़रूर लेगी। महँगाई के मुद्दे पर - जुड़ेगा भारत, जीतेगा INDIA !

"What’s happening in India is not that loose variety of internet fascism. It’s the real thing." Arundhati Roy at her best. Must read. scroll.in/article/105594…

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