Krish Ashok

India has 101 million diabetics. 43% of "normal weight" Indians are metabolically obese. The single most effective intervention isn't a drug, diet or supplement. It's also not walking or yoga. It's picking up something heavy and putting it back down again and again. New video: The Science of Weight Training youtu.be/OyxZAFlpsZA

@lexicon_luther hah! well played. But my kind of clue is - Past flames, reportedly vegetarian after all (4)

"Krish Ashok includes this meat dish (4)" @krishashok is this the first Cryptic Crossword clue made out of your name? :P I've heard you were once a Cruciverbalist, hence please crack this!!

Why is melody so chocolatey? Here is the food science answer 🤓 youtube.com/shorts/2AMbW94…

@ArkadeepDas9 The whole point is that doing single tests provides zero statistically useful insights

@krishashok Its weird right you conveniently skipped the whole series of non branded eggs and 4 more QC brand tests which turned out to be squeaky clean and tried to whitewash eggoz which failed twice ? Please conduct a retest yourself and enlighten us.

Now that the whole eggoz scaremongering that everyone (particularly mainstream media) indulged in seems to have vanished without a trace (and moved on to newer, more disgust-pandering topics like pus in milk), it’s worth asking - can we step back a bit and consider what happened here?

@kunal_joshipura It's fine. Better than drinking sugary beverages. Not as good as just drinking water or water + citrus + electrolytes or coconut water

@CworeRedux Dei

I was like @krishashok is into mountaineering also ?

@Divyansh__21 No such limit. Eat as per your overall nutritional needs for the day and balance of carbs, fat, protein

@krishashok sir as per your nutrional knowledge , how many whole eggs can one eat in a day? just curious as there is lot of fearmongering around that as well , some say to limit it to 1-2

@Ajeetha_ Lovely book!

@krishashok This is such a good data point. I cannot emphasise how sensationalism corrupts sheer facts. Along with this video I’d also recommend the book factfulness which helps one understand how to consume singals through noise.

@smoggynights Not really. Diagnosis has increased

@krishashok Cancer cases have skyrocketed

If you want a deeper dive into this youtu.be/TJ0fcwvvFsg?si…

Here is the quickest way to get a first principles big picture view of food safety: are hospitals in India overflowing with food poisoning cases? Or just heart disease & diabetes? India’s food systems aren’t perfect, but for sure, there is more food safety than basic scientific common sense in food panic content.

Social media has trained people to think food safety works like this: Lab detected thing, therefore cancer That’s not how it works. Dose matters. Then metabolism, and exposure duration. Also - the test needs to be reproducible across many batches. Background contamination has to be ruled out. And finally - statistical techniques are needed to rule out actual signal vs noise. All the “food safety” theatre you see in the media is content, not knowledge

A chemical being detectable is not the same thing as: 1. dangerous exposure 2. chronic risk 3. population harm 4. proof of deliberate adulteration It’s just that modern instruments can detect insanely tiny traces, which is why real science requires that you ask: “How much? How often? What risk?” But if you want to go viral, all you have to do is say X is carcinogenic and it was detected in this sample without bothering to say that X is carcinogenic only in the “inject a rat with massive quantities for weeks” sense

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@essayl @baxiabhishek Yep. Incidentally, on a serious note, it's the mix of methyl salicylate, eugenol (from clove), cinnamaldehyde (from cinnamon), menthol etc that give this general "drug store/painbalm/cough syrup" vibe

@krishashok @baxiabhishek And, apropos of nothing, Iodex becomes root beer when dissolved in sugar + soda.

In a country where jeera drinks and masala sodas are so popular, I can't believe we still don't have Dr. Pepper.

@baxiabhishek About as much as zandu balm (which by itself is just a counter irritant)

@krishashok Does it retain its pain relief properties?