In one para : what's wrong with our modern diet.

If all starts work as per rules & regulation, then BIG CHUNK of bribe will erode from system and I feel that maximum part of dissatisfaction against current Govt. are from those who are already loss those commissions, plus those who start feeling that sooner or latter they too will loose extra money (bribe for closing eyes towards wrong doing).

As Govt. start taking measures after Cough Syrup Death than suddenly all small pharmacy mfg. Association leaders starts saying that they are unable to implement rules and if they force to implement than they left only option to shut down unit and it will not only lead money loss to owners plus will create huge unemployment too and also price of Cheap Generic Drugs will shoot to sky roof plus sever shortage of medicine face by all over country. what last I read, that Govt. gave them 1 year time to implement rule, else ..

About banning foods, product etc. from Indian company by some countries is nothing but a pure Politics as such news are keep coming at time of elections and that too from country that are under China Influence.

China can play/stage very danger game to tarnish India image, and few of us still thinking that India-China Bhai Bahi, we need to came out of that mentality first. When Indian govt. banned china for few products than china start exporting same products again to India via some third country ... !!!

If these all (banning/export returned etc.) news keep coming still after election completed & Govt. form, than only I will accept it that's really a issue... till than ..
 
@Emperor

Only concern as an average Indian should be whether these toxins are present in food are above allowed limit or not.
Or, are similar items available even at affordably higher cost without such toxins.

How much taxes govt. gets, how much bribes they can afford, etc. etc. should not be at the cost of life, especially at the cost of life of innocent children.
 
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@FPS
Seeing organophosphates causing serious health concerns in that article (Eluru, AP).
Endosulfan was controversial organophosphate, with India being only country(?) backing it years back, now banned.
 
@ashish

Though diet is a concern, primary concern is about what kind of unimaginable deceases these kind of food items and pollutants can bring on us like a wrath after few years of life. Visiting a hospital will make a person depressed to his core. Nobody want such torments up on their family members, their future generations, nor on themselves.
 
Corporate food supply has structural issues due to the amoral nature of corporations. They are by design meant to focus on cost reduction and profits, and only care about obvious risks that will impact sales. Since majority of masses are too distracted in the modern world, companies know that they can get away with murder, as long as it is very slow.

It will be long before the impact becomes obvious, and necessitates a structural response. In any case average health measures also shift with worsening vitals across populations, and therefore the deterioration will take long to be recognized. This is because modern medicine often (not always) views health as being in line with averages, (e.g. lower testosterone levels becoming normal) until you have an obvious ailment. Expect the rise in humans with sub-optimal health to continue. The onus is on individuals to shift closer to farms and grow/kill their own food, or at least procure it directly from a human they can trust, if they have any hopes of having the best possible life, but that is an option for a rare few.
 
Too much information mingled with wrong information. Majority of the doctors hardly know anything about nutrition and it is taught for <10 hours during a 10 year medical degree (which is not nutrition focused) . Expectation of people that someone will come and give them life changing information about nutrition in a 5 minutes youtube video, conditioned by social media. There are amazing books on nutrition and digestion science (Gary Taubes and Dr Fang imho) but people are reluctant to put in the effort to explore the right info and then study that.

Even now large part of the population and doctors believe the 1970 myths on nutrition like Calorie in Calorie out approach, low fat good etc.
 
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@animishticomb

Common man is supposed to to blindly believe 'science' and those with big big degrees without an iota of doubt and questioning.
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and some brain washed, spoiled by Google, wiki and Western Researchers Propaganda, thinks that Govt. spending on Ayush is more compare to Allopathy is waste of money, but who will wake-up who pretend sleeping that Ayurveda is branch that proved even before modern allopathy medicine came in light.

At same time I respect allopathy for Emergency, allopathy do wonder in emergency.

Now it is different story that some sell fake/low quality medicines on name of Ayurveda and bring bad fame to whole Ayurveda System.
 
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What's wrong with this? It's the only proper way to manage weight. Eating at a deficit from your TDEE reduces weight, while eating at a surplus increases it.
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It is not wrong but incomplete. If you are willing to keep an open mind to explore 'new' science, I would recommend this book:

Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It Paperback – December 27, 2011​


Below is a short interview with Gary Taubes, where he touches on the summary. There are many many studies that establish that calorie restriction doesnt work to retain weight loss.

I. ON CALORIES IN-OUT, NUTRITION STUDIES, AND GUIDELINES

diaTribe: All of your books note that the calories-in, calories-out model of obesity is descriptive, not explanatory – it’s like saying a room gets more crowded when more people enter than leave. But what we want to know is the WHY – why does the body gain weight? You suggest that a “hormonal hypothesis” of obesity – driven by the different impact of carbs, fat, and protein on fat storage – plays the central role. Why has this proven so hard to get accepted? Will we ever know the answer?

GARY: This “calories-in, calories-out” notion is meaningless. To say something like “excess calories cause accumulation of excess body fat” is a circular statement. It’s logically identical to saying that “excess money causes accumulation of excess wealth.” If you read that in an article about economics, you would think you were reading a satire. This model of obesity causality tells us nothing. It should be a crisis for the field.
 
animishticomb said:
Majority of the doctors hardly know anything about nutrition and it is taught for <10 hours during a 10 year medical degree (which is not nutrition focused)
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Yes, agreed fully. But I wouldn't have it any other way. Most topics in nutrition are not settled science. Medical colleges do and should teach settled science. In cases where some information is better than settled science, then best known information is taught.

And yes, this latter part has been false. Famously, in the 1950s , the common heart surgery turned out to be no better than placebo . But still, the resilience of the scientific process has been demonstrated by the course correction : and that heart surgery was discontinued.

The finer details of nutrition science are too likely to get politically influenced in various jurisdictions to be taught in medical schools. And one thing is clear : there are many many different ways to eat reasonably healthy, even though the details are not too well known.
 
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