An unforgettable moment of glory for 🇮🇳!
@Neeraj_chopra1 has captured gold at the World Athletics Championship with a monumental throw of 88.17 meters! 🥇🎉
Making history as the first-ever Indian to achieve this remarkable feat. Bravo Neeraj Chopra!
Your dedication and hard work are an inspiration to us all.
#NeerajChopra #WorldAthleticsChampionship
That vile teacher should be behind bars! Instead, she might just get a national teacher's award for promoting national integration! Kafkaesque!! Cry, my beloved country 😢
The presenter asks Virat Kohli, the star Indian cricketer - "Why did you become a vegetarian?"
His answer is mind-boggling.
He starts with his source of advice - an Accupuncturist.
Accupuncture is a pseudoscience. It has no meaningful principles or reasonable action. It is not based on scientific knowledge and is a form of quackery. Large systematic reviews confirm that there no good evidence of benefit, which suggests that it is not an effective method of healthcare.
Virat then speaks about his cervical spine disc prolapse. He then speeds towards his stomach where he claims that eating meat was making stomach more acidic, because of which the calcium from his bones were leaking off. So the solution - make it alkaline. So he quit meat and became vegetarian - to make his stomach less acidic, more alkaline, to prevent calcium loss in bone and thus, cure his cervical spondylitis. This is pure and unadulterated nonsense.
The stomach is acidic and will remain so whether you want it or not. Acid production is the unique and central component of the stomach's contribution to the digestive process and also plays a role in protecting the body against pathogens ingested with food or water [https://t.co/Us1cVhSWic]
You cannot make the stomach alkaline, unless you ingest enough alkali - which will of course kill you.
Calcium does not leech away because the stomach is acidic. Eating meat does not cause calcium loss. In fact, increasing the protein intake from 1 g/kg body weight to 2 g/kg, given as meat, did not have an adverse effect on calcium metabolism. [https://t.co/HXvBeL5Hiq].
Going vegetarian does not mean one becomes gauranteed calcium sufficient. Vegetarianism is a culturo-religious factor and not a norm. People choose it because of various personal reasons and it is not one based on strong evidence from medical science. It is not superior to other diets, except of course, is better than veganism, which is the most inferior form of diet from scientific standpoint.
Cervival neck disc bulge is not treated by going vegetarian. There are actual scientific guidelines for it. See here: https://t.co/yq2e7gNgcE and here: https://t.co/I0xoON60iw
And no one should ever ask an Accupuncturist for any advise on health, because they themselves have no clue about human anatomy or physiology and they are not real healthcare providers. They are quacks.
I like Virat Kohli. The guy is a national treasure.
But I am sorry to say that he is very health and science-illiterate and a prototype of the beggarly scientific temper that define majoirty of Indians in today's India.
Doctors, scientisits, science communicators, (real) health influencers, we need to do better.