One of the biggest cons in the food industry is convincing you that vegetable oil is healthy. Because it has the word vegetable in it. I want you to look at this chart. Three lines. Same timeline. Same curve. Seed oil consumption. Up 820%. Diabetes. Up 700%. Obesity. Up 223%. They all move together. Because they are all caused by the same thing. There are no vegetables in vegetable oil. Zero. Not one. It is made from seeds. Pressed and processed with petroleum solvents, industrial acid, and bleaching agents until it becomes something a human can swallow. And it is in everything you eat. 🧵

ER Doctor Reveals: What's Really Causing Heart Attacks in Young Indians “If vegetarian food is so healthy, why is India the diabetes capital of the world?” In this episode of Beyond Titles, I sit down with Dr. Ankur Verma, an Emergency & Trauma Physician who spends his days on the frontlines of healthcare — treating heart attacks, strokes, diabetic emergencies, kidney failure, and lifestyle diseases that didn’t happen overnight, but were built silently over years. This is not a typical diet conversation. This is a conversation from inside the emergency room — where real consequences show up. youtu.be/PLlGPsZ0Tr0?si=5RDz… via @anksv25

A Harvard study just proved a man can carry LDL cholesterol of 700 for seven years and have zero plaque in his arteries. Zero. Not a single cubic millimeter. My LDL was 110 when I had my heart attack at 52. Normal. Optimal by every guideline. He had LDL 700 with clean arteries. I had LDL 110 and nearly died. If LDL caused heart disease, his arteries would be destroyed and mine would be clean. The opposite happened. Something is very wrong with the cholesterol story.

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While we battle #heatwave, under a new tender, Delhi govt plans to clear forest land in Central Ridge, carry out excavation & create themed plantations inside a notified forest; last ‘lifeline’ of Delhi. Well explained by journo Shubhangi Derhgawen⬇️ instagram.com/reel/DXmSlsKMi…

Look at this map. Nagpur 45°. Ahmedabad 44°. Prayagraj 43°. Delhi 42°. The entire country is a single dark red mass. This is not a heatwave. This is a country that was told its forests were fine. And this is April. Not May. Not June. The hottest months have not even arrived yet. The past few days have been hell. So I did what I always do when something bothers me. I went looking for answers. What I found was a policy con job that has been running for over two decades. But before I explain what happened, let's clear some definitions. A garden is not a forest. An orchard is not a forest. A plantation is not a forest. A forest is a living system. Soil, water, fungi, insects, birds, mammals, decades of accumulated complexity, specific to its land and climate. It cannot be designed. It cannot be harvested. It regulates water, cools land, shelters hundreds of species. It takes decades to become what it is. You can plant a forest. But it will take decades to become one. In 2001, India's forests were disappearing. The Indian state, led by the Vajpayee government, faced a choice. Protect what remained, or change what the numbers said. It chose the numbers. The Forest Survey of India quietly changed the definition of what a forest means. Any land with 10% tree canopy cover and more than one hectare in area was now a forest. Your mango orchard. A coconut plantation in Tamil Nadu. A tea garden in Assam. Lodhi Garden in Delhi. All forests, on paper. The FSI will tell you that 10% canopy cover follows international norms. The FAO also uses 10% as its threshold. But the FAO's definition comes with a crucial exclusion that India's FSI quietly dropped.  The FAO explicitly states that fruit tree plantations, oil palm plantations, olive orchards, and agroforestry systems are not forests. The World Bank says the same. India adopted the number but discarded the exclusion.  It took the cover of international legitimacy while gutting the standard that gave it meaning. The government will also tell you this was never hidden. That it was publicly stated in every report, disclosed in Parliament. That is technically true. But a disclosure buried in a technical government document is not transparency. It is the appearance of transparency.  I did not know any of this until I went looking. Neither do most Indians whose forests, whose land, whose air this directly concerns. The con is not in what was hidden from experts. It is in what was never explained to the people it was done to. This is not a technicality. This is the con. It was a trick as old as power itself. If you cannot fix the problem, fix the measurement. For ten years after 2001, Congress governed India. Two terms, two environment ministers, including Jairam Ramesh, one of the more serious ones. They saw the numbers. They knew what the numbers meant. They did nothing. Because the lie was convenient. India looked good in international climate negotiations. The fiction of a greening India served everyone in power, so everyone in power kept it. Congress did not create this lie. It simply chose, year after year, to live inside it. The BJP is different. When they returned to power in 2014, they came with something Congress never had. An absolute majority, and no coalition compulsions. They did not merely inherit the lie. They built on it. And in 2023, they legislated it. The Forest Conservation Amendment Act of 2023 removed legal protection from "deemed forests." Forests that existed outside the official definition but were ecologically real.  Forests that Adivasi communities had lived in and depended on for generations. Forests that cooled land, held water, sheltered species. They were not on the right list. Since the amendment, forest destruction on Adivasi land has accelerated.  The people who knew these forests best, who had protected them longest, now watch them being cleared. Legally. CONT

The 2001 change inflated the numbers. The 2023 change cleared the ground. Together they form a complete project. First make the destruction invisible, then make it legal. India today is one of the hottest regions on earth. Heatwaves that once struck the arid northwest now reach coastal cities, places that had never known this kind of heat. In 2024, India recorded its hottest year since 1901. This is not a mystery. Forests cool land. They hold moisture in the soil and release it back into the air as coolness. A living forest is not just a carbon sink. It is a cooling system, a water system, a climate system embedded in the ground beneath your feet. When you destroy forests, land heats up. When you destroy forests and pretend you haven't, no corrective action is ever taken.  The data says everything is fine. The policy says everything is fine. Meanwhile the temperature rises. Deforestation is not the only reason India is burning. Global warming, reckless urbanisation, failing monsoons. These are all real and all compounding. But forests were India's partial buffer against all of them. And that buffer was first faked on paper, then stripped away in law. It is worth noting that Kerala, Karnataka, parts of the northeast, have seen genuine recovery of forest cover. But that recovery reflects the will of state governments, not central policy. It happened despite Delhi, not because of it. There is a particular kind of governance that does not solve problems. It solves the appearance of problems. It changes the definition of drought instead of finding water. It changes the definition of poverty instead of reducing it. It changes the definition of a forest instead of saving one. In 2001, the Forest Survey of India changed what a forest means. In 2023, the BJP changed what a forest deserves. Between these two acts lies two decades of rising heat, disappearing biodiversity, and a population told that its natural inheritance was intact while it was being steadily consumed. A garden is not a forest. An orchard is not a forest. A plantation is not a forest. And a government that cannot tell the difference, or worse, one that can and doesn't care, is not a government that will save you from the heat it helped create.

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Gratitude 🙏🙏🙏

Today is the last day of the Income Tax Act 1961. A 65 year old law dies tonight. From tomorrow your salary slip changes. Your basic salary must be minimum 50 percent of your CTC. Companies kept it artificially low for years to reduce your PF. That ends tonight. Your PF goes up. Take home may drop slightly. Retirement corpus grows significantly. If you resign your company must settle full and final within 2 working days. Not 30 to 90 days like before. Form 16 is replaced by Form 130. Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune and Ahmedabad now get 50 percent HRA exemption. Same as Mumbai and Delhi. Tax slabs unchanged. Surveillance gets tighter. Tomorrow I will break down exactly what this means for your pocket. Save this. Share with every salaried man you know.

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Case Report — Reversing 20 years of diabetes using the carnivore diet in India: a case report Ankur Verma @SBakerMD @KetoCarnivore @shashiiyengar @SeedOilDsrspctr @KenDBerryMD @garytaubes @bigfatsurprise @HHSGov

Was a pleasure to have @garytaubes on THE DESI EM PROJECT! The full episode here - open.spotify.com/episode/2fn…

Much needed work! @Metabolic_Mind @GeorgiaEdeMD @ChrisPalmerMD !!

Low carb for the win.

Was fantastic having this conversation @SurajNangia !! Looking forward to the episode to drop soon!

This is how we showcase our country @PMOIndia @narendramodi ???

Diabetes reversal via carnivore diet