Ultra-processed foods and the corporate capture of nutrition

Re:Ultra-processed foods and the corporate capture of nutrition by selimthegrim on Thursday December 17, 2020 @09:33PM (#25463146)

If this stuff has the same veracity as what was in Aghora, I have to wonder if Svoboda met any Ayurvedic experts at all

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Re:Ultra-processed foods and the corporate capture of nutrition by vram22 on Friday December 18, 2020 @12:02AM (#25464049)

He has not just met experts, he has gone through the full 4 or 5 year Indian Ayurvedic degree, which includes some parts of MBBS degree, IIRC.

I have not read his Aghora series. That could be esoterica or even a spoof, who knows. I have only read his Ayurveda book. Doubt that that book is wrong, since my family has some background in Ayurveda as users for two generations or more. Also read his bio on his site - says he was gold medals winner in his Ayurveda degree exams from the Pune university he studied at. I know of that school. Unlikely to be fake info, could easily be verified.

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Re:Ultra-processed foods and the corporate capture of nutrition by selimthegrim on Friday December 18, 2020 @11:12AM (#25468454)

His Aghora book (the first one) includes the following assertions

that Sri Ramakrishna got throat cancer by wish of some female guru as punishment for wanting to learn Tantra out of turn

Abbottabad is hottest place in Asia (it’s Jacobabad near where my mom grew up)

Wajid Ali Shah died soon after he was sent to Calcutta by British

Confuses Shamse Tabrez and Shamsuddin Sabzawari (RA)

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Re:Ultra-processed foods and the corporate capture of nutrition by vram22 on Monday December 21, 2020 @12:11AM (#25492299)

Don't know anything about those points of yours, but interesting.

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