i am harry posted:

hmm sounds like something DnD would do

here we exchange ideas and yell at eachother until the wrong party shuts the gently caress up and that is keeping with the natural order of the universe according to lao tse

comedyblissoption posted:

child labor laws an infringement on free speech bing bong so simple

trevorreznik posted:

I suppose it's possible to weigh and calorie count every ingredient in a meal, then weigh again once cooked, and then weigh again as a portion and do the math, but I don't think that's something the majority of the population would be up for.

nikosoft posted:

This is basically where I've landed on the topic - KP may treat primary care like an impersonal assembly line and their mental health care is basically non-existent, but you don't have to fight with insurance for referrals and you can pretty much get anything you need from their in house formulary and service line.

selec posted:

can you still buy emotes here? what if they made it so you could buy an emote and be the only user able to use it for an initial period of exclusivity, that would probably drive people to buy a lot of them, and also be very annoying.

Willa Rogers posted:

remember when the dnd lolberts would argue that if it weren't for factories in asia employing 10 yr olds then the kids would be forced into prostitution, so working at the factories was harm reduction?

Bishyaler posted:

Weirdly the harm reduction position always is "whatever allows me to keep my cushy life of brunch and consumerism"

Willa Rogers posted:

let me be the first in what I expect will be a long line of people to tell you to gently caress off with this take, however correct or incorrect it might be in your instance.

Twerk from Home posted:

PFC is right that if you're able to reduce your beer consumption by 35 beers a week, you will lose weight rapidly. However, this is not an option for most Americans.

Twerk from Home posted:

PFC is right that if you're able to reduce your beer consumption by 35 beers a week, you will lose weight rapidly. However, this is not an option for most Americans.

Salt Fish posted:

We can't let the cure be worse than the disease.

SKULL.GIF posted:

This coming week's topic is Oil.

Reuters: 14 tankers with oil from the Russian Federation have been waiting for shipment from India for several weeks. All because of problems with payment - the Indian side refuses to pay for oil in dollars for fear of falling under US sanctions. They offer to pay in rupees, which the Russian side no longer agrees to.

Market reaction to the oil move this week:

Something very funny *might* happen thanks to the Houthis attacking an oil tanker yesterday:

Bishyaler posted:

Weirdly the harm reduction position always is "whatever allows me to keep my cushy life of brunch and consumerism"

webcams for christ posted:

dietary and behavioral interventions to change body composition have a huge amount inter-individual variance, and most people who have successfully lost weight and kept it off are prone to believing that they've cracked the code and become evangelists, without looking at how different interventions play out across a population

calorie counting works for some people, but not everyone
intermittent fasting works for some people, but not everyone
low carb / keto works for some people, but not everyone
mediterranean diet works for some people, but not everyone

even extremely dumb, expensive, or gimmicky interventions can work for some people- see juicing, subway jared, paleo diets, etc

but also at least 80% of behavioral interventions fail to sustain weight loss of more than 5% body mass for longer than 24 months, even with free behavioral counseling. so the solution to a high rate of obesity in a population is necessarily structural, not individual

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A healthy body can generally signal to the brain when it has had enough food. But that signalling system can be faulty, or get injured. “One of the most important things about obesity, and something most people don’t understand, is that, in the process of gaining weight, the neural circuitry of the brain that regulates weight is damaged,” Dr. Louis Aronne, the director of the Comprehensive Weight Control Center, at Weill Cornell Medicine, told me. (Aronne, like many other prominent practitioners of obesity medicine, has consulted on trials conducted by Novo Nordisk.) “The hypothalamus shows signs of inflammation and injury,” he went on. The prevailing theory, he explained, is that “too many calories coming in too quickly damages nerves that respond to the hormones that control body weight.” One of these hormones is leptin, which is produced in body fat, and which signals to the brain that it’s time to stop eating. But, if you gain fat, the oversupply of leptin can cause your body to be desensitized to it, making your brain erroneously believe that you are starving. “Your body tries to rebalance the system by slowing down the metabolism and increasing appetite,” Aronne said. After a person has gained enough weight to enter this cycle of metabolic misdirection, it becomes nearly impossible to lose that weight and keep it off long-term simply through diet and exercise. (About five per cent of people manage to do it.) A well-known study followed contestants on “The Biggest Loser,” the weight-loss-competition show, and found that the contestants’ metabolisms slowed so drastically after their weight loss that nearly all of them regained what they’d lost. One contestant, who’d dropped an astonishing two hundred and thirty-nine pounds, soon regained a hundred, and then began gaining weight whenever he ate more than eight hundred calories less than the average amount recommended for a man his size.

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Also keep in mind that nutrition labels can be inaccurate on calorie counts by a pretty huge degree, so you're never getting even close to an exact calorie in-calorie out number anyway.

Frosted Flake posted:

FR though, what would it take, economically and socially, to create hard bodied New Soviet Men in a contemporary context?

The dopamine hit from sugar, salt and fat are probably some of the only pleasures easily available for a great mass of people.

Minera posted:

everyone who needs drugs (anti depressants, covid vaccine, insulin, etc) should just try getting better. its quite simple really.

i say swears online posted:

RealityWarCriminal posted:

look if i could get dopamine from somewhere other than ingestion, dont you think i would

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

What’s the ICD10 code for the illness that makes you eat out six days a week?

Capitalism’s need for endless growth is quite literally warping the human body into an unrecognizable form that requires pharmaceutical support to survive and people in this thread are defending that for some reason.

aw frig aw dang it posted:

you're welcome

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

What’s the ICD10 code for the illness that makes you eat out six days a week?

Capitalism’s need for endless growth is quite literally warping the human body into an unrecognizable form that requires pharmaceutical support to survive and people in this thread are defending that for some reason.

Salt Fish posted:

B71.9

Salt Fish posted:

B71.9

Salt Fish posted:

B71.9

Mandel Brotset posted:

this thread needs an ik

DickParasite posted:

Of course CICO is "correct" in a literal sense, it's the conservation of energy.