#medial

They claim that they’re protecting Black people and that’s why this is started. It was white men fetishizing fat women who started it as a kink. Adipose tissue is directly linked to more disease. Not sure how anyone can support them. Yo-yo dieting is dangerous but so is caring an extreme amount of weight on your body…

Do you have sources for any of this? Because just a cursory google search doesn't show any of that. What it shows is that, like many studies, the sample size in the studies is limited and is not a good representation of the general population. And as far as I can tell, the studies look to be from the last 20 years, not the last 50.

Additionally, studies that are 50 years old are not necessarily inaccurate. Simply outdated.

HAES was started in the fat acceptance movement and was popularized by Lindo Bacon, PhD, a weight science research and associate nutritionist at the University of California.

Excessive adipose tissue (which is just body fat) has been linked to certain diseases, like type-2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and hepatic steatosis. Adipose tissue itself does not. Everyone has adipose tissue. You need it to survive. However, correlation does not equal causation as further studies into this have shown.

And all of this arguing about whether or not HAES is good or not (I genuinely don't know. Again, this was a cursory search. Took me maybe fifteen minutes) blatantly ignores other factors. Notably that most people who are considered overweight feel uncomfortable in a doctor's office. They often feel like their doctor is judging them and as a result were significantly less likely to trust their doctor. And of course you have the horror stories of people with actually life-threatening medical problems being told to lose weight and the problem will go away. Or they're told they have to lose weight before getting a life-saving surgery. Or outright being denied medical help.

It also ignores the biological, social, and economic factors that contribute to someone being overweight.

For one, when an individual is starved - either by choice or circumstance - the body's natural response is to hold onto any calories it can find. How? You guessed it, as adipose tissue. This change can be felt up to three generations later. You know what happened in the last century that may have starved our predecessors, making our bodies (and our children's bodies) more likely to retain fat? The Great Depression. Two World Wars. The Holocaust. The 2008 Recession. We are exceptionally well primed to retain body fat and keep ourselves alive should another starvation or famine occur.

Eating healthy is also very expensive. And I don't know if you've noticed the stagnant wages for the past 40 some odd years. There isn't a lot of wealth to go around. So eating well is not an easy thing to do. It is a luxury most people don't have. What they do have is fast food and tv dinners. Perfectly fine sources of food that give them the calories they need, just not in the ideal way.

If someone has any level of stress in their life, it's going to affect the way they eat. Not to mention access and education on food. Food deserts aren't uncommon. Most notably in indigenous communities.

Being fat or overweight or obese or whatever word you want to use is fine and, in most cases, perfectly healthy. I don't know if HAES is a good movement or if it's trustworthy or if its methods are even working. But if it can help people feel more comfortable getting medical help, I am fine with it. If it can help people actually get the medical attention they need, then that is amazing.

Allow me to take this moment to say HOW F**KING PROUD I AM OF MYSELF AND HOW MUCH OF A JOCK I AM FOR GETTING MY COVID-19 VACCINE. 🦾💯

I’m finally one of the cool guy, Mom. 😭❤️❤️

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Also, Doctor Mike liked BOTH of my tweets about it, so I know that he’s proud.

It takes ONE person to take ONE step forward in the right direction in order to change the course of humanity. I took a step for myself, others around me, and the entire world by getting vaccinated as soon as it was made available to me.

TLDR: What if I told you that the fact that you would rather read the tldr instead of the entirety of this post was part of the problem?

What if I told you that every day you were playing a game? A game against an artificial intelligence on the level of Deep Blue which beat Garry Kasperov at Chess or Alpha Go which beat Korean grandmaster Lee Sedol at Go? Sound like the matrix yet? And what if I told you that this AI watches every move you make online, not just clicks, but when you slow down your scrolling on a particular image or hover your mouse just an little bit longer on an article?

What if I told you the game the AI was playing was to get you to click on the article and keep you engaged with its platform as long and as often as possible because that's what it was programmed to do... its sole purpose with no regard to emotional or psychological wellbeing.

What if I told you that was part of the plan? ... and there were some unintended consequences.

What if I told you that the more you engage with these platforms the more money their advertisers make and that everything they do is perfectly legal?

What if I told you that the media is guilty of creating more and more salacious headlines to engage the emotional, reactionary nature of humanity because the AI saw that was how to keep you engaged? That they were reducing the incredibly complex issues of race relations, International politics and many other important issues to a set of bulleted talking points that suits their narrative because the AI showed them that most people arent willing to take the time needed to understand the intricacies of such complex issues.

What if I told you that people were resorting to tribalism and lining up behind symbols that they associate with but have no meaning other than the meaning we give them... like the mascots for sports teams... Gay Pride.. USA etc.. And that was only adding fuel to the fire by clearly showing what team (tribe) we were on and making the AI's job easier?

What if I told you that not only businesses, but world governments were employing these same types of AI technologies - the ones that beat the best humanity has to offer at their own games - to disseminate propaganda that fits their their plan to either cause chaos in some countries or bring order to their own?

What if I told you that you were at war with these AI's every day? A war for your attention. Countless battles to draw you in to a narrative or to buy a certain product or to just be engaged with the social media platform these AI exists in.

What if I told you we were being played like pawns?

What if I told you we are losing the game?

What If I told you you didn't have to take my word for it?

The research on these topics is outside the realm of a social media post. Google these topics to find out more info and read read read.

*Nick Bostrom - Paperclip Maximizer

*AI

*Tribalism

*Symbols and Symbolism

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