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What are your unpopular opinions about health / fitness?

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  • ForecasterJason
    ForecasterJason Posts: 2,577 Member
    I realize that my last few comments in this thread were highly controversial, but I wasn't trying to make it seem as though I think only they have problems and no one else does. I know obesity is a problem that affects everyone, including a lot of kids and adult men. I personally know a lot of people (including guys I work with) who IMO make a lot of poor choices with regards to their health.
  • Strawblackcat
    Strawblackcat Posts: 944 Member
    Here's one of mine:

    While cleanses and detoxes don't help with losing weight, I still think that many people can benefit from one of good quality. I can speak from personal experience how taking a few days to focus on a minimalistic, basic diet along with cleansing herbs and tons of fiber and water can make your digestive system feel like it's been "reset" in a good way. In regards to weight loss, I think that some of the longer ones can help in breaking people of bad habits, although they don't help people actually lose fat.
  • WinoGelato
    WinoGelato Posts: 13,454 Member
    Here's one of mine:

    While cleanses and detoxes don't help with losing weight, I still think that many people can benefit from one of good quality. I can speak from personal experience how taking a few days to focus on a minimalistic, basic diet along with cleansing herbs and tons of fiber and water can make your digestive system feel like it's been "reset" in a good way. In regards to weight loss, I think that some of the longer ones can help in breaking people of bad habits, although they don't help people actually lose fat.

    I'm always curious when people post things like this about "resetting" your digestive system. What does this really mean? You poop more? More regularly? Different consistency?
  • Strawblackcat
    Strawblackcat Posts: 944 Member
    WinoGelato wrote: »
    Here's one of mine:

    While cleanses and detoxes don't help with losing weight, I still think that many people can benefit from one of good quality. I can speak from personal experience how taking a few days to focus on a minimalistic, basic diet along with cleansing herbs and tons of fiber and water can make your digestive system feel like it's been "reset" in a good way. In regards to weight loss, I think that some of the longer ones can help in breaking people of bad habits, although they don't help people actually lose fat.

    I'm always curious when people post things like this about "resetting" your digestive system. What does this really mean? You poop more? More regularly? Different consistency?

    I have issues with bloating/constipation/food intolerances, and doing a cleanse once or twice a year seems to regulate everything for a couple of months. I prefer them to laxatives like dulcolax, because they're much more gentle, at least for me. (No cramping, no rushing to the bathroom, and I can continue normal life, more or less).
  • CynthiasChoice
    CynthiasChoice Posts: 1,047 Member
    Enjcg5 wrote: »
    I am a Splenda user...you would literally have to pry it out of my cold, dead hands. I had a coworker tell me how bad it is for me and even send me an article about how it causes cancer...I still use it, and love it.

    I wonder how many times said co-worker drinks booze *eyeroll* So annoying lol

    In all fairness you would also have to pry wine out of my cold, dead hands...and honestly even then I would probably still fight you somehow...sooooooo lol

    I'm not even complaining but I have a co-worker that does the same to me about the TWO Splendas I use in my morning coffee and *kitten* I've seen your IG, I know you were puking Satruday and probably got Herpes too lol
    I am a Splenda user...you would literally have to pry it out of my cold, dead hands. I had a coworker tell me how bad it is for me and even send me an article about how it causes cancer...I still use it, and love it.

    I wonder how many times said co-worker drinks booze *eyeroll* So annoying lol

    In all fairness you would also have to pry wine out of my cold, dead hands...and honestly even then I would probably still fight you somehow...sooooooo lol

    I'm not even complaining but I have a co-worker that does the same to me about the TWO Splendas I use in my morning coffee and *kitten* I've seen your IG, I know you were puking Satruday and probably got Herpes too lol

    My ex friend always told me how bad my diet Pepsi was for me and how it is linked to cancer. She is a pack a day smoker.....

    The irony. Humans are insane. Let me have my splenda and my occasional glass of wine.

    People need to use more tact. I personally avoid splenda because the reports about it increasing the chance of dementia scare me. Cancer can be treated sometimes, but not dementia. But I'm not going to go up to a co-worker and tell them they should stop using Splenda or they'll lose their mind! If an opportunity arose, I might ask if they've heard the report about the splenda-dementia connection and ask their opinion.
  • finny11122
    finny11122 Posts: 8,436 Member
    That glyphosate on crops are not 100% safe
  • nutmegoreo
    nutmegoreo Posts: 15,532 Member
    edited June 2017
    TR0berts wrote: »
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    This reminds me of about 12 years ago (I think?) when my wife and I were car shopping - for my wife.

    We walk around the lot, see a couple of cars we might be interested in. A salesman comes along and starts doing his thing, particularly talking to me. I tell him explicitly that we're looking for my wife. For whatever reason, he keeps telling me about certain features, pretty much ignoring my wife. I tell him that I don't really care too much, and that he should be talking to my wife, since any car we purchase will be for my wife. Oh, OK. Talks to her for less than a minute, then starts up with me again. My wife and I look at each other, and are like, "we've seen all we need to see." D-bag thinks he's made a sale - "oh, you want to take it for a test drive, let me..." "Nah, we're not interested in anything here at all."

    I had something similar with taking my car to the shop. Since it would be there a while, I had a friend drive as well to drive me home. The guy kept discussing the repairs for my car with my friend (not even boyfriend). He told the guy several times he didn't care because it wasn't his car. Yet he continued talking as if I wasn't there. When I went back by myself, he was fine, but then there wasn't any options.
  • The_Enginerd
    The_Enginerd Posts: 3,982 Member
    TR0berts wrote: »
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    This reminds me of about 12 years ago (I think?) when my wife and I were car shopping - for my wife.

    We walk around the lot, see a couple of cars we might be interested in. A salesman comes along and starts doing his thing, particularly talking to me. I tell him explicitly that we're looking for my wife. For whatever reason, he keeps telling me about certain features, pretty much ignoring my wife. I tell him that I don't really care too much, and that he should be talking to my wife, since any car we purchase will be for my wife. Oh, OK. Talks to her for less than a minute, then starts up with me again. My wife and I look at each other, and are like, "we've seen all we need to see." D-bag thinks he's made a sale - "oh, you want to take it for a test drive, let me..." "Nah, we're not interested in anything here at all."

    We had a similar experience at 2-3 of the dealerships this past year. Even though it was for my girlfriend and she was the one paying. I was in no way, shape, or form involved in owning or buying the car.
  • LucasLean
    LucasLean Posts: 100 Member
    AnnPT77 wrote: »
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    mjlfit83 wrote: »
    Mansplaining isn't a thing. Just because a man can't experience something personally, doesn't mean he doesn't know anything about it.

    ... And before you say 'I' am mansplaining, if you are still deludedly adament that I am, the same can in turn be applied to women. You don't know what men are experiencing, so don't 'womansplain'... Oh wait, does that sound ridiculous?

    If mansplaining is not a thing, why do I have men at my parts counter (incorrectly) telling me how their car works when I'm a certified automotive technician and automotive parts person with over 17 years of experience in the industry? If mansplaining is not a thing, why do I have men at my parts counter arguing with me when they have come to the dealership to tap my knowledge and experience? (Like the tardball I just got off the phone with insisting that a wire is run directly from the battery to his 7-pin hitch connector only moments ago). If mansplaining is not a thing, why are there men at my parts counter who do not believe me when I tell them something but have no trouble believing any one of the men I work with when they say the exact same thing as I just did?

    How about you GTFOH with your "mansplaining is not a thing" garbage?

    How about because people can be morons without it being a gender issue.

    How about because male morons are pretty darned likely to talk down to women?

    Yeah, I believe it's a special case of certain people being moronic, arrogant jerks, talking down to someone they implicitly consider to be of lower status. It's the case where the jerk is male, and the person they they're ignoring, condescending to, or insulting is a woman. Sadly, as others' stories illustrate, it's a dead-common case.

    Do we need a special word for this thing? Meh. But it's a thing.

    I was thinking more along the lines of salesmen, especially car salesmen, who can read you and understand if you're a sucker or not within the first few minutes. They'll give the worst deals to people who don't understand much about cars, prices, etc. (mostly young people and people who are new to buying a car) My economics professor was talking to a friend who sold cars and he told him this. A woman student of his learned this from him and calculated everything at home after talking to the dealer about the price of the car, and it ended up being way off. The dealership was embarrassed and practically gave her the car so that she wouldn't give a terrible review and tell people not to go to that dealership. We learned how to calculate all the data so that we don't get screwed over. lol

    To get on topic of an unpopular opinion about health/fitness, I think crossfit is a sureway to injure yourself and to not even understand how to do a proper pull-up, one of the most basic exercises, completely rids them of all credibility.
  • gothchiq
    gothchiq Posts: 4,590 Member
    I think it makes a big difference what foods you eat, not just how many calories you consume. Your body cares about nutrients and other things as well, and having experimented with all this, I am pretty secure in how I feel about it.
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