Sugar Woo

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  • comptonelizabeth
    comptonelizabeth Posts: 1,701 Member
    Doesn't this demonstrate the pointlessness of the woo button? The OP didn't know why they were being woo'd, leading to a long debate about why it was woo/whether it was woo, etc.
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    Doesn't this demonstrate the pointlessness of the woo button? The OP didn't know why they were being woo'd, leading to a long debate about why it was woo/whether it was woo, etc.

    No, it demonstrates why it's silly to get upset by a woo or two.

    I am positive there were things in the thread for OP to understand why she was being disagreed with.

    Are there posts with tons of woos and NO responses, so the poster (or those reading along) can't tell why the post was woo'd? I doubt it.

    Are there posts that get woo'd in a mysterious way? Sure (my olive one, IMO), but not lots and lots of woos.
  • mph323
    mph323 Posts: 3,565 Member
    Doesn't this demonstrate the pointlessness of the woo button? The OP didn't know why they were being woo'd, leading to a long debate about why it was woo/whether it was woo, etc.

    Great point.

    The Woo button can mean the same thing as Insightful or Inspiring depending on its source.

    No, it doesn't.

    http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10570889/new-community-reaction-woo#latest

    "In our community Woo means that you think an idea or approach is too good to be true."
  • JeromeBarry1
    JeromeBarry1 Posts: 10,179 Member
    edited March 2018
    ceiswyn wrote: »
    sgt1372 wrote: »
    Despite the penchant on the Net (and on MFP) to cultivate "likes," "friends," and "followers," the people who buck the trend and think their own thoughts are "right" more often than not.

    Do you have any actual examples from, say, the last 30 years, of people who bucked the trend of scientific consensus and were right? Are Flat Earthers right ‘more often than not’?

    @ceiswyn The 2005 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine is such an actual example.

    There's also the other side of just being wrong. https://undsci.berkeley.edu/article/0_0_0/cold_fusion_02
  • GaleHawkins
    GaleHawkins Posts: 8,159 Member
    mph323 wrote: »
    Doesn't this demonstrate the pointlessness of the woo button? The OP didn't know why they were being woo'd, leading to a long debate about why it was woo/whether it was woo, etc.

    Great point.

    The Woo button can mean the same thing as Insightful or Inspiring depending on its source.

    No, it doesn't.

    http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10570889/new-community-reaction-woo#latest

    "In our community Woo means that you think an idea or approach is too good to be true."

    Bingo.
  • koda0071
    koda0071 Posts: 40 Member
    Just consider? The sodium paper has an interesting idea that ..."Salt appetite and hedonic liking of salt taste have evolved over >100 million y (e.g., being present in Metatheria). Drugs causing pleasure and addiction are comparatively recent and likely reflect usurping of evolutionary ancient systems with high survival value by the gratification of contemporary hedonic indulgences." If sugar falls into the same evolutionary ancient system then it is possible and probable that our brains are programed to crave these two natural substances do to a biological need when food was harder to come by. The sugar paper suggests up regulation of these pathways thus increasing cravings especially when under a food restricted diet. "...these same neuroadaptations underlie up regulation of sucrose- and psychostimulant-induced trafficking of AMPA receptors to the nucleus accumbens postsynaptic density, which may be a mechanistic basis of enduring maladaptive behavior." Is sugar addiction real? Is caffeine addiction? Maybe the severity of withdrawal is on a broad spectrum when compared to opiates and cocaine, but it looks to me our brains may react to various reward inducing substances in a similar way regardless of how socially acceptable the substance is.

    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Jul 26;108(30):12509-14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1109199108. Epub 2011 Jul 11.

    Relation of addiction genes to hypothalamic gene changes subserving genesis and gratification of a classic instinct, sodium appetite.

    Liedtke WB1, McKinley MJ, Walker LL, Zhang H, Pfenning AR, Drago J, Hochendoner SJ, Hilton DL, Lawrence AJ, Denton DA.




    Curr Opin Behav Sci. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2017 Jun 1.


    Published in final edited form as:


    Curr Opin Behav Sci. 2016 Jun; 9: 32–39.
    doi: 10.1016/j.cobeha.2015.11.019


    PMCID: PMC4699792

    NIHMSID: NIHMS745096

    Nucleus Accumbens AMPA Receptor Trafficking Upregulated by Food Restriction: An Unintended Target for Drugs of Abuse and Forbidden Foods


    Kenneth D. Carr
  • Motorsheen
    Motorsheen Posts: 20,508 Member
    filthy389 wrote: »
    Not trying to be a creep.

    it's okay.... just try harder.

    you know; practice, practice, practice.

  • MadisonMolly2017
    MadisonMolly2017 Posts: 11,152 Member
    I got woo’d too! And the person that replied that she agreed 100% did too! Viva la difference! I actually thought a “woo” was like Woo-hooo!!! Until I saw their responses to her.
  • lkpducky
    lkpducky Posts: 17,620 Member
    nutmegoreo wrote: »
    lemurcat12 wrote: »
    I believe in the above comment Gale is trying to contact that old dog that farmer had.

    I think that dog is dead now, isn't he?

    Earliest print sightings were from 1780.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bingo_(folk_song)

    If he's not dead, then that's some scary Pet Cemetery stuff going on there.

    I've heard of beating a dead horse, but a dead dog...?