DIE DIE DIE!!!

Any idea of a particular food being avoided like the plague, but especially carbs and sugar. Certain people do what works for them, but claiming that I can't eat carbs and lose weight drives me insane.

And not eating past a certain time. Ick.

1. Dr Oz and "superfood" anything.
2. "You shouldn't cook your vegetables"- . I hate raw vegetables and salad. The only way I'm eating a majority of them is if they are cooked.
3. Cleanses and detoxes.

Charlene

1. Anything on the facing label at the grocery store. It may be illegal for them to lie, but they definitely don't have to tell the truth.

2. "Don't eat after X:00 because you won't be able to work it off before you go to bed." You have no idea what hours I keep, and I can promise you that I don't die every night and resurrect every morning. The major muscle groups might be taking a nap, but the essentials keep running all night long.

3. Anything toted on the cover of a magazine. They sell hope, not results.

4. Anything Dr. Oz may suggest outside of his role as a cardiothoracic surgeon. He makes money by peddling snake oil. He saves lives by carving people up like turkeys.

Leg day, brah.


(unofficial president of my own Fairuza Balk fan club)

In American History X? In bed? With the combat boots?

Leg day, brah.


(unofficial president of my own Fairuza Balk fan club)

In American History X? In bed? With the combat boots?

Gluten tastes great!

Diet Pills
Clean Eating
Junk Food
Women will bulk if they lift weights.
I can't lose weight because I have big bones.
Diet Soda is bad and causes weight gain.
Food is bad.
Diet Cleanse
Aspartame - Run! Run! Run! The sky is falling! Oh, the horror!

I'd add some health myths as well, since these are all pseudo medicine and woo.

01. Oil Pulling
02. Homeopathy
03. Chiropractic
05. Feng Shui
06. Naturopathy
07. Pretty much all "Eastern Medicine"
08. Acupuncture
09. Chelation "Therapy"
10. The Pro-Disease, anti-vaccination crowd of celebs like Jenny McCarthy

All of that is crap and in some cases dangerous.

Partially agree, although I think chiropractors can be really bad or really good. Depends on the person you see, since I had a chiropractor who I realized was basically a scam artist, but now I have a chiropractor who actually figured out the reason for my migraines which countless specialists and head scans couldn't figure out. He's taught me ways of keeping my joints aligned myself so my chronic pain is better.

Regardless of good or bad, you're basically seeing a chiropractor for physical therapy. Fine if you want to see a chiropractor for that, however, I'd rather see a licensed physical therapist whose practice is based on science-based medicine. I'm aware that chiropractors have their own licensing requirements in many cases, but I trust that as much I would trust a licensed psychic for making financial or relationship decisions.

Or if you flip it on its head, PTs are like Chiros without the ability to adjust and less school. I'd much rather go to a good Chiro than a PT when my back is out, I can do exercises on my own thank you, just move that area I can't! PTs just don't fill the same shoes, no relief vs significant relief after Chiropractic adjustment in my case several times. For school, Chiros have more training and school hours in radiology and nutrition than MDs even. But just like MDs some of them hold strange ideas...and I'm sure NOBODY has heard of Dr. Oz.... I sympathize with the perception though, I've seen some off the wall stuff from some Chiros. You need to do the work and find a good one...or you get situations just like with my MDs who missed conditions I had that my Chiro caught and sent me to the right specialist, definitely changed my life...

Yes, they may have "more training" (which I don't believe for second) but is their training a science based approach or is it based upon pre-scientific understanding of the body? These adjustments you are receiving, that are purport to treat everything - including insomnia for new borns - is a significant medical intervention. Chiro, like other woo, is immersed in its own dogma, I would not trust one-wit of their "training."

Have you considered the reason why you're given exercises for your back is to treat the underlying cause and not treat the symptom?

And if you think Chiro like M.D. hold "strange ideas" then why bother to see any of them? You clearly think the pool is poisoned.

You got things backwards again, my point is that there are good and bad MDs and Chiros, not that either one is "no good", but they have their place and you need to evaluate them and get second opinions. The PT scenario is also reversed in this case, they did not improve my symptoms and did not treat the cause, the Chiro did treat the cause and a good Chiro not only adjusts but ALSO does what the PT does and can give you similar exercises and therapies afterwards. Its sounding like you heard others talk about Chiros, or have been to an as you say "woo" one, and haven't been to a good Chiro is all.

I'm not going to reveal what conditions I had, but I definitely owe some very important organ functions to a Chiro who had scientific knowledge of the body and referred me to the MD specialist for an emergency intervention in one case, not to the two MDs I went to who ignored my symptoms that I specifically asked about! Yes definitely there is science based training and there are good and bad Chiros and MDs.

The standard BMI calculator tells me that as a 6'0" male that I need to look like an Auschwitz prisoner at 135-150 lbs to have a "normal" body. Um, sorry pal, that ain't normal, and that ain't healthy. I looked like a stick in high school and I was 158 lbs.

As a young adult I bicycled 50 miles a day, was in perfect health, and weighed 185 lbs, which is "overweight" according to the BMI calculator. I don't know who came up with that garbage, but it is not based on any reality for a person with normal musculature. I believe the standard BMI calculator is deceiving people into losing both fat and muscle that is in fact healthy for them.

The range for a 6' male to be "normal" is up to 183lbs. Not 150 like you stated. Still, BMI is BS....lol.

I'd add some health myths as well, since these are all pseudo medicine and woo.

01. Oil Pulling
02. Homeopathy
03. Chiropractic
05. Feng Shui
06. Naturopathy
07. Pretty much all "Eastern Medicine"
08. Acupuncture
09. Chelation "Therapy"
10. The Pro-Disease, anti-vaccination crowd of celebs like Jenny McCarthy

All of that is crap and in some cases dangerous.

Partially agree, although I think chiropractors can be really bad or really good. Depends on the person you see, since I had a chiropractor who I realized was basically a scam artist, but now I have a chiropractor who actually figured out the reason for my migraines which countless specialists and head scans couldn't figure out. He's taught me ways of keeping my joints aligned myself so my chronic pain is better.

Regardless of good or bad, you're basically seeing a chiropractor for physical therapy. Fine if you want to see a chiropractor for that, however, I'd rather see a licensed physical therapist whose practice is based on science-based medicine. I'm aware that chiropractors have their own licensing requirements in many cases, but I trust that as much I would trust a licensed psychic for making financial or relationship decisions.

Or if you flip it on its head, PTs are like Chiros without the ability to adjust and less school. I'd much rather go to a good Chiro than a PT when my back is out, I can do exercises on my own thank you, just move that area I can't! PTs just don't fill the same shoes, no relief vs significant relief after Chiropractic adjustment in my case several times. For school, Chiros have more training and school hours in radiology and nutrition than MDs even. But just like MDs some of them hold strange ideas...and I'm sure NOBODY has heard of Dr. Oz.... I sympathize with the perception though, I've seen some off the wall stuff from some Chiros. You need to do the work and find a good one...or you get situations just like with my MDs who missed conditions I had that my Chiro caught and sent me to the right specialist, definitely changed my life...

Yes, they may have "more training" (which I don't believe for second) but is their training a science based approach or is it based upon pre-scientific understanding of the body? These adjustments you are receiving, that are purport to treat everything - including insomnia for new borns - is a significant medical intervention. Chiro, like other woo, is immersed in its own dogma, I would not trust one-wit of their "training."

Have you considered the reason why you're given exercises for your back is to treat the underlying cause and not treat the symptom?

And if you think Chiro like M.D. hold "strange ideas" then why bother to see any of them? You clearly think the pool is poisoned.

You got things backwards again, my point is that there are good and bad MDs and Chiros, not that either one is "no good", but they have their place and you need to evaluate them and get second opinions. The PT scenario is also reversed in this case, they did not improve my symptoms and did not treat the cause, the Chiro did treat the cause and a good Chiro not only adjusts but ALSO does what the PT does and can give you similar exercises and therapies afterwards. Its sounding like you heard others talk about Chiros, or have been to an as you say "woo" one, and haven't been to a good Chiro is all.

I'm not going to reveal what conditions I had, but I definitely owe some very important organ functions to a Chiro who had scientific knowledge of the body and referred me to the MD specialist for an emergency intervention in one case, not to the two MDs I went to who ignored my symptoms that I specifically asked about! Yes definitely there is science based training and there are good and bad Chiros and MDs.

The fact that they are good and bad MDs and Chiros is irrelevant. I am referring to mythologies that each disciplines uses. What you're playing is a game of equivocation. Fact is, they are not equal in methodology, although you also try to claim the mantel that they are. Please.

You really went to a Chiro for problems with your organs?

Good luck that.

Anything that involves the phrase 'one weird trick'.

The one I hate the most is the idea that any one sarcastic, mocking person has the answer.

No individual sarcastic mocking person has all the answers.
It takes an entire collective of sarcastic, mocking people to give all of the required answers.
We're all just individuals. We have families, jobs.
It takes a village to insult an entire website.

LOL!
Right. Because we all know that......sarcasm = information!

The standard BMI calculator tells me that as a 6'0" male that I need to look like an Auschwitz prisoner at 135-150 lbs to have a "normal" body. Um, sorry pal, that ain't normal, and that ain't healthy. I looked like a stick in high school and I was 158 lbs.

As a young adult I bicycled 50 miles a day, was in perfect health, and weighed 185 lbs, which is "overweight" according to the BMI calculator. I don't know who came up with that garbage, but it is not based on any reality for a person with normal musculature. I believe the standard BMI calculator is deceiving people into losing both fat and muscle that is in fact healthy for them.

The range for a 6' male to be "normal" is up to 183lbs. Not 150 like you stated. Still, BMI is BS....lol.

^^^ This.

Real women have curves

Real women do have curves.
False women are two-dimensional and have no curves.

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