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Wearing shoes you don't approve of is in some way like "hanging out at all hours of the night?" Pick your battles, unless you don't value having a lifelong relationship with your children.

IOW, all these other people are people who are not like me so naturally they are not as good as me. They are young or old, don't have children or have children but don't raise them as I think is best. None of these people are as smart as me and people who agree with me. I have to laugh.

I'm glad for you that your mom appreciated you. Mine didn't. I made good choices where it counted. In fact, you claim you drank at parties. This is a WAY bigger deal that what shoes you choose or how you wear your hair. And controlling things like that show disrespect for your kids. Why should kids respect you if you don't…

As I've related, my "rebellion" wasn't so dramatic. But I'll tell you this, I SURE don't regret it. My mom didn't appreciate me, and, quite frankly, respect goes both ways. She called my friends and tried to get my phone number, she wanted a relationship. But even at those family get-togethers, all she could is pick at my…

And that's fine. But you should know: I was a good student, never missed school, never drank or did drugs, dressed modestly, and my mom criticized constantly. Your daughter knows kids who skip school, never study, drink, do drugs, dress in very little and get pregnant. EVERY TEEN DOES. I did. And because my mom didn't pick…

What an excellent observation. My mom was very critical and judgmental as well, and as a result we had virtually no relationship once I was an adult and moved from her home. She has been gone since 2007, and to be honest, I'm closer to her now than when she was alive. (My dad was very accepting--he's been gone since 1988…

I am 35 years OLDER than you (53) and I agree. Shoes cannot be "inappropriate." I encourage my nieces (and would my daughters if I had daughters) to wear lower shoes because high heels will leave you with a lot of foot pain and problems when you're my age, but "appropriate?" Why on earth would they not be? Flat sandals…

You have to eat at a deficit to lose weight. Exercise can change your body composition, but not make you lose weight.

I'd avoid the peanut butter if it's likely to make you suck on the roof of your mouth to free it. That is a good way to displace clots and sutures, and they usually advise you to avoid sucking at all.

After twenty four to forty eight hours it's not as important what you eat as that you do not suck, like through a straw, until your oral surgeon says it's okay. That can displace clots and sutures and such. I'd suggest that your oral surgeon knows best what you should eat, and you should eat what s/he tells you to,…

Starts about 3 inches distal of the elbow, runs over the lateral epicondyle and kind of makes a curve and ends about 1.5 inches proximal of the elbow, from an open repair of the lateral colateral ligament and the common extensor tendon. If you feel carefully you can feel the pin holding the common extensor tendon in place,…

It seems to me that paleolithic man was not healthier than we are. Paleolithic man was elderly at 20 and virtually all were dead before age 25.

You're mistaken. I saw it on the shelf OTC yesterday.

I don't use Alli and I don't recommend it, but wearing adult incontinence products isn't as bad as you seem to think. I'm a bladder cancer patient and I often can't control my bladder due to treatment. I wear these products every day, all day. It's really not that big a deal.

Seriously? Nay. Eating things you can't digest, which is what Alli does to a part of the fat you consume, is a recipe for gas, cramping and diarrhea. If you read the promotional materials, it will only help if you eat at least 9gm of fat per meal. If you don't, you won't lose weight any faster than you would otherwise. If…

Naked yoga. Seriously. Naked. Yoga. Doesn't seem like a good idea to me. Seems...unsafe.

Then it "irks" people like the OP because you shouldn't log what you do at your job, because you got fat while working your job. As near as I can tell, if you don't have to put on special clothes and/or shoes, it's not exercise. Of course you consider that exercise. If it's your job you can use a higher base level, like…

So well put. I wish I'd said this. ^^^^

I think it's arrogance to question what anyone else logs, whether it's cleaning as exercise or cheesecake for breakfast. What amazes me is how many people are looking at other people's logs when they weren't asked to. I simply NEVER look at anyone's logs. Ever. Which, I suppose, is why it doesn'r "irk" me what other people…

There. I fixed that for you. How dare you decide WHY other people log things accurately. Because it is accurate to log it.

You posted the thread with an attitude of superiority and now you have the audacity to say it's "disrespectful" to be angry?

So exercise is determined by whether or not you do it for "the purpose of exercise?" Really? So if, say, someone's car ran out of gas and they had to walk 5 miles to the gas station and back to the car with the gas, they wouldn't burn calories because they hadn't done it "for the purpose of exercise?" How does the body…

If your body doesn't know how to digest them, they couldn't do any harm. They just pass through unchanged.

If your body can't absorb something, it' can't absorb it. Period. Not like your leaky jar analogy, but not at all. So consuming it would be zero risk. Period. And saying you "know chemistry" without showing your credentials doesn't prove you know anything at all about the topic of artificial sweeteners, nor does throwing…

Xylitol, like it's sister chemicals, mannitol, and sorbitol, is a sugar alcohol. It's a good sugar substitute, and it's proven to kill the bacteria that cause tooth decay--BONUS!--but in large quantities it can have a laxative effect.

SO if some people are allergic to something, it's "not good for" the general population? Like say, cat dander, dust, and/or plant pollens, for instance, are "not good for you?"

"Off brands?" Stevia isn't a brand name, it's the genus of the plant the sweetener comes from.

Why? What evidence do you have that artificial sweeteners, in the absence of an allergy, are "not good for you?"

Nope. No carbon, or bonds of any kind--including ionic--are needed for something to be a "chemical substance." You're confusing "chemical substance" with "organic substance." No bonds in helium or neon, or any other noble gas, but they're chemicals none-the-less.

It is not possible to live without chemicals. Everything is chemicals. Literally everything.