Aaron_K123 Member

To turn the question around if you truly decide that you don't care about someone anymore then why would you take the time to try to explain that to them in a difficult and awkward conversation?

Really? Is that statistic for the United States or the world as a whole? Because assuming a two adult household where both adults work that would be only 32.5k a year per adult which is not even a dollar about minimum wage (at least where I am). Now I realize the national average minimum wage is lower but still, that…

There is a difference between drinking a gallon of water a day because you are extremely active and therefore require that amount and just deciding from a website that drinking a gallon exactly is what you should do every day and forcing yourself to do so whether it improves your performance or not.

<shrug> stock prices are reactionary and ephemeral, what matters is their sales and quarterly reports. If their sales increase their stock will increase over time. This sort of reactionary negativity tends to have a short burn time but the company brand will stick in people's heads. The long game might see them benefiting…

Why drink that much water? Just curious as to your reasoning. How much water you drink will have basically zero influence on your percentage bodyfat which I assume is what you care about. Drinking a lot of water can make your body shed weight in terms of water weight as you dilute out and deplete your bodies electrolyes…

The point of advertisement isn't to be in tune with the culture and blandly polite, the point of advertisment is to get people to talk about the product and repeatedly drop the brand name all over the place both in conversation and online post so people who have never heard of the company then hear about the company. The…

Thank you, always nice to hear when someone gets something out of it that they find motivating or beneficial to them in some way.

I'm just wondering if it continues to get darker as the quotes nest until you can't actually read the text anymore, or does the text font change color to compensate?

Uh, microorganisms that convert CO2 into proteins? So...basically just phytoplankton or algae then. Keep in mind that meat is protein but not all protein is meat. Your hair is protein for example.

Feel free to correct me if you think this is wrong but to me when people say they need to be "body positive" what they really mean is that they need to be able to be effective at what they put their mind to and what they have determined is that if they are unhappy about their body it is so distracting as to make them…

This is probably a semantic thing but if being "body positive" means being comfortable and happy with your body in its current state then I would argue that actually you can't be body positive if you are going to lose weight because the first thing that needs to happen is you need to decide that you are not satisfied with…

Weight loss is only "one half of the equation of health" so in that way calories in vs calories out is only one-half of the equation of health. Also your bodies weight is comprised of more than just fat, water weight has a large influence on day to day or even week to week values on the scale...and calories in vs calories…

Right now data on microbiome effects on health is akin to scattered tea leaves. You can either peer at them until you think you see your future or you could just recognize that although there are likely some legitimate health effects from symbiotic organisms living within us (be they commensal, mutual or parasaitic) the…

Again I'm not trying to equate smoking to obesity in terms of health risks laws or risk to others. I'm responding to those saying that not accommodating something in society doesnt reduce its rates...how do you explain the precipitous drop in smoking rates right after we stopped accommodating smoking on transit and in…

The point of the analogy wasnt to equate the health risks of smoking and obesity...I acknowledge that they dont equate in exactly the way you are saying in the very post you are responding to if you keep reading past the part you highlighted to the part I highlighted. The analogy is to the affect societal accommodation has…

That is why I put it into quotes. Problem with these sorts of online debates is people read into what you are saying based on the words they choose for you. I started using marginalization only because other people said what I was talking about was marginalization. All I mean is that society should actively discourage…

Oh good I'm glad you showed up CSARdiver...was beginning to think I was the only ***hole here. :-)

Out of curiosity why would you think that it wouldn't decrease obesity rates to marginalize obesity? It certainly decreased the number of people who smoke when society marginalize smoking and made it inconvenient to be a smoker and if you are a smoker quitting isn't an easy fix and often takes years. Just to be clear by…

I didn't read your tone as combative at all and you make some excellent points. I think you do make an important point that there is a distinction between hygiene/grooming and obesity in terms of although both might be regulated by behavior, one can be adjusted in 30 minutes while the other can take years. Societal…

I don't disagree that society has shunned overweight and embraced underweight but I'm not sure why the solution would be to embrace overweight as well, I think it makes more sense to just stop embracing underweight. As far as your worth being tied to your personal appearance....it sort of is to be honest. I mean for things…

I think a role of society is to apply negative pressure to behaviors that that society wishes to discourage. Being fat is a physical thing and a physical trait but it is definitely caused by behavior and personal choices. If we, as a society, want to encourage athletic health and wish to discourage being fat then I…

Definitely for housing. A 600sqft condo in San Francisco would buy you a mansion in most parts of the country. Actually just checked and prices have dropped in SF. Can get a 2bd 1 bath condo with almost 1000sqft (with no yard at all) for under a million now. Price per sqft ($1,027):…

2 adults plus 2 toddlers and we spend about $1000 to $1200 a month on food although we live in a city that is top 5 in the nation fir cost of living. That is about 8 to 10% of our take home and about 33% relative to our mortgage. I think as dollars there will be a lot of range but as percent of take-home or percent of…

Caffeine is an agonist of adenosine receptors, adenosine being a common cell signalling transmitter. What that means is that caffeine binds to and blocks the signalling of receptors that normally bind adenosine so it deadens the signal from adenosine. Adenosine receptors in your brain are associated with neurotransmissions…

The one truly active ingredient in sodas that very well may affect you is caffeinemg so I'd definitely suspect caffeine before I'd suspect anything else.

Just to be clear I have zero interest in trying to convince someone that whatever issue they were experiencing was not because of diet soda. If you are experiencing discomfort and you stop drinking diet soda and suddenly you dont have that discomfort then sure, dont drink diet soda. Now if that same discomfort comes back…

Thanks for the question. First I'd like to say that not all artificial sweeteners can't be digested, aspartame for example is absolutely metabolized and does not remain intact in your gut. It is a mistake to assume that all sweeteners have the same properties...the only thing they share in common is that they are sweet. As…

The author of the review posted does have a study which likely was the inspiration for their review. Here is the study: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15287394.2018.1502560 I haven't read it yet but I do note that the last author (typically reserved for the funder or writer of the study plan) is from the…

Sucralose isnt digested, digested products aren't absorbed by your intestine and they don't enter your bloodstream. You can't test metabolism for something that isnt metabolized. So I dont doubt at all that sucralose has never been tested for "first pass drug metabolism" however that is one of those kinds of statements…