#Dangerous diets

[living400lbs]

Fad diets were dangerous in the 1920s, too:

"Indeed, the 1920s were probably the high point of food faddism in the United States. Dietary evangelists of one stripe or another touted the health benefits of fasting, mastication, vegetarianism, fruitarianism, raw foods, sour milk, drinking two quarts of milk daily, the grape cure, no breakfast, no protein, hot water, no water with meals, coffee with meals, liver as a miracle food, and on and on. Many of these programs were supposed to enhance not only internal well-being but external beauty as well. After centuries of judging the curvaceous form ideal, millions of American women suddenly decided that the slim, “sylphlike,” and boyish body type was now the goal. They embarked on all kinds of reducing regimens, including the canned pineapple and lamb chop diet, supposedly popular among movie stars: “For breakfast the order is one lamb chop and one slice of pineapple. For luncheon two lamb chops and one slice of pineapple. For dinner two lamb chops and two slices of pineapple.” That combination of meat and fruit was somehow supposed to melt the pounds away. In fact, so many women—and more than a few men—were experimenting with drastic diets, high colonics, patent medicines, therapeutic soaps, and other nostrums guaranteed to shed pounds that thousands were ending up in hospitals, victims of physical and mental collapse. Alarmed, in 1926 the American Medical Association convened an “Adult Weight Loss Conference” in New York with leading doctors as speakers. After the conference, they drafted a widely reprinted, sixteen-part series of articles exposing the dangers of reducing fads and recommending a gradual plan consisting of exercise and a balanced, low-calorie diet. Their efforts mainly fell on deaf ears. At the end of the decade arose the Hollywood Diet, featuring a menu of grapefruit and various proteins and guaranteed to help you lose eighteen pounds in as many days. Once again, hospitals saw a rise in “cases of acidosis, jaundice, anaemia and similar complaints arising from malnutrition from its adherents” and issued a new series of health warnings."

From A Square Meal by Jane Ziegelman and Andrew Coe

[john-morrad]

Dangerous Weight Loss Ideas

6 Dangerous Weight Loss Ideas You Should All Stay Away From. Leave The Lettuce Leaf Alone, Try This Instead (Women Only). Everybody who has ever had a weight problem has, at one time or another, tried to diet the weight away. We’ve all done it and almost without exception we’ve all had at least one failed attempt to lose weight this way and while there are some good diet programs available there…

[chaoticbuggybitchboy]

Killjoy Day of the Dead where the ‘joys spray paint paths of their friends’ favorite colors to help lead them home. Where the Mailboxes are flooded with letters and gifts to loved ones. Where killjoys remember their loved ones and celebrate their lives. Where they give offerings to the dead and to the Witch in hopes that their friends will be able to visit them that night. Where the Witch guides the dead along the painted paths to the people they called home, so they’re not alone reading their letters and opening their gifts. Sometimes the Witch brings them all of the way back for that night, sometimes not. There is always next year, and the knowledge that your friends are there, even if you can’t see them.

Just. Killjoy Day of the Dead guys.

[frogonamelon]

It's that time of year again where it gets a little warmer and I remember that Amphibia is a show I very much enjoy thinking about. Have some Anne outfits, as a treat <3

If you would like to see what aspect of headcanon/ au worldbuilding had consumed my consciousness like a pestering maggot, feel free to continue below.

Hello! Welcome to I focus on researching one very specific detail until I burn out!

My entire day has been consumed by figuring out how Amphibia's farming works. Like... amphibians are carnivores why do they have farms?

Well, I'll tell you why! The Plantars grow animal feed for predominantly crickets but also others such as silkworms, spiders, snails, etc. They grow produce like cabbage, mushrooms, parsnips, potatoes, dandelions, and turnips as well as heartfruit, a fruit not found on Earth.

In the past, the original amphibian hunter/gatherer societies found that mealworms were attracted to fallen heartfruit, among others. They began to use this knowledge to make traps and eventually began both containing the worms as well as growing the fruit.

Despite mealworms historical prominence in the farming and feeding of Amphibia, crickets are more popular nowadays due to their higher levels of protein. They also began growing a larger variety of produce to further increase efficiency.

Heartfruit is a kind of tree grown fruit with the color of a raspberry, size of a kumquat, and shape of a peach (hence the name). The Plantar's orchard is the only producer of this fruit as its traditionally significant but not necessary for frog kind. They are Anne's personal favorite of the Plantar's produce, being chalk full of nutrients and somehow feels nostalgic to her.

Speaking of Anne, she survives mostly on the Plantar's produce along with cricket meat (knowing that she can at least eat crickets).

After discovering that the amphibians hibernate, she begins to plant pole beans, blueberries, elderberries, and other produce and herbs in her greenhouse to cultivate while she forages and stockpiles for winter. She preps and stores wild rice, pecans, and sunflower seeds (discovered through trial and error). She keeps spare root veggies and other product in the basement. The Plantars help her do this, once they understand the situation, drying heartfruit and salting and smoking fish as well as making jerky out of bugs that they know she can have.

Anne's gonna learn to survive, even if the first winter is especially hard.

[awesomecooperlove]

🛑🛑🛑HOW TO TEST IF YOUR FRUITS AND VEGGIES ARE GMO🛑🛑🛑

[endreal]

I think veganism is a really cool lifestyle for people who are able to access it safely and healthily. But one thing I've struggled with a lot in talking to vegans, especially political and philosophical vegans, that I've personally met (important caveat) is the alarming way some of them have talked about the natural world. Strikingly, one conversation I remember having a couple years ago involved some fairly conventional statistics about environmental impacts of animal agribusiness and urban sprawl that culminated in some less-statistically-based conclusions about how human development is wholesale bad for the ecosystem, and given that we both lived in a medium-sized city, I responded (as close to verbatim as I remember) "But this is an ecosystem. We live here." and this was clearly not the correct response for my conversation partner, who doubled down and then pivoted to a different talking point.

And, like, this made my stomach sink to hear. I'm by no means a perfect (and by most metrics possibly not even "good") ecology person; I mean, I've lived in fuckin colonized America for the overwhelming majority of my life. But I do care deeply about the places I live - I make an honest effort to try and notice the wildlife that I share space with, talk to bees, learn the names of ditch flowers and weeds, and identify local plants vs introduced ones and do what I can to be mindful of how my actions impact them. To talk with someone who on the surface shared those values but scratching just below the surface felt more like "nature good. humans bad. bad humans, bad." was gutting. I don't live in some separate reality from the grass and squirrels and sweetgum trees in my neighborhood. The sort of moralism and mindset of abstenant anthropic stewardism they expressed resounded in the part of my brain that remembers growing up in an evangelical Christian bubble. I still struggle to understand how someone who wants so passionately to make the world a better place can reconcile that goal when their rhetoric sounds like the secular eco-version of the armageddonist worldview I grew up around.

It hurts a little bit. The world is literally not a walled garden to tended, partitioned off from humanity. It's an open space, sprawling and full of weird weeds and beasties, and also I live here and you do and they do too and we all deserve to have the best environment we can create for ourselves. All of us.

This is an ecosystem. We live here.

[daz4i]

it should be illegal to advertise products that encourage starving yourself i think

[arolesbianism]

Some concepts for the siblings

[littlebigmess]

[gifti3]

Im in such an obey me mood today haha

other than "pls dont tell asmo about that",,,, i have questions about these freaking vegetables (im putting under the cut since im talking about food and bad eating habits/diet related stuff)

im assuming they would have to be mixed with other regular ingredients to prevent the hunger but it sounds like ppl would use them as the main component in a dish or just eat them by themselves

So does all of it get digested? No leftovers (waste) comes out the other end im guessing? is it like a magic type thing?? it has to be right? Cause if not...ur body will take the calories needed to replace the ones burnt, take the nutrients, and the rest will just get tossed out

And since it doesnt make you full, like wouldnt it be way too easy to overeat this type of thing? so you could accidentally end up making urself go to the restroom more often :/

Ig if it gives u the nutrients u need that itll be useful then. So maybe its a 'heres ur macros for the day' type dealo? but u still have to go eat an actual meal or make sure u mix it with other stuff tho

[ur-fav-is-a-killjoy]

Joel Hammond from Santa Clarita Diet is a Killjoy!! I found this image on the wiki and laughed so hard I couldn't breathe. Why is he built like a stock image

Requested by: Anonymous

[james-p-sullivan]

i don’t know who needs to hear this but no, the candy bar you ate doesn’t cancel out the workout you just did

[anorexic-autist]

chat do i lower my ugw or do i actually recover in a month and a bit when i hit it...

[6ebe]

Spain’s always got some new superstar teenager

[animescreencolle]