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thenightnurse · 5 years ago

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Understanding Diabetes

Let’s discus diabetes. More than 30 million Americans have diabetes, and yet most people don’t understand just how serious of a disease it is, or how it exactly works.

Before we begin, let’s clarify that there are many different types if diabetes, from Type 1, Type 2, Gestational Diabetes, prediabetes, and much more. I’ll talk about them later.

Anatomy

Let’s take a look at a few key players; The pancreas, the liver, the kidneys, your blood cells, and well, the rest of your cells lol. Insulin, glucose, ADH hormone. The stomach (breaks down and absorbs food), your muscles (stores and uses glucose)

Physiology

Okay so all foods, once they are broken down, are only one of three things, a carbohydrate molecule, a fat molecule, or a protein molecule. Glucose is a type of carb, a very simple one, and it’s what your body turns all carbs into.

Even though I said glucose is a simple carb (one of the smallest), its still really big, in fact its too large to be absorbed into most cells, like your skeletal muscles (aka most all of the muscles you think of), your fat cells, and your cardiac muscles (your heart). Glucose can however be absorbed by your brain, pancreas, and liver.

So after you eat some carbs, its broken down into glucose. This glucose is now chilling in your blood stream until its taken up into your liver and pancreas. The pancreas realizes that theres a good amount of sugar in the bloodstream and it releases insulin, which allows your muscles and fat cells to use that glucose. Now here’s the part that I personally hate because no one ever explains how insulin lets your body use glucose other than “it works like a key”, but to be fair it doesn’t actually help you to know how, so skip this part if you don’t care to know.

[Ight nerds, so remember how I said earlier that glucose is literally too big to just squeeze into the cells? Well then you must be wondering how does it? Good question. So inside your cells you have these things called hexose transporters, which are some cool yet boring membrane proteins. For the most part they kind of just chill in cytoplasmic vesicles, doing nothing and floating within a cell, but when insulin comes and binds to receptors on the outside of the cell, it basically summons all of the hexose transporters, to which they then join together like a fucking mech from power rangers and attach to the surface of the cell, creating enough space to allow them to be channeled through via facilitated diffusion, which is like passive diffusion (high to low), but through a channel/passageway. When the insulin goes away, voltron disassembles and glucose can no longer just float into the cell. Dope shit.]

Diabetes Pathophysiology

Let’s first discuss type 2 diabetes, since it is the most common type. 90-95% of people with diabetes have this type. At the end of the day, the cause of type two diabetes is Ineffective Insulin use.

Now, what does that mean? Well, it might mean that the body isn’t producing enough insulin, or that the body’s cells aren’t responding to insulin. I’ll give a few examples to help explain.

Let’s say that you wake up and eat a large breakfast of sugary ass cereal and drink a lot of juice. On the way to school or work you have a bar of what is basically sugar, and a cup of coffee. Which is in reality (if you are like me at least), is just liquid sugar and caffeine. For lunch you go and decide to eat a sandwich, which, while it might not be bad, still does have carbs which turn into sugar. You then proceed to have another cup of coffee or soda or something high in sugar. You later have a candy bar as a way of congratulating yourself for getting through the work/school day (honestly, fucking mood, same. lmao) and then for dinner you eat some pasta (again, not innately bad, but because you already had so many carbs it’ll just fuck you up). You also drink some high sugar liquids because you like the taste of it. Then you have another snack before bed. Probably high in sugar.

Well you remember how I previously said that insulin is released by your pancreas when blood sugar levels are high? Yeah well that shit is going to always be fucking high with a diet like that. Eventually the insulin receptors that are just chilling on your cells become fatigued and no longer respond to insulin because they’re just so done with it. Well the pancreas freaks out and decides to release even more insulin to try to compensate, but it will never be able to keep up, but it keeps trying and trying.

That’s basically how type 2 diabetes goes for the majority of people. Now for type 1.

So type 1 diabetes is a lot more rare. Less than 10% of people with diabetes have it. Type 1 diabetes is when your body’s immune system (the thing responsible for fighting infections) decides to attack the cells of the pancreas instead. It’s funny how the things meant to keep us safe can often times hurt us the worst. Ouch. Anyways, the scientific and medical community still aren’t sure what causes the immune system to do so. Some believe it’s due to genes, others believe its caused by viruses, or other environmental factors. More research is coming out every day. Really dope stuff. I guarantee you that the first person to discover the cause will not only quickly become incredibly rich (fuck the bourgeoise though) but will also win the Nobel Peace Prize that year.

Well since the pancreas is no longer functioning, your body is unable to actually use any of the carbs you eat, and since your body kind of needs glucose to live and do anything, you quickly waste away. Before the invention of insulin in 1921, the average life expectancy for someone with type 1 diabetes was only 3 years. Imagine being a parent and bearing a child that quickly just died at 3 years old for reasons you didn’t understand. Terrifying and tragic.

Most people with type 1 diabetes get diagnosed at the age of 14. There are some very telltale signs. So because the cells are unable to actually use the glucose, it kind of just sits in the bloodstream. This puts you at an incredibly high risk for infections, since bacteria will gladly use that sugar and grow rapidly in the bloodstream. Well because of concentration gradients (dude nature really loves conserving energy, I’ll write about it later), the water from within cells decide to leave the cell and enter the bloodstream, to balance out the concentration gradient of the high amount of molecules in the blood. Well on top of that the body really wants to get rid of the high sugar in the blood so it decides to urinate a lot to get rid of it, causing polyuria (poly meaning a lot, and uria meaning piss. So you piss a lot.)

So in your body your kidneys are whats responsible for creating urine, and then it sends it off to the bladder to be stored till you piss it out. Well it works by filtering your blood and then getting rid of stuff it doesn’t need, like sugar, urea (which is the main part of urine, so your body uses proteins a lot, and when proteins are broken down you are left with nitrogen. Well this nitrogen when combined with carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, create urea. Which isn’t healthy for you. That’s why you piss it out ), and toxins like ammonia. Among other stuff.

Normally your kidneys reabsorb the sugars and put it back into your bloodstream, but because you have so much sugar in your blood it’s unable to and instead the glucose goes to your urine. This is why they test your urine for sugar, and why diabetic patients can have urine that smells sweet. In fact old timey ass doctors would even taste your piss because if it was sweet you probably had diabetes. Well due to concentration gradients and your body naturally wanted to go to equilibrium, more water from your cells and body goes to join that urine. Because you are urinating so much, aka polyuria, you become really thirsty since you have no more liquid in your body. Like incredibly thirsty. We call this polydipsia. It’s almost an insatiable thirst.

Well remember how I said your cells are unable to absorb sugar? Well your cells don’t like this and so it tells your brain to become hungry, to make you eat more, so that it can get sugar. But because you are unable to use the sugar no matter what, you stay hungry and continue to starve. This intense hunger is called polyphagia. (poly means a lot, phagia means eating.)

These three form the trinity of signs of diabetes. Polydipsia, Polyuria, and Polyphagua.

There is a fourth sign however. Diabetic Ketoacidosis.

So a question you might have is how do people manage to live for so long if they aren’t able to process sugar? Good question.

They process fats instead.

Okay so this isn’t innately bad. Yay, your body is burning fat, not too bad right? Well. Because someone with DM1 (diabetes mellitus type 1) can only process fats and no carbs, they quickly build up the amount of ketones (whats left when your body processes fats for energy) in the blood, and since ketones are a bit acidic, when they are present en masse they are able to change the pH of your blood.

Other bad things that can happen due to DM1 and Ketoacidosis include having your electrolytes thrown out of wack due to them being urinated out, and with enough potassium gone you can have irregular heart rhythms which is never good. Lets see, due to severe dehydration your kidneys can decide to give up causing kidney failure. Because your body no longer gets rid of waste you can get really sick, and I don’t want to go into depth on that, but just think of all the troubles that can occur in your own house if you never threw out the trash. Tough shit. This is why so many patients with diabetes end up having to go to dialysis. Since they can’t filter their blood, a machine will have to. On top of this, because your fluid levels get thrown out of wack, fluids can actually build up in your lungs which makes it really difficult to breathe, as you can imagine. Basically it all just sucks.

Treatment

So treatment for type 1 diabetes is pretty straight forward, everytime you eat, wake up, go to bed, or feel terrible, you pretty much have to prick your finger, check your blood sugar levels, then give yourself a shot of insulin to compensate and everything works out. It’s very annoying, but something you ultimately have to just live with. And if you live in America then it is incredibly expensive and good luck fam.

For type two diabetics treatments a bit different. For a good amount of people, most people actually, if they were to just have a proper diet, eat less sugars and carbs, and just exercise daily, they would be fine and would be able to go about their days without worrying about diabetes. But this is the modern age we’re talking about and people are lazy sacks of shits and are unwilling to do the bare fucking minimum to ensure they have a good life and so instead we’ve developed a lot of drugs to compensate.

Different drugs do different things. Heres what the main ones do:

Biguanides like metformin or glucophage combat insulin resistance and they decrease hepatic glucose production.

Sulfonylureas work by increasing insulin production from the pancreas.

Meglitinides increase insulin production from the pancreas as well, but these are absorbed much quicker than sulfonylureas which means that they are a lot less likely to cause hypoglycemia.

alpha glucpsidase inhibitors work by decreasing the absorption of carbs in the small intestine.

Theres more drugs but honestly I’ve spent more than 2 hours writing this already and I have to be at the hospital at 6 in the morning and I just want to shower and sleep. I’ll just say this is part 1 and I’ll continue writing about diabetes later on. Like gestational diabetes.

#diabetes #medicine #type 1 diabetes #type 2 diabetes #insulin #nursing #ketoacidosis #dm1 #dm2

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tumblunni · 6 years ago

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Randomly thinking some more about that old game idea of mine that i just call Dark Pokemon for now, lol

Basically a monster catching game where they're treated as monsters? Normal people are all terrified of them and trainers get treated with a 50/50 mix of reverence and hatred. Because trainers are the only way that humans can try and exterminate the monsters, yet theyre seen as cursed people who dont even count as human anymore. Sort of a way to explain little cliches of the genre like kids being thrown out completely alone to travel the world, and you never really having any reason to revisit past towns after you beat the gym. I was thinking itd be a cool way to do it if the game started off seeming like a normal mon catching game and then before you get the big reveal of the darkness you can get subtle hints if you try and turn around and reenter the starting area. Because it goes against expectations it might be missed by a lot of players.

Also the towns are so small and the routes are so straight and narrow because thats how humanity builds society in a world of monster fear. 90% of the world is uninhabited wilderness where only monsters live. Human towns are sorta like sci fi dome cities without the scifi? Surrounded by protective salt barriers and charms and stuff. And if a monster even touches anything its considered cursed, so if one of them makes it past a salt barrier that town is abandoned and any people caught up in the chaos of the barrier's collapse are left to die just in case they've been corrupted. And the roads between the towns are manned by armed guards who are constantly vigilant to repair the salt barriers. But this means they have to live their entire life alone in these limbo spaces between society and the wild, and often most narrier breaches are caused by the guards getting paranoid from the pressure. You need to keep watch for monsters so any movement in the shadows could be one of them, right?? You get situations of roads being blocked off by some crazed guard who starts seeing people as monsters, or one of them pulling the alarm and getting a town falsely burnt down for being corrupted when the monster was really just a leaf blowing in the wind. Or the worst case scenario where nobody ever knows WHAT happened! You just find the road destroyed and the guard gone. It might have happened days ago and nobody knew until a merchant tries to travel between towns and discovers the only road of escape is gone and everyone is doomed to slow starvation. And you can still see the other end of the road just a few meters away, but the superstition is so strong that nobody will risk taking that single step into monster territory. You'll be cursed and that's worse than death, right? You don't want to turn into a trainer...

And then also nobody really knows what determines who's chosen to be a trainer. Inevitably whenever someone shows signs of powers the town will turn on them and make up any excuse that they somehow invited the curse by being promoscuous or athiest or something. And you need to be removed for everyone's safety! Thus begins the ten year old's journey walking the earth in search of a place they can belong...

Tho usually its not just kids, the protagonist and rival is a rare case. All your neighbours are torn between 'its so tragic it happened to kids' and 'they must be REALLY evil to get chosen despite their age!' And i think maybe the rival would be like a sympathetic gary type? Theyre so determined to be better than you because they think if they can prove theyre good then their parents will let them go back home. And this desperation leads them to make bad choices and reject the only friend they have left :( Also them being bad to their monster pals would feel more justified when they were raised in a society that says monster pals are evil and you cant let your guard down cos theyre just trying to tempt you. Listen to the assholes who dont care about you, because anyone being nice is a lying sinner!

Also i was thinking maybe you catch monsters with a magic song or throwing herbs at them or absorbing them into a jewel pendant or something else more magicky yknow? Maybe magical bandages enscribed with spell runes that wrap arpund them like a collar? And so trainers are divided up into weavers who make these catching tools, and then the actual kind of trainer who uses them to catch mons. Weavers are able to stay in human society and act like the pokeball shops, theyre sorta like a 'town witch' or something. Like 'we will tolerate your magic if you never actually make a contract with a monster'. But then of course catching monsters is necessary to defend against monsters, so weavers have to be allowed to make the catching threads and sell them to travellers. But only travellers are allowed to do that sinful mon hugging! But also hey sinful traveller will you please save us from our doom? Basically this is why most trainers work as mercenaries, all this bullshit means that you gotta be employed by some asshole who hates your guts just cos u need food to eat. But blablabla town limit of X days before you have to leave, etc etc...

Also i was considering an element of different towns having different mythology around monsters and trainers? So you never really know whats real or if all of it is bullshit. Every time you go to a new place theyre equally fanatically convinced that some new thing is the real sin and everything the last guy said is eeeeeevil corruption. Sigh! And a subplot i was thinking of is a town with very sexist mythology, where the roles of weavers and tamers are seen as one gender only. And the town weaver is this nice grandma thats trapped in an abusive relationship with a super misogynist gramps. And one of those cloyingly fake-softspoken "rational" sexists who's all 'im just trying to protec u, wrong gender roles are bad for your immortal soul'. And has a million "logical" explanations for why his bigotry is true. Like technically he's "valuing her as important" by not letting her leave the house or socialize with friends, because yknow "im a nice guy who's nice to you trainers, i know your job is important so shouldnt the weavers be working 24/7 to support you?" The frustrating feeling of starting to trust a guy cos he's not bigoted against your particular minority, but then finding out he's bigoted against someone else... Ugh. So ultimately in the end you can succeed at this sidequest and help the grandma make a pact with a cute fairy monster and kick his ass and leave. And possibly get into a cute and mutually healthy relationship with another grandma in another town, so you get to see that and have a bonus happy note to the sidequest, yknow? Also they give you a hug and bake u cookies. (The monster is wearing a cute chef hat!) And then you'd have a place to stay in that town that doesnt have the 'it gets more expensive every night to try and make you leave' bullshit of all the normal inns. And you get to see a cute animation of your monsters all cuddled up in bed too cos they dont force you to leave them outside in the Designated Monster Containment Cage.

Oh! Also randomly i was thinking of another way of foreshadowing! Like when you go to the first inn you dont know any of this stuff about people hating monster tamers and not trusting your tamed mons even if theyre tame. So you'd probably just think that you not seeing your monsters when you sleep is just the game's limited graphics or you keep them in some pokeball equivelant thing. But when you walk arpund the outside of the inn you can see a door to a basement cellar that's got weirdly heavy duty chains and bars even if you assume they store their valuables down there. And maybe when you heal at the inn it never restores your mons to full health, always 10hp away from maximum or something? Or other small hints that theyre afraid of going to the inn and your protagonist is wary about doing it even if you'd think theres no downside to healing. Or maybe you can see another monster tamer visit the place at one point and you can hear banging and growling from the basement...? Or see some of the chains have bite marks in the morning. And the townsfolk wpuld be all 'can you believe how much noise they made?' and expressing fear about monsters being in the town, though itd have to be written carefully to remain vague. But yeah 'lets mistreat these small animals because we fear them' -> they panic and cry for their one human friend in the world while theyre forced to sleep in a damp dark tiny room -> 'that just proves theyre inherantly violent!' Also the trainer is an ungrateful bastard for acting so sullen when they couldnt sleep from worry over their friends :(

But it wont be all depressing yo!!! All the darkness of the setting is dark but the monster pals are still just as pals! I give u grimdark world so i can give u a protagonist of kindness who fights the system and saves people in every town who eventually rise up and are swayed by their kindness into fighting The Old Ways and making a better world as the story goes on! Its like an adventure of creating the pokemon world? You try and sell everyone on the idea of trusting cute monsters instead of being so damn paranoid you inflict all these atrocities upon other humans and even yourself because 'sacrifices are necessary to keep the monsters away'. Fight the symbol of all bigotry!!! The evil team is Team Bad Dads And Politicians!!!

...sorry lol my story ideas are Weird.

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blairtrabbit · 6 years ago

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Thoughts on Goddamn Voltron

1. The treatment of Shiro and Adam as a couple was the stupidest shot at “representation” i think I’ve ever seen and it honestly made me angry. We don’t know anything about Adam. We don’t know anything about him but his name and that he possibly has some sort of relationship with Shiro. We are never even allowed to see them physically touch (because this would be gross I suppose) and when Adam is killed off immediately in the initial invasion there is no emotion to it other than he was someone we were supposed to care about because Shiro cared about him. Or ...so its suggested. Not only is Shiro denied any sort of emotional catharsis after being forced to be stoic and endure unimaginable amounts of physical and mental trauma there is no one waiting for him to come home. They are killed for absolutely no reason aside from creating some bizarre boyfriend in the refrigerator for a character who certain has enough anger at the Galran empire that he doesn’t need anymore. If Adam was introduced to show Shiro was gay then that failed. If Adam was introduced to heighten the stakes that failed too. Adam was created to die for no damn reason and unless he somehow appears in season 8 this kind of shit queer-baiting is un-acceptable...hell even IF he comes back who cares? we aren’t even given the chance to know him as a person so whats to come back? Sidenote: Don’t make Shiro sick with some terrible wasting disease and then NEVER mention it again. What the SHIT. 2. The treatment of Lance is unimaginably cruel and I don’t understand it. In season three Lance proves himself to be a mature member of the team and not only does he help Allura who took his lion he becomes Keith’s right hand after a rocky start. He has shown multiple times that he is vulnerable, once to Keith’s face, and yet his leader and his team constantly question his choices and insult him. It went beyond ribbing this season. It felt like everytime there was a chance for the writers to do it they stuck in a Lance barb. I kept expecting a breakdown a moment where he finally defended himself, walked away or told them that he was tired of it. But that moment never happened. Instead the strong right hand of voltron just takes it and continues to do his job. No matter how many great shots or encouraging comments he makes he never gets fucking complimented. Also the writers seemed more determined then ever to give him absolutely no arc or focus. Which leads me too- 3. Why the hell did Hunk have Lance’s story arc. Theres this thing in writing called “setup and payoff” Its a super simple concept that all writers,especially in film and television, know how to use. You set up a concept early and later on it pays off with an emotional revelation or a character change. In seasons one two and three...even four? Lance was the only one on the crew besides Pidge who talked about his family. We saw them in his memories. he had a scene with Coran where he talked about missing earth. He talked about his mom and so on. That was his starting point and when he gets back to earth it should have been his family in the camps, his speech about being angry about coming back to a peaceful earth and a closed end to his talk with Keith about being a leader and how he respects him as one back in season 3. Having Keith compliment his bravery would cement him as his right hand the person hes SUPPOSED to be closest to on the team. Hunk had no set up for this. He never mentions his family or how much he misses them. He talks about food but for some reason he was given the ending arc that Lance EARNED but wasn’t given. In fact it feels like it was even written for Lance but was changed because they goddamn hate him and decided he doesn’t get an arc fuck you. 4. Hey. Hey Voltron. Its called fucking character development. If you wanted to make Allura and Lance have a relationship you can’t make them blush in ONE EPISODE and call it development. Why don’t you cut down on the 90 fucking minutes of brain melting action sequences and put in some more character development. You can’t just dedicate the first half of your season to some goofy (lance abusing) comedy then spend the last half in one constant exhausting battle and expect us to give a shit about the cadets or anyone you introduce on earth. To me the stand out episode this season was the one where everyone is floating in space. They had to...INTERACT with each other but even this episode felt empty because Keith was the only one allowed to act out...AGAIN. Where was Lances righteous anger? Or even Allura’s? Why is Hunk stepping into this role as mediator all the sudden? What even lead to that? Was he literally just written into the Lance roles? If you wanted to tear the group down to have them be built back up then you have to do so on equal footing and it felt....tame. Like you didn’t want the kids to worry too much. Stress makes people act in cruel ways sometimes and overcoming it is a part of good character development. Instead it was just some lame foreshadowing about the deux ex machina that was lion summoning. It had so much potential-SO MUCH.

5. Not everybody has to end up in a fucking relationship. Axca? Seriously? Man are you gonna crank out some romance bullshit in season 8 aren’t you voltron? Is that what your gonna do? Make sure everyone gets a set of corresponding genitalia to wrap everything up in a nice straight bow? I’m sure you’ll give Shiro some kind of significant other right? Or maybe just have him smile at a dude ala live action Beauty and the Beast because that's what representation looks like in 2018. 6. Coran not getting to build the spiritual successor of his grandfathers work is kinda bullshit.

He spent literally every season waxing lyrical about how great his pop pop was and how much he wanted to be the one to build something like he did and then the castle is destroyed and I’m like oh man so cool Coran is gonna get his wish.Thats so emotionally rewarding that after all the hero-worship Hes gonna have the opportunity to build a new castle even better than the one his grand-oh -no...ok Sam did it. Yeah ok.

7.YOU CAN’T SPEND ONE EPISODE ON EARTH BEING DESTROYED AND SHOW MAYBE THREE PEOPLE AND EXPECT ANYTHING TO HAVE EMOTIONAL WEIGHT. Hey, remember the movie Independence day? Not a great movie but it actually felt like the world was being invaded. It felt like peoples lives were being interrupted on a large scale and it accomplished this by showing the invasion from multiple pov’s worldwide. Would that have been so hard? Maybe show a little girl at school seeing a Galra ship. A man in Africa? A mother in Russia? Just quick shots. Thats all you need. A few establishing shots to show that people are experiencing something foreign and terrifying. I know its a kids show and you gotta what...keep it Y-7 but the Galra literally killed thousands and thousands of people-possibly millions you can’t just gloss over that. STAKES CAUSE TENSION. WITHOUT STAKES OR JUSTIFICATION A BATTLE IS EMPTY AND POINTLESS.OH ON THAT NOTE. 7. THE BATTLES IN THE LAST EPISODES BECOME RIDICULOUSLY BORING AND REPETITIVE. You can tell what the writers wanted to write. They wanted to write whole scenes where people star trek groaned in chairs and shouted about how much time they had.Because of the season lack of setup or stakes buildup in the previous episodes theres no tension whatsoever. Do I care about the people of earth? No I haven’t even seen them. I care about Shiro and the mains ...not even the cadets. I haven’t seen them interact enough with each other to even establish their personalities. So if the whole earth fries eh...I care more if Shiro is ok because i’ve gotten to know him over time. If the entire battle was to save Shiro from a falling ship (HOW THE FUCK DID HE SURVIVE THAT BTW I GUESS BEING A CLONE MADE HIM IMMORTAL) It would have more weight to it than the entire Hour long clusterfuck that was the battle for Hunk’s Parents, literally the only humans we care about. 8. WORLDBUILDING? HOW ABOUT FUCK YOU. Wow...so WW3 huh. That sounds interesting Voltron you wanna...no? Alright so...Russia is still a country this far in the future? Is China still communist or? Hey...why is this lady the queen of the Garrison? Why is her position so important? Who funds the Garrison? Is it the United States? The UN? Is it an international organization? Who pays the bills? The funding must come from some government who would be curious why you asked for millions of dollars towards all these bizarre supplies that could be used to build the biggest ship ever made.Why is Admiral Sanda god? She keeps threatening to go over their heads in the chain of command but that means that SHE has to report to someone? WHo?? THE PRESIDENT? SOME KIND OF WORLD LEADERSHIP COUNCIL? I know this shit is hard but come ON. Earth is NOT like these alien planets Voltron has been on that have a centralized monarchy or singular race with one central government. If Sanda is worried about causing wars and global panic thats fine but shes the one commiting treason by not reporting to her own superiors and letting the leaders of the free world make decisions on behalf of their own people. One person can’t make all the decisions we call that LAAAAAAAAZZZZYYYYYY. Oh and about Admiral Sanda? 9. Admiral Sanda is the worst villian Voltron ever faced Why did you try and give her a redemption arc? Every decision she made was stupid every choice was just...so dumb. She betrayed everyone and her level of power kept making me go...why...is she the queen of earth? When she died I was like good. What a dumbass. Don’t try and redeem someone who did nothing good in the first place especially if you never established enough world building to show she might have been correct. We can’t just trust TELL you have to SHOW us. 10. If you think the racism against immigrants is bad now I can’t even imagine the civil wars when actual aliens just invite themselves over. 11. Thanks for fucking up our tide systems by parking a fucking Balmera directly in our atmosphere assholes. In conclusion:THANKS I HATE IT.

#fuck this #fuck everything #voltron #vld #season 7 spoilers #season 7 #voltron legendary defender #lance deserved better #again

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missjackil · 8 years ago

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My 12x23 (Finale) Opinion

All Along The Watchtower Like many of you, I have very mixed feelings about this episode. First, off, it wasn’t as good as episode 22, but it wasnt a terrible one. It was definitely a nail biter, and pretty high on the stress level, but nowhere near as emotional as the first half of the finale. So I’ll just jump into the obvious problems. Cas, Crowley, and Rowena are dead, and what appears to be “for good”. Rowena is burnt to a crisp, which the visual was very disturning. Crowley killed himself, complete with “Bye boys” and flashing out from the angel blade. Cas flashed out as well, and left charred wings in the dirt. These things are all indicative of true death to Witches, Demons, and Angels on the show, BUT we still have to wonder if its permenant or not. On one hand, I dont want it to be permenant, I like the characters, but on the other hand, I feel like there had been too much emphisis put on them since Season 9 than there should have been, and I want the show to go back to focussing on Sam and Dean and not the storylines of side characters. If it was like it was before S9 and these characters where only used to help or antagonize Sam and Dean, or to move the plot forward, then I would be fine with them staying, but the way these side characters have been for a while, has been as though there were 2 shows in the same show. Cas and Crowley running around in the background chasing Lucifer for most of the first half of the season, while Sam and Dean dealt with MOTWs and trying to connect with Mom, seemed very wasteful to me, not to mention off balance and boring. I know there are a lot of big Cas and Crowley fans out there, and Im not saying I hate either character, but in my personal opinion, neither are interesting enough to carry their own storylines apart from Sam and Dean. As far as the episode itself went, it has great cliff hangers. and some seemed to parallel Swan Song. Mom getting pulled into the AU by Lucifer, was much like Sam/Lucifer pulling Michael/Adam into the pit with him, and Dean left kneeling over Cas’ body was like him kneeling over where the pit had been, though it really didnt hit any Swan Song marks, since it lacked any emotional or beautiful elements, no substancial brother moments at all (but ep 22 was chock full of them, so Ill give it a pass) but I realize it was about finishing the Lucifer end of the season. I thought some things to be really cheesy though. Luci is being shot by a million bullets made from angel blades and hes barely flenching, yet, one stab from an Angel blade killed Gabriel? Mary punching him with the Enochian brass knuckles hurt him more, also not buying it. Also, Ive always hated Lucifer but he’s becoming even more annoying now. He used to be impressive and now he’s an immature, creepy, weirdo who thinks hes funny but hes not. Im actually glad now that Sam isn’t terrified of him anymore. I dont know if everyone caught it, I actually didnt catch it myself till I watched it a 2nd time, but Lucifer told Sam he doesnt need “the old Sam suit” anymore, so I guess Sam being his One True Vessle story is over. A traditional Bobby cameo was fun, but Im having a problem with the timeline in which Bobby would have known Mary as a hunter. Not just from the AU, but going back to “The Raid” when Sam said he got the recipe for the Colt bullets from a buddy of his, Mary said “Bobby Singer?” as if she knew him, and I guess she could have, but I dont think Bobby had been a hunter for 40 years give or take, since he only became a hunter after his wife was possessed, but, I guess its possible to have known her, though Ive always associated him with John. I liked the AU, it was cool looking, very much out of the box for a background set. Even Purgatory was just a forest. Popping in and out of it though was making me dizzy LOL but face it, a seam in space and time is pretty cool. I think they’ll play around with that next season. Though, it teeters on the line between supernatural and sci fi, but I guess if its created by the supernatural, it can fit. So now we have Jack. Spawn of Lucifer. Kelly is dead, Lucifer is in the AU and the first person he sees is Sam. This could be very interesting. And no, Sam isnt gonna pull an angel blade out and kill him, stuff is gonna happen and I think. at least at first, Jack will be good. Maybe even be the means in which Cas and the gang come back. So, I liked the episode for its suspense and cliff hangery value, theres more hanging on the cliff this season than last. Last season Sam got shot, and though we all know he’s not going to be DEAD dead, we still worried about how badly he was injured, and we had Mom come back. Now we wonder how dead Cas and the gang are, whats Luci gonna do with mom, How the boys are gonna handle this shitfest of loss, good ole Jack, and what if anything will the BMOL be doing now? (I dont think we’re done with them at all) So on a scale from Bloodlines to Swan Song, Ill give this an 8, it lacked in emotion, but had nearly more suspense than I can handle and cant wait to see where it leads us in 5 months!!

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Why we fell for clean eating

The long read: The oh-so-Instagrammable meat progress has been exhaustively discredited but it establishes no signeds of “re going away”. The real question is why we were so desperate to believe it

In the springtime of 2014, Jordan Younger “ve noticed that” her mane was falling out in clumps. Not cool was her action. At the time, Younger, 23, believed herself to be feeing the healthiest of every possible nutritions. She was a gluten-free, sugar-free, oil-free, grain-free, legume-free, plant-based raw vegan. As The Blonde Vegan, Younger was a wellness blogger in New York City, one of thousands on Instagram( where “shes had” 70,000 adherents) rallying under the hashtag #eatclean. Although she had no qualifications as a nutritionist, Younger had exchanged more than 40,000 two copies of her own $25, five-day purify programme a formula for the purposes of an all-raw, plant-based diet majoring on green juice.

But the clean diet that Younger was selling as the street to health was reaching its developer sick. Far from being super-healthy, she used suffering from a serious anorexia nervosa: orthorexia, an infatuation with downing exclusively meat the hell is pure and perfect. Youngers raw vegan food had caused her ages to stop and granted her scalp an orange touch from all the sugared potato and carrots she exhausted( the only carbohydrates she let herself ). Eventually, she endeavoured psychological promotion, and began to slowly expand the range of foods she would allow herself to devour, beginning with the fish. She recognised that the problem was not her veganism, per se, but the particularly rigid and restrictive diet government she had imposed on herself.

As Younger gradually recovered from her anorexia nervosa, she faced a new dilemma. What would parties ponder, she agonised, if they knew the Blonde Vegan was devouring fish? She levelled with her partisans in a blogpost entitled Why Im Transitioning Away from Veganism. Within hours of announcing her brand-new diet, Younger was receiving irate meanings from vegans requiring fund back from the purge programmes and T-shirts they had bought from her place( peculiarity slogans such as OH KALE YES ).

She lost partisans by the thousands and receives an daily raft of furious letters, including death threats. Some responded to her confession that she was suffering from an anorexia nervosa by alleging her of has become a fatty slouse of lard who didnt have the discipline is really clean.

For as long as beings have snacked meat, “theres been” diets and quack medications. But previously, these existed, like plot beliefs, on the fringes of nutrient culture. Clean eating was different, because it established itself as a challenge to mainstream ways of eating, and its wild notoriety during the past five years old has enabled it to move far beyond the fringes. Powered by social media, it has been more absolutist in its claims and most popular in its reaching than any previous institution of modern nutrition advice.

At its simplest, clean ingesting is about ingesting nothing but whole or unprocessed foods( what has been made by these profoundly equivocal expressions ). Some versions of clean feeing have been vegan, while others accept various meats( preferably wild) and something mysteriously announced bone broth( broth, to you and me ). At first, clean eating resounded modest and even homespun: rather than counting calories, you are able to dine as many nutritious home-cooked essences as possible.

But it quickly became clear that clean feeing was more than a nutrition; it was a notion system, which propagated the idea that the space most people devour was not just fattening, but impure. Seemingly out of nowhere, a whole cosmo of coconut oil, dubious hopes and spiralised courgettes has developed. Back in the distant mists of 2009, James Duigan, owner of The Bodyism gym in London and sometime personal manager to the modeling Elle MacPherson, publicized his first Clean and Lean book. As an early adopter of #eatclean, Duigan notes that he battled with his publisher to include ingredients like kale and quinoa, because no one had ever heard of them. Now quinoa is in every supermarket and kale has become as ordinary as loot. I long for the working day when clean eating meant not getting too much down your front, the novelist Susie Boyt joked recently.

Jordan Younger, AKA The Balanced Blonde, formerly The Blonde Vegan. Image: Whitford/ BFA/ Rex/ Shutterstock

Almost as soon as it became ubiquitous, clean eating activated a backlash. By 2015, Nigella Lawson was speaking for many when she expressed resentment at clean dining as a judgmental flesh of body fascism. Food is not dirty, Lawson wrote. Clean eating has been attacked by commentators such as the baker and cookbook generator Ruby Tandoh( who wrote a much-shared article on the subject in Vice magazine in May 2016) for being an incitement to eating disorders.

Others have pointed out that, as a procedure of healthy eating, its founded on bad discipline. In June, the American Heart Association suggested that the coconut petroleum beloved as a cure-all by clean eaters actually had no known offsetting favourable consequences, and that exhausting it is unable to result in higher LDL cholesterol. A few a few weeks later, Anthony Warner a nutrient consultant with a background in science who blogs as The Angry Chef produced a book-length assault on the science of clean eating, calling it a world-wide of quinoa container and nutribollocks fuelled by the modern intelligence age.

When Dr Giles Yeo, a geneticist at the University of Cambridge, presented an episode of the BBCs Horizon this year that has reviewed and considered the technical prove for different academies of clean eating, he found everything from innocuous recipes to serious malpractice.

He reported on the alkaline nutrition of Dr Robert O Young, who peddled the idea that canker was a result of feeing acidic meat. After being diagnosed with terminal cancer in her 20 s, Naima Houder-Mohammed, an officer in the British military, paid Young more than $77,000 for medicine( including dinners of avocado, which Young announces Gods butter) at his pH miracle ranch in the US in 2012. She died afterward that year. Separately, Young was incarcerated in June this year after being imprisoned of charges including practising medicine without a licence. While he may represent an extreme case, it is clear that many wellness gurus, as Yeos programme concluded, tell a troubling narrative founded on falsehoods.

As the negative press for clean gobbling has intensified over the past year, many of the early goddesses of #eatclean has endeavoured to rebrand saying they no longer use the word clean to describe the recipes that have sold them billions of works. Ella Mills AKA Deliciously Ella, the meat novelist and entrepreneur whose coconut-and-oat force projectiles sell for 1.79 apiece in British supermarkets said on Yeos Horizon curriculum that she felt that the word clean as applied to eating originally necessitated nothing but natural, real, unprocessed food. Now, it makes diet, it intends cult, she complained.

But however often principles of clean eating has been logically refuted and publicly abused, the thing itself depicts few signals of dying. Step into the cookbook section of any book browse and you will see how many recipe novelists continue to promise us inner purity and outer elegance. Even if “youve never” deliberately tried to eat clean, its impossible to avoid the trend altogether, because it changed the nutrients available to all of us, and the acces they are spoken of.

Avocados now outsell oranges in the UK. Susi Richards, heads of state of concoction increase at Sainsburys supermarkets, told me earlier this year that she had been taken aback by the pace at which demand for commodities fitting with the clean eating lifestyle have grown in the UK. Families who would once have snacked potato waffles are now experimenting with lower carb butternut squaffles( slicings of butternut squash slashed to resemble a waffle ). Nutribullets a brand of compact blenders designed for making supposedly radiance-bestowing juices and smoothies are now mentioned in some curves as casually as wooden spoons.

Why has clean gobbling demonstrated so difficult to kill off? Hadley Freeman, in the present working paper, marked clean eating as part of a post-truth culture, whose adherents are impervious, or even hostile, to realities and experts. But to understand how clean gobbling took hold with such perseverance, its necessary first to believe just what a terrifying happen nutrient has become for millions of people in the contemporary world. The interesting question is not whether clean snacking is nonsense, but why so many intelligent people decided to thrown their sect in it.

We are not the only generation to have looked in disgust at an unhealthy food milieu and wished that we could supplant it with nutrients “thats been” perfectly safe to snack. In the 1850 s, a British chemist called Arthur Hill Hassall became remain convinced that the whole food supply of London was riddled with poisons and fakery. Whats more, he was right. Hassall had done a series of investigations for the medical gazette the Lancet, and found that much of what was for sale as food and suck was not what it seemed: coffee made from burnt sugar and chicory; pickles dyed light-green with poison copper colourings.

Years of exposing the poison hypocrisies all around him seems to have driven Hassall to a territory of paranoia. He started to see poison everywhere, and has been determined that the answer was to create a list of entirely uncontaminated food products. In 1881, he set up his own house, The Pure Food Company, which would only use ingredients of unimpeachable character. Hassall took water that was softened and refined and compounded it with the most significant Smithfield beef to obligate the purest beef jelly and disgusting-sounding fibrinous meat lozenges the force balls of Victorian England. The Pure Food Company of 1881 dins just like a hundred wellness meat businesses today except for the fact that it collapsed within a year due to lack of sales.

We are once again living in an environment where everyday food, which should be something dependable and sustaining, has come to feel noxious. Unlike the Victorian, we do not fear that our coffee is phony so much as that our entire motif of gobbling may be bad for us, in ways that we cant fully distinguish. One of the things that becomes the new wave of wellness cookbooks so plea is that they assure the reader that they furnish a new space of gobbling that comes without any anxiety or guilt.

The founding principle of these modern wellness regimes is that our present direction of gobbling is slowly poisoning us. Much of the meat on offer to us today is nutritionally substandard, write the Hemsley sisters, best-selling champions of nutrient-dense nutrient. Its hard to disagree with the proposition that modern foods are generally substandard, even if you dont share the Hemsleys solution of proceeding grain-free. All of these foods have a grains of fact that is spun out into some big imagination, Giles Yeo says hence their gigantic appeal.

Melissa and Jasmine Hemsley. Photograph: Nick Hopper

Clean eating whether it is called that or not is perhaps best seen as a dysfunctional have responded to a still more dysfunctional food supply: a dream of integrity in a noxious nature. To walk into a modern western supermarket is to be assailed by aisle upon alley of salty, oily snacks and sugary cereals, of food that has been neither attested nor fermented, of cheap, sweetened potions and meat from swine kept in inhumane conditions.

In the postwar decades, most countries in the world underwent what the prof of nutrition Barry Popkin calls a nutrition transition to a westernised diet high-pitched in sugar, meat, fat, salt, refined oils and ultra-processed brews, and low-grade in veggies. Affluence and multi-national meat companies superseded the emptines of earlier generations with an unwholesome dinner of sweet boozings and convenience food that educate us from a young age to pray more of the same. Wherever this pattern of gobbling wandered, it brought with it dramatic rises in ill health, from allergies to cancer.

In prosperous countries, large numbers of people whether they wanted to lose weight or not grew understandably scared of the modern food supply and what it was doing to our torsoes: character 2 diabetes, obesity and cardiovascular disease , not to mention a multitude of other disorders that are influenced by diet, straying from Alzheimers to gout. When mainstream diets start to sicken parties, it is unsurprising that many of us should seek other ways and means of snacking to keep ourselves safe from impairment. Our collective feeling around diet was exacerbated by a general impression that mainstream scientific advice on food overstated by newspaper headlines had not been able be trusted. First these so-called experts tell us to avoid fat, then carbohydrate, and all the while beings get less and less health. What the fuck is these experts say next, and why should we believe them?

Into this atmosphere of nervousnes and disarray stepped a series of gurus offering meanings of superb simplicity and reassurance: dine this direction and I will clear you fresh and healthy again. It are difficult to pinpoint the exact minute when clean eating started, because it is not so much as a single nutrition as a portmanteau term that has acquired projects from innumerable pre-existing diets: a bit of Paleo here, some Atkins there, with a few remnants of 1960 s macrobiotics thrown in for good measure.

But some time in the early 2000 s, two distinct but interrelated versions of clean eating grew popular in the US one based on the sect of real meat, and the other on the relevant recommendations of detox. Formerly the concept of cleanliness had entered the realm of eating, it was only a matter of time before the basic mind spread contagiously across Instagram, where love of #eatclean could share their artfully photographed light-green juices and rainbow salad bowls.

The first and more moderate form of clean food beginning in 2007, when Tosca Reno, a Canadian fitness framework, publicized a work called The Eat-Clean Diet. In it, Reno described how she lost 34 kg( 75 lb) and altered her health by scaping all over-refined and processed foods, particularly lily-white flour and sugar. A usual Reno eat-clean meal might be stir-fried chicken and veggies over brown rice; or almond-date biscotti with a cup of tea. In many methods The Eat-Clean Diet was like any number of diet journals that had come before, advising abundance of veggies and modestly sectioned, home-cooked meals. The difference, which Anthony Warner calls a piece of genius on Renos part, was that she presented it, above all, as a holistic way of living.

Meanwhile, two seconds form of clean eating was spearheaded by a former cardiologist from Uruguay called Alejandro Junger, the author of Clean: The Revolutionary Program to Restore the Bodys Natural Ability to Mend Itself, which was published in 2009 after Jungers clean detox organization had been praised by Gwyneth Paltrow on her Goop website. Jungers organisation was far more stringent than Renos, involving, for a few weeks, a revolutionary riddance diet based on liquid banquets and a total exclusion of caffeine, booze, dairy and eggs, sugar, all vegetables in the nightshade house( tomatoes, aubergines and so on ), ruby-red meat( which, according to Junger, forms an acidic inner medium ), among other foods. During this phase, Junger admonished a largely liquid food either composed of home-made juices and soups, or of his own special powdered shakes. After the detox interval, Junger advised very cautiously reintroducing poisonous initiations such as wheat( a classic initiation of allergic replies) and dairy( an acid-forming food ).

Photograph: Alexandra Iakovleva/ Getty

To read Jungers book is to feel that everything edible in our world is potentially toxic. Yet, as with Arthur Hassall, many of Jungers fears may be justified. Junger writes as a doctor with first-hand knowledge of diet-related epidemics of cancer, congestive heart failure, diabetes and autoimmune disease. The journal is full-of-the-moon of action considers of individuals who follow Jungers detox and rise lighter, leaner and happier. Who is the candidate for using this programme? Junger asks, replying: Everyone who lives a modern life, fees a modern food and occupies the modern world.

To my amaze, I encountered myself compelled by the messianic feeling of Jungers Clean though not quite forced enough to pay $475 for his 21 -day programme( which, in any event, doesnt ship outside of North America ), or to give up my daily breakfast of inflammatory coffee, gut-irritating sourdough toast and acid-forming butter, on which I feel astonishingly well. When I told Giles Yeo how seductive I experienced Jungers terms, almost despite myself, he said: This is their magic! They are all charismatic human being. I do reckon the clean-eating gurus believe in it themselves. They drink the Koolaid.

Over the past 50 years, mainstream healthcare in the west has been inexplicably blind to the role that diet plays in preventing and alleviating ill health. When it started, #eatclean spoke to growing numbers of people who felt that their existing road of eating was causing them difficulties, from weight gain to headaches to stress, and that conventional medication had not been able improve. In the is a lack of nutrition lead from physicians, it was a natural pace for individuals to start experimenting with cutting out this food or that.

From 2009 to 2014, the number of Americans who actively evaded gluten, despite not suffered by coeliac malady, more than tripled. It too became fashionable to booze a whole pantheon of non-dairy milks, ranging from oat milk to almond milk. I have lactose-intolerant and vegan friends who say that #eatclean has represented it far easier for them to buy ingredients that they once had to go to specialist health-food stores to find. What isnt so easy now is to find reliable information on special foods in the high seas of half-truths and bunkum.

Someone who mentioned how quickly and radically #eatclean changed the market for health-food works is Anne Dolamore, a publisher at the independent meat publishers Grub Street, are stationed in London. Dolamore has been publishing health-related nutrient books since 1995, a meter when free-from cooking was a minuscule subculture. In the days before Google, Dolamore who has long was held that nutrient is medicine felt that volumes on special foods by columnists with proper credentials could dish a useful intent. In 1995, Grub Street wrote The Everyday Diabetic Cookbook, which has since exchanged over 100,000 imitations in the UK. Other successful books followed, including The Everyday Wheat-Free and Gluten-Free Cookbook by Michelle Berriedale-Johnson, published in 1998.

In 2012, the market for wellness cookbooks in the UK suddenly changed, starting with the astound success of Honestly Healthy by Natasha Corrett and Vicki Edgson, which sold around 80,000 imitates. Louise Haines, a publisher at 4th Estate, recalls that the previous large-hearted trend in British food publishing had been roasting, but the baking boom succumbed overnight, virtually, and a number of sugar-free notebooks came through.

At Grub Street, Anne Dolamore watched aghast as bestselling cookbooks piled up from a never-ending stream of blonde, willowy sovereignties, many of whom seemed to be designing nutritions based on little but their own limited know-how. If Junger and Reno laid the groundwork for chew clean to become a vast worldwide trend, it was social media and the internet that did the rest. Almost all of the authors of the British clean gobbling bestsellers started off as bloggers or Instagrammers, many of them beautiful women in their early 20 s who were genuinely convinced that the nutritions they had developed had antidote them of various types of chronic ailments.

Keep your chia seed smoothies off my Instagram feed

Every wellness guru worth her Himalayan pink salt has a floor of how changing what you eat can change their own lives. Food has the power to see or divulge you, wrote Amelia Freer in her 2014 bestseller Eat. Nourish. Glow.( which has sold more than 200,000 facsimiles ). Freer was guiding a busy life as a personal assistant to the Sovereign of Wales when she realised that her paunch looked and appeared as if it had a football in it from too many snatched dinners of cheese on toast or factory-made food. By giving up treated and convenience food( margarine, yuck !) along with gluten and carbohydrate, Freer claimed to have found the secrets to searching younger and find healthier.

Perhaps the best-known diet-transformation legend of all is that of Ella Mills possessor of more than a million Instagram adherents. In 2011, Mills was diagnosed with postural tachycardia syndrome, a condition characterised by dizziness and extreme wearines. Mills embarked blogging about nutrient after discovering that her evidences radically improved when she swapped her sugar-laden food for plant-based, natural foods. Mills who used to be a model obligated following a free-from food seem not drab or robbed, but deeply aspirational. By the time her first notebook appeared in January 2015, her vast following on social media facilitated her to sell 32,000 mimics in the first week alone.

Amelia Freer. Image: S Meddle/ ITV/ Rex/ Shutterstock

There was something equivocal about the road these books were sold. What they were selling alleged to be an alternative to a sordidly commercial nutrient industry. If its got a barcode or a predict, dont buy it, wrote Freer. Yet clean eating is itself a wildly profitable commercial enterprise, promoted employing photogenic young bloggers on a multi-billion-dollar tech pulpit. Literary agent Zoe Ross tells me that around 2015 she began to notice that the market was rubbing Instagram for copycat plays specifically very pretty, very young girls pushing curated meat and lifestyle.

After years on the margins, health-based cooking was eventually going a mass gathering. In 2016, 18 out the 20 top dealers in Amazon UKs food and suck book category had a focus on healthy eating and dieting. The paradox, nonetheless, was that the kind of well-researched books Dolamore and others formerly written no longer tended to sell so well, because health publishing was now dominated by social media fames. Bookshops were heaving with so many of these clean volumes that even the authors themselves started to feel that there were too many of them. Alice Liveing, a 23 -year-old personal trainer who writes as Clean Eating Alice, debated in her 2016 work Eat Well Every Day that she was endorse what I feel is a much-needed breath of fresh air in what I think is an fantastically saturated market. To my untrained see, browsing through her journal, Alices fresh approaching to diet appeared very similar to innumerable others: time and almond intensity pellets, kale chippings, beetroot and feta burgers.

Then again, shouldnt we commit clean chewing due ascribe towards achieving the miracle of swerving beetroot and kale into objects of longing? Data from specialists Kantar Worldpanel show that UK sales of fresh beetroot have risen dramatically from 42.8 m in 2013 to 50.5 m in 2015. Some would “re saying that”, in highly-developed nations where most people devour shockingly poor nutritions, low-grade in light-greens and high in sugar, this new confederation of health and food has done a modicum of good. Giles Yeo who invested some time cooking a spicy sweet-potato bowl with Ella Mills for his BBC programme agrees that many of the clean eating recipes he tried are actually a deliciou and cool channel to cook veggies. But why, Yeo questions, do these authors not simply say I am producing a very good vegetarian cookbook and stop there, instead of realise larger assertions about the influence of vegetables to beautify or foreclose illnes? The poison arises from the fact because this is wrapping the whole concept up in pseudoscience, Yeo says. If you base something on falsehoods, it empowers people to take extreme actions, and this is where the damage begins.

You cant acquired a brand-new sect organisation with the words I am publicizing a very good vegetarian cookbook. For this, you need something stronger. You require the assurance of make-believe, mumbled sweetly. Grind this cauliflower into minuscule slice and you can make a special kind of no-carb rice! Avoid all sugar and your skin will shimmer! Among interesting thing, clean chewing shows how vulnerable and forgotten billions of us feel about diet that are actually represents how misplaced we feel about our own figures. We are so unmoored that the authorities concerned will gave our belief in any employer who promises us that we, more, can become pure and good.

I can pinpoint the exact time that my own experiences about clean ingesting changed from hesitancy to outright dislike. I was on stagecoach at the Cheltenham literary gala with dietician Renee McGregor( who works both with Olympic jocks and anorexia nervosa sufferers) when a army of around 300 clean-eating love started jeering and shouting at us. We were supposedly taking part in a clean-eating debate with nutritionist Madeleine Shaw, columnist of Get the Glow and Ready Steady Glow.

Before that week, I had never read any of Shaws work. As I flicked through Ready Steady Glow, I was somewhat endeared by the upbeat colour( stop expropriating yourself and start living) and shining photos of a beam Shaw. I often surprise myself by determining new things to spiralise she writes, acquainting a sweetened potato noodle salad. Cauliflower pizza, in her look, is quite simply: the best fabrication ever.

But underneath the brightness there were notes of restriction that I discovered both perturbing and confused. As ever, all my recipes are sugar-and-wheat free, Shaw announces, simply to present a recipe for gluten-free brownies that contains 200 g of coconut sugar, a essence that costs a lot more than your median grey granulated carbohydrate, but is metabolised by the body in the same direction. I was still more alarmed by gradation four in Shaws nine-point food philosophy, which says that all bread and pasta should be avoided: they find themselves tan nutrients, which are full of substances, preservatives and genetically manipulated wheat, and not whole foods. Shaws book makes no distinction between a loaf of, say, bleached shredded white-hot, and a homemade wholemeal sourdough.

When we satisfied on theatre in Cheltenham, I expected Shaw why she told parties to cut out all bread, and was startled when she disavowed she had said any such act( rye food was her favourite, she contributed ). McGregor expected Shaw what she signified when she wrote that people should try to eat only clean proteins; meat that was not deep-fried was her rather astounding reply. McGregors main concern about clean eating, she lent, was that as health professionals considering young people with eating disorders, she had watched first-hand how the rules and restrictions of clean eating often segued into incapacitating anorexia or orthorexia.

Madeleine Shaw promoting her notebook Get the Glow. Picture: Joe Pepler/ REX/ Shutterstock

But I simply attend the positive, said Shaw , now mopping away weepings. It was at this point that the gathering, who were already restless whenever McGregor or I addrest, descended into outright hostility, shouting and whoosh for us to get off stage. In a work store after the contest, as devotees came up to Shaw to thank her for committing them the light, I more burst into rips when person or persons jabbed her paws at me and said I should be ashamed, as an elderly women( I am 43 ), to have criticised a younger one. On Twitter that night, some Shaw devotees formed derogatory explains about how McGregor and I looked, under the hashtag #youarewhatyoueat. The ramification was that, if we were less photogenic than Shaw, we clearly had nothing of any appraise to say about nutrient( never mind the fact that McGregor has positions in biochemistry and nutrition ).

Thinking about the event on the qualify home, I realised that the crowd were angry with us not because they disagreed with the details( its pretty clear that you cant have sugar in sugar-free recipes ), but because they disliked the facts of the case “that weve” quarrelling at all. To insist on the facts of the case drawn us come across as cruelly negative. We had punctured the glad belief-bubble of glowiness that they had come to imbibe from Shaw. Its impressing that in many of the wellness cookbooks, mainstream scientific testify on diet is perceived as more or less irrelevant , not least because the gurus find the contentment of science as part of what prepared our foods so bad in the first place.

Amelia Freer, in Eat. Nourish. Glow, admits that we cant prove that dairy is the cause of ailments ranging from IBS to joint pain, but concluded that there surely worth cutting dairy out anyway, just as a precaution. In another context, Freer writes that Im told it takes 17 times for scientific knowledge to filter down to become general knowledge, while advising that gluten should be avoided. Once we register its national territory where all expert and expertise are automatically suspect, you can start to claim almost anything and numerous #eatclean dominions do.

That night in Cheltenham, I learnt that clean eating or whatever call it now goes under had elements of a post-truth sect. As with any faith, it could be something darknes and divisive if you got on the wrong side of it. After Giles Yeos BBC programme was aired, he told me he was startled to find himself subjected to unrelenting online trolling. They said I was funded by big pharma, and therefore obviously wouldnt ascertain the benefits of a health diet over remedy. These were outright lies.( Yeo is employed by the University of Cambridge, and funded by the Medical Research Council .)

Its increasingly clear that clean eating, for all its good aims, can cause real harm, both to fact and to human being. Over the past 18 months, McGregor says, every single patron with an anorexia nervosa who strolls into my clinic doorways is either following or wants to follow a clean behavior of eating.

In her brand-new volume, Orthorexia, McGregor observes that while anorexia nervosa long predate the #eatclean veer, meat rulers( such as dining no dairy or forestalling all cereals) readily become a guise for curtailing meat intake. Likewise, they are not even good principles, based as they are on unsubstantiated, unscientific affirms. Take almond milk, which is widely touted as a superior alternative to kine milk. McGregor visualizes it as little better than expensive ocean, containing precisely 0.1 g protein per 100 ml, compared with 3.2 g per 100 ml in kine milk. But she often ascertains it very difficult to convince her buyers that restricting themselves to these clean meat is in the long run worse for their own health than what she calls unchecked ingesting balanced and went dinners, but no anxiety about the curious ice cream or chocolate bar.

Clearly , not everyone who bought a clean-eating volume has developed an eating disorder. But a push whose premise is that normal meat is unhealthy has now obscured the liquids of healthy gobbling for everyone else, by planting the idea that a good food is one founded on absolutes.

The true-blue tribulation of clean chewing is not that it is entirely spurious. It is that it contains a seed of reality, as Giles Yeo employs it. When you strip down all the pseudo nonsense, they are absolutely right to say that we should feed more vegetables, less refined sugar and less flesh, Yeo said, sipping a black coffee in his office at the Institute of Metabolic Science in Cambridge, where he spends his daytimes researching the root causes obesity. Yeo agrees with the clean eaters that our environment of inexpensive, bountiful, sugary, fatty nutrient is a recipe for widespread obesity and ill health. The trouble is its nearly impossible to pick out the sensible flecks of clean eating and neglect the residual. #Eatclean drew health chewing seem like something expensive, exclusive and difficult to achieve, as Anthony Warner writes. Whether the term scavenge is expended or not, there is a new puritanism about nutrient that has taken root very widely.

A few weeks ago, I overheard a fit, middle-aged mortal at the gym lecturing a sidekick for not feeing a better food a conversation that would formerly ought to have unimaginable among beings. The first human was telling the second that the skinny burgers he opted were nothing but shitty mince and sell and arguing that he could get almost everything he needed from a food of vegetables, cooked with no petroleum. Fat is fatty, at the end of the day, he agreed, before bemoaning the imbeciles who tried to eat something wholesome like a salad, then ruined everything by including salt. If you have one bad diet period a week, you untie all your good work.

The real question is how to fight this kind of diet absolutism without bouncing back to a moronic celebration of the modern food milieu that is demonstrably obligating so many beings sick. In 2016, more than 600 children in the UK were get registered as living with form 2 diabetes; before 2002, there were no reported cases of children suffering from the condition, whose reasons are diet-related.

Our food system is in desperate the requirements of reconstruct. Theres a danger that, in the fight against the absurdity of clean eating, we end up looking like apologists for a commercial food supply that is failing in its basic undertaking of nourishing us. Former orthorexia sufferer Edward L Yuen has argued in his 2014 journal, Beating Orthorexia that the old advice of everything in moderation no longer works in a meat milieu where gobbling in the middle ground is likely to be leave you with chronic illness. When components are supersized and Snickers forbids are exchanged by the metre( something I insured in my local Tesco recently ), devouring ordinarily is not inevitably a balanced option. The answer isnt yet another perfect diet, but a shift in our feeling of what constitutes normal food.

Sales of courgettes in the UK flew 20% from 2014 to 2015, fuelled by the rise of the spiraliser. But overall consumption of veggies, both in the UK and worldwide, is still vanishingly tiny( with 74% of the adult UK population not coping to dine five a day ). That is much lower than it was in the 1950 s, when freshly cooked daily snacks were still something that most people took for granted.

Among the affluent categorizes who already devour a healthier-than-average food, the Instagram goddesses generated a new simulate of dietary perfection to aims to achieve. For the rest of specific populations, however, it plainly placed the ideal of healthy meat further and further out of reaching. Behind the glossy extends of the clean-eating books, there is a coarse model of financial exclusion that says that someone who cant afford wheatgrass or spirulina can never be truly well.

As the conversation I overheard in the gym exemplifies, this way of thinking is especially dangerous because it overshadows the letter that, in fact, small changes in diet can have a large beneficial affect. If you think you cant be healthy unless you feed nothing but veggies, you might miss the fact that( as a recent synopsi of the evidence by epidemiologists proved) there are substantial the potential benefits of growing your fruit-and-veg intake from zero parcels a date to simply two.

Among its many other offences, clean eating was a series of claims about food that were all or nothing which only serves to underline the facts of the case that most people, as usual, are protruded with nothing.

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tumblunni · 6 years ago

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Baron omatsuri and the secret island traumatizes me yet again, hooray!

Ok wow that was a nostalgia blast! Finally goddamn have a physical copy of this thing to own. Its never been dubbed and the only way to get it was this weird manga UK licensed reprint of a bunch of (i think) hong kong english subtitles. The style of the subtitles looks like that, at least. Its all weird and grainy and very very old fashioned early days of subtitling style, which contrasts completely with the modern dvd menus and box and stuff. And its also a weird combination disc of four different movies, it seems they just bought out a licensing package deal or something? And just baked it onto the disc without checking or editing anything. Its not really a funny sort of bad subtitles though, its just awkward phrasings of thibgs that are hard to understand or random typos or whatever, no legendarily hilarious stuff. I kinda dislike it more when subtitles are like this, when theyre like...actually written by a guy who speaks fluent english but he just never watched the actual movie so theres a bunch of rookie mistakes. Also has a strange case of what you usually only see on fansubs- the obsession with leaving everything in japanese to Sound Cool. Nah we cant call them the Tea Party Pirates we have to say the japanese word for that. Nah we cant have this man say mustache when he's doing the mustache pose and talking about his crew of entirely mustache men who all do this mustache pose NO it has to be Chobehige because its somehow deep and edgy to not understand the word for mustache. Like i feel if i was watching this sub first i would have no idea what was happening! At least its not as bad as that older sub i saw where they insisted on translating friends as "crew", even when it was llike..a singular. This one man is my crew and here are all my other crews! Like i feel like that subber probably originally did that dumb old fandom thing of INSISTING that you had to say Nakama in japanese and Capitalized and it was a Very Important japanese word for specifically pirate friends that was Impossible To Translate. And then they just did a ctrl + F replace on the whole thing and made an incomprehensible mess. Also for some reason sanji just yells DOCTOR out of nowhere (chopper wasnt even in the scene) and baron omatsuri's one syllable "oh" is translated as some long string of what seems to be baseball jargon..?

But ANYWAY the movie is still fuckin awesome and i actually noticed EVEN MORE dark shit and subtle storytelling that i missed when i was a kid! The whole 'small child zombie stares blankly at the place where a sword stabbed through his chest and cant understand why he got back up' scene is EVEN MORE emotionally destructuve than i thought! Cos the subtlety of the voiceacting seems to make the poor kid sound so tired and resigned to it? He's desperately asking and his father figure feeds him the same old lies he's done a million times about how he's totally still alive and everything is fine. Like wow i missed that inplication that this has happened before! And then he kinda sounds like he's actually aware that Baron is lying and he's just pretending to believe him to make him feel better. And then he starts turning back into a corpse and he doesnt panic like muchigoro or not realize whats happening like the grandpas do. He just looks straight at his hand falling apart and tries to lie to Baron to make him feel better. *long shot of him from behind before you see whats happened* "I'm just feeling dizzy again. I've got used to it." *him staring blankly at his body falling apart, not even capable of feeling sad about it anymore* "Don't worry...i've got used to it." *thud*

Like FUCKING HELL this film is the best damn existential horror thing ever and why the FUCK did they market it as a fun happy kids film? it probably would have been way more successful if the twist wasnt kept all twisty, honestly.

And also WOW YEAH theres a lot of stuff thats the subtlest goddamn storytelling in the universe and youd never notice unless you watched this film a million times like i did! Like during the intro when everythibg still seems all fun and cute and normal, the advert for the Totally Innocent Not A Trap Super Secret Island Resort is being read over some random shots of waves and stuff. But then right near the end you see those same shots again and it becomes clear that it was literally the view from Baron's eyes as he was falling from the ship and drowning, desperately trying to keep his head above water and strain his eyes to see if anyone else had survived. All the moments that just looked like camera cuts were actually when his head fell beneath the waves. Thats fuckin amaizng you straight up showed the ending in the beginning and we didnt notice????

Oh and also right before THE FUCKIN TERRIFYING MUCHIGORO DEATH SCENE you see him casually mention being 'sleepy' a few scenes earlier. It just passes by without notice and you think that he's just drunk until he suddenly starts going from comedic slurring to fucking asphixiating and the SKIN ON HIS FINGERS PEELING OFF. Oh hey! Another thing i didnt notice before! FUCKING THAT. A fun game for you on your rewatch! Looking out to find the secret finger horror! Ha ha ha...ha...

Also MAN OH WOW all the subtle signs of Baron getting more desparate throughout the movie and how it seems the time limit for the zombies was almost up and he had to kill these specific pirates right now because he couldnt spare even a few more hours. In retrospect it makes sense how he was slipping up and leaving evidence for the heroes to figure him out. And its just so subtly offputting and strange how he goes from making a big fun performance about the festival early on and then starts subtky rushing through the formalities faster. Like you dont eveb conciously notice the tone is changing until suddenly BAM the full change happens and you realise you missed all those signs! And aaaa its so fuckin sad how you see him come running when muchigoro drops dead and he's like fuckin GET OUT OF THE WAY DAMMIT and kneels down next to the body and theb he just..turns emotionless again and goes ITS TIME FOR THE NEXT CHALLENGE. It is time. Its now. Shut the fuck up and do it, i dont have time to deal with this shit, just die so i can bring my friend back. (Tho of course you dont know thats why at the time) And then whats most jarring about the whole scene to me is how he's like "okay fuck it theres no more fun theres no more attractions, if youre not gonna play along then the final game is just i shoot your damn head off" WHILE YKNOW STILL STANDING OVER THE CORPSE OF HIS FRIEND AND STARING DAGGERS INTO THEM LIKE ITS THEIR FAULT FOR DARING TO CLING ONTO LIFE and then a fuckin half finished hapoy fun carnival game sign pops up in the backgroubd and everyone walks past it. Why was that somehow both hilarious and terrifying????? Just fuckin 'whoops we had this thing ready to go but alright its murder time i guess' and everyone IS SUDDENLY PACKING HEAT AND RIDDLING OUR HEROES WITH BULLETS???

And also even more subtly Baron just?? Stays with muchigoro?? Like notice how the entirety of the endgame takes place around where the dude dropped dead. And how when mustache pirate guy saves luffy you see Baron just walking in circles around the same area angrily shooting arrows at nothing in complete desperation even though the dude is gone and itd make more sense to run after him. No he stays standing right there and actually looks really damn relieved when luffy comes back, he's like 'holy shit you really were stupid enough to walk right into my trap jesus christ im so glad but also youre a dumbass'. And he fights entirely using arrows at this point so you might not even notice that he barely walks more than just circling a two meter radius of fuckin DEAD BEST FRIEND CORPSE. Which btw blends intonthe shadows for this entire scene and they only draw attention it again after Baron wibs and muchigoro comes back to life. And UGH MY HEART you see him smile genuinely for the firstvtime and he's like 'im so glad youre okay' and muchigoro is like 'haha im more than okay i can do somersaults!' and generally being a FUCKING TREASURE and this poor fuckin horrible evil man is hugging his buddy and gently leading him away from the battlefield so he doesnt norice he was just fuckin murdering some dudes to ressurect him. God the scariest damn thing about this film is how the zombies dont know theyre zombies and honestky they probably wouldnt even agree with their boss's plan to kill people to keep them alive. They justvthink they live a perfectly normal happy life on hapoy festival island, and he wants them to stay that way and never feel pain again :(

Aaaaand then yeah the infamous scene of revealing this horrifying intestines flower is growing out of the flesh on his back and all the corpses its digesting are pushed against the undulating flesh of its throat like a snake devouring its prey. And its cutesy fake flower face grows infinate eyes as it just keeps laughing and laughing. And then it gets graphically blown apart and the poor goddamn parasite host tries to shove the bloody instestines back into its body, knowing that without this horrifying monster chewing on his goddamn veins all his friends will go back to being dead.

THE END

THE FUCKING END

God it ends so abruptly seriously

I still cry my eyes out every time at the ending monologue of Baron dying and meeting all the souls of his dead friends and theyre crying telling him he shouldnt be here, they wish he'd been able to find another reason to live without him...

And then THE END

JAUNTY MUSIC OVER THE CREDITS

THE FUCKIN END I GUESS

What a great but very oddly executed movie. Seriously i feel it could have worked better if it was given space to breathe and more deeply explore the dark themes rather than the weirdness of trying to fool the audience into thinking it was cheerful and innocent. Like all of this shit happens in the last 30 minutes of the movie! They spend 60 minutes on the fun carnival games! What a strange sense of priorities!!

I WOULD DEVOUR A MILLION HOURS MORE OF DEEP SAD ZOMBIE CONTENT

I am like the Lily of fanfics

Oh yeah btw the horrifying deadly elder god spine parasite thing is named Lily and it looks pretty much exactly like flowey from undertale. This film kinda spoiled me for that game LOL ive never trusted a single talking flower ever since!

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apsbicepstraining · 7 years ago

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Why we fell for clean eating

Jordan Younger, AKA The Balanced Blonde, formerly The Blonde Vegan. Image: Whitford/ BFA/ Rex/ Shutterstock

Melissa and Jasmine Hemsley. Photograph: Nick Hopper

Photograph: Alexandra Iakovleva/ Getty

Keep your chia seed smoothies off my Instagram feed

Amelia Freer. Image: S Meddle/ ITV/ Rex/ Shutterstock

Madeleine Shaw promoting her notebook Get the Glow. Picture: Joe Pepler/ REX/ Shutterstock

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Why we fell for clean eating

Jordan Younger, AKA The Balanced Blonde, formerly The Blonde Vegan. Image: Whitford/ BFA/ Rex/ Shutterstock

Melissa and Jasmine Hemsley. Photograph: Nick Hopper

Photograph: Alexandra Iakovleva/ Getty

Keep your chia seed smoothies off my Instagram feed

Amelia Freer. Image: S Meddle/ ITV/ Rex/ Shutterstock

Madeleine Shaw promoting her notebook Get the Glow. Picture: Joe Pepler/ REX/ Shutterstock

Main photograph: Alamy

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