#today you were told

[amaditalks]

Absolutely none of these fruits are harmful to your liver or any other part of your body when eaten in proper moderation as part of a varied diet unless you are allergic to them.

Right now there are a lot of people making a living by trying to make you afraid of healthy food. People have become immune to fearmongering about fried chicken sandwiches, or coffee drinks containing tablespoons of sugar. We know those things are, at best, sometimes foods.

So now that those messages aren’t getting traction, we have a whole new faction of people, trying to convince people that the fruit and vegetables that should be the centerpieces of our diets are killing our livers and kidneys.

It’s just not true.

90% of Americans do not meet the recommended intake of vegetables, and 87.7% of Americans do not meet the recommended intake of fruit. Please do not let unsubstantiated, dramatized claims by randoms on the internet keep you in those very worrying statistics. 



i learned which fruit is not good for the liver

The liver is a vital organ that helps filter toxins and waste from the body, and an unhealthy liver can lead to a range of serious health problems.There are several fruits that are not good for the liver, especially if consumed in excess. Here are 10 fruits that can potentially harm the liver if consumed excessively:

Grapefruit: Grapefruit contains compounds that can interfere with the liver's ability to metabolize certain medications. This can cause a buildup of drugs in the bloodstream, leading to potentially dangerous side effects.

Papaya: Papaya contains a high amount of natural sugars, which can be difficult for the liver to process, especially for those with liver disease or diabetes.

Pineapple: Pineapple contains bromelain, an enzyme that can cause blood thinning and interfere with blood clotting in some people. This can be harmful to those with liver disease or who are taking blood thinning medications.

Mango: Mango is a high glycemic index fruit, meaning it can cause a rapid spike in blood sugar levels. This can put stress on the liver and lead to insulin resistance, which can lead to liver damage over time.

Coconut: Coconut is high in saturated fat, which can increase cholesterol levels and put stress on the liver. Consuming too much coconut can also lead to fatty liver disease.

Dates: Dates are high in sugar and can cause a rapid spike in blood sugar levels. This can put stress on the liver and lead to insulin resistance, which can lead to liver damage over time.

Cherries: Cherries contain high levels of fructose, which can be difficult for the liver to process, especially for those with liver disease or diabetes.

Persimmons: Persimmons contain tannins, which can be harmful to the liver when consumed in excess. This can lead to liver damage and cirrhosis.

Pomegranates: Pomegranates contain compounds that can interfere with the liver's ability to metabolize certain medications. This can cause a buildup of drugs in the bloodstream, leading to potentially dangerous side effects.

Watermelon: Watermelon is high in fructose, which can be difficult for the liver to process, especially for those with liver disease or diabetes.

[idiosyncraticrednebula]

Hot take: I actually think men and women are meant to work together and complement each other and not like,,, dislike each other and be divisive.

[akelafang]

Arthur and Merlin yelling at each other just off the training field. Lancelot: What's going on? Gwaine: Mum and Dad are fighting again. Lancelot: Who's winning? Gwaine: Who do you think? Lancelot: My money's on Merlin Leon: Back to training you two Gwaine: Oh come on Leon! Don't tell me you're not the least bit curious?! Leon: Whatever disagreements that arise between our king and his consort are none of our business. Gwaine: *pouting* You're no fun. Leon: Besides, everyone knows mu- I mean Merlin always wins

[anna-scribbles]

was told today by a child that i look like “adrien but if he was a girl” and i WILL be riding that high for the rest of my life

[painted-bees]

Sometimes you just need to be held and gently rocked like a child by someone who means something to you.

I mentioned before how Raf doesn't really get anxious before a show, and genuinely enjoys performing on stage--but that the most difficult part of a performance for him are the hours right after a show has finished, starting from the moment he walks off the stage.

Almost every single time, no matter how fun or well executed a performance was, there's a kind of quiet terror that follows him off the stage like a dark shadow and infects him once he's left the safety of the stage lights.

He becomes uncharacteristically furtive, and while he will answer when spoken to, his responses are simple, short, with a kind of sharpness in tone that suggests a level of defensiveness. Like a child awaiting a harsh scolding. Because that's kinda...what he is, in that moment. He is waiting to be kept awake into the early hours of the morning by a lecture about what he did, what he didn't do, what he should have done differently, what needs to be improved upon before the next time. Or he's waiting to be told that he's gonna be on his own for a few days, because the people who are supposed to love and take care of him are "too disappointed to fairly manage him" right now. Or he's waiting to be dragged into a busy room populated by strangers he's supposed to impress while he's casually, conversationally picked apart in front of them by the person who brought him there in the first place; the person who wanted to show him off.

It's a frustrating reaction to have...He's not a child, he's a grown ass man--and he owes venue staff, and his bandmates, and everyone else backstage a modicum of respect and kindness, and to thank them for their work, and to revel in the completion of a good show. But he's not really...he can't do that. He comes off as quietly despondent at best, or kind of a stuck up asshole at worst. When he did shows with Lacey, she called it his "post-performance tantrums" and exercised very little patience for his 'immature sulkiness' following concerts. And the low mood would persist for a solid week then after.

Once he started doing shows and stuff with Margie, she'd initially wonder if his poor mood was because she had done something wrong, or didn't meet expectations, if it was a bad show.... It wouldn't be until the following day before Raf could find himself in a state of mind where he's able to explain what he's feeling, much less why. And...for whatever reason, he's reticent to offer the most simple explanation to her--because saying "it's a ptsd thing, just give me space and patience and don't take it personally because it's nothing to do with you" comes with the risk of being asked other questions about himself and his upbringing that he's not comfortable getting into and--it's a whole thing, in his mind. So the first few shows together are consistently...a bewilderingly negative experience for Margie, in that it's a very tense, quiet, insecure and shame-ridden 24-48 hours after the show--followed by delayed revelry days after the performance with Raf finally able to reflect positively upon the experience and assuring Margie that it actually was a great performance, and that he had a lot of fun--and they're able to recall their favorite moments together, etc.

Unlike Lace, though, Margie never digs into him about his behavior. She just mirrors his silence, and then--very uncomfortably--gives him space because she doesn't really know what else she can do, and--assuming she's the problem--she doesn't want to risk messing things up even more, since she doesn't know what she did wrong in the first place. And, you know, there's only so many times Raf can reassure her, too late, that she was great, actually. And so he finally does relent to telling her that this is just...how he is after a show, that it's no one's fault, he's not mad at her or anyone--it's just ptsd. That's all he tells her, and, as per always with Margie--she doesn't try to pry out more information from him about it.

Margie goes down her own little rabbit hole of research instead, and comes to Raf with the idea for a new post-performance routine (communicated with staff and such before hand to ensure accommodation) wherein they don't try to gladhand, or pack up, or do literally anything for the first half hour after they walk off stage. Instead, they find a quiet, dimly lit corner somewhere away from everything and just sit, and rest, no expectations, no obligations, nothing. Raf agrees to put this idea into practice, and it quickly evolves into, well idk... Being held and gently rocked like a child by someone who means something to him.

[starcurtain]

I have this small, deeply personal headcanon that after his grandmother's passing, Alhaitham's home was so unbearably quiet that he started--just barely, just one or two words--to speak out loud to her as if she was still there.

"I've been accepted to the Akademiya, Grandmother."

"I passed my promotion exams."

"I debated with Haravatat's sage."

Just that, and quiet again.

But one day, it's: "I met someone strange."

"He keeps showing up when I'm trying to study."

"We don't agree on anything. Still..."

"I made a friend."

"Today, Kaveh and I were researching--"

"It's already dark. I didn't realize we spent so long in Razan Garden. Kaveh wanted to hear about my article--"

"He's going to be furious when I tell him the whole point for his portion of the lecture is based on a false predicate--"

The house where his grandmother used to be gets a little louder again; the noise lasts a little longer.

Until one day, when there's no words at all.

One day, when there's just the sound of a single sob, and then a long, long silence.

[yardsards]

i needed to express a sentiment in the creative stylings of @dunmeshiminimumwage

[faunandfloraas]

im so glad im not the only person that looks at seungmin and goes "❓tism❓" bc he is Way Too Relatable to me as a person w autism

yeah..... like I say it in jest but also..... well, yk. sometimes you notice something and you notice something and you notice something and you go Hmmmm

[snzluv3r]

not snz but i had a really really good day at work today and got some wins i’ve been working really hard for and i got to see my pcp this morning for the first time since they went on medical leave and they made me feel so seen and so hopeful about my healthcare for the first time since they left in april and i just feel :) really good and hopeful

going back to school on monday as well, after an unplanned year off, and i’m actually really excited to dip my toe back in and remind myself that i am smart and capable even if i’m going at a slower pace than my peers <3 it was a hard year but i followed through on a really important goal i set for myself that i wasn’t really sure i could, and i’m finally feeling like it’s actually starting to pay off

[totallyseiso]

How the fuck do you buy a business and not know when you're supposed to pay your employees?

[capricioussun]

🌻 for Edge?

🌻 (sunflower) - What’s something your character has grown out of? Did it happen gradually or was it a drastic change? What caused this shift?

When Edge was little, he was actually entirely nonverbal! I always like to imagine most Papyri are quiet when very young, and took a while before their first words, but few to the same degree.

Id say it was both gradual and drastic, as he started offering a few sparse words to Red when he was around 6-9, but once they were on their own, there was more pressure to "act normal", so he wound up forcing himself to verbally communicate more frequently than he would've chosen.

Whiiich also sort of answers the next part! It was mostly pressure from "the outside world" (the rest of the underground). Pretty much anything can be perceived as a weakness, and since "quiet" reads more as "shy" for a child/teen, Red discouraged Edge from communicating predominantly in Hands.

[cisthoughtcrime]

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[ganxiously]

I have had a bit of time to come to terms with the breakup and I'm okay, I can maybe move on from it one day. But what I'll never move on from is that Tommy is probably going to be alone now. They made it sure to tell us that Tommy is alone. He doesn't have a family he's close to, except perhaps a cousin, he's not close to his teammates and his new best friend and his old friend are both linked to his ex so where does that leave him? and the worst part is we will watch as Buck gets to put his life back together, watch him move on but we will never know what happens to Tommy. If he doesn't come back to the show, the writers will just forget about him and we will never learn if he ever gets his happy ending. So fuck this, Tommy does get me in the divorce, if only because Buck already has his people and if they give Buck a forever love other than him, I will fucking invent a character who is fucking perfect and with the perfect family and write a novel length, romcom style story of him loving Tommy to bits and giving him what he needs 😤

[agalychnisspranneusroseus]

Imagine you're Mr. Wu and your weird gay daughter runs away in tears after destroying some unespecified object while yelling about you ruining her life. Because you told her you'd be moving to another state. This is the last time you see your daughter in half a year, and when she comes back, she comes back... wrong. She's wearing a light leather armor, a fur-lined cape, and a green flower crown. She has two long scars, one alongside her spine and the other along her chest, the tissue around them covered in burn scars. Doctors say she shouldn't have survived. Doctors say she didn't. Yet she's right here, in front of you, hospital gown clinging to her small, fragile, trembling frame. She fidgets with her hands. Getting her to stay still has always been difficult, but now it seems impossible. She won't let go of her phone. She's always texting her two friends. When you take it away, she gets anxious. You always knew those damn phones cause kids to act weird, but your kid having a panic attack seems too extreme, even for her. Then again, she's always been odd. Nowadays, she wakes up crying and screaming almost every night, and you realize she's been stealing her phone from your bedside drawer every night to text her friends, returning it before you wake up. You catch her once and decide to give her that damn phone back. It's the only thing that calms her down, as if she were a baby with a pacifier. She spends her last weeks in LA clinging to her friends, having sleepovers and playing her weird board games with them. Everytime they drop her back at her house, there's an excessive amount of hugs and tears. But the moments when they call her, or when she leaves to meet with them, or when they show up at their door to pick her up... those are the only moments in which you see her happy. One of her friends, the rude and disobedient one, came back with a big scar on her face. She's been acting a lot nicer, though. The other one too. She acts a great deal more adult now. You doesn't know what happened or where your daughter went. She won't tell you. But you can tell this friendship is the only thing keeping her afloat right now. Maybe you know, deep down, that no one else would understand.

And then you decide to move anyway because fuck her amirite

[aimie-academie]

Apparently "answer me my hypotheticals three" is not normal first date conversation.

[gowns]

i am still relishing this victory that for THIRTY SOMETHING YEARS my mom was telling me that i "must be autistic" (semi- and fully-perjorative) -- and i finally just admitted to myself that i actually am autistic, but the reason why it didn't register for so long is because my mom and her mom are both SO INCREDIBLY WEIRD AND AUTISTIC. and now we all have accepted and internalized the fact that when my mom kept saying "i think you're autistic" that the call was coming from INSIDE THE HOUSE. and thank god. our relationship has improved by 1000x since we both no longer have to pretend so hard to be normal and we've realized we have almost the same strange gullible sensitive alien navigation through the world.

don't get me wrong, i still have beef with the DSM and certain framings of autism, but getting my mom to admit this is incredible. imagine, your whole life... being told: "hey, something wrong with you." and then one day, the person who told you that. looks you in the eye. and says "hey. turns out. something wrong with me."

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