#vitamine B

[veggiechannel]

Le vitamine B sono importanti per la nostra salute, ma dove trovarle negli alimenti vegetali e soprattutto come assimilarle veramente? Facciamo chiarezza.

[shithowdy]

after an inconclusive MRI i begged my doctor for full bloodwork because i still don't know what's wrong with me. first half of the results show an insanely low white blood cell count, so now i get to feel sweaty and anxious while i wait for the rest of the results to tell me if i have some kind of vitamin deficiency causing that or something Worse 👍

[creekfiend]

23andme did indeed send me an email like "oopsie whoopsie we let your DNA profile get leaked and now you're proooobably on a White Supremacist's Jew List! hehehe butterfingers" but luckily for them everything else in my life is so on fire that I was just like "sure man add it to the pile"

[flying-cat]

I see them everywhere I go

[sixth-light]

(tws ahead: discussion of food, diets and diet culture, eating disorders, calorie counts, and fatphobia in the context of pregnancy)

Truly one of the most bizarre things about being pregnant has been the official advice around food. Food and eating is difficult enough already when you're pregnant - there's excellent scientific evidence that it's advisable to moderate your caffeine intake and avoid alcohol, and an entire laundry list of stuff you're supposed to avoid for food safety/food poisoning risk reasons. (I am a nerd and I read the last scientific review of the linked advice from the NZ Ministry of Health, so I can say with confidence it's also pretty well supported.) Personally, I am largely indifferent to going without alcohol, but after half a year or so my brie cravings are getting pretty intense. That's going to be even tougher for people with food restriction issues. And then there's the potential nutrient deficiencies that come when a baby is sucking up all your available iron, calcium, etcetera.

But on top of all this...a couple of things are also true:

later pregnancy and breastfeeding require a higher calorie intake because you're, uh, feeding an entire baby with your body and those calories have to come from somewhere

healthy pregnancy also requires weight gain because of the aforementioned 'growing an entire person' thing

Western Anglophone society absolutely loses its goddamn mind at the thought of telling women (and other pregnant people, but they are clearly not thinking that far) that it's okay for them to eat more than normal, let alone gain weight

So there's reams and reams of official advice which has like one line saying "maybe don't diet when you're pregnant" quickly followed by "but it's OK! you can diet afterwards! you'll lose lots of weight when you breastfeed!" and then like. eight paragraphs on how while technically, they suppose you need some extra calories during some of your pregnancy, it is DEEPLY IMPORTANT that those calories only come from the most healthy and boring possible foods, because otherwise you might gain too much weight which is the worst possible thing that could happen. Try carrot sticks! Fat-free yoghurt! Dry toast! I have literally seen advice suggesting the extra calories you need can be gained from a "small snack". Maybe an apple. (Most of the estimates I've seen about extra calorie needs in later pregnancy are in the range of 3-400 extra calories a day. That apple would have to be the size of your head.) This is all followed up with dire warnings about gestational diabetes, which is lurking in the wings waiting for any pregnant person who dares use it as justification for eating that extra biscuit. There is clearly a really deep-seated belief at play that if you give them - us - an excuse to eat more we will gorge ourselves on, IDK, chips and ice cream, because the only thing holding us back from obesity is the constant reminder that gaining weight is BAD and that eating too much food is BAD (even though the reality is that weight gain and higher caloric needs are part of a healthy pregnancy). This reality has to be held at arms' length and hemmed in with restrictions and cautions lest all hell break loose. You are very literally advised to calculate your BMI, weigh yourself regularly, and have a target weight gain - i.e. implicitly to restrict your food intake if your weight gain is higher - which I'm sure is just chill and fabulous for people with a history or present of eating disorders.

(The cherry on top of this is that it's normal for pregnant people to have suppressed appetites in late pregnancy despite needing more food because, again, there is an entire baby in there squashing their organs. Add in all those foods that you can't eat, and it can actually be somewhat challenging to eat enough.)

The bit that haunts me is that we know that caloric restriction during pregnancy makes children more likely to have higher weights later on, and you know who is most targeted with this diet-but-don't-diet-but-actually-kinda-do rhetoric? Fat people, who are advised to gain at absolute most about the weight of a healthy full-term baby + amniotic fluid/placenta/etc - and that it's fine if they gain much less weight than that, barely more than the weight of a healthy baby, which would actually equate to total weight loss. During pregnancy. It feels like there could be a lot of self-fulfilling prophecy going on here vis a vis fat parents having fat kids. which is now sometimes characterised as a form of child abuse. FUN.

Anyway, I am sure I'm not the only person to have made these observations (and if you know good writing on this topic I'd love to be linked to it, because I'm way too chicken to try Googling) but man. As I said at the start: the level at which fatphobia and diet culture are institutionalised during pregnancy, to the detriment of actual health, is wild.

(For my money, sane advice would be 'healthy eating advice is the same during pregnancy as it is other times except for the specific foods you should avoid because of increased food poisoning risk, and you need to eat a bit more in later pregnancy. The end.')

[goldenamaranthe-blog]

Jaune: Yang, you might wanna slow down.... You're out eating Nora, and that's a statement in itself...

Nora: (groaning in belly ache)

Yang: Sorry, gotta bulk up for the Justice League part 2 crossover. Just gonna finish this up and hit the gym. (Pounds the rest of her protein shake and picks up Blake with one arm)

Yang: Can't forget my daily dose of vitamin B!

Blake: (blushing) EEP!!!

[dyingtobehim]

there is not enough fake movie set cocaine in the world to fuel the panic bio pic sorry guys not gonna happen

[dnangelic]

[scionshtola]

i went to the doctor today and in one year i went from being like incredibly deficient in vitamin D to toxically high levels of it. overachieving 😌

[akatsukiky]

Sunny = Sir Billiam

That’s it that’s the post

[seriemorder]

i have been terrified of moving for the past three days because moving means raising my body temperature which means getting hot which means the bajillions mosquito bites i have are going to flare up and double make me want to die but that not like us mv invigorated me fr

[no-place-to-be-happy]

Between Gary, Angel and Rocky, who's more likely to start panicking once Avocato/Husk/Mordecai says that "The baby is coming!"? Lol

Gary 🗿I don't know, I feel like Avocato tried to prepare him so he wouldn't panic, mentioning that things usually go well without much difficulty and stuff like that.

But NO, Gary will immediately go crazy. For a few minutes of course, Avocato threatened to knock him out if he didn't calm down :3 (empty threat but he was stressing him out)

[sleepinglionhearts]

Well, looks like I made it to 27!

A big thank you to my friends and family for supporting me with love and kindness, and a lot of patience. A big thank you as well to all my online buddies, though I know many of us only occasionally chat nowadays. Y'all keep me going. ♡

Let's hope I have many more birthdays to come!

[lookninjas]

2438.

dark again at 8 pm and I swear it just happened tonight

[dear-mrs-otome]

The new boyos finally got their cards!

[spacemancharisma]

listen to me. arfid breakfast of champions: one bagel, of your preferred flavor and topping, for carbs, sugar, and fats (presumably from the better or cream cheese). one protein shake/mixed protein drink. fruit if you have some. multivitamin to cover the rest of your bases, especially in absence of fruit. bagel can be swapped for oatmeal if you have the time and preference. drink a glass of cold water to activate your metabolism so you don’t get tummy sick. now you’ve covered all your major nutrient groups and you’re ready for a hard day at the dishtowel mines, or whatever it is you do all day.