bigfatscience:

This sounds like diet culture crapola to me. Everything I have learned about normal eating in the past few years tell me that it is unhealthy to ignore your hunger cues, whenever they occur. Sometimes people are hungry at night, and if that is the case, they should eat.

Now, there is also a correlation between disordered, restrictive eating and night eating. A very common form of restrictive eating is to restrict all day and then eat the majority of your food in the evening and night. This kind of disordered eating pattern is associated with weight gain. But the cure is not to stop eating at night! The solution is to eat more during the day.

But this is a very common pattern in diet propaganda: 1) Diet culture induces a disordered, restrictive eating pattern; 2) The body adapts to the disordered eating and finds ways to survive anyway (e.g., increasing fat mass; demanding more food at night); 3) Scientists and the medical establishment pathologize the adaptive response to deprivation; and then 4) They recommend ways to eliminate  the adaptive response, which usually involves more disordered eating.

See who circular it all is? Diet culture invents a problem, and then offers a solution, which is, miraculously, more of the same restrictive dieting behavior that caused the problem to begin with.

 It would be funny if it wasn’t literally killing people.

(check out my “disordered eating” and “eating” tags for links to the science)

politicalprof:

Random Donald Trump prediction

People who like Donald Trump basically like him because he won. They will insist they never liked him when he loses.

I’ve always been on the “he’s an oily creep” side. I thought so when he was doing “Apprentice”.

positive-memes:

It might not exactly be a meme, but it will make your day 😊

positive-memes:

Thank’s Mom

Or in my case, went to work so I wouldn’t be raised on welfare.

politicalprof:

Dear Democrats and progressives:

A reminder: now that the 2020 presidential election has begun, please remember that you are going to dislike something about anyone the party names as its nominee. For that matter, you are going to dislike something about anyone any party names as its nominee. This is because presidential candidates are human beings and not superheroes. Vote for them anyway. It can be worse.

politicalprof:

Dear Democrats and progressives:

A reminder: now that the 2020 presidential election has begun, please remember that you are going to dislike something about anyone the party names as its nominee. For that matter, you are going to dislike something about anyone any party names as its nominee. This is because presidential candidates are human beings and not superheroes. Vote for them anyway. It can be worse.

As we have seen.

ultrafacts:

Source: [x]

Click HERE for more facts

Oh Teddy, you badass.

ultrafacts:

Source: [x]

Click HERE for more facts!

The crowd is not always right. 

historicaltimes:

Detroit police officers defend blacks from the white mob during 1943 race riot, c. June 2st, 1943

via reddit

Not all cops are racist

historicaltimes:

Race organizers stopping Katherine Switzer from competing in the Boston marathon, the first women to finish the race, 1967.

via reddit

Another thing I remember from the news. We’ve come a long way since then, but we still have a long way to go.