Obesity

[KevShmev]

Isn't that like shoveling shit against the tide?

[TAC]

Apparently! 

But little things she'll do..

She never uses the closest parking space.
Never uses the drive thru at the pharmacy, always walks in.
Never uses the escalator, or even an elevator if she can help it.
She has a stepper at her computer.
She never sits down, always preferring to stand..anywhere.
Builds in multiple walks throughout her workday.
Is liable to be on the treadmill any time.
Tries to do at least 20 min cardio every day, usually to a youtube video.
Enjoys cutting the grass, and shoveling.. WTF??

[wolfking]

 

[Harmony]

Anyone catch Gwyneth Paltrow's appearance on a "wellness" podcast while she is hooked up to an IV to get nutrients one can easily get from EATING?!?

Then she says she does intermittent fasting - breaks her fast with bone broth for lunch.  Works out, grabs a sauna then has a dinner that follows a paleo diet.

Can anyone remind me again when the paleo era introduced IV infusion again?

 

And you just know that she has millions of followers who think this is what healthy nutrition looks like.

[lonestar]

People like her and Food Babe are the worst thing to happen to the world of nutrition.




On a side note, I love that this thread got bumped right after I made a fatass of myself on leftover mini eclairs from a lunch party.

[Stadler]

But she's DOING something!  Haha.  I feel like she's a shining example of why so many people dislike celebrities.

Ya know what I do after lunch - if I HAVE a lunch?   I work. Not work OUT, I work.  Then I have to take the dogs out.  Then I have to cook my dinner. Then serve it.  MAYBE I can get my kid to clean up, but not usually, so then I have to clean up and do the dishes.  Maybe I can get my kid to administer an IV while I'm scrubbing the pans!

HAHA, I kid, a little bit, but please.

[Stadler]

People like her and Food Babe are the worst thing to happen to the world of nutrition.

Too much?  Too far? 

[Adami]

Anyone catch Gwyneth Paltrow's appearance on a "wellness" podcast while she is hooked up to an IV to get nutrients one can easily get from EATING?!?

Then she says she does intermittent fasting - breaks her fast with bone broth for lunch.  Works out, grabs a sauna then has a dinner that follows a paleo diet.

Can anyone remind me again when the paleo era introduced IV infusion again?

 

And you just know that she has millions of followers who think this is what healthy nutrition looks like.

Damn. Guess doing Shallow Hal really got to her.

[TAC]

Great movie!

[wolfking]

Anyone catch Gwyneth Paltrow's appearance on a "wellness" podcast while she is hooked up to an IV to get nutrients one can easily get from EATING?!?

Then she says she does intermittent fasting - breaks her fast with bone broth for lunch.  Works out, grabs a sauna then has a dinner that follows a paleo diet.

Can anyone remind me again when the paleo era introduced IV infusion again?

 

And you just know that she has millions of followers who think this is what healthy nutrition looks like.

She must really hate broccoli.

[lonestar]

People like her and Food Babe are the worst thing to happen to the world of nutrition.

Too much?  Too far? 

Absolutely not...this is a rare moment we're in 100% agreement. Especially Food Babe...what a shit stain on life's underwear she is, so glad her light fizzled out.

[TAC]

People like her and Food Babe are the worst thing to happen to the world of nutrition.

Too much?  Too far? 

Absolutely not...this is a rare moment we're in 100% agreement. Especially Food Babe...what a shit stain on life's underwear she is, so glad her light fizzled out.

Who in the hell is Food Babe?

[wolfking]

People like her and Food Babe are the worst thing to happen to the world of nutrition.

Too much?  Too far? 

Absolutely not...this is a rare moment we're in 100% agreement. Especially Food Babe...what a shit stain on life's underwear she is, so glad her light fizzled out.

Who?

[Adami]

Food babe? Are they related to Salt Bae?

[TAC]

Food babe? Are they related to Salt Bae?

Was their Gandma Old Bay?


Heard she was salty..

[lonestar]

Food Babe is a 'nutrition' blogger who faded from obscurity a few years back, but for the early 2010s, she had a massive following and even made appearances on Dr Oz. I'd credit her idiotic takes on 'science' for breeding a huge swath of the worst in people's nutritional decisions. She was at the forefront of weaponizing the word 'toxic' and getting people to be phobic of chemicals in food. She would take scary sounding words of common ingredients and use it to fear monger (even though she constantly pushed the health benefits of red wine, a known class 1 carcinogen). She also would tell her followers to just lie to restaurants and say you have an allergy to something so they wouldn't put it in there, not knowing the extreme measures between 'no butter' and 'allergic to butter' preparations.

Fucking hate her.



Here's a good piece on her by a blogger I follow Science Babe....

https://www.gawker.com/the-food-babe-blogger-is-full-of-shit-1694902226

[TAC]

So...Science Babe did a report on Food Babe?

That's Babe on Babe crime.

[wolfking]

So...Science Babe did a report on Food Babe?

That's Babe on Babe crime.

I've seen that movie plus the 3 sequels.

[TAC]

So...Science Babe did a report on Food Babe?

That's Babe on Babe crime.

I've seen that movie plus the 3 sequels.

[wolfking]

  Babe 3 was definitely the best one.

[Cool Chris]

Glad this thread got bumped because it reminded me of this article I read a couple days ago.

https://mynorthwest.com/3856649/dr-gordon-cohen-weight-loss-drugs-could-put-medicare-out-of-business

Dr. Cohen told Dave Ross that drugs like Ozempic are quite costly, and what used to be a drug used by diabetics is now being used by people who simply want to lose weight.

A year’s worth of the medication is in the ballpark of $14,000. So it’s quite costly,” Dr. Cohen said. “It turns out that 42% of adults in the United States who are six years and older have obesity.”
According to recent research cited by Dr. Cohen, if the trend continues it would put a $27 billion annual burden on Medicare. If that happened, Dr. Cohen said medicare would be broke.

“There are tremendous health benefits from losing weight. We know that obesity is related to so many other things; hypertension, high cholesterol, heart disease, diabetes, metabolic syndrome, all these things, which have a lot of medical costs associated with them,” Dr. Cohen said.

“So hopefully, there would be a trade-off that you’re prescribing these medications, people are losing weight, their diabetes is improving, their blood pressure is improving. They’re having less heart disease, they’re having less metabolic syndrome. And as a result, they’re needing less medical care, which turns out to be much more expensive anyway.”

[wolfking]

Great, so now people will get expensive medication thinking it's a magic pill so they think they can still eat like shit, still get diseases and not lose any weight.  Seems like a no brainer.......

[lordxizor]

Eventually it will be able to be generic and will be much cheaper, but yeah.... people will look at it as a magic pill to get skinny while maintaining their crappy lifestyle.

[lonestar]

So...Science Babe did a report on Food Babe?

That's Babe on Babe crime.

I've seen that movie plus the 3 sequels.

There's a Farm Babe too.

[wolfking]

So...Science Babe did a report on Food Babe?

That's Babe on Babe crime.

I've seen that movie plus the 3 sequels.

There's a Farm Babe too.

The 4th instalment is actually called babes gone wild too.

[TAC]

After Kingshmegland's surgery, he's now the DTF Babe.

[wolfking]

After Kingshmegland's surgery, he's now the DTF Babe.

I think we can all agree to that one.

[lonestar]

After Kingshmegland's surgery, he's now the DTF Babe.

He was that before the surgery.. Just so damn cute

[Stadler]

So...Science Babe did a report on Food Babe?

That's Babe on Babe crime.

Not for nothing, but there ought to be a law about calling YOURSELF a "babe" on your blogs/websites.  I get that the idea is to "come for the looks, stay for the intellect", but still.

(We are such an uncritical society; it's like the reality shows where the camera is already in the house and the doorbell rings, and the person goes nuts as if they have no idea what's happening. You let a team of cameras in your house for no reason?  I see that and think to myself "these producers must think we're stupid", and the reality is, they DO, and we don't care.)

[TAC]

Not for nothing, but there ought to be a law about calling YOURSELF a "babe" on your blogs/websites.  I get that the idea is to "come for the looks, stay for the intellect", but still.

I agree!

[Harmony]

So...Science Babe did a report on Food Babe?

That's Babe on Babe crime.

Not for nothing, but there ought to be a law about calling YOURSELF a "babe" on your blogs/websites.

To be fair - the ones that came after Food Babe - those that I know of are Science Babe, Farm Babe, and Food Science Babe - purposefully chose those monikers as a way to mock Food Babe.

[Stadler]

So...Science Babe did a report on Food Babe?

That's Babe on Babe crime.

Not for nothing, but there ought to be a law about calling YOURSELF a "babe" on your blogs/websites.

To be fair - the ones that came after Food Babe - those that I know of are Science Babe, Farm Babe, and Food Science Babe - purposefully chose those monikers as a way to mock Food Babe.

That's fair enough.  I got a little of that from the Science Babe site.

[lonestar]

So...Science Babe did a report on Food Babe?

That's Babe on Babe crime.

Not for nothing, but there ought to be a law about calling YOURSELF a "babe" on your blogs/websites.

To be fair - the ones that came after Food Babe - those that I know of are Science Babe, Farm Babe, and Food Science Babe - purposefully chose those monikers as a way to mock Food Babe.

That's fair enough.  I got a little of that from the Science Babe site.

I've been following her for years, she's actually sharp as fuck and exceptionally funny. Definitely enjoy what she writes.

[Harmony]

I used to enjoy SciBabe and followed her for many years.  Then one time she took some post I made and twisted it to mean something I wasn't saying and posted it on her Twitter page so her followers could berate me.  I tried to explain my meaning but she metaphorically stuck her fingers in her ears and refused to cut me any slack.  I honestly don't even recall what the topic was.

This was also during Covid and IIRC her brother had been diagnosed with cancer.  She also has had some major health problems herself.  I chalked up the exchange to her level of stress at the time but it did leave a very sour taste in my mouth and I do not follow her anymore because of that.

Life is too short to deal with that kind of BS

[chknptpie]

I had that happen with a vegan, female, weight lifter I followed. She asked for topics for her podcast, so I suggested the urban myth about tofu and birth control. She had never heard of it, so I sent her a screen shot just googling it to show her the sheer amount of internet hits (valid or not) and she blew it up on her insta stories with a screen shot of our messages. She went on about people believing everything they see on the internet. Like..... um what? Thats not what I said at all, I even told her I learned about it during high school, not off the internet. Needless to say, I stopped following her as well.