Strength Through Music

Ranting , Raving and sharing

[tonightweredrinkingfromthebong]

“have you not figured out that youve already been captured” “uuuuuUUUUUUUWAAAHHHH”

[brent-geckbat]

@daxratchet

[transjemder]

man: “have you not figured out that youve already been captured?”

frog:

frog:

[timemachineyeah]

Ugh that post has gotten me thinking about fat acceptance in a way I haven’t in years. I’ve read more studies about weight and health than probably any other topic I’ve ever researched. And every time I see someone wail about health I am just like

Did you know that in post-mortem examinations there is zero correlation between weight and levels of arteriosclerosis and related diseases found?

Did you know that people with an overweight BMI have the longest life expectancy, that those with an “ideal” and an “obese” have about the same life expectancy, and that being “underweight” raises mortality rates more than being “morbidly obese”?

Did you know that losing weight and then gaining it back is worse for your heart than remaining at the weight you started consistently?

Did you know that 95% of people who lose weight do gain it back, and there has never been a single documented weight loss program that has been demonstrated to keep the weight off for five years or more in the majority or even a significant minority of people? Like, telling people to lose weight isn’t much use if we don’t know HOW to make that happen.

Like I have read The Obesity Myth by Paul Campos and Rethinking Thin by Gina Kolata and Big Fat Lies by Glenn A Gaesser (Ph.D!) And Fat!So? and several other books that I don’t own and so don’t remember all of their names I spent like four years reading every single study coming out and looking at the methodology and noting which ones had huge holes or terrible methods and which didn’t (the holes were almost always in the pro-weight-loss studies) and like

Big Fat Lies has 27 pages of bibliography. 27 pages worth of scientific citation. The book content itself is only 197 pages. That’s a page of references for every 7 pages of book. Reading the book is just reference after reference and study after study. Most of these doctors (like Linda Bacon, author of Health at Every Size) started out the same way. They wanted to use the scientific method to find a real weight loss program or health solution that worked and could be proven to work, and so studied everything they could about weight and fitness only to find out that we didn’t need weight loss in the first place. That all the studies calling for it were lacking or nonexistent. That weight and underlying metabolic health have very little relation. That the history of our relationship with health and obesity has little basis in fact and a LOT of basis in capitalism, politics, and fashion. No, really, the association between weight and health was first proposed by insurance companies looking for ways to charge people more by claiming risk. They also charged tall and short people more. And people with different skin colors. When they got in trouble for charging people for things they had no control over and had no bearing on their health, they set out to prove that weight was controllable and that fat was unhealthy to make money. 

These are also a lot of the same people who went on to invent the President’s fitness program, so if you went to public school you probably already hate them. 

Anyway, if you want a place to start reading about the issue, this article is a pretty good launching pad. 

[heavyweightheart]

This casual rant is like a primer on weight science. Amazing. I second their book recommendations, and would add to the list Body Respect by Drs Bacon & Aphramor, Body of Truth by journalist Harriet Brown, and What’s Wrong with Fat? by UCLA professor of sociology Abigail Saguy.

[mikkeneko]

man I remember that time I reblogged an anti-fatphobia post and lost a follower and  reader who took the time to come into my DMs and rant about how betrayed he felt that I, who he had trusted and respected, would dare to signal boost content that made people feel like it was okay to be fat. how dare I

anyway the weightloss industry is a scam

[venus-is-in-bloom]

i enjoy video games because they let me live out my wildest fantasies, like being assigned a task and then completing that task

[strength--through--music]

Yep https://www.instagram.com/p/B1pUfbvhq36/?igshid=9ge51k4d4rt0

[strength--through--music]

Her adorable is just too much https://www.instagram.com/p/B1EO29FgIeW/?igshid=1gabmkbnoglfc

[strength--through--music]

The music that you play lights up my world #stillonmymind #stillonmymindtour #dido #roundhouselondon (at Roundhouse) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByKkBO2gzp1/?igshid=35tot9dwgalg

[strength--through--music]

Just wow @dido #stillonmymind #stillonmymindtour #dido #roundhouselondon (at Roundhouse) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByKefVSA6VC/?igshid=1t221an6u4ia1

[strength--through--music]

Absolute joy of music 🎶 #stillonmymindtour #stillonmymind #dido #roundhouselondon (at Roundhouse) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByKe2XnA1Yb/?igshid=1n3ax9sh1pj7a

[strength--through--music]

#dido #stillonmymindtour #stillonmymind #roundhouse (at Roundhouse) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByKfPwmA64y/?igshid=gyyimk4cmxo1

[strength--through--music]

#Dido #stillonmymindtour #stillonmymind #glasgow (at The Glasgow Royal Concert Hall) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByKf2Jqgfm_/?igshid=1vayzw9rvaelv

[strength--through--music]

Life made! Finally after 18 years of loving her music I finally got the absolute pleasure of meeting @dido! Flew all the way from Australia to Scotland to do so and so grateful! I am standing so far away from her because I was paranoid her security man would get angry if I went too close. I follow rules way too closely sometimes! #dido #didolive #stillonmind #glasgow #fuckyeahlivemusic #fuckyeahdido (at The Glasgow Royal Concert Hall) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx77yURAdmU/?igshid=k20s7481d3dv

[babyanimalgifs]

Proof that all dogs are angels. (Sound on)

via @hdbrosriley

[strength--through--music]

Happy #internationalwomensday2019 #internationalwomensday I feel much gratitude to be surrounded by very inspirational in my life. I honestly wouldn’t still exist without many of them https://www.instagram.com/p/BuuIQtNg-p_/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1lrv26fjzz91m

[strength--through--music]

My mobile service won’t let me vote for @katemillerheidke in #Eurovision #ausdecides 🤬 https://www.instagram.com/p/BtpoSUtgjvv/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ld7v19v957cb

[strength--through--music]

I strongly suggest those who have mobile service providers who do allow you to send such texts to vote for the ridiculously talented @katemillerheidke to represent Australia in #eurovision. Her song is brilliant and so is she! Voting for "Eurovision - Australia Decides" is open NOW! Text 9 to 1991 3773 to vote for 'Zero Gravity'. Texts are $0.55, you can vote up to 20 times https://www.instagram.com/p/BtppAypgU-E/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=qdex5yt9ejf4

[biscuitsarenice]

imagine… Alma Deutscher: Finding Cinderella

Musical prodigy Alma Deutscher aged 11 (seen here with younger sister Helen), is staging her first full-length opera, Cinderella.

Composer, pianist, violinist… Alma learned to read music before she could read words. She began playing the piano aged two and at four years old she was composing her own music.

[gnars-house]

So like obviously this girl is super awesome but ALSO that is the coolest take on Cinderella I have EVER heard it’s giving me fucking chills

[strength--through--music]

Pash The Magic Dragon (at Batch Brewing Company) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpJdSxcAcY2/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1oj65ss8nmd0i