#obeisity

[arcticdementor]

The first step in solving a problem is measuring whether or not there is a problem. Stopping collecting data is never the next step.

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[diy-besttips-blog]

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-i6esNPdEk)

[eternally11yours]

So I'm facing health issue after health issue after health issue. Back in march I found started coughing and found out a few months and a few surgeries later that I was exposed to a fungus called histoplasmosis that is common in the air and soil in the midwest. Then not too long ago, maybe a month ago, I found out I have obstructive sleep apnea, despite having had my tonsils out at age 11. So it's most likely due to my weight of 325 pounds. Lastly, I hope lastly... I have had a migraine for the past 3 weeks. I've been to the ER twice and my primary health doctor twice for it and the meds they gave me are not helping. It just keeps getting worse. I'm light and sound sensitive, any straining of my eyes or forehead hurts, and I have blurred vision. I last went to the ER on Wednesday night and I had already had a ct scan and an MRI done that came back normal. They decided to do a lumbar puncture which is like a spinal tap. (It hurt so bad)!!! They did the procedure to check the pressure in my spinal fluid and found it to be 25cm which is the very top/borderline of normal. They told me to get in with my eye doctor yesterday (Thursday) immediately to check for swollen nerves in my eyes, and it turns out I do have them. I had to get in with the Walmart vision center because my eye doctor was booked til Tuesday, but I'm glad I did. Turns out I have Idiopathic intracranial hypertension which mimics the symptoms of a tumor. It has no known cause, but is most common in obese women of child bearing age, who are on birth control or are pregnant. I have to follow up today (Friday) in order to set up a treatment plan. It will include an oral diuretic medication, and a weight loss plan. If those two things combined don't help I will possibly have to have surgery to relieve the pressure in my skull. :( I'm terrified

[captawesomesauce]

The idea that “obesity kills” thus can and is used as a justification for imposing elite white preferences of thinness onto working classes and people of color, in an instance of what French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu calls symbolic violence

Abigail C. Saguy - What's Wrong with Fat?

[lilacc-loser]

For me, when i get concerned and preach to my family or friends before they eat takeaways or 'unhealthy' foods, it doesnt stem from a desire for them to curb their weight so they look better. I couldnt give a shit about their aestetics, i love them regardless. It stems from a genuine concern over whats happening internally. I worry over their cardiovascular health, their bones, their increased risk for dementia. Its all very well and good to say being fat is fine, from a physical point of view it is!! You can look however you like and as long as you’re happy, then fuxk what anybody else has to say. But from a general health and well being point of view, it can be so dangerous and this is why im so concerned! At the end of the day, its none of my damn business but i feel like there is not enough available education on the matter for people to be able to make an informed decision themselves and i really really hope one day i can be apart of a movement to change that! Sorry, end of rant :/

[sexualcyborg]

It's possible to have withdrawal from High Fructose Corn Syrup

Whenever I eat really unhealthy for a long period of time, I start to get shaky and feel weak when I need to eat instead of the normal hunger pains and stomach growling as an indicator. When I feel like this, the only way to make it stop is to eat more fast food or something else loaded with high fructose corn syrup.

But once I change my diet and start to eat mostly fresh produce and non-processed foods, it gets even worse for a few days, then stops altogether.

Just like an addiction. 

So I started doing some research to find out what was going on or what I might be eating that was causing this, when I found out that you can actually have withdrawal symptoms from high fructose corn syrup.

I also found this:

"Rats with access to high-fructose corn syrup gained significantly more weight than those with access to table sugar, even when their overall caloric intake was the same.  In addition to causing significant weight gain in lab animals, long-term consumption of high-fructose corn syrup also led to abnormal increases in body fat, especially in the abdomen, and a rise in circulating blood fats called triglycerides"

http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/91/22K07/

I vow right here and now to NEVER eat anything with high fructose corn syrup in it again.

[deangirldisease]

I've been seeing posts about people complaining how 'love your body' posts usually go up to what would be considered 'fat' but no further. there's a reason for that and it's not because people are superficial and discusted

it's because what comes after that is obese and obese is not a matter of whether you or anyone else like you, whether or not you're beautiful or people look at you. It's about being healthy and obese is not healthy okay it's dangerous and that's a whole other topic that has nothing to do with society and self-esteem. Body-positive image is about being okay with the way you are naturally and not trying to change yourself. It is not about sitting on your butt all your life stuffing your face with poison until you die of heart failure because 'society is wrong' 

don't make excuses. know the difference. if you trully love yourself you wouldn't let something like that happen to you

[experimental-podcast]

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Battling Obesity: It's Time to Fight Fat with Fat

Episode 44 by Lisa Willemse (Click here to directly access the MP3)

(Access the full text transcript)

Brown fat may become the newest weapon in the war against obesity. Unlike white fat, which stores excess energy, brown fat is highly metabolic, meaning it burns energy and therefore helps to regulate weight. New research has found that the same stem cells that produce muscle also produce brown fat and that a particular switch (namely a gene regulator known as microRNA-133) is responsible for telling the stem cells which type of cell to become. 

Listen to the podcast to learn what happened when the researchers flipped the switch to produce more brown fat and what that might mean for human health.

For more information:

H. Yin et al. (2013). MicroRNA-133 Controls Brown Adipose Determination in Skeletal Muscle Satellite Cells by Targeting Prdm16. Cell Metabolism17(2): 210-224.

Gaining ground on losing pounds: How a little more fat might help combat the obesity crisis by Holly Wobma on Signals Blog

Trigger Turns Muscle Stem Cells Into Brown Fat: Discovery Identifies Potential Obesity Treatment on Science Daily

Lisa Willemse is a science communicator with an interest in the science found in our everyday lives. She has worked as a journalist, photographer and was once encouraged to take a job in sales (she lasted one day). She is an alumni of the Banff Science Communications Program and currently works for the Stem Cell Network in Ottawa.