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Thin privilege is not dying of a severe, acute coronary event when your fat-encased heart finally beats its last and collapses under the immense strain of pumping blood through your cholesterol-caked, narrowed circulatory system.
Titpee / This is Thin Privilege - Morbidly Obese HAES Tumblrinas
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Wallace
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Assuming all of this is true, I actually feel sorry for this person. Food is a lousy medication for anxiety and depression. And spoiler alert: those pills won't make your problems magically go away either. But by all means, continue blaming your unhappiness on everyone except yourself. Because that always works out so well.
This is the one thing I despise about Tumblr more than anything: the enablement of the delusional.
It goes like this: Let’s say you have some delusional belief, such as “all men want to rape and hurt me”, or “politically-correct liberals will take away our video games”. Thanks to the miracle of the internet, it’s very easy to find people who agree with this belief. When you put a large group of people who share a delusion together, it becomes self-reinforcing. Now you have a group of peers who will apply social pressure for you to not only keep up with that belief, but double down on it hard. Anyone who disagrees with you is just part of the conspiracy. The founding delusion becomes more extreme and harder to treat, because now you also have to turn on your friends the shake the delusion.
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Children can't help being children. They also tend not to bring their illnesses on themselves.
Those points aside, women's medicine and pediatrics were developed by people who heard the call, went out, and actually studied and learned and developed techniques, technology, and bodies of knowledge. They put in a lot of hard work for a cause they believed in. They gave a lot, sometimes even going broke! Many hospitals enjoy specialized equipment thanks to generous donations from wealthy people or charitable organizations. And many studies could never have been finished without the selflessness of volunteer test subjects.
If these fatties feel so strongly about the need for "fat medicine", then perhaps they ought to go to medical school, raise funds for the local hospital for the equipment, donate to research projects, or volunteer as subjects or assistants. I mean, we all know fat people aren't lazy or self-centered, right?*
Or is that just too much to ask of Reich3Blob here, between eating crappy microwave cheese pizzas and whining on Twitter about how the world owes him a living?
No, most aren't. I've known some really decent overweight med-school students who worked very hard. My point is about the useless whiners.
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Children are smaller, though. It takes fewer raw materials to make medical equipment designed for children, while the raw materials for the obese is greater than that required for the average adult. Gurneys, for instance, will need to be reinforced to carry a greater amount of weight. It's certainly possible, but it's also more expensive. Hospitals aren't made of money.
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I actually watched a documentary where a 770 pound man was getting surgery, the hospital had to actually install extra building supports prior to his arrival to ensure they could support the weight of him and all the equipment required for his care.
But also, these tumblrinas tend to not understand that a lot of the time when a doctor tells you to lose weight before they will operate on you, it's to ensure that you can stick to a healthy diet. A lot of surgery on huge people would be completely useless if they can't keep the weight off.
And I guess lastly, how many of the people on this blog have been denied hospital care due to their weight? A standard hospital bed can support 400 pounds. I know the majority of America is overweight, but give me a break.
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The person who said "I only get $600/month to feed my family"...
I mean that could be a lot or not a lot depending on the size of your family, but here's the thing: if you eat less food, you will lose weight. Less food = less money spent.
I mean that could be a lot or not a lot depending on the size of your family, but here's the thing: if you eat less food, you will lose weight. Less food = less money spent.
I know that processed food is cheaper and more abundant but you can still eat some of that stuff and lose weight if you plan accordingly. Shit like sugar free jello, raisin bran, eggs, bananas, lean turkey instead of ground beef, and skim milk instead of whole are all really decent foods to help curb appetites and still stay within a budget. Hell, even salad mixes and veggies go on sale. There are even blogs and pinterest accounts run by women with families dedicated to serving healthy and cheap food, and coupons/rebates for all sorts of food items.
It really is a matter of these assholes being lazy and making excuses for their horrible behavior. If they spent half of their time normally spent whining on Tumblr on planning their meals and going outside for a change, none of them would be as fat as they are. Nobody is forcing them to eat garbage or laze around in front of the computer all day. Last time I checked, the internet costs money and walking is free.
It really is a matter of these assholes being lazy and making excuses for their horrible behavior. If they spent half of their time normally spent whining on Tumblr on planning their meals and going outside for a change, none of them would be as fat as they are. Nobody is forcing them to eat garbage or laze around in front of the computer all day. Last time I checked, the internet costs money and walking is free.
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Huge bag of rice + huge bag of beans = complete protein
Throw in almost anything else and it's the basis of half the world's cuisine. Even good restaurant tier stuff.
Almost anything bought in bulk is really cheap.
Unless you're actually homeless or some shit and don't have a kitchen, it's entirely possible to turn pretty meager ingredients into pretty good food. Poor people around the world do it all the time.
But murrica. Muh Twinkies.
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This. I am a cheap bastard. The grocery store near me sells a 20 lb bag of dry rice for $8. One bag lasts me (an active male who eats a lot) about 2 months. It's amazing all the delicious stuff you can make with rice and beans.
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When I was in Jordan, my room mate would cook up a fucking massive pot of rice and lentils that we'd eat on flatbread. It was dirt cheap, lasted a week, and was so, so delicious. Now rice and lentils are especially cheap in Jordan, but they're not exactly lobster and filet prices in the West.
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I eat so much fucking kale. Zucchini, yam, cauliflower, eggplant and squash are also super cheap, making them the least waste of money when you forget to use them and they go bad. You can get chickpeas in a can for .99 here, and they're a protein. Dump enough spices on any of this shit and it doesn't taste nasty. Chili powder, cumin, garlic, salt. Go wild.
But allll these excuses to eat like shit. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
But allll these excuses to eat like shit. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Have they considered veggie burgers and spicy hummus? That shit is ungodly good for nothing but veggies and grains on a plate. But then again that'd require actually purchasing vegetables and prepping them as opposed to purchasing snack foods and microwaving them.
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It's reasons like this I want to make a sort of kibble for humans. Something that's dirt cheap to make and buy, bought in a big bag. Doesn't spoil quickly, and is nutritionally complete.
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You have described taro, barley, buckwheat... and I could go on.
Also, this fucking ridiculous thing. I'm buying 1,000.
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I meant has literally everything. All the vitamins, minerals, protein, etc etc you need. All you would need to eat was it all day every day. Like pet food or soylent green, without the cannibalism.
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Yeah, I also remember when that 600 pound woman scored a perfect 10 in the Ice Dancing competition at the Olympics.
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There's something I've seen numerous times in this thread that I want to comment on/refute
A fatty can in fact look like Jabba the hutt, and still die of malnutrition from not eating "enough"
However, as has become a running theme for my long running, clinical sounding, probably boring but people seem to be reading it anyways posts, There is a key difference the lolcows in question fundamentally misunderstand.
Malnutrition isn't Starvation. these people aren't suffering and/or dying because they aren't "listening to their bodies" and not giving them food, their bodies are cab drivers screaming in a thick armenian accent they refuse to understand while they plug their ears, the whole figurative Crown Vic going careening off a bridge into a major body of water.
These people think calories are the only thing needed to survive, but surprise surprise, humans need things to alive, including but not limited to:
23 distinct amino acids
6-15 different vitamins, depending on how you define vitamin (some amino acids are also vitamins, including the B group, which is why they give so much energy)
3-5 different metaloid ions, all of which can reach toxicity
a dozen or so minerals
and so many other fucking random, naegling things that it's no small wonder that nutrition is it's own degree
so, while on the calorie front, shoving your mouth full of hyper-refined carbohydrates makes it incredibly easy to meet your daily needed caloric intake, chances are, even despite taking a multivitamin, you're not hitting the numbers you need to, especially considering that if these people are doing physical activity (which they're most likely not, I've resigned myself to that fact) the sheer amount of potassium they'd need to be intaking to prevent horrible muscle cramps would require a TJ kirk style Bananema, daily.
not to mention it does actually take more calories overall to keep you alive at higher weight classes, but it also requires higher levels of nutrition to keep you in proper health.
this comes with an unfortunate caveat; when people hear "death by malnutrition" they figure it's synonymous with "death by starvation" since both are often used to describe why people die during food shortages, but they're often two distinct categories. A releif worker dropping dead on the job because of a horrid electrolyte imbalance is death by malnutrition, but so is the kid who's been subsisting on UN nutrislurry, and finally keels over due to a B vitamin defficiency. they're both malnutrition related deaths, but the second one occurs because starvation set them up, and malnutrition knocks them down.
the inverse is why HAES crazies can drop dead "out of the blue" due to "dieting" their body is leeching off stored calories, but the body is extremely bad at holding on to nutrients, so when their body tells the "EAT SOMETHING FATTY TASTING TO GET ME SOME COMPLETE AMINOS BEFORE YOU KILL US BOTH" because cravings for fat generally meant consuming nuts or red meat, they misinterpret it as "CONSUME MORE DORITOS" and then die for their ignorance.
I often speak of the Dumb Monkey vs. Smart Jellyfish analogy when talking about the body's reaction to weight loss, but in this case, the monkey is at least smart enough to know how to survive. meanwhile, upstairs, all you can hear in the central offices is slivers of "fatspirational" tess munster speeches between the horrid screeches of a 56k modem dialing up.
TL;DR: Malnutrition and Starvation aren't the same thing. These morons certainly aren't starving themselves like they claim, they've malnourished themselves into an early grave
A fatty can in fact look like Jabba the hutt, and still die of malnutrition from not eating "enough"
However, as has become a running theme for my long running, clinical sounding, probably boring but people seem to be reading it anyways posts, There is a key difference the lolcows in question fundamentally misunderstand.
Malnutrition isn't Starvation. these people aren't suffering and/or dying because they aren't "listening to their bodies" and not giving them food, their bodies are cab drivers screaming in a thick armenian accent they refuse to understand while they plug their ears, the whole figurative Crown Vic going careening off a bridge into a major body of water.
These people think calories are the only thing needed to survive, but surprise surprise, humans need things to alive, including but not limited to:
23 distinct amino acids
6-15 different vitamins, depending on how you define vitamin (some amino acids are also vitamins, including the B group, which is why they give so much energy)
3-5 different metaloid ions, all of which can reach toxicity
a dozen or so minerals
and so many other fucking random, naegling things that it's no small wonder that nutrition is it's own degree
so, while on the calorie front, shoving your mouth full of hyper-refined carbohydrates makes it incredibly easy to meet your daily needed caloric intake, chances are, even despite taking a multivitamin, you're not hitting the numbers you need to, especially considering that if these people are doing physical activity (which they're most likely not, I've resigned myself to that fact) the sheer amount of potassium they'd need to be intaking to prevent horrible muscle cramps would require a TJ kirk style Bananema, daily.
not to mention it does actually take more calories overall to keep you alive at higher weight classes, but it also requires higher levels of nutrition to keep you in proper health.
this comes with an unfortunate caveat; when people hear "death by malnutrition" they figure it's synonymous with "death by starvation" since both are often used to describe why people die during food shortages, but they're often two distinct categories. A releif worker dropping dead on the job because of a horrid electrolyte imbalance is death by malnutrition, but so is the kid who's been subsisting on UN nutrislurry, and finally keels over due to a B vitamin defficiency. they're both malnutrition related deaths, but the second one occurs because starvation set them up, and malnutrition knocks them down.
the inverse is why HAES crazies can drop dead "out of the blue" due to "dieting" their body is leeching off stored calories, but the body is extremely bad at holding on to nutrients, so when their body tells the "EAT SOMETHING FATTY TASTING TO GET ME SOME COMPLETE AMINOS BEFORE YOU KILL US BOTH" because cravings for fat generally meant consuming nuts or red meat, they misinterpret it as "CONSUME MORE DORITOS" and then die for their ignorance.
I often speak of the Dumb Monkey vs. Smart Jellyfish analogy when talking about the body's reaction to weight loss, but in this case, the monkey is at least smart enough to know how to survive. meanwhile, upstairs, all you can hear in the central offices is slivers of "fatspirational" tess munster speeches between the horrid screeches of a 56k modem dialing up.
TL;DR: Malnutrition and Starvation aren't the same thing. These morons certainly aren't starving themselves like they claim, they've malnourished themselves into an early grave
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Soylent is a thing now. There's also Mealsquares, which I found to be pretty good, if you have more money than time/effort to cook and don't mind the cost.
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Sounds like they somehow confused people that are swole/bearmode with the Golden Corral lunch crowd.
Roller derby is dangerous enough already, being a contact sport and one where girls are whizzing around very quickly on skates. Tossing literal ham planets in with normal sized girls is a recipe for disaster.
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