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The Weeping Time - the largest slave auction ever on American soil
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It's kind of obvious that exercise doesn't reduce weight or fight obesity. It's a good idea for other reasons but not for sustained weight loss (meaning fat loss -- losing skeletal mass or muscle mass is a bad thing generally).
We tend to eat today like there will not be food tomorrow and in the Western world generally there is always food tomorrow which we then eat as well because there might not be food the day after.
The solution, the only solution to losing weight is to eat less and that means accepting hunger pangs as a normal part of everyday life rather than as a valid reason to empty the fridge. Eating "better" foods like cabbage and broccoli rather than deep-fried pizza and chips helps but only if you don't eat too much in the first place.
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I agree that exercise is still good. But, for me, the hunger pangs only last a few days when I cut down my intake. So long as I don't eat sugar/simple carbs (which give me cravings) after a few days of less food my body adapts and I'm fine with it.
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Hunger pangs are a Me! Me! Me! thing, intrusive and annoying for a while but your body stops shouting at you after a time and/or you learn to ignore them in the sense of not regarding them as important.
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http://www.vox.com/2016/4/28/11518804/weight-loss-exercise-myth-burn-calories
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The first time I went to the USA we were staying in a small tiwn in the Florida Everglades and I remember being shocked that there were several houses acriss the road that were flying the confederate flag. That and the fact shotguns and handguns were being carried openly including in a bar were a big shock to a 22 year old Scot.
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But they seem to completely bypass many ideas which have become more common (eg. Being fit may be more important than not being fat, that weight as muscle is ok even if weight as fat is bad, that dieting on purpose may be impossible for most people), and i don't see where they actually debunk them
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There's a pretty good description of how fucked (again, not intended) you are as a fetish site if the banks are turned against you in the documentary Graphic Sexual Horror. But I am a] not actually sure if you can legally watch that in the UK, all things considered and b] wouldn't really recommend watching it unless you're pretty blasé about BDSM porn.
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I think if you framed it as "corporations are controlling our lives with no accountability, because they're beige cowards" or something similar, you might be able to get people to object to this. Obviously you wouldn't if you started with "let bondage sites sell merch", though.
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We have roughly 300 claims made officially (including complaints from students and staff) over 6 years. That makes about 50 a year, in 120 institutions. That's an average of less than half an allegation per university each year, which seems bogglingly low.
Taken another way, there are something like 2.25 million students in HE at the moment. (source). The figures in the article came from 120 institutions, which is roughly half the total. It probably includes all the big ones, but to be very fair let's say it's from a student population of about a million. Of the ~300 claims, 169 were from students, which is about 30 claims a year ... which from a population of a million students seems an infeasibly low rate: about 1 in 30,000 make a complaint each year. To be honest I would've expected the rate of entirely ( ... )
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