Interesting Links for 20-06-2013

[andrewducker]

• Is the rape porn cultural harm argument another rape myth?
  (tags: pornography society rape )
• Exposure to high pollution levels during pregnancy may increase risk of having child with autism
  (tags: autism pollution )
• Beliefs about causes of obesity may impact weight, eating behavior
  (tags: weight beliefs food )
• Lothian Ridacard owners will get to

Comments

[gwendysmile]

The obesity thing actually doesn't surprise me at all - "abs are made in the kitchen", "You can't out-exercise a bad diet" and "Fitness is 90% diet" are all pretty common refrains on every weight lifting and/or fitness site I've seen.

Unfortunately, the next step is "Eat healthy", and that is far from easy. Our ideas about what is "healthy" are pretty far out of whack, for a start.

[octopoid_horror]

"What you eat will change the number on the scale. What exercise you do will change what shape your body is."

That was pretty much what made me think about things in a more healthy way. It's a vast oversimplification, but a lot better than thinking "yay I'm doing exercise, I'll just eat whatever I like."

[ext_208701]

If you do enough exercise you can eat pretty much everything you possibly can. Certainly I still lost weight while marathon training this year (about half a stone in three months) but that was six days a week of running, anywhere from 5-28 miles in a session which is a bit more serious than your typical marathon entrant. I reckoned I needed about nine days worth of food in every seven to maintain my weight and just trying to eat that much was exhausting, hence the weight loss.

[octopoid_horror]

Well yeah, but I think some of the people who think "woo, I can eat anything!" or treat themselves after every workout (which would include myself a couple of years ago) are not pushing themselves nearly that hard!

[artkouros]

But Everyone wants to know what their friends like. I know that because I read it on fb.

knock knock

who's there?

facebook

facebook who?

*crickets*

[danieldwilliam]

A panda walks into a bar.

[andrewducker]

"Nothing. It already has two black eyes"

#absolutelyappallinglybadtaste

[gonzo21]

Ah, t hanks for the heads up about FBs advertising. I swear, every time I log in there these days it's 90% adverts.

(For some reason my install of Adblock Plus doesn't seem to block the FB ads.)

[octopoid_horror]

It strikes me as strange that FB care about showing you ads (because that's where their money comes from) but you can't click on an ad and tell them if it's relevant to you or not. If FB shows me an ad that's irrelevant to my lifestyle, surely it would be useful to them to know this?

[gonzo21]

There seems to be a faint whiff of desperation around facebook and their advertising campaigns, I get the feeling advertisers are increasingly realising that advertising on facebook is a complete waste of time.

Might just be wishful thinking on my part, hoping FB goes the way of Myspace sooner rather than later.

[cairmen]

Their ad serving heuristics aren't that sophisticated. At least, the ones that are exposed to most advertisers aren't.

[steer]

[nancylebov]

That's so much cheaper and easier than finding out something about how much people eat or how much they exercise or whether people's BMIs affect what they believe about obesity.

[steer]

To be clear that was just one of the many cool experiments they did. They also looked into what people's preexisting beliefs on obesity were and found what they state as their main result. People who believe it is diet have lower BMI than people who believe it is exercise.

I recommend reading the full paper... it's fun.