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[hummingwolf]

First: If you are a LiveJournal user and you don't follow news, you probably should. Anyway, the most important bit is that LiveJournal now has new settings & flagging tools for "adult content," which you can read more about here. Note that by default, your search settings are "Use Moderate Filtering"--filter out explicit adult content. My guess is

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[compostwormbin]

Obese patients are often encouraged to believe that weight loss is an appropriate way to combat depression, save a failing marriage, or increase the chance of career success.

Reaching and maintaining a healthy weight for one's height and body type is important for good health. But weight loss is no cure-all. To truly change one's life other kinds of changes are needed. This is an unfortunate oversimplification.

[hummingwolf]

Nothing is a cure-all. But too often, people are taught to believe that it is. And if you don't lose as much weight as someone thinks you should, then you "obviously" don't really want to make all those other changes in your life.

[szeretni]

Have you heard anything about why it could be a bad idea to flag your own LJ to be Adult? *curious*

[hummingwolf]

If you want to set your own LJ to Adult, I can't think of any reason why you shouldn't. As far as I know at this point, it really should not matter one way or another.

Most of people's major concerns seem to revolve around the ability of other users to flag individual posts of yours without your knowledge. If underage users are unable to read entries you would like to have them read, then that could be seen as a type of censorship, or at least a form of control that someone else has over your content.