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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @398ja 20h \ on: What's your preferred weight loss method? AskSN
I see a lot of comments recommending fasting, or even dry fasting for weight loss. I loudly and respectfully disagree. Weight loss is a desirable side effect of fasting, but not the goal. You're supposed to regain your weight after a fast, and you will. If you think it's going to help you loose weight, you will get very disappointed.
To maintain a healthy weight, you need first a good foundation, then maybe throw in fasting to strengthen that foundation. With a solid foundation, weight loss will come naturally.
Before you start a diet, try to identify the unhealthy lifestyle, not necessarily diet-related, habits you have. For example, do you have enough sleep? What are your stress levels? Are you able to unwind on command?
Once you have clarity about it you'll know exactly what to do.
I try to read as much as I can as well, mostly from independent sources
Here are a few from my RSS client:
Lew Rockwell
The Daily Sceptic
Russia In Global Affairs
Dushan Wegner 🇩🇪
Unherd
Brownstone Institute
...
I don't read bitcoin stuff anymore (or rarely)
This so much reminded me of my country of origin, where I grew up. The rogue police, the hustle of the locals, the use of the euro etc.
I haven't returned since 2022...😔
I think sunshine is of paramount importance. More of it means better food quality, more social interactions, more physical activity...
I've just found a paper that confirms that asthma medication works by targeting the smooth muscles in the airways. Indeed, reduced breathing, as taught by Buteyko, is far more effective than traditional asthma medication. Surely we can assume/expect that it's also at least as effective as many other medications that target the smooth muscles in the different other organs?
Smooth muscle also plays an important role in the disease process throughout the body. The use of bronchodilators to relax airway smooth muscle is an important and life-saving treatment in asthmatics. Likewise, medications like metoclopramide can stimulate and promote gastric emptying by increasing smooth muscle signaling. Perhaps one of the most well-known uses of medical therapy and smooth muscle is the use of nitrates in the treatment of ischemic heart disease where nitrates, in combination with ACEI, can improve patient mortality. The singularly large impact that smooth muscle has throughout the body makes it an important topic for medical professionals to understand. As many treatments at their core rely on modifying the signaling pathways that affect smooth muscle.
Benatar (author of Better Never to Have Been) argues that coming into existence is always a harm, that while the absence of pain is good even if no one experiences it, the absence of pleasure is only bad if someone is deprived of it. From that logic, choosing not to have kids isn’t just personal preference - it might actually be the most ethical decision one can make.
The premises in the statement are questionable. Life, or the purpose of existence, is more than just hedonism. Actually, it has nothing to do with it. This is just so wrong.