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Bingo.

When responding to posts like these, my purpose is very rarely to actually change the OP’s mind. They’re specifically shouting these opinions on social media, using tags that they know will garner attention, in order to get others upset. Engaging in an actual debate or argument both isn’t productive and can be pretty harmful.

But there are plenty of other folks out there who are reading this stuff. They’re hearing it. They’re curious and maybe confused. Some of these points sound logical and make sense: Why wouldn’t we want to protect women? Why would we allow anyone to force their way into a safe space? Those are the people who deserve to see the TERF logic reframed and broken apart.

Because saying “OP is a terf” doesn’t actually mean much to the average person who is only just starting to engage in these issues. But saying “This is why that argument doesn’t make sense, isn’t based on accurate information, and why it hurts people” does. Yeah, I can jump in to accuse OP of being both transphobic and misogynistic (because they are), but attacks are far less likely to engage the listening audience in a beneficial or educational way. Because that’s what I want in the end – People to be educated about the world around them.

And in the end – I’ve got the spoons and the privilege to be able to make these sorts of posts with a fairly stable, even emotional keel. That’s tough and won’t be true for everyone or every situation. I’d never ask others to respond to hateful posts like this without ~getting emotional~ but since it’s something I can take the time to do myself, then perhaps these sort of dissecting responses (in additional to the more passionately driven personal answers that so many others post) will help some folks out there realize how harmful this terf rhetoric is. 

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it’s so wild to me hearing people with no critical thinking talking about why it would be totally fine to get rid of single-sex bathrooms and make them all “gender neutral.” they always say things like “you won’t see anything, anyway, there are stalls” or “how are you seeing other people’s genitals, are you checking them at the door”

they refuse to consider that single-sex bathrooms were fought for by women because men take advantage of women in vulnerable situations. they’re too caught up in worshiping trans people to acknowledge that allowing males into a female bathroom, regardless of “gender identity,” will put all the females who use that bathroom at risk of being spied on, harassed, assaulted, etc. they have more empathy for a male trying to force his way into a space not intended for him than for women who are rightfully afraid of being victimized. just like in every other area of life, male discomfort is a higher priority at all times than female safety.

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A+ job of banning porn on this site, @staff.Kudos, I NeVeR have…

A+ job of banning porn on this site, @staff.

Kudos, I NeVeR have to spend my days blocking 50+ porn bots anymore. Nope. Not me. Tumblr is doing a great job of preventing these bots from taking over my followers list every single day.

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I’ve genuinely never understood this argument, because it seems to rely on the idea that using gender labels on a restroom creates some sort of Anti-Predator Forcefield.

In actuality – What’s stopping a male predator from just walking into a women’s restroom? If a predator is intent on finding a victim, why not simply follow a woman into the restroom? Or slip in there and hide until someone walks in alone? In many public places, there isn’t anyone/anything monitoring the entrance door, so people are free to walk in and out on their own. The only thing potentially keeping folks out based on their gender is social pressure which, I’m sure it’s fair to say, isn’t going to stop a predator who really wants to walk into that space. 

Additionally, what inherently makes a public restroom a vulnerable situation? When using a toilet, 99% of the time, there is a locking door mechanism in the stall. Are we assuming that predators can shimmy under the door so quickly that women won’t notice until he’s fully inside? Or is it another aspect of the restroom that makes it a vulnerable location? Honestly, there are a huge number of alternative, isolated places where women are at risk, so solely focusing on the restroom doesn’t address the problem as a whole. Bathrooms are absolutely a private space, but it feels scare monger-y to insist that this is the one spot worth creating such a fight over.

Considering that the vast majority of bathrooms that most of us use on a daily basis as gender neutral (most homes and apartments don’t have separately labelled spaces), taking the same steps to make public restrooms gender neutral will not greatly increase our risks of assault or harassment. After all, the majority of sexual assault isn’t committed by strangers, but rather by people who are already close to their victim.  

There’s also the assumption that spying, harassment and assault will only occur across genders. The reality is that a woman is just as capable as a man of victimizing another woman. What’s currently stopping women from verbally assaulting someone in a women’s only bathroom? Or touching her without permission? Or acting inappropriately? This is still a real possibility. If we’re looking to better protect individuals, then there are a lot of steps that can be taken to better plan out public restrooms, and gender really shouldn’t come into the equation – Protect folks from all possible predators, not just some. 

Because separate restrooms absolutely weren’t fought for by women due to fears of being assaulted. That’s a myth. What actually happened was that, due to the Victorian concept of the “separate spheres,” women didn’t have access to any public restrooms at all for quite a long period of history. Women were expected to stay home! Why would they need a bathroom in public? It wasn’t until the 19th century that this idea of “a woman’s place is in the home!” was dismissed as sexist, so many states pushed for women to have access to public spaces as well. Separate facilities were made so that women could hide their excretions from men and not be seen engaging in such unfeminine behavior. And, yes, women were seen as needing to be protected from the scary world out there, but it certainly wasn’t women who were pushing that idea. Male politicians are largely responsible for passing those laws. 

By creating public gender neutral bathrooms as an option, we can only improve our spaces. Should every single bathroom be switched? No, I see no reason for that. Men’s and women’s spaces don’t need to be 100% converted in order to safely and fully include everyone. But normalizing gender neutral areas to the extent where they will regularly appear as a public option for anyone to enter and make use of? That’s a wonderful thing.

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radfeminc: it’s so wild to me hearing people with no critical thinking talking about why it…

it’s so wild to me hearing people with no critical thinking talking about why it would be totally fine to get rid of single-sex bathrooms and make them all “gender neutral.” they always say things like “you won’t see anything, anyway, there are stalls” or “how are you seeing other people’s genitals, are you checking them at the door”

they refuse to consider that single-sex bathrooms were fought for by women because men take advantage of women in vulnerable situations. they’re too caught up in worshiping trans people to acknowledge that allowing males into a female bathroom, regardless of “gender identity,” will put all the females who use that bathroom at risk of being spied on, harassed, assaulted, etc. they have more empathy for a male trying to force his way into a space not intended for him than for women who are rightfully afraid of being victimized. just like in every other area of life, male discomfort is a higher priority at all times than female safety.

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Reclaiming Fitspo: Layshia ClarendonClarendon is an American…

Reclaiming Fitspo: Layshia Clarendon

Clarendon is an American basketball player from San Bernadino, California. Her illustrious career began at the University of California where she was quickly identified as one of the strongest players. Her freshman year, she  earned honorable mention for the Pac-10 All-Freshman Team while starting 28 games and averaging 8.9 points per game. In 2009, Clarendon represented the US at the  U19 World’s Championship, held in Bangkok, Thailand, and helped the team earn the gold medal. She finished as the fourth-leading scorer in Cal history, boasting 1,820 points through all four seasons.

After graduating, she was selected 9th overall in the WNBA Draft by the Indiana Fever. In 2015, Clarendon was traded to the Atlanta Dream and has become not only an All-Star player, but is arguably one of the best point guards in the league.

Clarendon identifies as gender-nonconforming and has worked to assert her identity in an open, honest and positive way. “ We are so conditioned to live by those binaries, and as someone who rocks the boat in the middle it can be annoying just not fitting in at times. You live in the tension of those binaries daily,” she mentioned in a 2018 interview. “ Representation is a huge deal and the freedom it can give someone just from seeing me on TV isn’t lost on me. So when I have hard days and I’m annoyed at being misidentified and stared at in bathrooms, I try to remember how my presence helps others. I refuse to dim my light to fit in or make people feel more comfortable.”

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?? Sexy Back HIIT Circuit! Blast Back Fat, Tone Up, Feel Confident! Results Speak for Themselves…

Unleash the fierce side of you while flaunting that sexy and toned back through these exercises!

Boxing Jabs

Get in the boxing stance. We’ll use the left jab throughout this article — for the right jab, everything is reversed. So for now, place your left foot in front of your right, right angled out a bit, pointing toward your opponent. Put your hands up to protect your chin, tuck your elbows in, chin down, and make sure your hips are above your feet.

Lean forward with your elbows in and your right hand a little higher than your left. Your right is protecting your chin, playing defense, while your left is up, waiting to strike. If you are taller than your opponent and it is unlikely that he will pull off a straight right to your face, you can keep it low for greater power and visibility. Otherwise, keep it at your chin ready to parry or block.

Transfer your weight forward and jab. Simultaneously shift off your back (right) foot (but don’t let it come off the ground) and put your weight onto your left, while throwing your left arm into a quick, powerful jab. Twitch your entire left side forward while ever so slightly lifting the heel of your left foot. As your hand comes forward, your body’s weight should come forward at the same time.

Be sure to rotate your palm down. When your hands are held at your chin, your thumbs are facing you. But when you go to jab, rotate your hands so that your palms are facing down, thumbs slightly lower than perfectly horizontal. Think of it like a slight corkscrew motion. It’s in that twist that there’s power — kind of like the cracking of a whip.

Bent Over One Arm Dumbbell Raises

These lat raises are a great way to work the centre of your back more.

On your hands and knees, hold a dumbbell in one hand.

Put your weight on your hand without the dumbbell.

Tense your lat on the side holding the dumbbell, raising your arm until it is straight out by your side.

Slowly lower it back down. This is one rep.

Repeat on the other side.

Dumbbell Squat and Press

This is another great combo for adding some endurance into your workout.

Stand with your feet hip-width apart, or slightly wider, with your toes slightly pointing outwards. Make sure your spine is in a straight, neutral position. Make sure your weight is through your heels. Hold a dumbbell in each hand, cleaned up to shoulder height.

Squeeze your leg and core muscles as you lower your body downwards. Lower yourself until your butt is an inch or two off the ground. Hold for 1-2 seconds.

Explode upwards, squeezing your leg and core muscles as you raise yourself up. Push that momentum up through your arms to press the dumbbells above your head. This is one rep.

Push Ups

Push-ups are a bodyweight staple exercise. They are great for working your chest and triceps.

Place your hands shoulder width apart on the floor, making sure your hands are directly below your shoulders.

Straighten your back and legs, standing on the balls of your feet.

Slowly lower yourself down, bending your arms until your one or two inches above the ground. Make sure not to flare your elbows out too much. At most your elbows should be out at a 45 degree angle to your body.

Tense your chest and triceps, pushing yourself back up. This is one rep.

Dumbbell Bent Over Row

Hold a dumbbell in each hand.

Bend forward, keeping your spine in a neutral position.

Tense your core and both lats, raising the dumbbells up towards your torso, holding at the top for 2-3 seconds.

Slowly lower the dumbbells back down. This is one rep.

Deadlift

Deadlifts are another keystone exercise that you really should master. They’re also the exercise in which you’ll likely lift the most weight, so they’re fun!

Place a barbell in front of you, and stand behind it with your shins touching the bar, with your feet hip width apart. Keep facing directly in front of you for the entire movement.

Lower yourself down, grabbing the bar just wider than your feet. Either have your palms facing backwards, or have one forwards and one backwards. This reverse grip helps prevent the bar from rolling, which may be an issue as you lift heavier weights.

Whilst holding the bar, squeeze your shoulder blade together and tighten your core. It is essential that you keep your spine in a straight, neutral position. Do not bend it when performing a deadlift. The deadlift is quite a straightforward movement, the difficulty comes in because you can easily injure your lower back if you’re not careful.

Squeeze your legs and power up through your heels. Raise the barbell against your shins, keeping it close to your centre.

As the bar raises to the level of your knees, move them back to continue lifting the bar up to your thighs. Squeezing your glutes at the top of the movement, but not leaning backwards (this is bar form).

Slowly lower the bar back down again, pushing your knees forwards as the bar passes lower than them. This is one rep.

Clapping Push Ups

Clapping push ups are a great way to work on explosive chest and tricep power. At the bottom of your push-up, explosively contract your chest and triceps to elevate your torso in the air enough to clap once (or more) before you place your hands back. Be careful not to hurt your wrists when you land from this.

Burpees

Burpees are a tried and tested killer endurance combo.

Stand standing in a neutral position.

Squat downwards, placing your hands on the ground, shoulder width apart.

Shoot your legs backwards into a high plank position.

(Optional) perform a pushup from the high plank position.

Squat upwards explosively, jumping into the air with your hands above your head.

Land with soft knees to avoid injury. This is one rep.

Bent Over Dumbbell Rows

Rows are a great way to tone and define your back.

Put one knee on a bench, with your lower leg lying flat along the bench.

Place your hand on the same side as your knee on the bench whilst leaning over. Your hand should be directly below your shoulder.

Hold a dumbbell in your other hand, placing it on the bench.

Tense your lat (the large muscles down the sides of your back) on the same side as the arm holding the dumbbell. Slowly raise the arm holding the dumbbell so your upper arm is parallel to the floor, and your elbow makes a 90 degree angle.

Let the dumbbell come down slowly , rest it on the bench if you need. This is one rep.

Repeat on the other side.

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Lateral Bound Stand balanced on your left leg with your right…

Lateral Bound

Stand balanced on your left leg with your right foot off the ground. Squat slightly with your left leg, then use that leg and glute to jump laterally. Extend the hip and land on the opposite leg only, maintaining your balance. Hold for a three count, and repeat to the other side.

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Windmill PressStand with feet wide apart and turn one foot to…

Windmill Press

Stand with feet wide apart and turn one foot to face the side. Holding dumbbells, raise the hand opposite to the foot that is turned out straight overhead (A). Keeping the dumbbell pressed, slowly hinge from the hips and lower your torso towards your out-turned foot. Hold this position for 1-2 breaths (B). Raise back up slowly and repeat.

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Cumin seeds for weight loss

When I first realized that spices were a key factor in how I would successfully lose weight, I got SO excited to try all kinds of new ones. Not only would these spices take healthy food from somewhat bland to downright craveable, spices like cumin seeds for weight loss would unlock the power of fat-burning. 

Cumin is spectacular for weight loss because it helps support your body’s natural toxin cleansing systems and actively burn fat cells away. Adding cumin for weight loss to your diet can help you feel more energized and less bloated, and trim away extra fat!

In this post, I’ll talk about all the amazing ways cumin seeds can help your body lose weight safely and naturally. We’ll also look at:

What exactly are cumin seeds and what do they taste like?

Exactly what happens to your fat cells when you enjoy cumin seeds for weight loss

How cumin can affect your blood sugar levels

Recipes to enjoy cumin seeds for weight loss in easy, delicious ways

Cumin seeds for weight loss

Cumin seeds come from a plant in the parsley family grown mostly in India, China, Mexico. (1) These small, brown seeds can be eaten either ground up or whole.

Cumin has a warm, nutty, peppery taste. The flavor is mild, though, not spicy hot. You might recognize is as the main flavor in taco seasoning. It’s also a standard in many traditional curry powers and sometimes in chili recipes. 

Cumin seeds for weight loss can be used in so much more!

Get the recipe for this fat burning spicy chili recipe for weight loss with cumin!

Get a recipe for Indian-Spiced Roasted Chickpeas and more snacks that go great with cumin this FREE Skinny Spicy Snacks PDF.

How cumin seeds help you lose weight

Cumin seeds have special compounds that gently boost metabolism to accelerate the burning of fat cells. They also aid the body in responding to insulin and glucose (sugar) properly, which helps stabilize your blood sugar levels and fend off weight gain. (2)

Cumin seeds for weight loss are also full of antioxidants and are anti-inflammatory. These both help with cleansing the body, restoring balance so you feel your best, and reduces bloating. (3)

Read all about Why an anti-inflammatory diet is BEST for longevity, weight loss + disease prevention.

Another powerful way cumin can support weight loss is by helping to activate digestive enzymes in the gut. (4)

When your digestion is working at its best, your body can better extract the nutrients it needs from your food and eliminate what it doesn’t need more efficiently. This leads to better health, healthier skin, and less bloating and feeling puffy and heavy.

More spices that help with digestion and weight loss here.

Confucius knew the benefits of ginger. Do you know how to take advantage of its ancient power?

Eat beautiful, be beautiful: cayenne pepper benefits every part of you

How turmeric benefits weight loss: 4 surprising ways (+links to recipes!)

Although cumin seeds are not magical seeds that will reduce your jean size overnight, they are part of the equation for a speedier and more enjoyable weight loss journey. 

One study that shows the power of cumin seeds for weight loss is a study comparing women who followed reduced-calorie diets. Half of the women included cumin in their food choices (including adding it to a yogurt) and the other half didn’t eat any cumin. 

The results? The women who ate cumin saw their “weight, BMI, waist circumference, fat mass and its percentage significantly reduced” compared to the women who ate a similar reduced-calorie diet WITHOUT cumin! (5)

That’s powerful! 

Cumin has also been shown to be good for healthy cholesterol levels in women, as well. (6)

How to eat cumin for weight loss

Make Jeera tea

“Jeera” is a Hindi term for cumin. That’s what we call it in my family. We like to make a special tea with cumin seeds called “Jeera tea.” (7)

Enjoying this soothing tea twice a day can help support weight loss. Here’s the easy recipe from Healthline!  

Add to snackables

Another way to get more cumin seeds for weight loss into your food is to sprinkle them (whole or ground) over hummus or guacamole and enjoy with sweet pepper strips. This is one of my favorite fat-burning snacks!

Black Bean Pumpkin Chili, Paleo Chocolate Chicken Mole + lots more easy crock pot recipes featuring cumin below!

Vegan Masala Lentils + 6 vegan crock pot recipes you’ll LOVE

9 Simple Paleo crock pot recipes + a bonus sweet treat

Crock Pot Chicken Tikka Masala Recipe (+ 6 Recipes)

Use for roasting veggies, nuts, and meats

Add cumin to spice blends for roasting veggies or toasting nuts in the oven. Try this recipe to reduce your belly bloat at your next BBQ.

Try cumin yogurt

Are you really feeling adventurous? Try adding cumin seeds or ground cumin to a serving of yogurt as the women in the cumin seeds for weight loss study did. Find the best yogurt for weight loss here. 

Grab your FREE copy of Skinny Spicy snacks for easy Spicy Guacamole and more snack ideas that you can add cumin for weight loss to.

How do you like your cumin? Are you curious enough to try it mixed in yogurt? Leave me a comment and let me know!

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Drop Lunge From a standing position, arms at your sides, reach…

Drop Lunge

From a standing position, arms at your sides, reach one foot behind and across your other foot. Square your hips and sit into a squatting position. Push through your hip to stand up. Complete one side of reps before switching sides. This move can also be performed while holding a single kettlebell at chest level with both hands.

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I’m genuinely sorry if you feel that the Pro-Choice community has not supported you enough. That makes me legitimately sad, because it shows that much of the academic and activist movement has not made it down to a personal level for so many people. And that’s just not how it should be. 

In the grand scheme of things – No, of course the conversation about the tie between disabilities and abortion is a legitimate discussion. But what needs to be part of that discussion is the recognition of why it is being brought up and for what purpose. If the conversation is framed as a Gotcha, with the goal of delegitimizing one’s rhetorical opposition, then yes: I unfortunately see this as a case of people with disabilities being use as a prop for debate. After all, in posts like this where abortion is compared to the literal murder and abandonment of children with disabilities, it is difficult to see it otherwise.

What we instead need to be discussing are the highly individual circumstances under which a person might choose abortion. There will never be a clear-cut correct answer, and that’s okay. It’s possible for us to say that Iceland’s overwhelming push for selective abortion targeting fetuses with Down Syndrome is unethical while still fighting against Ohio’s Down Syndrome abortion ban. Because what the Pro-Choice movement primarily wants is choice. Forcing people to one side or the other, through anything from political bans to social pressure to lack of medical care to restriction of community resources, goes against what we stand for.  

If you’d like to read up on some disability x abortion crossover activism, or to check out the many shades of grey that exist surrounding this conversation today, please check out these links. I hope that they will help open you up to the many deep and thoughtful discussions that are currently being had within the pro-choice movement:

The Center for Reproductive Rights is hugely pushing against ableism within the modern pro-choice community by educating the public about disability rights and history.

Hya For Choice has been very open about acknowledging the ableist history of abortion while embracing the current politics of disability activism within the pro-choice movement.

Holly Christensen is an activist who fights for abortion rights through the lens of caring for her daughter with Down’s Syndrome.

Robyn Powell is a disabled activist who has spoken out against Ohio’s abortion bans.

Dagmar Herzog’s book “Unlearning Eugenics” traces the histories of  reproductive and disability rights in post war Europe, and shows how eugenic symbolism has been co-opted by the anti-choice movement.

Kimala Price is an activist for the reproductive justice movement who regularly teaches about intersectionality.

Ableism within the feminist and pro-choice community has also been analyzed and publicized recently, in order to fix discrimination that still might be harbored, like this scholarly article by D.A. Caeton explores.

Elizabeth R. Schiltz published this great article titled “Finding Common Ground in the Disability Rights Critiques of Selective Abortions”

Planned Parenthood has provided a significant part of their budget to providing services specifically to people with disabilities, including appropriate health care, reproductive care and sex education.

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For those of you that think there is nothing wrong with aborting a child that may have some kind of disability, would you then have no judgment against the person that was not able to find this out and abandons their child after birth?

By your logic, it’s completely moral and empowering (and shouldn’t make anyone feel at all uneasy) for them to abandon the child (maybe even kill it by the standards of some) because there’s a ‘defect’, and they didn’t get a chance to kill the baby while it was legal.

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This is a very common discussion within Pro-Choice groups.

First: Yes, a person can and should be able to surrender parental rights and give their child up for adoption if they feel that they cannot provide a safe, healthy or supportive life. Someone may feel that they are unable to raise a disabled child within the proper environment, and it is entirely their choice to then give custody to someone else who is better able and willing. Because that’s what the conversation is really about – Changing custody, not abandonment.

However: Within the Pro-Choice movement is support that recognizes the need for infrastructure that assists parents and pregnant people throughout all possible facets of a pregnancy. This includes giving the public access to better healthcare and community support that would 1. better educate them about disabilities, 2. provide better support for people with disabilities, 3. shift cultural understanding away from seeing disabilities as a hardship or inherent death sentence, and 4. improve the foster and adoption system so that children are better able to find a long-term, beneficial home. 

Let’s not split this into Black & White in order to paint the abortion conversation so harshly – There are a lot of facets surrounding the right for pregnant people to terminate a pregnancy that shows the possibility of the child being disabled. Making that decision is incredibly difficult for many families, and it leaves many of them feeling uneasy. That’s all okay. Being pro-choice means embracing that some of these choices are muddy, and helping people with counseling and support groups afterward, if that’s what they need in order to process their experience. Because, after all: It’s the choice that’s important. Having that power over your own body is what’s morally right, and it shouldn’t be taken away.

By framing this in terms of “But would you be okay with KILLING DISABLED PEOPLE?!” you’re using disabled folks as props for your rhetoric. That’s not cool. The possibility of eugenics isn’t a fun conversational trick to pull out of your back pocket when you want to point the finger at people choosing to have an abortion. Rather than treating ableism as a way to push forward your own agenda, perhaps it would be more productive to work towards a healthcare system that better understands the needs of people with disabilities. 

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For those of you that think there is nothing wrong with aborting a child that may have some kind of disability, would you then have no judgment against the person that was not able to find this out and abandons their child after birth?

By your logic, it’s completely moral and empowering (and shouldn’t make anyone feel at all uneasy) for them to abandon the child (maybe even kill it by the standards of some) because there’s a ‘defect’, and they didn’t get a chance to kill the baby while it was legal.

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Barbell Seated Calf RaisePlace a block about 12 inches in front…

Barbell Seated Calf Raise

Place a block about 12 inches in front of a flat bench. Sit on the bench and place the ball of your feet on the block. Have someone place a barbell over your upper thighs about 3 inches above your knees and hold it there. This will be your starting position. Raise up on your toes as high as possible as you squeeze the calves and as you breathe out. After a second contraction, slowly go back to the starting position. Tip: To get maximum benefit stretch your calves as far as you can. Repeat for the recommended amount of repetitions.

Variations: You can use the smith machine or the seated calf raise machine in order to perform this exercise. Alternatively, you can also use dumbbells by placing one on top of each thigh.

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Alternating Shrug Hold a dumbbell in each hand and shrug one…

Alternating Shrug

Hold a dumbbell in each hand and shrug one side at a time straight up. Working the traps unilaterally puts more of a stretch on the muscles and activates more fibers.

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I think many health professionals are of the belief that even unsubstantiated fearmongering around food and nutrition has neutral or positive effects. They could not be more wrong. It’s almost impossible to prove causation in nutrition research due to the unreliability of self reports, the impracticability of keeping people in labs to really monitor/control their diets, and most importantly, the vast host of confounding factors that affect both diet and health outcomes (physical or mental).

What you’re doing when you fearmonger using vague and unsubstantiated claims about the ill effects of certain foods, food groups, or macronutrients is putting additional burdens of stress and stigma on the bodies and minds of people who are already likely carrying heavy allostatic loads. You are in fact harming them. And for people with eating disorders, your fearmongering could quite literally be deadly.

Don’t play fast and loose with claims about diet and health, because you’re probably not right, and if you’re wrong, the cost is in fact very high.

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Fall Harvest Vegetable Soup Recipe

SPOTEBI – At Home Workouts For Women

This Fall Harvest Vegetable Soup Recipe is full of hearty vegetables like sweet potatoes, butternut squash, and more. It’s thick, delicious and, even though it’s low in calories, it’s still super-satisfying and filling. Whip up a warm batch of this comforting soup and cozy up on the couch with a good book or movie. Feel…

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