#2017 year in review

[thatgayoctopus]

I did the thing :)

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[bomnun]

i get super annoyed when ppl talk who don’t know much abt ptg say things like only a few members (it’s always hui, often kino, and maybe wooseok or jinho) are talented and they’re too good to be in the group or stuck in cube or whatever and disregard the talent of everyone else just bc cube never bothered to try to promote them individually .

just bc so many kpop groups have random filler members who can’t do anything doesn’t mean everyone does…ptg certainly do not anyway 🤷🏻‍♀️ everyone in that group contributes to the sound and the performances in very valuable ways

[rainbeausobsessions]

Inspired Work: Mass Effect 3, assumes Destruction ending

~~~

Noise.

But faint.

And far away.

Noise.

But not.

Are those words?

Bright.

And then gone.

Bright and then gone.

Bright.

Are those people?

“Stay with us, Shepard!”

Everything was so bright.

“Stay with us!”

Aching.

She couldn't move.

Tired.

She wouldn't move.

“Al!”

The bright was farther away.

And then it was closer.

“Run another diagnostic.”

Then it was farther.

Then closer.

“We don't have any more!”

And then…

Then…

Shoulders shaking, everything shaking, and

“We need to go! Now!”

Falling down and everything hurt and

“Get this shuttle moving!”

And everything was fuzzy and faint and falling far away.

Her head was heavy. She opened her eyes to a blurry world. A volus was next to her, tapping away on a data pad. A bed far away had a purple mass on it. People crowded around it.

“Hush,” the volus said to her, “You need your rest, Commander Shepard. And don't worry about your friend. She's being treated with the best care possible.”

She kept staring. She watched the purple as people stood. She watched the purple as people walked. Purple drew her in. But her heavy head wanted rest. Her eyelids fell, but she opened them. They fell, but she opened them. They fell, and she couldn't open them. She was so tired….

Light glared into her eyes. Across her face she rested her arm.

A click sounded and a breath streamed, “Hello.”

Shielding her eyes, she looked to the one who spoke. There was a volus looking at her.

“How are you feeling?” they asked.

She groaned, “Like I've been hit by a truck.” She tried to sit up, but they gently pressed a hand against her chest and she obediently dropped back into the cot.

“You shouldn't move just yet,” they soothed, “Since you are awake, I have a few questions.”

She didn't answer. They hopped off a stool and waddled to a table. Picking up a datapad, they waddled back and proceeded to yank their body up onto the stool. They adjusted.

“Now, it's alright if you don't know the answers. Let's begin,” they said, “What is your name?”

“Alys,” she said, “Alys Shepard.”

They tapped away on the datapad. They asked about her sex and her species. They asked her to describe her physical appearance. She remembered her freckled white skin, her smoky grey eyes, her vibrant red hair, her tall stature. They asked about her birthplace and date of birth. She remembered the city on Earth, tall towers spiraling next to old, squat buildings.They asked about her career. She remembered joining the Alliance as soon as she could. She remembered Akuze. She remembered joining the SPECTRES to pursue Saren and how he committed suicide, how the Reapers had enslaved the geth, how she had the ordered conserving the Alliance firepower during the attack on the Citadel. She remembered suffocating and waking up with The Illusive Man as her “project manager”. She remembered the Collectors. She remembered the time she spent in custody on Earth. She remembered how Mordin die without a single regret, how Wrex and Bakara stood in triumph, how Tali and the Geth Prime looked each other in the eye with solidarity.

Once she had briefly recounted everything, she was given a small silicone bag full of water. She twisted the top open and drank. The volus kept tapping on the datapad as she closed the pouch and left it on her lap. She asked, “Where am I?”

“You're in a secure bunker on the planet Earth,” they responded. She repeated her question insistently. They said, “I honestly don't know. I'm an anatomist, not a geographer.”

[televinita]

Top 22 Movies In 2022

(first viewings only)

I think these...might even be in order? Or close to it, anyway, though I am only positive on my #1 and that my top 15 17 are my top 17.

Jurassic World Dominion (2022)

Finding You (2021)

Those Who Wish Me Dead (2021)

The Weekend Away (2022)

Ocean’s Eight (2018)

Uncharted (2022)

Sweet Girl (2021)

Barefoot (2014)

Disenchanted (2022)

Jungle Cruise (2021)

Glass Onion (2022)

Sea Beast (2022)

Rescued By Ruby (2022)

Army of Thieves (2021)

Red Notice (2021)

The Red Sea Diving Resort (2019)

Top Gun: Maverick (2022)

Enola Holmes (2020)

Love & Gelato (2022)

West Side Story (2021)

Brahms: The Boy II (2020) (apparently the only good horror movie I watched all year??)

New York Minute (2004) (YEAH. It was fun, okay?  bummed it took me this long to get to it)

Honorable Mention: MTV’s Wuthering Heights (2003) for TEH LULZ

[topaz-eyes]

I posted 2,316 times in 2022

That's 1,666 more posts than 2021!

14 posts created (1%)

2,302 posts reblogged (99%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@cosmictuesdays

@smackalicious

@isagrimorie

@cometocourtyou

@twincityhacker

I tagged 2,314 of my posts in 2022

#omg lol - 460 posts

#omg amazing - 160 posts

#1000% adorable - 113 posts

#not wrong - 109 posts

#this blue hellsite - 107 posts

#what are cats even - 87 posts

#writing - 81 posts

#1000% accurate - 76 posts

#fandom - 70 posts

#writing fanfic - 69 posts

Longest Tag: 126 characters

#reblogging for "“corporation seeks to replace civil justice system with a kangaroo court and gets kicked by its own kangaroo.”

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Rating: G (All Audiences)

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Summary: Wherein Johnny tries out one of the definitely weirder historical tastes of Canada.  (Or, one of those more hilarious real-life-meets-fiction coincidences for our beloved hapless paramedic.)  Gen, Humour, Crack.  Written for Emergency! Summer of 51’s 2022 for Day Four: Food and/or Dinner.

4 notes - Posted August 16, 2022

#4

Rating: E (Explicit)

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings (includes minor character death)

Summary: “Johnny, we had sex,” Roy said point-blank.  “That kind of makes it a big deal.”  Johnny’s attempt to comfort Roy after an emotionally devastating shift leads to some unexpected revelations.  Angst, M/M, Roy DeSoto/Johnny Gage.  Written in part for the Monthly E! Prompt April 2022 Challenge, Showers.

5 notes - Posted September 17, 2022

#3

Fiction ask meme:

You know I want to pester you about Deluge, but I won't. I'll ask about House Victorian Interlude. What was the inspiration behind that? Did you have to do research? Do you have a favorite line/part?

Thanks!

House Victorian Interlude! There's a blast from the past. Going back 14 years...this is a 3-part House/Wilson Victorian era AU, written in 2008-2009. The individual fics are:

Towards An Understanding of the Catabolic Nature of the Human Male (9464 words, Explicit) Even in the Victorian age, it was all about sex.

Ardor Resolutus (2700 words, Explicit) What happened after Wilson appeared on House's doorstep in "Towards an Understanding of the Catabolic Nature of the Human Male."

On the Commission of Unnatural Offenses (9351 words, Explicit) Wilson sadly came to learn, all the heated evenings, all those months sleeping in House's bed, would still leave him woefully unprepared for the most unusual, and disturbing, proposition the man had ever let loose upon him.

What was the inspiration behind that?

Crack. It was all crack. I'd known about the Victorian era diagnosis of "feminine hysteria" for awhile, and the "treatment" for it, but didn't know what to do with it. Until one day in mid-August 2008, I was in kind of a hyper mood, and I thought it'd be fun to write Victorian era House/Wilson. That's all. Oddly, no one else I knew of had done that before (which I thought strange, House MD was a loose adaptation of Sherlock Holmes, it seemed a perfect setting for an AU). I made Wilson a newly-arrived specialist in female disorders, who makes his acquaintance with House, a brilliant but misanthropic doctor and professor of medical philosophy at Princeton. I wrote it in 10 days, 2 lovely people beta'ed it, and "Towards An Understanding..." was posted to LJ end of August.

I never intended to continue the AU, but in late December 2008 I decided I wanted to break 60k words of fic posted for the year. Iirc "Ardor Resolutus" was the original ending for "Towards An Understanding..." but I cut it from the initial draft before I sent it to beta because the fic felt too long otherwise. (It's been 14 years, memory is fuzzy and I didn't take detailed notes at all.) In 2 days I fleshed out what I cut, took 2 more days for beta, and I posted it to LJ just in time to meet my 60k goal for 2008.

I started "On the Commission..." right after posting "Ardor Resolutus". Like "Ardor Resolutus" it rose from paragraphs cut from "Towards An Understanding…". I had 5000 words for it by mid-Jan 2009, but then ended up picking at it over the next 3 months. It was finished in late April, then beta'ed and posted to LJ by the end of April.

Did you have to do research?

I sure did. I had to adapt the circumstances of House and Wilson's meeting, of course, and the source of House's leg injury (falling off a horse); the entire theory of the "catabolic" male vs the "anabolic" female re sex, which House was keen on disproving; and Victorian male fashion, where men were considered immodestly undressed if they didn't wear cravats and vests/waistcoats. (Not to mention the "spermatorrhea" bit for entirely normal wet dreams. The entire Victorian attitude towards sex was seriously more an eye-opener than I expected.) I also wanted to include enough setting details that the story felt grounded in the era and believable. If I'm going to write crack, I'm going all in.

Do you have a favorite line/part?

I like the scene in "Towards An Understanding..." where House explains his theory to Wilson; and the end of "On The Commission..." where House subverts Wilson's expectation of being outed (and arrested).

Thank you for letting me take the trip down memory lane, Phoenix! And you can ask about "Deluge" if you want, I don't mind.

7 notes - Posted November 6, 2022

#2

Rating: E (Explicit)

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Summary: “I think it’s been long enough now, for me to start trying to move on.  And I’ve—well, I’ve missed you, Junior.  So—uh, so will you come over and spend the night with me?”  Roy DeSoto/Johnny Gage, future!fic

8 notes - Posted April 28, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

@abpoli, @allthecanadianpolitics

Welcome to the petro state of Alberta, y’all.  Now with added fascism.

106 notes - Posted November 29, 2022

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[kayzean]

I posted 2,637 times in 2022

That's 1,348 more posts than 2021!

61 posts created (2%)

2,576 posts reblogged (98%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@readenheim

@faeratil

@taags-old-account

@leewadeeleewada

@abluescarfonwaston

I tagged 1,285 of my posts in 2022

#rottmnt - 608 posts

#destiny 2 - 95 posts

#rise of the tmnt - 80 posts

#rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles - 78 posts

#rottmnt donnie - 71 posts

#rottmnt movie - 70 posts

#rottmnt leo - 64 posts

#tmnt - 57 posts

#star wars - 50 posts

#save rottmnt - 35 posts

Longest Tag: 139 characters

#donnie has always for some reason been my fav in every iteration. i don't know why but one day i was just like *points at donnie* that one.

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Me every time rottmnt trends again:

277 notes - Posted August 30, 2022

#4

I haven't watched this movie in years. Just listening the soundtrack turned me into an emotional mess I wonder what actually watching the movie will do to me...

280 notes - Posted May 31, 2022

#3

This has probably already been done, but I haven’t seen it so.

318 notes - Posted July 21, 2022

#2

Listen i just met him and I would do anything for him.

457 notes - Posted February 22, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

The Sea Beast has shown me that we don't have enough How to train your Dragon esk movies/series and honestly it's a crime. Give me more "younger generation realize that the 'monsters' they were thaught to hate arnt actually monsters, and then go out of their way to prove it."

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[unloneliest]

I posted 13,683 times in 2022

That's 13,180 more posts than 2021!

289 posts created (2%)

13,394 posts reblogged (98%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@milfygerard

@lesdienne

@asterlark

@elytrians

@hoob-gooblin

I tagged 7,161 of my posts in 2022

Only 48% of my posts had no tags

#tmg - 408 posts

#mcr - 376 posts

#jam posts - 306 posts

#leverage - 302 posts

#trc - 281 posts

#q - 208 posts

#yell - 195 posts

#queer tag - 156 posts

#omgcp - 136 posts

#scream - 113 posts

Longest Tag: 140 characters

#w  last limit of bhakti i know my listening experience isn't the average i just have permanent brain worms about eliot spencer from leverage

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

have any tumblr tmg fans seen the sanguinare speculation? i’ve seen discussion on the subreddit - apparently there were postcards given out at the merch table last night with a qr code leading to this website (front of the postcard was the image from the website). folks on the subreddit are thinking it might be a surprise album drop, especially considering how long it’s been since they last released new music & the original plan for dark in here.

246 notes - Posted May 18, 2022

#4

season 2 eliot..... they put gender in him

285 notes - Posted April 29, 2022

#3

rewatching s3 e1 of leverage is like. top ten pictures taken moments before a disaster (eliot realizing he hasn't escaped moreau's influence over his life and that from here on out he will be living with either the inevitability of the team finding out about his past or the reality of them having found out). rewatching the rest of season 3 is like watching him be put through a slow motion hydraulic press. it's soooooooooooooooo

376 notes - Posted September 11, 2022

#2

listen. i always liked werewolves more than vampires, and that’s because i just never really got the appeal of vampires - i was like, vampire-neutral. happy they existed because i know how much my friends love them. so i’m fairly certain the absolute first thing i said when i surfaced from reading @thebibliosphere‘s hunger pangs: true love bites is “i get it about vampires now.” 

i absolutely did not go into reading expecting to adore vlad as much as i do, but oh my god, is this what enjoying vampires has been like for the rest of you this entire time????? why did nobody tell me! seriously!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i cannot recommend reading this enough, i’m never going to shut up about how much i love this book, & yes, that’s fully with the intent of being a fandom pied piper & dragging you all into this interest with me.

611 notes - Posted February 11, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

for anyone who was missing it: the annotated mountain goats is back online!

for any tmg fans who haven’t heard of the annotated mountain goats before: it’s an awesome resource for lyrics & info on songs, and it’s been an absolute cornerstone of my goats listening experience since i started listening - check it out!

736 notes - Posted February 16, 2022

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[skywitchmaja]

honestly other than the painfully brief thing between lane & dave, the only romance i think gilmore girls did well was luke & lorelei. i guess they put their whole pussy into those two & ended up with none left over for anybody else. SAD!

anyway all of rory’s boyfriends are disappointing at best, if there was ever anything worth being disappointed over. jess & rory were great at first in their friendship/flirtationship stage but once they actually got together they were just a mess. logan is just a rich asshole with a tendency to bring out the rich asshole in rory & i was tired of him from the moment he appeared on my screen. and not to be supernatural-phobic but dean was just boring & when rory dressed up as a stepford wife for their date that was!! creepy!!! all of paris’s boyfriends are terrible i can’t bring myself to remember their names but that professor was so gross :-( why? :-( and doyle is just… beneath her tbh (*cough* and she’s a lesbian *cough*). and that blonde boy lane dated after adam brody was no adam brody, sorry!! as for lorelei’s other boyfriends: christopher was just disappointment after disappointment. and max was fine actually.

[startingfires]

i'm going through my year in books on goodreads and i read 60 books in 2018????? bestie what how did you do that

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

i see a post talking doom and gloom about how we'll never escape toxic masculinity. i think about back in 2017 when american girl released their first boy doll, and a review for him went viral in the collecting community. the review was written by a mom, who said they went into the store to get their daughter a doll, only to see their son's eyes light up like fire when he saw a doll that looked like him, and now every night he puts his doll in pajamas and rocks him to sleep. i think about the toddler in my daycare room a few years back who was obsessed with baby dolls, carrying them everywhere, and his mom proudly told us he uses his sisters' old baby dolls and wants to be just like them. that toddler saw another toddler crying one day and gave her the doll he had to cheer her up. i think about the eight-year-old boy i saw a few years back, excitedly waving around raya's sword in a target checkout line like all his dreams were coming true. there was a video on my instagram the other day of a little boy at disneyworld crying with joy upon meeting his hero, mulan. i think about the voice actor for bow in the she-ra reboot saying his nephews only wanted adora action figures. celebrity men are wearing dresses on tv now. last halloween i saw a little boy dressed as elsa. i went to go see spiderverse over the summer, and in the line ahead of me was a boy who couldn't be older than twelve or thirteen, bouncing and beaming, giddy with excitement over getting to see the female-led romance movie elemental. i think about the five-year-old boy at my library who breathlessly asked me where the pinkalicious books were, eyes widening when i had more on my cart, his mom explaining that he is all about pinkalicious and fancy nancy. i saw so many pictures online of boys and men dressed in pink to see barbie. teenage boys are gonna open their phones and see the man who wrote fucking game of thrones dressed in pink to see barbie. when i was a kid, a boy dressing in pink was practically a social death sentence. there are boys running around in pink on my street right now.

[selkiemail]

sidenote i'm on desktop for the first time in a long time so i can see that i'm getting close to 10k posts on this blog now but i'm still well under it. and i've been here pretty consistently since 2017. how do some of y'all have like 30k+ posts

[darkwithasharpenededge]

A Review of Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine by Gail Honeyman from someone with an extreme aversion to secondhand embarrassment.

Rating: 60/100

Summary: If I had known this book would make me cringe so much, I probably wouldn't have picked it up. This review will be short because I don't have a lot to articulate about this book. It was very slow, with a lot of daily life stuff. I enjoyed the last hundred pages a lot more than the first two hundred pages. It had a plotline throughout the first part that made me cringe, and had me on edge waiting for something that would make me feel awful happen for most of it. The prose was decent and Eleanor was a unique character with a unique voice, but I can't say that it was fun to read at all, since I spent so much of it telling myself that I should read another chapter and get closer to the end of the book so I could read something else. On objective merits, it's a much better book that my read from yesterday, Good Neighbors, but on "amount I enjoyed it", Good Neighbors was by far better.

Final Verdict: If you cringe when TV show characters do something stupid, don't read this book.

Review Word Count: 192

[fatliberation]

they have a point though. you wouldn't need everyone to accommodate you if you just lost weight, but you're too lazy to stick to a healthy diet and exercise. it's that simple. I'd like to see you back up your claims, but you have no proof. you have got to stop lying to yourselves and face the facts

Must I go through this again? Fine. FINE. You guys are working my nerves today. You want to talk about facing the facts? Let's face the fucking facts.

In 2022, the US market cap of the weight loss industry was $75 billion [1, 3]. In 2021, the global market cap of the weight loss industry was estimated at $224.27 billion [2]. 

In 2020, the market shrunk by about 25%, but rebounded and then some since then [1, 3] By 2030, the global weight loss industry is expected to be valued at $405.4 billion [2]. If diets really worked, this industry would fall overnight. 

1. LaRosa, J. March 10, 2022. "U.S. Weight Loss Market Shrinks by 25% in 2020 with Pandemic, but Rebounds in 2021." Market Research Blog. 2. Staff. February 09, 2023. "[Latest] Global Weight Loss and Weight Management Market Size/Share Worth." Facts and Factors Research. 3. LaRosa, J. March 27, 2023. "U.S. Weight Loss Market Partially Recovers from the Pandemic." Market Research Blog.

Over 50 years of research conclusively demonstrates that virtually everyone who intentionally loses weight by manipulating their eating and exercise habits will regain the weight they lost within 3-5 years. And 75% will actually regain more weight than they lost [4].

4. Mann, T., Tomiyama, A.J., Westling, E., Lew, A.M., Samuels, B., Chatman, J. (2007). "Medicare’s Search For Effective Obesity Treatments: Diets Are Not The Answer." The American Psychologist, 62, 220-233. U.S. National Library of Medicine, Apr. 2007.

The annual odds of a fat person attaining a so-called “normal” weight and maintaining that for 5 years is approximately 1 in 1000 [5].

5. Fildes, A., Charlton, J., Rudisill, C., Littlejohns, P., Prevost, A.T., & Gulliford, M.C. (2015). “Probability of an Obese Person Attaining Normal Body Weight: Cohort Study Using Electronic Health Records.” American Journal of Public Health, July 16, 2015: e1–e6.

Doctors became so desperate that they resorted to amputating parts of the digestive tract (bariatric surgery) in the hopes that it might finally result in long-term weight-loss. Except that doesn’t work either. [6] And it turns out it causes death [7],  addiction [8], malnutrition [9], and suicide [7].

6. Magro, Daniéla Oliviera, et al. “Long-Term Weight Regain after Gastric Bypass: A 5-Year Prospective Study - Obesity Surgery.” SpringerLink, 8 Apr. 2008. 7. Omalu, Bennet I, et al. “Death Rates and Causes of Death After Bariatric Surgery for Pennsylvania Residents, 1995 to 2004.” Jama Network, 1 Oct. 2007.  8. King, Wendy C., et al. “Prevalence of Alcohol Use Disorders Before and After Bariatric Surgery.” Jama Network, 20 June 2012.  9. Gletsu-Miller, Nana, and Breanne N. Wright. “Mineral Malnutrition Following Bariatric Surgery.” Advances In Nutrition: An International Review Journal, Sept. 2013.

Evidence suggests that repeatedly losing and gaining weight is linked to cardiovascular disease, stroke, diabetes and altered immune function [10].

10. Tomiyama, A Janet, et al. “Long‐term Effects of Dieting: Is Weight Loss Related to Health?” Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 6 July 2017.

Prescribed weight loss is the leading predictor of eating disorders [11].

11. Patton, GC, et al. “Onset of Adolescent Eating Disorders: Population Based Cohort Study over 3 Years.” BMJ (Clinical Research Ed.), 20 Mar. 1999.

The idea that “obesity” is unhealthy and can cause or exacerbate illnesses is a biased misrepresentation of the scientific literature that is informed more by bigotry than credible science [12]. 

12. Medvedyuk, Stella, et al. “Ideology, Obesity and the Social Determinants of Health: A Critical Analysis of the Obesity and Health Relationship” Taylor & Francis Online, 7 June 2017.

“Obesity” has no proven causative role in the onset of any chronic condition [13, 14] and its appearance may be a protective response to the onset of numerous chronic conditions generated from currently unknown causes [15, 16, 17, 18].

13. Kahn, BB, and JS Flier. “Obesity and Insulin Resistance.” The Journal of Clinical Investigation, Aug. 2000. 14. Cofield, Stacey S, et al. “Use of Causal Language in Observational Studies of Obesity and Nutrition.” Obesity Facts, 3 Dec. 2010.  15. Lavie, Carl J, et al. “Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease: Risk Factor, Paradox, and Impact of Weight Loss.” Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 26 May 2009.  16. Uretsky, Seth, et al. “Obesity Paradox in Patients with Hypertension and Coronary Artery Disease.” The American Journal of Medicine, Oct. 2007.  17. Mullen, John T, et al. “The Obesity Paradox: Body Mass Index and Outcomes in Patients Undergoing Nonbariatric General Surgery.” Annals of Surgery, July 2005. 18. Tseng, Chin-Hsiao. “Obesity Paradox: Differential Effects on Cancer and Noncancer Mortality in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.” Atherosclerosis, Jan. 2013.

Fatness was associated with only 1/3 the associated deaths that previous research estimated and being “overweight” conferred no increased risk at all, and may even be a protective factor against all-causes mortality relative to lower weight categories [19].

19. Flegal, Katherine M. “The Obesity Wars and the Education of a Researcher: A Personal Account.” Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases, 15 June 2021.

Studies have observed that about 30% of so-called “normal weight” people are “unhealthy” whereas about 50% of so-called “overweight” people are “healthy”. Thus, using the BMI as an indicator of health results in the misclassification of some 75 million people in the United States alone [20]. 

20. Rey-López, JP, et al. “The Prevalence of Metabolically Healthy Obesity: A Systematic Review and Critical Evaluation of the Definitions Used.” Obesity Reviews : An Official Journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity, 15 Oct. 2014.

While epidemiologists use BMI to calculate national obesity rates (nearly 35% for adults and 18% for kids), the distinctions can be arbitrary. In 1998, the National Institutes of Health lowered the overweight threshold from 27.8 to 25—branding roughly 29 million Americans as fat overnight—to match international guidelines. But critics noted that those guidelines were drafted in part by the International Obesity Task Force, whose two principal funders were companies making weight loss drugs [21].

21. Butler, Kiera. “Why BMI Is a Big Fat Scam.” Mother Jones, 25 Aug. 2014. 

Body size is largely determined by genetics [22].

22. Wardle, J. Carnell, C. Haworth, R. Plomin. “Evidence for a strong genetic influence on childhood adiposity despite the force of the obesogenic environment” American Journal of Clinical Nutrition Vol. 87, No. 2, Pages 398-404, February 2008.

Healthy lifestyle habits are associated with a significant decrease in mortality regardless of baseline body mass index [23].  

23. Matheson, Eric M, et al. “Healthy Lifestyle Habits and Mortality in Overweight and Obese Individuals.” Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM, U.S. National Library of Medicine, 25 Feb. 2012.

Weight stigma itself is deadly. Research shows that weight-based discrimination increases risk of death by 60% [24].

24. Sutin, Angela R., et al. “Weight Discrimination and Risk of Mortality .” Association for Psychological Science, 25 Sept. 2015.

Fat stigma in the medical establishment [25] and society at large arguably [26] kills more fat people than fat does [27, 28, 29].

25. Puhl, Rebecca, and Kelly D. Bronwell. “Bias, Discrimination, and Obesity.” Obesity Research, 6 Sept. 2012. 26. Engber, Daniel. “Glutton Intolerance: What If a War on Obesity Only Makes the Problem Worse?” Slate, 5 Oct. 2009.  27. Teachman, B. A., Gapinski, K. D., Brownell, K. D., Rawlins, M., & Jeyaram, S. (2003). Demonstrations of implicit anti-fat bias: The impact of providing causal information and evoking empathy. Health Psychology, 22(1), 68–78. 28. Chastain, Ragen. “So My Doctor Tried to Kill Me.” Dances With Fat, 15 Dec. 2009. 29. Sutin, Angelina R, Yannick Stephan, and Antonio Terraciano. “Weight Discrimination and Risk of Mortality.” Psychological Science, 26 Nov. 2015.

There's my "proof." Where is yours?

[philologique]

this might be one of those things where the world hasn’t changed so much as my exposure to it has, but when did everyone collectively switch to ultra-expensive burr coffee grinders? did they actually? does it just feel like it because of amazon affiliate commissions? did something else prompt it?