please remember to check in on your ib friends this may 🕊️
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"The Saturn IB space vehicle for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project mission, with its launch umbilical tower, rides atop a huge crawler-transporter as it moves slowly away from the Vehicle Assembly Building on its 4.24-mile journey to Pad B, Launch Complex 39, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center."
Date: March 24, 1975
NASA ID: S75-24007, S75-24009
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Diet culture hurts chronically ill and disabled people with dietary restrictions because it prioritizes weight loss over health needs.
The majority of "diet apps" I have tried ask me for my weight and weight loss goals, when I need to track my diet for complex medical reasons.
The majority of books in the dietary health section focus on weight loss. There are maybe a couple books out of 100 focused on my condition(s).
Even some of the informational materials and the products that do cater to my condition(s) emphasize weight loss over health needs.
When I ask for dietary accommodations, people ask invasive questions as to why I need it to suss out if I really need it or if I'm just "on a diet."
Even in medicine, weight gain or loss is emphasized over actual nutrition. If you're not at risk of heart disease or "obesity," it's like they do not care.
I could barely eat anything when I was hospitalized because the hospital menu did not account for my specific dietary needs. A damn hospital.
I've been offered the most non-nutritious diet plans and given little to no guidance on my condition(s) by actual doctors who study my condition(s).
So, tell me why there are thousands of diet plans for weight loss but few resources for people like me who end up sicker with vitamin deficiencies.
Tell me why I have to join groups specific to people with my condition(s) just to figure out how to thrive because no one helps us but our own people.
Diet culture is ableist, and diet culture disables people. Diet culture should be about helping people like me thrive, but it's doing the opposite.
This is about accessibility. Diet is ultimately an accessibility issue, and society disables us by not caring if we eat safely or eat at all.
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emergency vet visit with the barf queen 🥺🐈
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Rory was an IBDP student, I think Mels and Amy were partial, but he got the diploma
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finished my last big thing for this week #freedom
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just really funny to be 1) borderline severely underweight because of ongoing stomach issues and 2) watch a list of safe foods drastically shorten. getting more tests to see if it's gonna shorten even further. it IS really good to have answers! it's a huge step towards not having stomachaches and once i pinpoint everything that fucks me up i can start not being in pain and gaining weight but like MAN it has to be all my favorite foods and it has to be a syndrome that has a chance of getting much worse over time depending on if i get another tick bite. which i will. and it can skip directly from stomachaches to anaphylaxis
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