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How to Lose 112 Pounds with LCHF Instead of Gastric Bypass Surgery! | DietDoctor.com: "Johanna Engström has had a fantastic journey. She was inches from having gastric bypass surgery, but decided at the last minute to try LCHF instead. Fast forward around one year and she’s lost 112 pounds! And her internal organs are still intact."

Oxford ethicist promotes MDMA to combat divorce: "In an interview in the Atlantic, Oxford ethicist Brian Earp proposes the idea that MDMA - and in fact, a battery of other substances as well - might have a role to play in keeping marriages together."

Fat Head » Why The American Heart Association Can’t Admit They’re Wrong: "I’m not a big fan of observational studies, but since the American Heart Association likes to cite them as evidence, here’s a conclusion several observational studies have reached:  when people replace saturated fats with refined carbohydrates, their rate of heart disease goes up, not down.  Clinical studies show that refined carbohydrates raise triglycerides, and high triglycerides at at least associated with heart disease, if not an actual cause.

...here are three of the most important points: Once we’ve taken a public position, it’s very difficult to admit we were wrong. Psychologically, most of us need to believe we’re both good people and good decision-makers. We are quite capable of fooling ourselves into believing things that simply aren’t true, even if that means ignoring clear evidence. The book provides interesting (and unfortunately common) examples of those points in action.  What happens when, say, a woman marries a guy who turns out to be an abusive creep?  She runs out and gets a divorce, right? Nope.  Odds are she’ll spend years with the guy before dumping him, if she dumps him at all.  Think about the three points above.  When you get married, you’ve made a dramatic public statement:  this is the one. It would be embarrassing to admit to your family and friends a year later that your marriage was a huge mistake – telling them, in effect, that in making perhaps the most important decision of your life, you chose badly.

...Another example the book gives is police and prosecutors who arrest an innocent man and send him to prison, only to see him exonerated years later by DNA evidence.  You’d expect the prosecutors to say to themselves, “Wow, that’s horrible.  We put an innocent guy away.”  You’d also be wrong.  Despite the large number of people who have been exonerated by new evidence, it’s exceedingly rare for a prosecutor to admit he or she put the wrong man in prison.  As the authors recount, most prosecutors are still convinced – despite the evidence – that the guy they put away was guilty. Once again, we’re talking about people who took a very public position (ladies and gentlemen, this is guy who committed the crime) and who need to think of themselves as good people (I’m the good guy because I put away bad guys.)  To protect themselves psychologically, they can explain away the evidence that they were wrong.  The alternative is to look in the mirror and admit they ruined an innocent person’s life, not to mention his family’s life."

FML: it's my boyfriend's birthday: "Today, it's my boyfriend's birthday. He really likes Legend of Zelda, so I put on a Link hat, took my clothes off, and waited for him at his place. He came home with a hooker. FML"

Texts From Last Night: "(802): just saw a guy snowshoeing to the liqour store 

(203): was it you? 

(802):  ...yes"

Fascinating - Freedom Index : Find Freedom!

There Is Another Level Above “I’m Doing Fine” - GNOLLS.ORG: "If I had to communicate one concept to the world at large—one reason to eat like a predator—it would be this: 

There is an entire level of daily existence above “I’m doing fine.” 

This is not to say that everyone in the world can suddenly stop taking all their medication and flaunt their new six-pack at the beach! What I mean is: there are many, many annoyances we take for granted as part of aging, or part of life, that are actually consequences of an evolutionarily inappropriate diet of birdseed (known as “grains”) and birdseed extracts (known as “vegetable oils“). 

Are You Sure You’re Healthy? Half Of America Takes Prescription Medication First, are you sure you’re healthy? Half the people in America (47.9%) took at least one prescription drug in the last month, one in five (21.4%) took three or more, and the numbers increase each year...

Even if you’re not on prescription medication right now, are you really “fine”? 

Do you need caffeine in order to wake up in the morning, or not fall asleep after lunch? 

Do you still suffer from acne? 

Headaches? 

Acid reflux? 

Do you sleep through the night? 

How quickly do you go through that bottle of Tylenol or Aleve? 

How about the cortisone, to deal with that random itchy, flaky skin? 

Are you convinced that you must continually restrict your eating to maintain a healthy bodyweight—let alone the body composition you want? 

What’s that stuff hanging over the top of your belt? 

Even if you don’t care about your appearance, imagine how much lighter on your feet you’d feel if you didn’t have to carry around that extra twenty pounds. Can you go more than five hours without food, without becoming weak and shaky?"

LOL - "Get that sick water fountain flex."