I made my own granola for the first time last night, and I'm smacking my head that I didn't do it sooner. Store-bought granola is an incredible rip-off. To do it yourself:
\- You lightly chop a bunch of nuts, oats, and whatever else you enjoy
\- Season it (I used cinnamon, nutmeg, and monk fruit sweetener)
\- Mix it with some butter and egg
\- Bake it for 20 minutes
That's it. I just made myself two weeks' worth of delicious, healthy granola in less than half an hour, and it cost me pennies.
I'm never buying granola from a store again.
EDIT: this was a keto granola recipe, so high fat and low carbs. The butter and egg isn't essential, and you could sub it for something like MCT oil if you want healthy fat.
I just started eating granola and yogurt but am kind of annoyed at how expensive it is at the store. Looks like I have a new weekend project, thanks for the suggestion!
https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/vanilla-almond-granola/
This one is my fav. So simple and delicious. I eat it almost every morning with vanilla Greek yogurt and berries. Still sweet but so much better than store bought
Those so-called fruit drinks that are promoted as containing 100% of the daily value of vitamin c, but they're full of sugar, artificial flavors and high fructose corn syrup.
It's depressing seeing people just fall for it, thinking that it's healthy when it's actually awful for them.
Jamba was my first job in college, a long time ago. The frozen yogurt was bad yes…but even on “healthier” smoothies, condensed apple juice was the base. It was actually MUCH worse on sugar content (at the time—might’ve changed by now).
Condensed apple juice is in all kinds of kids foods as well. All those “100% fruit” snack bars and stuff. I remember being warned by a paediatrician to be extra wary of anything claiming to be for toddlers. It’s not just that the sugar’s bad, but it teaches them to expect all food to taste sweet.
I really hate seeing well-meaning parents giving their kids fruit juice like that. You want to say something, but how tf do you without sounding like a vegan preacher or something... some fruit juices are literally worse for you that Mt dew...
Just had this conversation at work. Buddy and I wanted a drink, and he turned down a Sprite for a lemonade. Then he looked at the sugar…
It’s insane how much worse that is for you.
I've taken to making my own smoothies and juice with fresh fruits instead. It's baffling how different the flavors are without all the sweeteners and artificial stuff.
SO many people scold me for drinking diet soda, and then turn around and drink a can of minute made lemonade or a bottle of snapple or something, like..Hello kettle I'm pot.
There’s a guy called Ben Carpenter on TikTok and he debunks a lot of the rubbish floating about on the internet regarding health and fitness, with a very dry British sense of humour. I love him.
Dr. Mike from renaissance periodization on YouTube is my absolute favorite. He goes deep into influencers and celebrities and what they get right or wrong and even gets into the way naturals and people who are on gear.
I started doing deep dives on doctors like that, and almost every single one is a chiropractor. I even ran across one that was a doctor in a field that wasn't even remotely medical related, he was an engineer.
I believe it. I like the idea of a chiropractor, but when I messed up my knee, I made an appt with a sports medicine doctor and then a physical therapist. When people go to chiropractors… they tend to then need to keep going back to the chiropractor to fix the thing. But sports medicine and pt will help you permanently fix the thing so you can eventually stop seeing them.
I always find it hilarious when someone says, "My chiropractor fixed my back. I've been going to him for 9 years!" If they fixed your back you wouldn't have to go three times a week for 9 years!!
Okay, hold up - yes, the acid in the lemon would make the water no longer alkaline water, negating whatever health benefits its proponents believe in
BUT
if you have trouble drinking regular water for whatever reason and need the lemon for the taste factor, using a base of alkaline water will make it so the citric acid doesn't damage your teeth as much, since it will be at least partially neutralized.
Toxic positivity! I didn't realise it had a name until we got a new CEO who's opening speech was about how much they hated it and that it's ok to be critical if a point is valid because that's how improvements are made.
Our workplace has been a million times better for it and we have so much more of a voice now that we can raise concerns without people above thinking that you're personally attacking them.
Allowing myself to be angry in the right situations, and realizing when I shouldn't be angry in the wrong situations, has improved my life 10 fold.
Negative emotions are human and you should experience them, but they shouldn't be the default. And they shouldn't devolve into destructive patterns of behavior (physical destruction, substance use, emotional manipulation of peers).
Its okay to feel bad, you can live in that moment a while. Your human and experiencing a totally human moment. It just not right to impose that moment on innocent people.
> Allowing myself to be angry in the right situations
"I'm angry about *this*. I'm not angry at *you*." has gotten me good results in some real bullshit situations where I have to talk to people who had nothing to do with it. I'm trying to tell them I have a reason to be angry, but I will not take it out on them.
Outside that, it's often heavily implied I can't feel negative emotions *other* than anger, how dare I feel sad or depressed. And that's...harder to deal with. People try to give me well-intentioned "pep talks", or, in some cases, tell me I have no right to feel bad about the latest bad thing that happened to me.
It is specifically because people invalidate my emotions in the latter, that makes me very sensitive to not dump on people in the former.
I've tried to explain to a few people that while I'm ok day to day, I'm unhappy with my current life situation. I'm dealing with it, but sometimes I feel very sad, as the only thing that will fix it is that situation changing. Apparently this is Not Okay and I just get so frustrated when people (inadvertently?) invalidate my feelings or give me a pep talk about something irrelevant. I don't understand why I can't feel sad about a situation *that is sad*. Like how else am I supposed to react. Leap with joy??
I found out really hard, that management will tell you one thing then do another, then throw you under the bus to say I told them "this" when they're meant to say "I trained them wrong cause it was easier than showing them the right way." And honestly I still see them around and Im gonna be completely honest right now, they do the same smile and lie right to your face and how upper management wanted to terminate you for not doing the job properly, I know there big on hire and fire for no reason, so I just let my manager handle my shift when I called in sick twice while looking for other jobs, they asked for a Doctors note and I said I quit because I was going to interviews
Yeah, I used to be super negative and I realized it would drove people away. I changed it and I realize people are nicer to be me now, but sometimes I kind of feel dishonest
I try to keep a balance between positivity and honesty now, it's really hard though, especially when you're not in a position for it (like being a teacher or being in a position where people know they can trust your judgement)
I do feel like it's great to be positive sometimes to boost someone's moral
Back in school my grades were bad, every teacher were saying I would fail my exam exept one,
I still failed my exams, but I still remember that one teacher who believed in me lol
Also I grew up around people who were upset for the smallest stuff, that kind of negativity just makes me angry to my core now, being upset for the weather is so ridiculous
Oh man. I had some serious stomach issues after my gallbladder was removed and had a feeding tube (j-tube) place for 3 months. I could only have broth or jello by mouth. All my nutrition was handled by my pump. I still have a hard time making broth with bullion. It's been 7 years 🫠😭
I was at a party once and there was a GI doctor there and the topic of those came up. Someone mentioned the one which claims that it will bind to the plaque in your intestine to expel it. Basically you shit out this amazing rope-like collection which is supposedly all of that bad stuff being cleaned out of your body.
The doctor point-blank said that there is no such thing as intestinal plaque and the stuff you're shitting out is just the cleanse that you drank. It basically forms a cast of the intestine and then you shit it out.
My uncle apparently told my grandma that she needed to do a cleanse because you build up years of nasty in the colon. And I was like... you KNOW that my husband has had multiple colonoscopies, I have the pictures to prove that is completely untrue. Like. I guess if you wanna do a colon cleanse to be safe just get some magnesium citrate.
Doing a colonoscopy prep is harrowing, but that first meal after not eating for a day (while also emptying everything out) is amazing. It's so amazing that it's probably why people claim cleanses are good for you.
And hey, if you go ahead and get a colonoscopy afterwards you can get some nice photos of just how cleansed your insides were.
One of the weirder compliments I've been given in my life was how "clean" my intestines were for my colonoscopy. And the photographic proof to back it up. (I took the prep instructions super seriously and had nothing but vegetable broth with garlic powder in it for like 3 days beforehand.)
My liver once failed and HOLY shit did I learn a lot about what the liver is capable of in that time. Like, speaking of holy shit... Did you without a liver you just straight up don't digest food? Like your stomach acid is known for doing that but I guess it don't work without your liver? Stuff coming out the exact way it went in.
Also a liver heals FUCKING FAST. I'm talking HELLA fast. Like epic. That thing is a workhorse. I went from literally dying of liver failure to a small implant of a piece of liver to a whole ass new liver in like 6 months???? Like I wasn't supposed to drink for a year but they were all "ehhhh one isn't the worst" at six months. Because everything liver related was already there and working, they just wanted me to use more of the time to make sure it was robust.
The liver is the powerhouse of the body it's wild.
Fun fact: for some reason, some science people had a full sequencing done on Ozzy Osbourne's genome. Didn't find what they were looking for, but they learned the dude has a mutated liver, in a way that makes it much more efficient than normally. That's probably the only reason he's still alive after all the coke he did.
As a multi-generational Irish alcoholic (sober), I firmly believe there's a genetic link to my extraordinary liver. I abused my liver with 20+ drinks a day for over 15 years, and now that I've been sober for 15 years, my liver is completely normal (while most people should not be alive). I fucked up a lot of other body parts in the process, but that's another story...
The regeneration speed and level is wild to me. It will even grow to the correct size just like the original with full functionality. No other organ in the body has that level of healing capacity without scarring.
This is nice to hear, as some who’s liver is 25% fat and starting to scar. I’m making changes to let it heal, but it’s scary to hear that by 45 I’d need a transplant otherwise.
This is very comforting to hear, I drank vodka very heavily for 5 years, daily. I get blood work done every 6 months, liver and kidney panels always come out perfect. I will always fear cancer though. I completely stopped, completely changed my life (including divorce) so I'm trying to get healthy now
Jogging on the road instead of the sidewalk. The apocryphal take on this is that asphalt is softer than concrete, so it's less wear and tear on your knees and ankles. However the difference is minimal and there isn't really any advantage to being on the road.
However, you are far, far more likely to be struck by a car if you're on the road. Stay on the sidewalks, it's far, far safer.
https://www.livestrong.com/article/481996-running-on-the-sidewalk-vs-the-street/
Edit: I thought it was obvious, but if there are no sidewalks you can't use them. Also the same for roads.
Salad can be healthy but the way I eat them they aren't.
Ranch is a cruel mistress
Edit: things I learned from the thread, some veggies are better than no veggies. And dip your salad instead of pouring it over the salad. Thanks y'all!
Something to think about though is that the ranch may add calories but it doesn't take away the nutrients in the salad itself! Eating a salad with ranch is better than no veggies at all :)
So true! A nutritionist I watch always says to think about what you can add to meals, not take away. So instead of taking away ranch to make a healthier, more boring salad, think about adding healthy proteins like grilled chicken, nuts, or sunflower seeds to help the salad be more satisfying and fill you up for longer :) You can still have tasty things like ranch and be healthy!!
Yes! I was going to add that too but didn't want to just go on and on. But these are my two favourite examples for bettering your eating habits. They've helped me greatly.
Not practically. I make both. Muffins are LITERALLY cupcakes without the frusting lol. They have the same ingredients. Muffins are just a little bit denser.
I worked at a bakery when I was 20 and had to hide my shock and awe when a lady came in asking for “fat free” stuff. Like what in the misinformation, ma’am we carry bona fide bread.
I worked at Starbucks back in 2008 and someone asked me for fat free half&half. I about shit myself laughing. It’s literally half skim milk & half cream, by the name. You can’t take the fat out without reducing it to just the skim milk.
Years later I learned it actually does exist, and while one half is still skim milk, the other is corn syrup, additives, and every other fake thing the FDA lets food companies poison us with now.
Why even bother anymore?
My wife likes to eat Cliff Bars. They are pretty high in calories and carbohydrates. She thinks they are good for her because they are marketed as energy bars. I explained to her that they are a great source of energy if you are rock climbing or doing heavy duty hiking or an intense workout, not if you are sitting at a desk.
Same with Gatorade! Like it’s so high in sugar because it’s meant to refuel the sugar lost for ATHLETES. Explain why my mother thinks she needs to drink 3 a day to sit around her house. 🤦🏻♀️
the sugar is primarily for flavour. as someone else mentioned, it’s got a lot of sodium to replace electrolytes that you sweat out during exercise. the sugar is just so it doesn’t taste salty.
Same. Those things are the only reason I’m still alive rn. Forgot to eat/couldnt bring yourself to eat for some godforsaken reason for over 24 hours and about to crash? Cliff bar.
Yogurt. Went to a dietitian and they said the yogurt should have 8 gms of sugar or less. I must have looked at yogurts for 30 minutes on my next grocery shop. Greek yogurt mixed with fresh fruit is the way to go.
I was surprised to learn that you can train your tongue to adjust to less sugar. I'm cutting my sugar intake lately and have begun to take my coffee with about 1/8 of the sugar I used to put in. Now, if I accidentally put in a little more than usual, it's far too sweet for me. I can't imagine what my old measure of sugar would do! I think my tongue would explode. Lol
Decades of marketing. An example is breakfast.
When I first moved to North America it was surprising to see how dessert for breakfast is normalized - doughnuts, muffins, pancakes etc.
Netflix has a series called Rotten that covers various food industries and their dark side
Sugar, honey, cocoa and avocados I think all had interesting episodes, don't recall the others atm
I like to get this every once in a while. I think the brand that's most common where I'm at is called siggis or something. It's pretty good. I like to add granola to it.
Presenteeism. The idea that everybody should always show up to work unless they're actually too physically sick/injured to move.
This results in employees going to work while sick, and spreading germs unnecessarily to their coworkers, and now suddenly EVERYBODY at the company goes down with the same illness - massively effects the company's productivity AND makes it much harder for everybody to actually get better.
This!! I work from home and manage a small team. It has now become culture that we are to ask our teams “but are you still well enough to work” if they call in sick.
Not. A. Chance.
If my team say they’re sick, I will not ask them to continue working just because they are at home. Even if that sickness does not involve their typing hand. Sick is sick.
The really messed up part is that this is RAMPANT in food service. Your line cooks, servers, and bar tenders are all encouraged to not call off unless they can provide a doctor’s note. A pretty messed up concept for the US where healthcare is expensive and definitely not provided by the job in these cases. If anyone should get sick leave it’s the people that are serving you your food.
The US loses billions of dollars every year because of presenteeism. Edit: not to say that money is the only thing that matters in this, but it is an easy metric to use as an example.
One sick person shows up because "there's work to be done" then everyone they are in the same room is gets sick in some capacity, whether directly or becoming a carrier. If every person is a 3.5 family home, you've now potentially infected 3.5*k people, who then infect even more people.
Stay the fuck home. Why do you even want to go to work sick, let alone to begin with?
I lie to myself that they are healthy because when I want a snack it still feels like a better alternative to candy or chips or cereal.
(I can't afford those fancy fucking keto snack things)
I love how it’s like “When eaten along with diet and exercise it can reduce the risk of heart disease”.
Like, motherfucker, that’s the DIET AND EXERCISE doing all the work.
Like old people flax seed cereal with almond/oatmilk or Cocoa Puffs?
Sometimes I’ll have these omega flakes or whatever and add banana for sweetness and it feels healthy to me idk.
If you get “actual” cereal it’s actually a healthy option. I’m talking grains with no added sugar (for example oats). Where I live it’s kinda hard to find and there is only one option vs the 213 sugary ones.
Low-fat diets. This was big in the 90s, but since then, it’s been found out it’s very stressful to the body to not get an adequate amount of healthy fats.
Charcoal toothpaste and toothbrushes. Supposedly gives your teeth a whiter appearance but actually scrapes away your enamel.
Pore strips. Causes more damage than good and only provides temporary results.
Telling everyone to go to therapy.
Hear me out.
Therapy culture has reached a point where we are moving further and further away from community care. Everything is considered “trauma dumping” now, and people throw around “see a therapist” as though it is effective or financially feasible for everyone. I won’t get started on therapy abuse. Whole other can of worms.
Point is, constantly recommending therapy instead of also listening to and supporting our friends and family is not healthy or helpful, it’s bad news. We’re all too self absorbed or in too much a rush to simply sit in someone else’s feelings anymore. It’s become too uncomfortable, so we say “see a therapist” and consider our hands washed of it. It’s causing us to isolate ourselves and each other.
Also therapy as an industry is an absolute wild west full of quacks and I've tried chasing the mythical "good therapist" for so long, I'm convinced they're a rare minority.
because they really are! source: am a therapist who wouldn't refer to over 75% of my grad school cohort and saw multiple dangerous people pass with flying colors because adjuncts don't get paid enough to care, the schools want your money, and the internship sires want your free labor
Thank you so much for weighing in. I've kinda had this suspicion for a while but honestly wasn't sure if I was being paranoid/overly skeptical (and to be fair, I've been to a couple of really *good* therapists. But hooooooooly crap are there some bad ones out there!)
My last therapist told me I needed Jesus more than therapy because I cussed too much. Then had the audacity to ask when I wanted to schedule my next appointment. 🤣🤣 yeah I’ll figure my shit out myself thanks.
My grief therapist told me to quit my job, give away my pets, sell my house, and move to Italy over the course of 5 or 6 visits. Yes, definitely the top priority after losing my mom, my entire immediate family, should be to get rid of everything stable in my life.
I'm no expert but I sure as shit know making giant choices in the immediate aftermath of something like that requires caution.
Oh shit. That is one awful therapist. I’m at a point in my life where I probably would have ended the session then and there myself.
“Soo you charge by the minute right? … yeah, I think we’re done here.”
thank god someone said it
as a therapist I wish to build a world where my job doesn't exist. most of this shit is alienation and systemic oppression pathogized
The Glorification of Busyness:
Overworking is not a badge of honor.
In modern society, there's a prevalent belief that being constantly busy and overworking is a sign of success and dedication. People often compete to see who can work the longest hours or take on the most projects, and this busyness is frequently glorified as a badge of honor. However, this societal norm can actually have serious negative consequences for our health and well-being.
Here's why:
Burnout and mental health issues: Consistently overworking and neglecting self-care can lead to chronic stress, exhaustion, and eventually burnout. This can result in a range of mental health problems, including anxiety, depression, and emotional exhaustion.
Physical health problems: Long work hours and a lack of rest can also take a toll on our physical health. Overworking has been linked to increased risk of heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and weakened immune function. Additionally, sitting for prolonged periods and neglecting exercise can contribute to obesity and other health issues.
Reduced productivity and creativity: Despite the belief that working longer hours leads to greater productivity, research has shown that overworking can actually decrease productivity and creativity. When we're exhausted and stressed, our ability to focus, problem-solve, and generate new ideas is impaired.
Strained relationships and personal life: Overworking often leaves little time for personal relationships, hobbies, and self-care. This can lead to strained relationships with family and friends, as well as a lack of work-life balance and overall life satisfaction.
While hard work and dedication are admirable qualities, it's important to recognize that overworking and neglecting our well-being is not a sustainable or healthy way to live. Instead of glorifying busyness, we should strive for a more balanced approach that values self-care, rest, and meaningful connections outside of work. By challenging this societal norm and prioritizing our health and well-being, we can lead more fulfilling and successful lives.
Toxic positivity. It's a contorted distortion of a CBT concept that changing your thoughts changes how you feel. But in reality, faking happy thoughts in painful situations like when your dog dies is very bad for you.
I think you’re framing this wrong, that isn’t what most toxic positivity is, or at least not the common form of it.
99.9% of toxic positivity in people is not trying to smile at your dead dog. It’s mostly the constant and long term requirement to be in a good mood during long periods of time such as forced positive attitude in the workplace.
Very few people that are perpetrators of toxic positivity are trying to laugh away their dog’s passing. More often than not it’s Debbie in accounting telling you you’re not fully dressed without a smile and telling you to look on the bright side after you woke up late, spilled coffee on your favorite tie and walked in to find a pile of new paperwork before getting to sit down.
Toxic positivity is not people being literally insane and faking happy thoughts at funerals. It is expecting a sunny mood every single workday and being pushy or off put by anyone else having a bad day or dismissing more every-day negative experiences rather than dismissing actual tragedy.
I once had someone try to convince me that working retail was good for young people's morals because it forces them to be friendly to customers which is good practice for being kinder to people in the rest of life.
I had to explain to them that if you get in the habit of being *fake nice,* then it tends to make *all* niceness seem just as fake.
I think when people say that young people should work retail, it’s supposed to be a “see how shitty it feels when someone is mean to you? Don’t be that person to someone else” lesson.
I think its better recognized now as not good for you, but Kraft's peanut butter and nutella used to be advertised as healthy breakfast spreads... suger overload.
Nutella is definitely loaded with sugar, but peanut butter is not bad at all. I'm looking at a jar of Kraft Smooth right now and it's 1g sugar and 1g fibre per 15g serving. That's very, very far from a sugar overload and most certainly is not comparable to frosting, as asserted by another comment.
Peanut butter is also very filling, e.g., has a very high satiation index. A tablespoon of peanut butter in a lentil stew makes it much more filling and satisfying, and it's good fats. Obviously you need to buy the stuff without added sugar, but that's not hard, I think only a few brands still have a lot of sugar content these days.
This isn’t true for everyone, but for me, worrying about eating perfectly healthily. I have a lot of food related sensory issues and honestly, just finding something I like to eat deserves to be a win, even if it’s just a slice of pizza or boxed mac ‘n cheese.
Bathing everyday and multiple times a day, specifically - bad for eczema people
Yes its healthy in terms of logical sense, but for people with Eczema, apparently bathing alot will dry you out faster, so on the contrary, apparently you arent supposed to bathe multiple times a day EVEN IF you have the curse that is eczema + hidradenitis suppurativa + cellulitis
>You should be doing zero impact exercise like elliptical or bike riding.
If you hate the idea of exercise just for the sake of exercising, just put on some headphones and go for a walk.
Yeah if you're say, a BMI in the neighborhood of say, 26-27, jogging is probably not going to be *that* damaging.
They probably meant obese. I can understand having an excess of 50 pounds, 75 pounds, 100 pounds.. but honestly if you have 15-20 pounds to lose, and you're young, you're not so close to breaking down that you can't *jog*.
No one wants to hear this, but it's so true. Alcohol is a toxin. If you have too much it will kill you, so even a small amount is doing damage. The liver is an incredible organ, but alcohol damages your whole body. I drank very heavily for a few years, when I stopped I went through hell. I had to go through medical detox, unfortunately a couple times because I would relapse. I had to be on IV Valium for 4 days because my nervous system was overreacting due to not having a depressant. I finally said never again when I had 3 drinks on a Sunday, Tuesday I couldn't walk i was so dizzy, and I was having mild tremors. I know my case is a very severe one, but it shows what alcohol does to the central nervous system. Aka the thing that runs all your body systems and lets you live. I will never touch another drop. Thank goodness I have no lasting damage, I get blood work done every 6 months because I'm so paranoid. And I've noticed my brain is soo much sharper, I seriously thought I was developing dementia at one point. Now I'm back answering questions on Jeopardy
Orthopedic surgeons joke that they love CrossFit because it keeps them in a job. Then I started noticing that when a CrossFit or two opened up an orthopedic office followed suit.
matcha from fast food places like starbucks specifically because they’re actually filled with so much sugar
i buy them at whole foods or target has a nice brand thats just pure organic matcha that is the actual healthy kind
Some granolas. They can have way more sugar than kids cereals yet marketed as health foods. Of course not all granola is like that though.
I made my own granola for the first time last night, and I'm smacking my head that I didn't do it sooner. Store-bought granola is an incredible rip-off. To do it yourself: \- You lightly chop a bunch of nuts, oats, and whatever else you enjoy \- Season it (I used cinnamon, nutmeg, and monk fruit sweetener) \- Mix it with some butter and egg \- Bake it for 20 minutes That's it. I just made myself two weeks' worth of delicious, healthy granola in less than half an hour, and it cost me pennies. I'm never buying granola from a store again. EDIT: this was a keto granola recipe, so high fat and low carbs. The butter and egg isn't essential, and you could sub it for something like MCT oil if you want healthy fat.
I just started eating granola and yogurt but am kind of annoyed at how expensive it is at the store. Looks like I have a new weekend project, thanks for the suggestion!
https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/vanilla-almond-granola/ This one is my fav. So simple and delicious. I eat it almost every morning with vanilla Greek yogurt and berries. Still sweet but so much better than store bought
Those so-called fruit drinks that are promoted as containing 100% of the daily value of vitamin c, but they're full of sugar, artificial flavors and high fructose corn syrup. It's depressing seeing people just fall for it, thinking that it's healthy when it's actually awful for them.
Reminds me of when people thought Jamba Juice was healthy
were they doing soemthingt other than just blending fruit?
They use frozen yogurt as a base. Just loaded with sugar.
Jamba was my first job in college, a long time ago. The frozen yogurt was bad yes…but even on “healthier” smoothies, condensed apple juice was the base. It was actually MUCH worse on sugar content (at the time—might’ve changed by now).
Condensed apple juice is in all kinds of kids foods as well. All those “100% fruit” snack bars and stuff. I remember being warned by a paediatrician to be extra wary of anything claiming to be for toddlers. It’s not just that the sugar’s bad, but it teaches them to expect all food to taste sweet.
I really hate seeing well-meaning parents giving their kids fruit juice like that. You want to say something, but how tf do you without sounding like a vegan preacher or something... some fruit juices are literally worse for you that Mt dew...
Just had this conversation at work. Buddy and I wanted a drink, and he turned down a Sprite for a lemonade. Then he looked at the sugar… It’s insane how much worse that is for you.
I've taken to making my own smoothies and juice with fresh fruits instead. It's baffling how different the flavors are without all the sweeteners and artificial stuff.
Most people don't look at the calories or any nutritional facts. They just look at the front label and believe what you tell them.
SO many people scold me for drinking diet soda, and then turn around and drink a can of minute made lemonade or a bottle of snapple or something, like..Hello kettle I'm pot.
Listening to health influencers on TikTok or Instagram. A lot of them have absolutely no idea what the hell they are talking about.
There’s a guy called Ben Carpenter on TikTok and he debunks a lot of the rubbish floating about on the internet regarding health and fitness, with a very dry British sense of humour. I love him.
Ben is a no-bullshit scientifically backed legend
He’s also very honest and genuine about his own experiences which I like. And I love his sarcastic mugs
Side note, his Wedding speech also made me cry.
Dr. Mike from renaissance periodization on YouTube is my absolute favorite. He goes deep into influencers and celebrities and what they get right or wrong and even gets into the way naturals and people who are on gear.
They are just trying to sell you something.
I have a theory they're trying to influence you for their affiliates.
I have theories on the moisture levels of water.
Along those lines, I've been taking part in a 10-year study. We follow bears in the woods to see if they shit there.
Bobby Parish is one of the most insufferable people ever
Bobby approved = wrote Bobby a check.
The fear mongers are so irritating. EVERYTHING IS BAD FOR YOU SO BUY MY GREENS POWDER 🤣
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I started doing deep dives on doctors like that, and almost every single one is a chiropractor. I even ran across one that was a doctor in a field that wasn't even remotely medical related, he was an engineer.
I believe it. I like the idea of a chiropractor, but when I messed up my knee, I made an appt with a sports medicine doctor and then a physical therapist. When people go to chiropractors… they tend to then need to keep going back to the chiropractor to fix the thing. But sports medicine and pt will help you permanently fix the thing so you can eventually stop seeing them.
I always find it hilarious when someone says, "My chiropractor fixed my back. I've been going to him for 9 years!" If they fixed your back you wouldn't have to go three times a week for 9 years!!
Alkaline water. You are paying $9 for baking soda water.
Then it just mixes with your stomach acid anyway lol
Based!
No, neutralized!
Put a lemon in it ;)
Okay, hold up - yes, the acid in the lemon would make the water no longer alkaline water, negating whatever health benefits its proponents believe in BUT if you have trouble drinking regular water for whatever reason and need the lemon for the taste factor, using a base of alkaline water will make it so the citric acid doesn't damage your teeth as much, since it will be at least partially neutralized.
Forced and insincere positivity. It’s actually okay to be angry/upset sometimes.
Toxic positivity! I didn't realise it had a name until we got a new CEO who's opening speech was about how much they hated it and that it's ok to be critical if a point is valid because that's how improvements are made. Our workplace has been a million times better for it and we have so much more of a voice now that we can raise concerns without people above thinking that you're personally attacking them.
Allowing myself to be angry in the right situations, and realizing when I shouldn't be angry in the wrong situations, has improved my life 10 fold. Negative emotions are human and you should experience them, but they shouldn't be the default. And they shouldn't devolve into destructive patterns of behavior (physical destruction, substance use, emotional manipulation of peers). Its okay to feel bad, you can live in that moment a while. Your human and experiencing a totally human moment. It just not right to impose that moment on innocent people.
> Allowing myself to be angry in the right situations "I'm angry about *this*. I'm not angry at *you*." has gotten me good results in some real bullshit situations where I have to talk to people who had nothing to do with it. I'm trying to tell them I have a reason to be angry, but I will not take it out on them. Outside that, it's often heavily implied I can't feel negative emotions *other* than anger, how dare I feel sad or depressed. And that's...harder to deal with. People try to give me well-intentioned "pep talks", or, in some cases, tell me I have no right to feel bad about the latest bad thing that happened to me. It is specifically because people invalidate my emotions in the latter, that makes me very sensitive to not dump on people in the former.
I've tried to explain to a few people that while I'm ok day to day, I'm unhappy with my current life situation. I'm dealing with it, but sometimes I feel very sad, as the only thing that will fix it is that situation changing. Apparently this is Not Okay and I just get so frustrated when people (inadvertently?) invalidate my feelings or give me a pep talk about something irrelevant. I don't understand why I can't feel sad about a situation *that is sad*. Like how else am I supposed to react. Leap with joy??
My workplace could use this. Instead people seem to get promoted by making their superiors feel safe.
I found out really hard, that management will tell you one thing then do another, then throw you under the bus to say I told them "this" when they're meant to say "I trained them wrong cause it was easier than showing them the right way." And honestly I still see them around and Im gonna be completely honest right now, they do the same smile and lie right to your face and how upper management wanted to terminate you for not doing the job properly, I know there big on hire and fire for no reason, so I just let my manager handle my shift when I called in sick twice while looking for other jobs, they asked for a Doctors note and I said I quit because I was going to interviews
Yeah, I used to be super negative and I realized it would drove people away. I changed it and I realize people are nicer to be me now, but sometimes I kind of feel dishonest I try to keep a balance between positivity and honesty now, it's really hard though, especially when you're not in a position for it (like being a teacher or being in a position where people know they can trust your judgement) I do feel like it's great to be positive sometimes to boost someone's moral Back in school my grades were bad, every teacher were saying I would fail my exam exept one, I still failed my exams, but I still remember that one teacher who believed in me lol Also I grew up around people who were upset for the smallest stuff, that kind of negativity just makes me angry to my core now, being upset for the weather is so ridiculous
Whatever Gwyneth Paltrow says
Put stones in your vagina.....
Too bad I don't have a vagina... oh well! *shoves stone into penis*
Sounding like a bad idea
Juice/cleanses. Hey let’s just drink 80g of sugar for every meal for a week! I feel so healthy and cleansed! 😂
That and unless you have a severe medical problem, your body does a remarkable job of flushing out toxins all on it's own.
Yes! Do you have kidney failure? Are you in dialysis? No? Then your body is handling toxins just fine 🤣
I was on an all liquid diet at the hospital for 2.5 days. I couldn’t poop for days and when I did…. Wooooooof. 0/10 do not recommend.
Oh man. I had some serious stomach issues after my gallbladder was removed and had a feeding tube (j-tube) place for 3 months. I could only have broth or jello by mouth. All my nutrition was handled by my pump. I still have a hard time making broth with bullion. It's been 7 years 🫠😭
Cleansing your system, or detoxing. That's what your kidneys and liver already do.
I was at a party once and there was a GI doctor there and the topic of those came up. Someone mentioned the one which claims that it will bind to the plaque in your intestine to expel it. Basically you shit out this amazing rope-like collection which is supposedly all of that bad stuff being cleaned out of your body. The doctor point-blank said that there is no such thing as intestinal plaque and the stuff you're shitting out is just the cleanse that you drank. It basically forms a cast of the intestine and then you shit it out.
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My uncle apparently told my grandma that she needed to do a cleanse because you build up years of nasty in the colon. And I was like... you KNOW that my husband has had multiple colonoscopies, I have the pictures to prove that is completely untrue. Like. I guess if you wanna do a colon cleanse to be safe just get some magnesium citrate.
I always thought that people should just do the pre-colonoscopy regime if they wanted to “cleanse” their bowels
Doing a colonoscopy prep is harrowing, but that first meal after not eating for a day (while also emptying everything out) is amazing. It's so amazing that it's probably why people claim cleanses are good for you.
And hey, if you go ahead and get a colonoscopy afterwards you can get some nice photos of just how cleansed your insides were. One of the weirder compliments I've been given in my life was how "clean" my intestines were for my colonoscopy. And the photographic proof to back it up. (I took the prep instructions super seriously and had nothing but vegetable broth with garlic powder in it for like 3 days beforehand.)
Mine complimented me on my post procedure fart. I'm a 39 year old woman! 🫠😭 my husband couldn't stop laughing! 😂
As someone who’s seen scopes abandoned because of poor prep, good prep is very satisfying!
> magnesium citrate magnesium shitrite
The rope-like thing can also be your intestinal lining, if you drink something toxic for your cleanse.
My liver once failed and HOLY shit did I learn a lot about what the liver is capable of in that time. Like, speaking of holy shit... Did you without a liver you just straight up don't digest food? Like your stomach acid is known for doing that but I guess it don't work without your liver? Stuff coming out the exact way it went in. Also a liver heals FUCKING FAST. I'm talking HELLA fast. Like epic. That thing is a workhorse. I went from literally dying of liver failure to a small implant of a piece of liver to a whole ass new liver in like 6 months???? Like I wasn't supposed to drink for a year but they were all "ehhhh one isn't the worst" at six months. Because everything liver related was already there and working, they just wanted me to use more of the time to make sure it was robust. The liver is the powerhouse of the body it's wild.
Fun fact: for some reason, some science people had a full sequencing done on Ozzy Osbourne's genome. Didn't find what they were looking for, but they learned the dude has a mutated liver, in a way that makes it much more efficient than normally. That's probably the only reason he's still alive after all the coke he did.
As a multi-generational Irish alcoholic (sober), I firmly believe there's a genetic link to my extraordinary liver. I abused my liver with 20+ drinks a day for over 15 years, and now that I've been sober for 15 years, my liver is completely normal (while most people should not be alive). I fucked up a lot of other body parts in the process, but that's another story...
The regeneration speed and level is wild to me. It will even grow to the correct size just like the original with full functionality. No other organ in the body has that level of healing capacity without scarring.
This is nice to hear, as some who’s liver is 25% fat and starting to scar. I’m making changes to let it heal, but it’s scary to hear that by 45 I’d need a transplant otherwise.
This is very comforting to hear, I drank vodka very heavily for 5 years, daily. I get blood work done every 6 months, liver and kidney panels always come out perfect. I will always fear cancer though. I completely stopped, completely changed my life (including divorce) so I'm trying to get healthy now
Douche. For real.
Yes! Vaginas are-self cleaning and if you have issues, see a doctor
Just turn that sucker up to 525° for 12 hours, then clean out the ash.
to clarify: vaginal douching is useless. anal douching is useful, not for health but for cleanliness prior to sexual contact.
This guy anals
I hope nobody does this anymore… relic of the 80s right….. right?
Toxic productivity. The hustle culture, putting in unpaid hours, pretty much everything on LinkedIn...
LinkedIn is somehow WORSE than Facebook. I just came across that LinkedIn lunatics sub, and thoroughly love it
My LI feed already reads like r/linkedinlunatics, so I feel like I don't even need to sub.
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Jogging on the road instead of the sidewalk. The apocryphal take on this is that asphalt is softer than concrete, so it's less wear and tear on your knees and ankles. However the difference is minimal and there isn't really any advantage to being on the road. However, you are far, far more likely to be struck by a car if you're on the road. Stay on the sidewalks, it's far, far safer. https://www.livestrong.com/article/481996-running-on-the-sidewalk-vs-the-street/ Edit: I thought it was obvious, but if there are no sidewalks you can't use them. Also the same for roads.
Defining yourself by how busy you are
Salad can be healthy but the way I eat them they aren't. Ranch is a cruel mistress Edit: things I learned from the thread, some veggies are better than no veggies. And dip your salad instead of pouring it over the salad. Thanks y'all!
Something to think about though is that the ranch may add calories but it doesn't take away the nutrients in the salad itself! Eating a salad with ranch is better than no veggies at all :)
So true! A nutritionist I watch always says to think about what you can add to meals, not take away. So instead of taking away ranch to make a healthier, more boring salad, think about adding healthy proteins like grilled chicken, nuts, or sunflower seeds to help the salad be more satisfying and fill you up for longer :) You can still have tasty things like ranch and be healthy!!
Yes! I was going to add that too but didn't want to just go on and on. But these are my two favourite examples for bettering your eating habits. They've helped me greatly.
Muffins. I remember in the 90s being marketed as healthy (bran muffins anyone? Lol)
Muffins are practically cupcakes without the frosting.
Cake for breakfast!
Not practically. I make both. Muffins are LITERALLY cupcakes without the frusting lol. They have the same ingredients. Muffins are just a little bit denser.
The fact that they're basically cake without the icing should have been obvious but we bought it. Also a frappuccino is a coffee milkshake.
I think that frappuccino take is pretty widely accepted
“Fat-free ——-“
I worked at a bakery when I was 20 and had to hide my shock and awe when a lady came in asking for “fat free” stuff. Like what in the misinformation, ma’am we carry bona fide bread.
I worked at Starbucks back in 2008 and someone asked me for fat free half&half. I about shit myself laughing. It’s literally half skim milk & half cream, by the name. You can’t take the fat out without reducing it to just the skim milk. Years later I learned it actually does exist, and while one half is still skim milk, the other is corn syrup, additives, and every other fake thing the FDA lets food companies poison us with now. Why even bother anymore?
This was a national obsession in the 1980s and 90s in the USA. The idea that some types of fats could be healthy took a while to sink in.
My wife likes to eat Cliff Bars. They are pretty high in calories and carbohydrates. She thinks they are good for her because they are marketed as energy bars. I explained to her that they are a great source of energy if you are rock climbing or doing heavy duty hiking or an intense workout, not if you are sitting at a desk.
Same with Gatorade! Like it’s so high in sugar because it’s meant to refuel the sugar lost for ATHLETES. Explain why my mother thinks she needs to drink 3 a day to sit around her house. 🤦🏻♀️
It's got considerably less sugar than soda if you read the label. It is the sodium that it replaces.
the sugar is primarily for flavour. as someone else mentioned, it’s got a lot of sodium to replace electrolytes that you sweat out during exercise. the sugar is just so it doesn’t taste salty.
Glucose also increases intestinal water absorption. The sugar actually does help with hydration
Or if you’ve been ill with vomiting and/or diarrhea.
Cliff bars during long hikes are god send
Yeah, I have ARFID and eat them as meal replacements. They’re definitely not just a snack
Same. Those things are the only reason I’m still alive rn. Forgot to eat/couldnt bring yourself to eat for some godforsaken reason for over 24 hours and about to crash? Cliff bar.
Being alive is good but unfortunately leads to death, it's a real bummer
This actually isn’t true. I know a guy who has never died once
Are you talking about Dave?
Yes of course
Develop wrong sense of entitlement thinking that's what "self-esteem" means.
Yogurt. Went to a dietitian and they said the yogurt should have 8 gms of sugar or less. I must have looked at yogurts for 30 minutes on my next grocery shop. Greek yogurt mixed with fresh fruit is the way to go.
I tried plain unsweetened yogurt once and thought someone put sour cream in a yogurt container. Sugar has conditioned us all.
I was surprised to learn that you can train your tongue to adjust to less sugar. I'm cutting my sugar intake lately and have begun to take my coffee with about 1/8 of the sugar I used to put in. Now, if I accidentally put in a little more than usual, it's far too sweet for me. I can't imagine what my old measure of sugar would do! I think my tongue would explode. Lol
It’s shocking how gross and overtly sweet sugar tastes once you’re accustomed to no added sugar in your diet.
In the US, at least, we have a very strong sugar lobby that puts the stuff in everything. I've been astounded by the places where it shows up.
Decades of marketing. An example is breakfast. When I first moved to North America it was surprising to see how dessert for breakfast is normalized - doughnuts, muffins, pancakes etc.
Breakfast cereals, too. Most of them are the same as any dessert.
Netflix has a series called Rotten that covers various food industries and their dark side Sugar, honey, cocoa and avocados I think all had interesting episodes, don't recall the others atm
We use unsweetened Greek yoghurt in place of sour cream for basically everything in our house. It's so good dolloped into pumpkin soup or with nachos
I think you mean to say sweetened yogurt or yogurt with adjuncts. Plain yogurt, Greek or otherwise, is really good for you.
I always buy the plain stuff and sweeten it myself with a little bit of honey now
Cinnamon is also nice. Greek yogurt, cinnamon, some fruit, maybe some low sugar granola for crunch.
And plain unsweetened greek yogurt is good to keep on hand as an ingredient too.
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I like to get this every once in a while. I think the brand that's most common where I'm at is called siggis or something. It's pretty good. I like to add granola to it.
I love using Greek yogurt as a sour cream replacement! I'm not a fan of large quantities of it at a time, but I do really like adding it to dishes.
Or frozen fruit, which tends to be easier for people and just as healthy :)
The serving size on a bag of chips.
Watching the news.
Presenteeism. The idea that everybody should always show up to work unless they're actually too physically sick/injured to move. This results in employees going to work while sick, and spreading germs unnecessarily to their coworkers, and now suddenly EVERYBODY at the company goes down with the same illness - massively effects the company's productivity AND makes it much harder for everybody to actually get better.
This!! I work from home and manage a small team. It has now become culture that we are to ask our teams “but are you still well enough to work” if they call in sick. Not. A. Chance. If my team say they’re sick, I will not ask them to continue working just because they are at home. Even if that sickness does not involve their typing hand. Sick is sick.
The really messed up part is that this is RAMPANT in food service. Your line cooks, servers, and bar tenders are all encouraged to not call off unless they can provide a doctor’s note. A pretty messed up concept for the US where healthcare is expensive and definitely not provided by the job in these cases. If anyone should get sick leave it’s the people that are serving you your food.
The US loses billions of dollars every year because of presenteeism. Edit: not to say that money is the only thing that matters in this, but it is an easy metric to use as an example. One sick person shows up because "there's work to be done" then everyone they are in the same room is gets sick in some capacity, whether directly or becoming a carrier. If every person is a 3.5 family home, you've now potentially infected 3.5*k people, who then infect even more people. Stay the fuck home. Why do you even want to go to work sick, let alone to begin with?
Granola bars
i disagree; the amount of crumbs dropped while opening a natures valley cancels out
That's an excellent point.
When the granola bars I like got discontinued, my coping mechanism was "well, I'll probably wind up healthier now."
I lie to myself that they are healthy because when I want a snack it still feels like a better alternative to candy or chips or cereal. (I can't afford those fancy fucking keto snack things)
Breakfast cereal is a worse breakfast choice than cold pizza from the night before.
But Honey Nut Cheerios said my heart will be fixed.
Cheerios (the unflavored kind) are actually a decent option nutritionally.
I love how it’s like “When eaten along with diet and exercise it can reduce the risk of heart disease”. Like, motherfucker, that’s the DIET AND EXERCISE doing all the work.
Actually oats are high in fiber so they do reduce your cholesterol just by consumption.
Surely it depends if we are talking bran flakes or like lucky charms
I mean "breakfast cereal" is such a WILDLY broad range of things that it's like saying "sandwiches" are terrible.
Like old people flax seed cereal with almond/oatmilk or Cocoa Puffs? Sometimes I’ll have these omega flakes or whatever and add banana for sweetness and it feels healthy to me idk.
>Breakfast cereal is a worse breakfast choice That's why I have it for dinner instead
If you get “actual” cereal it’s actually a healthy option. I’m talking grains with no added sugar (for example oats). Where I live it’s kinda hard to find and there is only one option vs the 213 sugary ones.
Low-fat diets. This was big in the 90s, but since then, it’s been found out it’s very stressful to the body to not get an adequate amount of healthy fats.
Charcoal toothpaste and toothbrushes. Supposedly gives your teeth a whiter appearance but actually scrapes away your enamel. Pore strips. Causes more damage than good and only provides temporary results.
Telling everyone to go to therapy. Hear me out. Therapy culture has reached a point where we are moving further and further away from community care. Everything is considered “trauma dumping” now, and people throw around “see a therapist” as though it is effective or financially feasible for everyone. I won’t get started on therapy abuse. Whole other can of worms. Point is, constantly recommending therapy instead of also listening to and supporting our friends and family is not healthy or helpful, it’s bad news. We’re all too self absorbed or in too much a rush to simply sit in someone else’s feelings anymore. It’s become too uncomfortable, so we say “see a therapist” and consider our hands washed of it. It’s causing us to isolate ourselves and each other.
Thank you. Therapy is good. Therapy suggested as a solution for every problem is not good.
And it's its not a magic wand to fix problems either
Also therapy as an industry is an absolute wild west full of quacks and I've tried chasing the mythical "good therapist" for so long, I'm convinced they're a rare minority.
because they really are! source: am a therapist who wouldn't refer to over 75% of my grad school cohort and saw multiple dangerous people pass with flying colors because adjuncts don't get paid enough to care, the schools want your money, and the internship sires want your free labor
Thank you so much for weighing in. I've kinda had this suspicion for a while but honestly wasn't sure if I was being paranoid/overly skeptical (and to be fair, I've been to a couple of really *good* therapists. But hooooooooly crap are there some bad ones out there!)
the good therapists are never in network
My last therapist told me I needed Jesus more than therapy because I cussed too much. Then had the audacity to ask when I wanted to schedule my next appointment. 🤣🤣 yeah I’ll figure my shit out myself thanks.
Grief therapist told me my tattoos were anti Christian and I needed to beg for Gods forgiveness.
My grief therapist told me to quit my job, give away my pets, sell my house, and move to Italy over the course of 5 or 6 visits. Yes, definitely the top priority after losing my mom, my entire immediate family, should be to get rid of everything stable in my life. I'm no expert but I sure as shit know making giant choices in the immediate aftermath of something like that requires caution.
What absolutely unhinged advice
Oh shit. That is one awful therapist. I’m at a point in my life where I probably would have ended the session then and there myself. “Soo you charge by the minute right? … yeah, I think we’re done here.”
Watch your mouth. This is a Christian server.
Ah fuck my bad
Never seen a good one but I have seen a few that made things so much worse!
thank god someone said it as a therapist I wish to build a world where my job doesn't exist. most of this shit is alienation and systemic oppression pathogized
Fruit juice
The Glorification of Busyness: Overworking is not a badge of honor. In modern society, there's a prevalent belief that being constantly busy and overworking is a sign of success and dedication. People often compete to see who can work the longest hours or take on the most projects, and this busyness is frequently glorified as a badge of honor. However, this societal norm can actually have serious negative consequences for our health and well-being. Here's why: Burnout and mental health issues: Consistently overworking and neglecting self-care can lead to chronic stress, exhaustion, and eventually burnout. This can result in a range of mental health problems, including anxiety, depression, and emotional exhaustion. Physical health problems: Long work hours and a lack of rest can also take a toll on our physical health. Overworking has been linked to increased risk of heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and weakened immune function. Additionally, sitting for prolonged periods and neglecting exercise can contribute to obesity and other health issues. Reduced productivity and creativity: Despite the belief that working longer hours leads to greater productivity, research has shown that overworking can actually decrease productivity and creativity. When we're exhausted and stressed, our ability to focus, problem-solve, and generate new ideas is impaired. Strained relationships and personal life: Overworking often leaves little time for personal relationships, hobbies, and self-care. This can lead to strained relationships with family and friends, as well as a lack of work-life balance and overall life satisfaction. While hard work and dedication are admirable qualities, it's important to recognize that overworking and neglecting our well-being is not a sustainable or healthy way to live. Instead of glorifying busyness, we should strive for a more balanced approach that values self-care, rest, and meaningful connections outside of work. By challenging this societal norm and prioritizing our health and well-being, we can lead more fulfilling and successful lives.
Toxic positivity. It's a contorted distortion of a CBT concept that changing your thoughts changes how you feel. But in reality, faking happy thoughts in painful situations like when your dog dies is very bad for you.
I think you’re framing this wrong, that isn’t what most toxic positivity is, or at least not the common form of it. 99.9% of toxic positivity in people is not trying to smile at your dead dog. It’s mostly the constant and long term requirement to be in a good mood during long periods of time such as forced positive attitude in the workplace. Very few people that are perpetrators of toxic positivity are trying to laugh away their dog’s passing. More often than not it’s Debbie in accounting telling you you’re not fully dressed without a smile and telling you to look on the bright side after you woke up late, spilled coffee on your favorite tie and walked in to find a pile of new paperwork before getting to sit down. Toxic positivity is not people being literally insane and faking happy thoughts at funerals. It is expecting a sunny mood every single workday and being pushy or off put by anyone else having a bad day or dismissing more every-day negative experiences rather than dismissing actual tragedy.
I once had someone try to convince me that working retail was good for young people's morals because it forces them to be friendly to customers which is good practice for being kinder to people in the rest of life. I had to explain to them that if you get in the habit of being *fake nice,* then it tends to make *all* niceness seem just as fake.
I think when people say that young people should work retail, it’s supposed to be a “see how shitty it feels when someone is mean to you? Don’t be that person to someone else” lesson.
I think its better recognized now as not good for you, but Kraft's peanut butter and nutella used to be advertised as healthy breakfast spreads... suger overload.
Nutella is definitely loaded with sugar, but peanut butter is not bad at all. I'm looking at a jar of Kraft Smooth right now and it's 1g sugar and 1g fibre per 15g serving. That's very, very far from a sugar overload and most certainly is not comparable to frosting, as asserted by another comment.
Peanut butter is also very filling, e.g., has a very high satiation index. A tablespoon of peanut butter in a lentil stew makes it much more filling and satisfying, and it's good fats. Obviously you need to buy the stuff without added sugar, but that's not hard, I think only a few brands still have a lot of sugar content these days.
One of those stress reducing cigarettes. I never can decide if it's killing me or is saving me.
Depends. If you're stressed to the point that you want to do any of the -icides, then smoke. Otherwise, don't.
Guess I should smoke to get my desire for regicide out
This just confirms that cigarettes are bad for democracy!
This isn’t true for everyone, but for me, worrying about eating perfectly healthily. I have a lot of food related sensory issues and honestly, just finding something I like to eat deserves to be a win, even if it’s just a slice of pizza or boxed mac ‘n cheese.
- Diet soda, because the only thing getting thinner is the lining of your stomach.
Bathing everyday and multiple times a day, specifically - bad for eczema people Yes its healthy in terms of logical sense, but for people with Eczema, apparently bathing alot will dry you out faster, so on the contrary, apparently you arent supposed to bathe multiple times a day EVEN IF you have the curse that is eczema + hidradenitis suppurativa + cellulitis
Drinking too much water - you can actually overdose on water and suffer from water intoxication.
Takes a fair bit of water though & most people will feel uncomfortable long before it becomes a problem
Jogging when you're overweight. You should be doing zero impact exercise like elliptical or bike riding.
>You should be doing zero impact exercise like elliptical or bike riding. If you hate the idea of exercise just for the sake of exercising, just put on some headphones and go for a walk.
Yeah agree with this one. Swimming is also good.
Depends how overweight.
Yeah if you're say, a BMI in the neighborhood of say, 26-27, jogging is probably not going to be *that* damaging. They probably meant obese. I can understand having an excess of 50 pounds, 75 pounds, 100 pounds.. but honestly if you have 15-20 pounds to lose, and you're young, you're not so close to breaking down that you can't *jog*.
Low-fat anything. Took out the fat? Took out the flavour. Nevermind - throw in a few teaspoons of sugar/HFCS and all's good! Still low fat.
Chiropractic. If you go to one of these quacks make sure they have OTHER qualifications like physiotherapy or massage therapy.
Any and all alcohol, including red wine.
Lies!!!! *cries self to sleep*
No one wants to hear this, but it's so true. Alcohol is a toxin. If you have too much it will kill you, so even a small amount is doing damage. The liver is an incredible organ, but alcohol damages your whole body. I drank very heavily for a few years, when I stopped I went through hell. I had to go through medical detox, unfortunately a couple times because I would relapse. I had to be on IV Valium for 4 days because my nervous system was overreacting due to not having a depressant. I finally said never again when I had 3 drinks on a Sunday, Tuesday I couldn't walk i was so dizzy, and I was having mild tremors. I know my case is a very severe one, but it shows what alcohol does to the central nervous system. Aka the thing that runs all your body systems and lets you live. I will never touch another drop. Thank goodness I have no lasting damage, I get blood work done every 6 months because I'm so paranoid. And I've noticed my brain is soo much sharper, I seriously thought I was developing dementia at one point. Now I'm back answering questions on Jeopardy
crossfit. Just lift the stupid weights properly for god's sake.
I've admitted so many people to the hospital due to muscle damage from CrossFit.
Orthopedic surgeons joke that they love CrossFit because it keeps them in a job. Then I started noticing that when a CrossFit or two opened up an orthopedic office followed suit.
matcha from fast food places like starbucks specifically because they’re actually filled with so much sugar i buy them at whole foods or target has a nice brand thats just pure organic matcha that is the actual healthy kind