Add More Stairs to Your Life for Heart Health and Living Longer
You’ve heard of “take the stairs instead of the elevator” many times, but you’re going to hear it again: It could add years to your heart and life, so ditch the elevator and get on that staircase.
Or, just make an effort to climb more stairs anywhere in day to day life. This includes actual stair workouts. (more…)
Fat Influencer Posts Harmful Misinformation Re: Diabetes
A morbidly obese diabetic influencer is announcing you can’t give yourself diabetes.
But if someone can reverse type 2 diabetes, this means you CAN give yourself this metabolic disease.
Amanda Martinez Beck, who has almost 25,000 Instagram followers as of this article’s publication date, has posted numerous times the following: “Diabetes isn’t a punishment for being fat.” (more…)
Whom You Owe Thinness To: Surprising Answer
“You owe thinness to nobody” is a mantra sung by many fat activists on social media.
They keep saying “thinness” as though fat and skinny are the only two ways to exist. (more…)
Steps an Autistic Can Take Now to Be Fit & Healthy at 60
Autistic and terrified of aging? There’s ways to combat the fear of aging even if money is limited; here’s what to start doing NOW.
Autism doesn’t mean you must age painfully instead of gracefully. (more…)
How Influencers with Cringe Content Get a Million Followers
Ever wonder how an influencer with cringe or boring content can amass a million followers? Is it mostly luck? One post that went viral? Like, HOW?
So there’s an influencer – I won’t identify her – who has a staggering 1.4 million Instagram followers. (more…)
Are Big Thighs Necessarily More Muscular?
Do you have thigh abundance and are convinced this is due to muscle even though you don’t or hardly work out with weights? Size can mean fat, muscle or both.
I was inspired to cover this sometimes sensitive topic after catching an Instagram post of a woman’s thigh next to her husband’s. (more…)
Why Aren’t Nonspeaking Autistic Spellers Employed?
It’s suspicious for facilitator bias when a nonspeaking autistic who spells elaborate paragraphs is somehow not able to hold down a simple job.
Why Are Brilliant Nonspeaking Spellers in Day Programs?
If nonspeaking autistic spellers are the actual composers of their advanced narrative via letter boards held by parents, why are they in day programs?
This is a very fair question. For example, the alleged author of the novel “Upward Bound,” Woody Brown, is nonverbal and has a day program history. (more…)
Anorexia Nervosa Gets Sympathy but Bigorexia Doesn’t?
Why is it that a woman who’s starved herself to the bone gets sympathy for her eating disorder, but men with bigorexia are seen as narcissistic and arrogant?
Along those same lines, a morbidly obese woman doesn’t get a fraction of the sympathy for her eating disorder as does the woman who’s intentionally whittled her body down to a frightful looking 80 pounds. (more…)
Would You Take a Pill to Wipe Your Autism? Drug Study
Seems that researchers are closing in on a drug that can reduce or even eliminate autism traits.
UCLA scientists have come upon a drug that did this for mice that had autistic traits. (more…)