Although the correlation between larger bodies and higher rates of heart disease, diabetes and other chronic conditions is well known, some of the mechanisms behind the relationship are not straightforward. Mainstream weight researchers argue that high body weight itself causes the elevated blood pressure and inflammation responsible for such conditions. Others, such as physiologist Lindo Bacon, say that the contribution of weight to health is complex and that the root cause of disease is more likely to be an intersection of the patient's genetics, life habits and environment._____
In some cases, data have shown that a higher body weight can actually be protective against certain health conditions. In the early 2000s researchers began noticing that heart surgery patients with higher BMIs had better survival rates than their thinner counterparts; this phenomenon was dubbed the “obesity paradox” and has also been documented for patients with osteoporosis (in whom higher body weight is thought to improve bone mineral density), major injuries and some kinds of cancer. The fact that a higher body weight actually helps people survive certain major illnesses could partially explain why individuals in overweight and low-obese BMI categories have an overall lower mortality risk according to the large epidemiology analyses of body weight and mortality correlations in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), the first of which was published by scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2005. This research documents a “J curve” for the relation between BMI levels and mortality, meaning that whereas mortality risk increases for those with the highest and lowest BMIs, there is no increased risk for people in the middle range—overweight and low obesity—compared with that for those with BMIs in the normal range.
The tabloids are having a field day now that Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell has been arrested, in New Hampshire of all places.
She is due in federal court later today.
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This is bizarre and unreasonable.
When coronavirus hit, companies scrambled to adjust their policies around remote work and child care: With schools and day cares closed, and nonessential employees working from home, many employers realized that they could no longer demand the full attention of their employees during working hours. They would have to be flexible. But now some of that flexibility may be coming to an end. As the school gears up to reopen in the fall, Florida State announced Friday that many employees will have to develop alternative plans for child care.
It's sexist, pure and simple.
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Yes, the trans movement is in fact a war against women:
Many left-leaning organizations are also now promoting the decriminalization of pimping and sex-buying. Prostitution is a notorious crime against women and trafficked children. As the campaign organization Nordic Model Now explains, “Prostitution inherently contradicts the prostituted person’s absolute legal right to reject sexual advances and activity for any or no reason.”
The powerful American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), with hundreds of millions of dollars in funding at the national level alone and an issue portfolio large enough to be its own political party, leads the way on these and other policies harmful to women. Through popular social media accounts of national staff lawyers and the lawsuits brought by state affiliates and the national organization, the ACLU’s policies towards women are almost a caricature of those attitudes of the Vietnam-era male left that inspired the revolt of Second Wave feminists.
The ACLU and its state affiliates have variously opposed bans on female genital mutilation and child marriage, supported the sale of women’s bodies in surrogacy and prostitution, supported the full legalization of filmed prostitution, worked to end female-only sports for girls and women, demanded an end to indecent exposure and voyeurism protections for women in locker rooms and shared showers, looks to end women-only scholarships and business grants, and seeks to erase the very recognition of sex under the law.
The ACLU needs to go. Really and truly. It has long outlived its usefulness.
And yes, back in the 1980s I was a card-carrying member.
Not anymore. No chance.
The ACLU is a shitstain on humanity.
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Obituary: Noted television broadcaster Hugh Downs, only 99, has died. He appeared everywhere on television during its first decades including co-hosting 20/20, the Today Show, The Tonight Show, and game shows like one of my favorites, Concentration.
Downs died of natural causes in Scottsdale, Arizona, where he lived.
Downs began his broadcasting career at the age of 18 as a $12-a-week announcer on a small Ohio radio station. When television came along, he at first looked on it as a gimmick, but quickly realized “it was probably a juggernaut, and I’d better be in on it.”_____
He was an announcer in Chicago, which was a television incubator in the 1950, for “Kukla, Fran & Ollie” and “Hawkins Falls,” which he said was television’s first soap opera. In 1954, he went to New York for “The Home Show.”
In 1961, Newsweek described him as “a gluttonous reader with a first-rate brain that he keeps curried and exercised like a prize poodle.”
His reputation was such that he even won the right to approve any commercial he was assigned to read, striving to keep dubious claims off the air.
Movie of the Day:
Fuck-ups on both sides. The woman shouldn't have pulled a gun out, and the mother and daughter had no business accosting her in the first place.
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