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dan cohen if you read this im free on friday night and would like to hang out. please respond to this and then hang out with me on friday night when i’m free.
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ecce-meliora
Eating disorders among people who are overweight or obese often go unrecognized.
“I broke down because I couldn’t believe that a doctor was telling me that he could have died at any moment, yet all of these other doctors wouldn’t even take me seriously,” says Tarantola. She had repeatedly pleaded with a primary-care physician, two endocrinologists, a liver specialist and nutrition experts to address Haines’s exercise and eating patterns, which she knew were making him sick. “They kept telling me how wonderful it was that he had lost 100 pounds.”
Like many people with eating disorders, Haines had restricted his caloric intake, exercised excessively and obsessed over his physique. He was irritable, constantly cold and doubled over with stomach pains after eating. At one point, his pulse dropped to 26 beats per minute (anything below 40 can send someone to the emergency room).
“All of the signs were there,” Tarantola says.
But because Haines was once considered obese and never dropped to what the body mass index charts indicate as “underweight,” his dramatic weight loss was overlooked, even applauded. For more than a year, the clinicians “didn’t seem to think anything was wrong,” says Haines, now a sophomore in recovery at Temple University in Philadelphia.

One of the studies cited was this forthcoming one, which found that about 1/3 of ED treatment-seeking adolescents had a history of a BMI over the 85th percentile, and those adolescents had a larger BMI decrease at the start of treatment and a longer duration of symptoms prior to seeking treatment. The authors concluded “that adolescents with a history of overweight or obesity represent a substantial portion of treatment-seeking adolescents with restrictive eating disorders, underscoring that extreme weight loss in adolescents is not healthy, regardless of whether the end weight is theoretically within a healthy range. Because eating disorders in adolescents who have history of overweight take longer to be identified, they consequently may have a poorer prognosis.”

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telegantmess

Sharing this because I was never able to access treatment, and still struggle with recovery that I don’t trust doctors to help me access.

not a fan of all of the language of the article, but this is important, and makes a clear connection between shaming/bullying fat people, and the development of eating disorders.

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imsarahcate

This is a big part of my problem with the new “treat fat first” guidelines. It completely ignores the actual health of a person’s body in favor of “treating” the totally bullwhip measurement that is BMI.

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skimcasual

Most Americans are surprised when I tell them tattoo parlors are illegal in Korea, and that tattoos have an unfavorable public opinion on both men and women (though that’s slowly changing with the younger generation because many of our celebrities are Korean Americans who have tattoos). But they also don’t know that tattoos were given out as punishments to Korean slaves during the Imperial Japanese occupation, particularly for women, so… I guess I am trying to understand where they’re coming from and how they think tattoos are a kind of personal expression or a type of feminism… but also I know in my head that there are many women who never got married nor had the kids they wanted; and basically hid for the rest of their lives because they were force-ably tattooed, and this issue is so traumatizing that all that is passed on from my grandmother’s generation to my mom’s generation to my generation is that tattoos are off-limits without the whole history as to why they’re off-limits. Because none of us want to be reminded of this part of Korean Woman history.

the story in that link is very explicit and dark. trigger warnings for rape, brutality, forced cannibalism, and medical abuse

an important read, but consider yourselves warned

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weavemama

THIS CIA IS NOT FUCKING AROUND 

Did someone say he’s going to jail? Play that sweet music.

The day he is thrown in jail along with everyone else involved we shall have massive parties in the streets and anyone angry about it will be put on a large boat and pushed out to sea and hopefully their friend russia will come save them. Bye bye assholes, we’ll be here, making America FABULOUS!

okay but what about pence because him and then paul ryan are next in line so if trump is jailed we won’t be out of the woods yet so can we get rid of them as well?

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lennat2

Yeah…there’s the rub…but I guess we have to start somewhere.  We just have to make sure that we keep up the momentum and don’t forget about what is left to do, like so many did with standing rock. 

Unless the CIA tosses them ALL in jail.  That would be great. 

If the CIA puts Trump and Pence and Ryan into jail I might die of sheer happiness.

For WHAT? Legally winning an election fair and square? GET OVER IT.

No honey,

This Russia and national security scandal is getting juicier and juicier each day. If you have a TV, turn on the news. If you have a computer, read the news. If you’re a paper-person, pick up a newspaper. Obviously, he didn’t “legally” win the election when latest breaking news says that his campaign was constantly involved with a foreign country. Obviously it wasn’t “fair and square” when he lost the popular vote. And no, we’re not just gonna “GET OVER IT” because 45 isn’t just an ugly orange man we like to hate on for shits and giggles. He’s jeopardizing our security, he’s jeopardizing our future, and he’s jeopardizing our lives. 

Good day. 

People are thick in the fuckin head.

The man’s been in office a month and the amount of - illegal - damage he’s already done has been absolutely tremendous. The fuck are people defending when they jump up to defend him???

I can tell trump supporters are starting to get a little nervous because their arguments are getting weaker and weaker….. I’ll give them about a year, the blatant embarrassment is gonna eventually get to the best of them 😂😂😂😂

“fair and square” bitch what are you, nine? who tf says that

before she hit “post” Beyoncè popped up in her head and said “what are u doing my love” 😭😭😭

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centali

what kinda shit…? also??? the same people that hated hillary for THE SAAAME EXACT REASONS. such bull.

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