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  1. Feb 2023
    1. Each reflects the operation of psychological mechanisms that were designed through evolution to serve important adaptive functions, but that nevertheless can produce harmful consequences.
      • Each of these 4 problems
        • anxiety disorder
        • domestic violence
        • racial prejudice
        • obesity
      • reflects the operation of psychological mechanisms
      • that were designed through evolution
      • to serve important adaptive functions, - but that nevertheless can produce harmful consequences.
    2. What do anxiety disorders, domestic violence, racial prejudice, and obesity all have in common?
      • question
        • What do
          • anxiety disorders,
          • domestic violence,
          • racial prejudice, and
          • obesity
      • all have in common?
      • answer
        • maladaptive cognitive biases!
  2. Sep 2022
    1. Weight Loss Surgical Options for Obese People

      There are a number of weight loss surgical options available for obese people. The most common and well-known option is gastric bypass surgery. This involves creating a small stomach pouch and bypassing a portion of the small intestine. This surgery can be very effective, but it is also very invasive and carries a number of risks.

      Another option is gastric sleeve surgery. This involves removing a portion of the stomach, which reduces the amount of food that can be consumed and also leads to weight loss. This surgery is less invasive than gastric bypass surgery, but it is still a major surgery with risks.

      There are also a number of less invasive procedures that can be used to help people lose weight. These include gastric banding, which involves placing a band around the stomach to reduce the amount of food that can be consumed, and gastric balloon surgery, which involves placing a balloon in the stomach to take up space and help people feel full.

      These are just a few of the weight loss surgical options available. It is important to talk to a doctor or weight loss specialist to discuss which option is right for you.

      Read the full article here:

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  3. May 2022
    1. People with eating disorders are often found to have a history of insecure-ambivalent attachment styles. It is thought that sufferers believe they have earned the closeness of others only when they meet their expectations. They then transfer this to their appearance and thus to their eating behaviour

      ambivalent attachment eating disorder

  4. Apr 2022
    1. What was new was a realization for me that I didn’t have a very good language to defend the value of my life, the worthiness of my life

      writing about disability Chloe

      • [I] i don't have rich vocabulary to express my ability of my physical (leg) and mental (ADHD) disability in the form of arguments and writing
  5. Feb 2022
    1. ideal percentage for adult men will be between 50 and 65% of the total body. For the real athletic body types it is even recommended to have 5% more body water than the average adult range.

      Ideal water content in adult men

      • my body water content is low (40%) 😔🚾
  6. Jan 2022
    1. Nigg said it might help me grasp what’s happening if we compare our rising attention problems to our rising obesity rates. Fifty years ago there was very little obesity, but today it is endemic in the western world. This is not because we suddenly became greedy or self-indulgent. He said: “Obesity is not a medical epidemic – it’s a social epidemic. We have bad food, for example, and so people are getting fat.” The way we live changed dramatically – our food supply changed, and we built cities that are hard to walk or cycle around, and those changes in our environment led to changes in our bodies. We gained mass, en masse. Something similar, he said, might be happening with the changes in our attention.

      Obesity is a social epidemic and not a medical one. It's been caused by dramatic shifts in our surroundings in the past century. Food is cheaper and more abundant. It's also been heavily processed and designed to be fattier, saltier, and higher in carbohydrates. There is less encouragement to physically move our own bodies whether by walking, bicycling, running, etc. Our cities have become more driver focused. Our lives have become much more sedentary.

  7. Dec 2021
    1. half of the calories you consume can be burned off simply by fidgeting

      [[+ Stomach Breathing Body movements-DrRaja#Repetitive Strain Injury]]

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  13. Apr 2020
    1. Richardson, S., Hirsch, J. S., Narasimhan, M., Crawford, J. M., McGinn, T., Davidson, K. W., Barnaby, D. P., Becker, L. B., Chelico, J. D., Cohen, S. L., Cookingham, J., Coppa, K., Diefenbach, M. A., Dominello, A. J., Duer-Hefele, J., Falzon, L., Gitlin, J., Hajizadeh, N., Harvin, T. G., … Zanos, T. P. (2020). Presenting Characteristics, Comorbidities, and Outcomes Among 5700 Patients Hospitalized With COVID-19 in the New York City Area. JAMA. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2020.6775

  14. Dec 2018
    1. Alzheimer's disease (AD) is not normally diagnosed until later in life, although evidence suggests that the disease starts at a much earlier age. Risk factors for AD, such as diabetes, hypertension and obesity, are known to have their affects during mid-life, though events very early in life, including maternal over-nutrition, can predispose offspring to develop these conditions. This study tested whether over-nutrition during pregnancy and lactation affected the development of AD in offspring, using a transgenic AD mouse model. Female triple-transgenic AD dam mice (3xTgAD) were exposed to a high-fat (60% energy from fat) or control diet during pregnancy and lactation. After weaning (at 3 weeks of age), female offspring were placed on a control diet and monitored up until 12 months of age during which time behavioural tests were performed. A transient increase in body weight was observed in 4-week-old offspring 3xTgAD mice from dams fed a high-fat diet. However, by 5 weeks of age the body weight of 3xTgAD mice from the maternal high-fat fed group was no different when compared to control-fed mice. A maternal high-fat diet led to a significant impairment in memory in 2- and 12-month-old 3xTgAD offspring mice when compared to offspring from control fed dams. These effects of a maternal high-fat diet on memory were accompanied by a significant increase (50%) in the number of tau positive neurones in the hippocampus. These data demonstrate that a high-fat diet during pregnancy and lactation increases memory impairments in female 3xTgAD mice and suggest that early life events during development might influence the onset and progression of AD later in life.
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  17. Jul 2017
    1. Subject ID, age, race, sex, visit age, BMI, BODE index, distance walked, forced expiratory volume, GOLD stage, MRC dyspnoea score, prognostic index, SGRQ, subject group, and visit description of participants with or without lung disease and involved in the \"Evaluation of COPD Longitudinally to Identify Predictive Surrogate Endpoints (ECLIPSE)\" project.
    2. This subject phenotype table includes gender, race, age, asthma status, anthropometric measurements (n=3 variables; height, weight, and bmi), and smoking status (n=6 variables; ever, current, and former smoking status, number of cigarettes/day, average cigarettes and packs/year).
  18. May 2016
    1. Slower metabolisms were not the only reason the contestants regained weight, though. They constantly battled hunger, cravings and binges. The investigators found at least one reason: plummeting levels of leptin. The contestants started out with normal levels of leptin. By the season’s finale, they had almost no leptin at all, which would have made them ravenous all the time. As their weight returned, their leptin levels drifted up again, but only to about half of what they had been when the season began, the researchers found, thus helping to explain their urges to eat.Leptin is just one of a cluster of hormones that control hunger, and although Dr. Hall and his colleagues did not measure the rest of them, another group of researchers, in a different project, did. In a one-year study funded by Australia’s National Health and Medical Research Council, Dr. Joseph Proietto of the University of Melbourne and his colleagues recruited 50 overweight people who agreed to consume just 550 calories a day for eight or nine weeks. They lost an average of nearly 30 pounds, but over the next year, the pounds started coming back.