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ms-demeanor:

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doomhamster:

ms-demeanor:

My literal actual medical doctor just told me that there are essential amino acids and there are essential fats but there are no essential carbs and that is why this man is the specific reason that I’m studying nutrition.

“There are no essential carbs.”

MY DUDE.

MY DAMN DIDDLY DOCTOR DUDE.

Putting aside the whole issue of fucking *fiber* YES CARBOHYDRATES ARE ESSENTIAL TO YOUR DIET.

…I was going to ask if he’s aware that the brain REQUIRES carbs to function, but on closer thought that may in fact be his problem.

He’s right.

There are no essential *dietary* carbohydrates.

Your body will produce glucose from protein if you do not get carbohydrates through your diet. This also happens if you eat too much protein, the excess is converted into glucose. Glucose is only required as an intermediary for energy transfer.

Also, the brain doesn’t require glucose to function. It can run on ketones alone!

Although we did not limit ourselves to one particular type or function of carbohydrates, we did primarily focus on glucose utilisation as that function was used to determine the recommended daily allowance. In the general population, the human body is able to endogenously synthesise carbohydrates, and does not show signs of deficiency in the absence of dietary carbohydrates. However, in certain genetic defects, such as glycogen storage disease type I, absence of dietary carbohydrates causes abnormalities that are resolved with dietary supplementation of carbohydrates. Therefore, dietary carbohydrates may be defined as conditionally essential nutrients because they are nutrients that are not required in the diet for the general population but are required for specific subpopulations. Ketosis may be considered a physiological normal state due to its occurrence in infants in addition to at very low carbohydrate intakes. Although sources of dietary carbohydrates can provide beneficial micronutrients, no signs of micronutrient deficiencies have been reported in clinical trials of low-carbohydrate ketogenic diets. Nonetheless, more research is needed on how micronutrient requirements can change depending on the dietary and metabolic context. More research is also needed on the role of dietary fibre during a low-carbohydrate ketogenic diet as the beneficial effects of dietary fibre were determined on a standard diet and several studies have shown beneficial effects of decreasing non-digestible carbohydrates.

In patients with diabetes, changes in glycemic control may be small. Moreover, although VLCDs result in greater TG-lowering, diets with less severe CHO-restriction may induce significant reductions in TGs and be easier to adhere to in the long term. Importantly, patients should be informed that VLCDs/KDs may worsen LDL-C levels and cardiovascular health in the long-term. Those with atherosclerosis should be counseled to avoid VLCDs that liberalize SFA intake and to undergo regular lipid testing (a Class–IIa recommendation by the NLA, Level of Evidence – B-R), and be considered for referral to a registered dietitian nutritionist, who can provide guidance on healthier strategies for patients who choose to significantly lower dietary CHO intake.3 Those who have atherosclerosis, atrial fibrillation, heart failure, kidney or liver disease, or who take anti-hypertensive medications or warfarin, should be informed of the need for greater supervision and possible medication adjustments while following a VLCD.3 Patients with strict contraindications to VLCD/KDs include those with a history of hypertriglyceridemic pancreatitis, severe hypertriglyceridemia, or familial hypercholesterolemia, as well as those on SGLT2 inhibitors, which may promote ketoacidosis.

Because keto diets include concentrated fats, meat, poultry, fish, eggs, and cheese, they have been associated with increased diabetes risk. These foods often are high in saturated fat, cholesterol, chemical contaminants, and other potentially inflammatory compounds. When the researchers looked at adults with type 1 diabetes, they found studies suggesting both favorable and unfavorable outcomes. One small study suggested the keto diet could improve blood glucose control in patients with type 1 diabetes, but it triggered more frequent and extreme hypoglycemic episodes.

The investigators concluded that the only well-supported use for keto diets is to reduce seizure frequency in some individuals with drug-resistant epilepsy.

Harold A. Franch, MD, professor of medicine at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, said the new study findings are not surprising given the well-known problems with excess protein and high net acid load in the diet. “Studies in 1998 showed Atkins diets, the predecessor of keto diets, worsened kidney stones by increasing urinary calcium and lowering protective citrate. The effect of dietary protein on raising single nephron [glomerular filtration rate], worsening proteinuria, and driving renal progression is ancient history for nephrologists,” Dr Franch said.

During prolonged fasting, some tissues, such as muscle, can directly metabolize free fatty acids released from adipose stores. However, much of this fatty acid is converted into ketones in the liver, which can fuel otherwise-obligate glucose consumers like neurons, minimizing mobilization of body protein for gluconeogenesis. However, to induce the liver to make ketones in the fed state, carbohydrate intake must be minimized and fat intake increased. Protein utilization is also altered on a ketogenic diet; the body shunts as much protein as possible to gluconeogenesis, while the minimum necessary amount is used for tissue repair.
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The most restrictive ketogenic diets used for epilepsy can cause fatigue, headache, nausea, constipation, hypoglycemia, and acidosis, especially within the first few days to weeks of following the diet (2). Dehydration, hepatitis, pancreatitis, hypertriglyceridemia, hyperuricemia, hypercholesterolemia, hypomagnesemia, and hyponatremia can also occur (82,118).

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Longer-term effects can include decreased bone mineral density, nephrolithiasis, cardiomyopathy, anemia, and neuropathy of the optic nerve (82,121). Ketogenic diets have low long-term tolerability, and are not sustainable for many individuals

Ketogenic diets reduce seizure frequency in some individuals with drug-resistant epilepsy. These diets can also reduce body weight, although not more effectively than other dietary approaches over the long term or when matched for energy intake. Ketogenic diets can also lower blood glucose, although their efficacy typically wanes within the first few months.

Very-low-carbohydrate diets are associated with marked risks. LDL-C can rise, sometimes dramatically. Pregnant women on such diets are more likely to have a child with a neural tube defect, even when supplementing folic acid. And these diets may increase chronic disease risk: Foods and dietary components that typically increase on ketogenic diets (eg, red meat, processed meat, saturated fat) are linked to an increased risk of CKD, cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, and Alzheimer’s disease, whereas intake of protective foods (eg, vegetables, fruits, legumes, whole grains) typically decreases. Current evidence suggests that for most individuals, the risks of such diets outweigh the benefits.

If you do not have other metabolic complications, if you do not have hereditary hyperlipidemia, if you do not have liver or kidney disease, if you do not have diabetes, you may have the metabolic profile that will allow you to *only* become constipated, lose endurance, increase your risk of kidney stones, bone fractures, heart disease, alzheimer’s, cancer, and diabetes by trying to subsist long-term on a <50g carbs/day diet.

If those are the outcomes of long-term use of a very low carbohydrate diet (per my doctor this morning: “it’s not really a diet, it’s a lifestyle” - indicating something more than short-term) it kind of seems like maybe carbs are doing more for us than just providing bioavailable glucose.

It feels nuts to even be debating this. Part of the reason this feels nuts is because, from a nutrition studies standpoint, the first sentence of my textbook’s chapter on carbohydrates is “Carbohydrates are an essential nutrient.” Carbohydrates are one of the six basic nutrients (sometimes called the six essential nutrients).

Saying “actually you can put your body into ketosis and survive off of neoglucogenesis and ketone bodies so carbs aren’t essential :)” is like saying “actually you can time your consumption of alcohol to maintain your fluid balance so water isn’t essential :)” it is????? Technically true????????????????? In the short term?????????? For some people??????????? But it is also technically possible to “survive” on 20-minute naps because if you do it long enough your body starts to drop you into REM immediately instead of going through a whole sleep cycle.

like, that last study I linked is very critical of keto and it was responded to by a doctor who thought the researchers were being unfair to a useful tool for weight loss her statement (as someone who supports the use of keto) was:

“Ketogenic diets are not ‘diets,’ they’re treatments for certain conditions. We would never recommend that anybody be on a ketogenic diet chronically for the rest of their life.”

It is somewhat controversial in nutrition studies to say that carbohydrates are an essential nutrient in the sense that your body cansynthesize glucose. The issue in question is whether your body can synthesize enough glucose to survive without additional carbohydrates (not well, in the long term, from what the current research indicates). It is not at all controversial to say that eating carbohydrates is essential for your long-term good health.

So while technically correct may be the best kind of correct, it doesn’t do a hell of a lot when you are a doctor who is technically correct while giving the specific patient in front of you bad medical advice for their medical history and when your technically correct advice comes with an asterisk that says “for up to six months” that you are ignoring.

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talkingperfectly-loud:

Also I’d like to add that (since she’s being compared to her) this is what Natalie Portman was wearing to events at 15:

stpauligirl:

I wish that Millie had whoever was styling Kiernan Shipka during the Mad Men years. She always looked great.

nottwilightbella:

They look the same age.

They are not. That’s a child styled and painted so to appeal to adult male gaze.

hairzier:

Not to be controversial, but everytime I see Millie Bobby Brown, a 15 year old, dressed in a style that makes her look +25, that’s meant for +25 year old, a little piece of me dies.

Mondo mostly doesn’t even know why he’s there, he was just requested to show up and stick around. Secretly, he is kind of happy he got invited to the birthday party though

AW thank you so much!!!! We are All still love Gundam in 2019………Hope you enjoy the game!! >: )

Dang…….I must have overlooked something at the gala dinner, thanks for letting me know! Leon rank is good, I will consider it >: )

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vintagegeekculture:

One of the most common stories about Superman is that kids would break their legs jumping off a roof trying to fly like him. Parents were very nervous about kids imitating his super feats, and these stories were common even in my own childhood. There’s even a story that in the 1950s, a kid brought an actual gun to shoot George Reeves with at a public signing, fully expecting the bullets would bounce off. Stories like this are often used to show how gullible and silly the first generation of kid comics fans were in the 30s and 40s. I mean, did kids not know the difference between reality and fiction back then? How dumb werethey?

The answer is that they did know the difference, but you kept hearing stories like this about Superman and only Superman because there had been a sustained effort by National Periodical Publications to blur the line between fantasy and reality, which can only really be compared to Kayfabe in professional wrestling. There was a desire to have Superman be real, or at least, real in the mind of children, the way Santa Claus is. And to that end, you might notice some very strange things about the first generation of Superman media. Like for example, in the radio show, Superman was credited “And starring Superman….as himself.” Bud Collyer, the first actor to ever play Superman, went totally uncredited for years at DC’s insistence. This arrangement suited Collyer just fine. He liked getting paid, but wanted his name associated onlywith “serious” performances.

DC stopped pretending Superman was real for the reason you might guess: this was going too far and getting suggestible kids hurt, and to this day, they seldom mention this was a deliberate strategy to market the character. I have yet to see any comic historians discuss this; even they, who should know better, just throw their hands up and say “man, those old 40s kids sure were dumb.” 

Likewise, it was an incredibly difficult task to find the first actor and man in a suit who played Superman in live action, in the 1939 World’s Fair in Queens, New York, during Superman Day. Ray Middleton is a name that is thrown around (and is Wikipedia’s answer, but Wikipedia is always better at giving dubious flat answers than acknowledging controversies), but the evidence it is Ray Middleton is not convincing enough for me, and is only the best guess, which is kind of important as he was the first man to ever play Superman in live action. Let me repeat that: DC was so keen to preserve kayfabe that we actually do not know the name, with complete certainty, of the first man to ever play Superman in live action. Superman was advertised as being there “in person.” Superman’s adventures were described as being “transcribed” in DC Comics. When Superman had a balloon in the 1939 Macy’s Parade, it was described as being a balloon of Superman, not of a character. It’s all very strange and seldom discussed now.

To this day, there is one lingering effect of DC treating Superman as a real person: comic fans prefer for Superman to be played by an unknown, and react with skepticism when well known actors and personalities like Josh Hartnett, Stallone, and Bruce Jenner are offered the role. 

I’d really like to do these every month, so they can be a nice 4-5 fic affair. But grad school happened, so I’ve got a lot of lovely reads from the past several months to share!!

As always, alphabetical by author ft. me yelling under the cut!

Not There Yet by BigFatBumblebee - Obi-Wan & Qui-Gon, Gen, 10k
Summary:  We all know Obi-Wan Kenobi as the one of the strongest, wisest and bravest Jedi in the Jedi Order. But before he was High General Kenobi, The Negotiator, Council Member and Master of the Chosen One, he was an awkward 16-year-old Padawan who needed a bit of TLC.

The Queen, The Cavalier, and The Dragon by FireflyFish - Fem!Obi-Wan & Padme & Vader, 3.8k
Summary:  A Queen and her Jedi Knight flee across the galaxy, relentlessly chased by the Dragon they both loved.

Problem Patientby JellyJog - AU Obi-Wan/Qui-Gon, 1.2k
Summary:  From a tumblr prompt requesting quiobi where Obi-Wan chose to become a healer instead of following the path to become a jedi knight

Six Times Ahsoka Thought Her Grandmaster Was Dead, and the One Time He Actually Wasby LazarusII & Pandora151 - 1.4k, wip
Summary: A heavy silence fell over the lower levels of Coruscant’s undercity. Then, a quiet shuffling sound, almost like footsteps, sounded from above.A single blaster bolt rang out—followed by a pained cry. Things were happening too fast; Ahsoka’s heartbeat thundered in her ears, drowning out her surroundings.Her mind barely registered the flash of cream-white careening into the crates directly in front of her. A sickening crunch filled the air as the lifeless form of Obi-Wan Kenobi crashed to the ground. Ahsoka’s heart stopped.

Perception by LuvEwan - Obi-Wan & Qui-Gon & Dooku, Gen, 7.5k
Summary:  Master and apprentice are held captive. Obi-Wan is drugged, and unable to differentiate the past, present and future. Qui-Gon is a little shocked when rescue comes in the form of a figure from his own past: Dooku. The trip back to Coruscant is full of unexpected moments and emotions.

Candles Against the Sea by maychorian - Obi-Wan & Qui-Gon, Gen, 41k
Summary: It is several months after Melida/Daan, Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon have been working to re-establish their bond. It’s been going well. Qui-Gon seems perfectly satisfied. But Obi-Wan is not.

The Sun Shall Not Smite Thee by maychorian - Obi-Wan & Qui-Gon, Gen, 
Summary:  It had taken the Jedi far too long to effect a rescue—over a week. By that time Obi-Wan was nearly delirious, on the edge of madness from loneliness and fear caused by his inability to touch the Force.

The Past Remains by otherhawk - Obi-Wan-centric, Gen, 15k
Summary:  The war drags on leaving trauma and destruction in its wake. After a bereaved Master is accused of harming his padawan, Obi-Wan is sent to talk to her, dredging up memories of his own past.

The Orchards by Raven_Knight - Qui-Gon & Obi-Wan, Gen, 3.6k
Summary: When young Obi-Wan Kenobi is injured on a previous mission, Qui-Gon Jinn refuses to accept further off-planet missions until his Padawan’s recovery. Yoda assigns the pair an in-Temple mission of utmost importance while Obi-Wan heals. Master and Padawan welcome the change of pace.

Protect and Nurture by Ren - Obi-Wan & 212th, Gen, 7k
Summary: “What do you mean he was taken by slavers!?” Rex winced, looking over his shoulder to make sure no-one had heard. He was hiding in a dark alleyway, and the last thing he needed was for this hiding spot to be blown by an outraged Commander.When their General is taken by slavers, the 212th is half-way across the galaxy. They must wait and pray that their brothers can get to him in time.

Not There Yet by BigFatBumblebee: This is straight-up sickfic, featuring all the best classic tropes. Looking now it seems like there might be some formatting issues in the desktop version, but I read this on mobile without difficulty. Poor Obi-Wan gets frustrated with the motherhenning of Qui-Gon and Tahl. “Meg, did you find this fic because you were searching through the Tahl tag again?” Sure did. Tahl is the best! I loved her interactions with grumpy, feverish Obi-Wan, and how she and Qui-Gon team up to make sure he takes his medicine and rests up. Very cute, worth the read! <3

The Queen, The Cavalier, and The Dragon by FireflyFish: This is so cool! I’m in love with the fairytale motif. This is a post-mustafar fix-it (sort of) with a focus on Obi and Padme parenting the twins and keeping them safe and trying to teach them their family’s history in a way that they can comprehend. I loved Obi and Padme kicking ass together, Leia was great, and Luke was so freakin’ precious omg <3

Problem Patientby JellyJog: I guess you could say that this one is less about the h/c, and more humor with the halls of healing as a backdrop, but I loved it so I wanted to include it nonetheless! Qui-Gon is such an ass and Obi-Wan is so confident and OVER his shit, it’s just peak QuiObi and I got a lot of laughs out of it. I liked Obi-Wan in the healer role, especially when it’s Qui-Gon he’s patching up. <3

Six Times Ahsoka Thought Her Grandmaster Was Dead, and the One Time He Actually Wasby LazarusII & Pandora151: Ouch! Just ouch! I loved the narrative style that really drove home the horror of this scene, I always expect great things from these authors and I am never ever disappointed!! I’m so excited to see where this goes next! I am NOT ready for it, because I assume they will get sadder and sadder as we move forward in the timeline and Ahsoka gets closer and closer to Obi-Wan. But fine, I didn’t need my heart anyways, go ahead and break it </3

Perception by LuvEwan: This is wonderfully unique! I love the tension between Qui-Gon and Dooku, and how weird it is for everyone involved to see Dooku being soft and caring with Obi-Wan - especially poor Qui-Gon doesn’t know what to make of it. I melted for how worried Qui-Gon got, even though he was trying not to motherhen too much in front of Dooku because he assumed Dooku would disapprove. What a good Jedi Dad. <3

Candles Against the Sea by maychorian: I implore you to check the tags on this one! But if you’re like me, and some of the themes warned for are a “maybe” for you, know that they’re dealt with here very tactfully and, I thought, very believable for Obi-Wan’s character. What I love most about this fic is how it deals with grief, and how it shows Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon and their different approaches to dealing with their pasts. And of course, I’m a sucker for fics that reference the Jedi Apprentice series! <3

The Sun Shall Not Smite Thee by maychorian: Ouch! This is a dark one! Just like the other fic by this author, it takes me back to my livejournal days and the Jedi Apprentice series. I loved how desperate and protective and fatherly Qui-Gon was, and it definitely scratched the itch for straight-up Obi-Wan whump. <3

The Past Remains by otherhawk: Please please please read the tags on this one before diving in! That said, I thought this was a really well-written and touching story, my favorite bit was probably Obi-Wan and Mace’s interactions, and just Obi-Wan with the Council in general because despite being one of them, it’s hard to escape the fact that most of them knew him when he was young too and the past still follows him. What I liked about this was also how messy it is - it’s not a black-and-white situation, and the different characters’ perspectives and conflicting memories are laid out to give the reader sort of an omniscient view of the story. <3

The Orchards by Raven_Knight: I died of cuteness! This is so domestic and fluffy, they’re freakin’ baking together, what more could anyone possibly want from a h/c fic? This one is for those of us who are 100% here for the comfort, not just the hurt. I really loved reading these two getting some downtime, and with all the asshole!Qui-Gon fics in this list, I’m really happy to include one that features Qui being sweet and protective and softly joking with his convalescent Padawan while they bond over apples! <3

Protect and Nurture by Ren: OUCH! This one doesn’t pull any punches when it comes to Obi-Wan and the aftermath of Zygerria. I loved seeing Cody, Rex, and Wolffe and their different reactions to the traumatic scenario. Motherhen!Cody cracks me up! For all that this story has a lot of “hurt”, there’s a lot of the “comfort” part too which is something I really appreciate. <3

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collapsedsquid:

Saw people riff of Hardspace: Shipbreaker being “Too Woke“ but so far the labor politics of it are not substantially different from a 2002 Slashdot poster.  Has “corporations will screw you over and the boss sucks and you should fight him“ become “woke?”

This is a problem with linguistic descriptivism, isn’t it? Any word with political potential energy will gradually have its meaning wrung out.

It could be “fascist” or “nazi” or “woke.”

It can only be re-enchanted at the individual level, which is why constant use of bombastic political rhetoric will cause someone to get ignored. A “loudness wars” of political rhetoric, I suppose.

I mean it helps if the entire purpose of the term is a boo signal. Like, that’s what “Woke (pejorative)” is for. It’s the latest incarnation of the all-purpose right-wing snarl word. I remember back when it was called “SJW”. It’s purpose is to be so broad and vague that it avoids real definition, but to nonetheless invoke a strong negative affect in those who hear it.

(Don’t get me started on how gross the misappropriation of “woke” is, by the way. Like, at the point you’re using that term that way at all, something has gone horribly wrong.)

So if you want to guess if someone will slag something off as “woke”, ask one simple question: “would the Fox News set want to make the idea sound bad?” I’d say “capitalism bad” fits pretty cleanly into that niche, so it’s only a matter of time before people start accusing it of wokeness.

“Woke (pejorative)” has an effective definition, and that’s the point of using it as an overbroad snarl.

The broad meaning of “Nazi” is “anyone or anything I dislike.” The narrow meaning is the actual National Socialist German Workers’ Party, as lead by Hitler, that pushed the world into a World War and killed millions of people.

The broad meaning of “Fascist” is “anyone I deem insufficiently left-wing,” and the narrow meaning is more like the specific authoritarian right-wing nationalist governments of Japan, Italy, and Germany during World War 2. (It’s inherently more vague.)

Personally I go by the ideological mechanics, and so when I say something is “Fascist,” I mean an ideological component that treats the national super-organism as fundamentally superior to the individual human beings that compose it, rather than existing in a reciprocal relationship. (@samueldays will probably want to argue about that) It should go above and beyond just allowing harms to pass through from the environment.

“Woke (pejorative)” means “illiberal left-identitarian,” which is a thing that is actually bad, since it has awful ideological mechanics. As I’ve said before, it’s based on a form of sub-par race science that it doesn’t permit questioning.

We know it’s “illiberal left-identitarianism,” because that’s the thing that differentiates it from liberalism (“illiberal”), conventional Communism (“identitarianism”), and right-identitarianism (such as majority-race racial nationalism).

The destruction and oppression brought about by Communism created legitimacy for its opponents, but a lot of that legitimacy was spent by e.g. libcon capitalists. This includes the Republican party back during the W. Bush years calling everything “socialist.” (Libcons telling people to e.g. ‘just get a new job by learning to code lol’ is not realistic for a number of people.)

For that reason a lot of their previous snarls aren’t working, so they have to borrow one from the populists and try to paint (I’ll assume collapsedsquid is reasonably accurately describing the situation here) “non-competes suck” as “woke,” when it isn’t.

“Social Justice Warrior” is a predecessor from before the contemporary woke ideology was as developed, and refers to, for instance, the kind of person that shows up to your fic to argue something ridiculous, like I dunno that depicting walking a dog is “problematic” because “some people have been traumatized by dogs, especially [favored racial group] who–” – or the “I’m not here to educate you” types, and so on and so forth.

“SJW” derives its bite from the kind of person that does this being legitimately annoying, wildly disproportionately to the evidence they’re working off of, and turning everything political.

In a certain sense it’s more likely for people to use this kind of category fuckery the less the example actually matches. The attempted race rationing was legitimately “woke (pejorative)” but I don’t feel the need to call it “woke” because it’s so self-evidently bad.

“Woke” got swapped out for “SJW” because the underlying ideology and behavior being described became more dangerous and more influential.