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Body: A Guide for Occupants | Bill Bryson

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I‘ve read three books trying to avoid this book. It‘s just not happening. It‘s not me, it‘s you. This just did not live up to the hype. I‘ll probably be passing on future Bill Bryson books. I just don‘t get his popularity. He‘s just not my cup of tea. My A&P book was way more exciting to read, honestly.
#BillBryson #TheBody #Audiobook #busbook #DNF #boring #fatphobia #nonsense #snore

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GingerAntics

Body: A Guide for Occupants | Bill Bryson

This means, that according to Bill here:
A 100lb person must eat 7,000 calories a day
A 150lb person must eat 10,500 calories a day
A 200lb person must eat 14,000 calories a day
A 300lb person must eat 21,000 calories a day
Granted, these are just to maintain weight. So NO ONE should be eating the 1200 calories a day often recommended (probably because that is the nutritional necessity of a TODDLER! ⬅️ read that again).

GingerAntics So what diet is he suggesting we should all be on, because there isn‘t a single diet in the world that suggests even enough calories for a 100 pound adult. #BillBryson #TheBody #audiobook #busbook #fatphobia #dietculture #totalcrap 1y

ImperfectCJ There has to be a calculation error with those calories, unless they're a joke. I don't think I'm physically capable of eating even 7,000 calories a day, and I do weigh more than 100 pounds. 1y

GingerAntics @ImperfectCJ it‘s possible. What I did was calculate 2% of each weight, then converted that number of pounds to calories. That‘s what he said we were supposed to eat in a day to maintain our energy. It gets even more scary when you do the math on his crocodile claim. 1y

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ImperfectCJ @GingerAntics But a pound of butter has more calories than a pound of kale. It's not a direct conversion. 1y

GingerAntics @ImperfectCJ that is true, this is just the number of calories in a pound of human. How you choose to distribute your calories will depends on how many pounds of food that is. 1y

GingerAntics @ImperfectCJ that‘s where I‘m far more confident in the croc numbers. Crocs is 2-5 pounds of meat a day. It‘s easy to figure out how many calories are in a pound of meat on average… but those numbers are even bigger than these. 1y

ImperfectCJ @GingerAntics crocodiles eat once a month, though, right? 1y

GingerAntics @ImperfectCJ when food is available, they eat every 3-10 days. And they average 2-5 pounds of meat a day, or 5% of their body weight per week. 1y

ImperfectCJ @GingerAntics Please just check your units (weeks, days, pounds, calories) and think it through again. I'm not even saying that Bryson is correct (that's a separate issue), just that the calculations you're using are inaccurate. 1y

GingerAntics @ImperfectCJ the calculations I am using are based entirely on easily findable, verifiable information and Bryson‘s own words. Which takes me back to my point, within the span of 30 seconds he‘s on a diatribe about eating less and then goes into just how much we actually do need to eat. 1y

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GingerAntics

Body: A Guide for Occupants | Bill Bryson

And even people who do lose weight, about 95% will gain back AT LEAST AS MUCH AS THEY LOST. The body is not designed to lose weight. Notice that bigger bodies in societies that do NOT diet magically have none of the health problems bigger bodies in societies that diet do. Hm. It‘s almost as if the bigger bodies aren‘t the problem.

GingerAntics IF 95% OF PEOPLE WHO TOOK AN ANTIBIOTIC GOT EVEN SICKER AFTER COMPLETING TREATMENT, WOULD YOU STILL TAKE THAT ANTIBIOTIC? 1y

GingerAntics If someone “cured” cancer, hut 95% of the people who got this miracle treatment got cancer again and died before being able to get the treatment again, would it really be a cure? 1y

GingerAntics If a medication didn‘t work for 95% of people afflicted with an illness, would it even be a treatment? (Placebos work for at least 33% of cases… so it works worse than a sugar pill. Just think of that.) 1y

GingerAntics #BillBryson #TheBody #audiobook #busbook #dietculture #fatphobia 1y

GingerAntics @ImperfectCJ both of the posts you have commented on, were in direct response to THIS post which officially has more verifiable nutrition science than Bryson‘s book. 1y

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BookDee

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body | Roxane Gay

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I really liked this book. Sometimes as humans we have this easiness to judge others without knowing what they are going through. I‘m including myself. This book opened my eyes about the life and the struggles of others.

#rape #eatingdisorder #fatphobia

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GingerAntics

Food Isn't Medicine: Why Everything You've Been Told Is Just a Load of Nutribollocks | Joshua Wolrich

This is staggering. We have really got to stop with the fat-phobia around here.
#DrJoshuaWolrich #FoodIsntMedicine #AntiDiet #fatphobia #wtf #reality

TheBookHippie Yup 🤯 3y

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BlameJennyJane

You Have the Right to Remain Fat | Virgie Tovar

Fat phobia is everywhere. Women AND men face it. Children face it as do the elderly. It will find us in every nook and cranny often disguised as *concern*. Thank God for people like Tovar who call it like they see it and aren‘t afraid to be both loud and fat. Horrors! 🙀. #fatisafeministissue #fatphobia #bodypositivity #fatpositive #weightneutral

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SarahMillerBooks

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body | Roxane Gay

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If this book doesn't break your heart...you just might not have one. Everyone who is not fat ought to read this. #fatphobia #thinprivilege #fatpol #empathy

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