Tammy Dalton from Homebush Farm in Inglewood, Queensland, Australia, shared this ridiculously cute video of her pet duckling, aptly named Kitty, snuggling in with her five tabby kitten pals.
“Kitty, the duck, was the last duckling to hatch and so was left without the rest of her family. Luckily for Kitty, Unicorn the cat took her in along with her litter of kittens. Now they are one big happy family!”
Serena Williams – RICH, ICONIC, WORLD-RENOWNED SERENA WILLIAMS – almost died after giving birth because the nurse thought her super-detailed request to combat her history of blood clots was the result of a confused woman on pain medication. (https://www.vogue.com/article/serena-williams-vogue-cover-interview-february-2018)
You could say that doctors and nurses get requests from patients all the time who think they know what they’re talking about. You could say conversations about Serena being a Black woman so her advice wasn’t taken seriously are just race baiting.
So if Serena Williams can almost die after giving birth because nobody was listening to her, what do you think happens when the average Black woman says “something’s not right here” and requests help?
In a footnote to a May 10, 2005, memorandum from the Office of Legal Council, the Bush attorney general’s office argued that restricting the caloric intake of terrorist suspects to 1000 calories a day was medically safe because people in the United States were dieting along those lines voluntarily.
“While detainees subject to dietary manipulation are obviously situated differently from individuals who voluntarily engage in commercial weight-loss programs, we note that widely available commercial weight-loss programs in the United States employ diets of 1000 kcal/day for sustain periods of weeks or longer without requiring medical supervision,” read the footnote. “While we do not equate commercial weight loss programs and this interrogation technique, the fact that these calorie levels are used in the weight-loss programs, in our view, is instructive in evaluating the medical safety of the interrogation technique.”
Another another friendly reminder that the Minnesota Starvation Experiment subjected adult men who were VOLUNTEERS to 1,560 calorie diets and the psychological effects were so profound that one volunteer cut three of his own fingers off and could not remember why.
These men were volunteers who knew exactly what they would be going through and when it would end, and who believed they were doing it for a good and moral reason (the research was used to help rehabilitate victims of starvation and famine at the end of WWII).
And these are the things we are expected to engage in FOREVER to stay at a “healthy” weight.
Reading about the Minnesota Starvation experiment was my wake-up call. It was what kicked me out of my eating disorder. The guy missing three fingers, whatever his name was, he was the last straw for me.
Scared me so fucking bad I stopped restricting my food that day, and never went back to it.
Just bringin’ this back around like I sometimes do.
Wow. This really hit me hard.
EAT
Fun fact– calorie restriction exacerbates symptoms of pretty much *every* mental illness.
Anorexia has ~16% mortality rate, slightly higher than acted upon suicidal ideation. It’s more lethal than actively trying to kill oneself and this is why.
I may have accidentally murdered myself by taking down the Christmas tree without ETD’s help cause I wanted to surprise him by getting the house ready for his birthday party, and now my spine is just sort of pinging and seizing up when I try to move.
I managed to take all the decorations off and then got the top off fine, but about halfway through I realized “this is an 8ft tree and you are 5ft of pain and connective tissue problems, what are you doing” so I ended up throwing it in the box, taped it shut and dragged it over the floor using the rug like I was hauling a body and then just…sort of…let the box slide down the stairs on its own into the basement lmao.
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