Gwen Coleman

@SamaHoole It’s not all the doctor’s fault. People want to eat slop and love the idea of a drug that will let them continue to do so.

For over a hundred years, before insulin existed, carbohydrate restriction was the treatment for diabetes. Take away the sugar coming in, take away the sugar problem. It worked because diabetes is, at root, a disease of carbohydrate handling. Then we spent fifty years calling that exact approach extreme, unsustainable, and faintly dangerous. Eat your complex carbohydrates, we said. Wholegrains with every meal. Just dose the insulin to cover it. That advice has been a slow catastrophe for type 2 diabetics. We told a population that couldn't handle carbohydrate to build every meal around carbohydrate, then medicated the entirely predictable result, then added more medication, then called the whole sorry escalator "management." Here's the part you don't hear at the appointment. Ketosis can put type 2 diabetes into remission. Not manage it. Reverse it. One two-year trial saw diabetes resolved in over half the group, with people walking away from their medication entirely. Other trials keep finding the same thing. A reversed diabetic buys nothing. No metformin, no test strips, no escalating prescriptions, no lifetime of monitoring appointments. A managed diabetic is a customer for forty years. You will never see remission advertised, because nobody profits from the cure. They profit from the queue. So the treatment that worked for a century became the fringe. The diet that caused the problem became the official guidance. And the word "dangerous" got quietly pinned to the one approach that might end the appointment for good.

@WilliamShatner What a thirst trap

🙄Don’t you just love those who don’t read? 😑

@wilsonhlthcoach My daughter also has her birthday on June 19th. We have some words about the culture as part of our fun that day.

Two things I don't celebrate in June: 1. Pride Month - because I don't care what people want to do in their personal lives, and I don't think we need a month celebrating what people want to do in their personal lives 🤷‍♀️ 2. Juneteenth - because the only thing that matters to me about June 19th is that it's my birthday 😁

@AbakpaJob I’ve never seen such masters of time

Every pet owner has accidentally created a daily ritual and now lives under a tiny furry dictator.

@BostonByBirth No, I’m another

Am I the only idiot in Massachusetts who didn’t hear that “boom”?

@SamaHoole Destroy earth’s environment by trying to move to another world

How to be a great climate activist: 1. Own a private jet 2. Own a yacht 3. Have five mansions 4. Fly to a climate conference every six weeks 5. Lecture poor people about their carbon footprint 6. Convince them the planet can be saved by taxing them more 7. Tell farmers their cows are the problem 8. Eat the wagyu at the gala 9. Give yourself an award 10. Post about it from the yacht

@Mr_Husky1 Great story

When Navy seaman Douglas Hegdahl fell overboard into the Gulf of Tonkin in 1967, North Vietnamese forces pulled him out of the water and dragged him to the most feared prison of the Vietnam War — the Hanoi Hilton. He was young. He was low-ranking. And the moment he arrived, he made a decision his captors never saw coming. He would become the dumbest man in the room. Hegdahl shuffled around the prison yard with a blank expression and a dopey grin, tripping over things, asking confused questions, acting like a man who couldn't tie his own shoelaces. His guards laughed at him. They gave him a nickname — "The Incredibly Stupid One" — and, crucially, they gave him something no other prisoner had: the freedom to wander. They thought he was harmless. He was anything but. While his captors looked away, Hegdahl quietly dropped dirt and stones into enemy truck fuel tanks, sabotaging their operations one engine at a time. But that wasn't his real mission. His real mission was invisible. Every day, Hegdahl watched. He listened. He memorized — the name of every American prisoner held in that camp, their capture date, the conditions they endured, the torture they suffered. Information the North Vietnamese deliberately hid from the outside world. Information that hundreds of families back home were desperate for. And he found a way to make sure he'd never forget a single detail. He set every name, every date, every fact — to the tune of "Old MacDonald Had a Farm." He sang it silently in his head, day after day, in a prison cell, surrounded by men who had no idea what the young fool was quietly carrying. In 1969, the North Vietnamese released him early as a propaganda gesture. They wanted to show the world their generosity. They thought they were setting a harmless simpleton free. Instead, they handed the United States one of the most valuable intelligence assets of the entire war. The moment Hegdahl reached American soil, he delivered everything — name after name after name. Over 250 prisoners accounted for. Families who had waited years in agonizing silence finally learned their sons, husbands, and fathers were alive. Senior military officers later said his information was so detailed, so precise, that it fundamentally changed how America understood the POW situation in Vietnam. Douglas Hegdahl never fired a weapon. He never led a charge. He won his battle by making the enemy believe he was nothing — and quietly becoming everything. The most dangerous person in the room isn't always the loudest. Sometimes, it's the one they forgot to watch.

@hicasamadim 72

bunu çözersen, IQ seviyen ortalamanın üstündedir. çözebilir misin?

😂😂😂

@rwenzori_ It might be easier to measure stupidity in this case

Engineers..

@growing_daniel I have to run mine for hours just to get the hot water to come throw because of the low flow devices. Yet another “fix” that actually makes a problem worse

Another everyday luxury is leaving your faucets running. I haven’t turned off my faucets in years. It’s convenient for when I need to use it and it creates a pleasant running water sound in my home, like a babbling brook.

@Playteaux1 @Lucille77316971 I had the same experience with our home based business. Our premium became more expensive than our mortgage.

Years ago when Obama was running for his first term, my neighbors kept talking about how great Obama was. I never said a word to them about being conservative because back then I was more centrist. At the time I was a 1099 consultant so I paid for my own health insurance. It was about $650 for a family of three and we had a fairly low deductible. After Obama won and the ACA passed, I lost my health insurance and was told by BCBS that I had to go through the government website to apply. My insurance went from an affordable $650 a month to $2400 a month with a $10k deductible per family member. When I said this to my neighbor, they called me a liar. I asked them where they got their news and they said they watched Jon Stewart. I laughed so hard and they never spoke to me again. I’m glad they finally moved. I just wanted to say this: these are the people we are arguing with online. Completely uninformed buffoons. If you get your information from a late night comedian talk show host, we are not on the same level. Good riddance, Colbert.

@itsme_urstruly I was definitely designed for that, although becoming fond of 12 people would be a stretch

i think some of us were designed for small villages where we could become permanently fond of like twelve people and one strange bird.

@growing_daniel That’s why I have an upstairs and downstairs system. It’s total wold on the staircase

I like running my AC and heater at the same time. It produces a composite temperature effect I call "wold" for warm+cold which hits different than a purebred temp. The European mind cannot comprehend the subtle pleasure of wold

@domigan I live up in those hills, the hills west of Worcester

Worcester, Massachusetts

@ThatFloWoman Back then, morons largely kept their stupid thoughts to themselves, as they didn’t have a large pool of fellow morons on social media to validate their stupidity

Someone on Facebook has posted that they’ve put water by their gate for any passing dogs. Someone else has told them that it’s cruel for dogs to drink from communal bowls. I don’t know how we got through the seventies. 🤦‍♀️

@GuntherEagleman Yes yes a thousand times yes

The moment Donald Trump came down that golden escalator, the MAGA movement was born. The media laughed, the experts rolled their eyes, and millions of Americans put on the red hats anyway. Years later, that image still represents one of the most powerful political movements in modern American history. Were you on board from day one?

@malmesburyman A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

I want to read an American postwar novel of high literary merit and I really don’t want to hear that I should read Cormac Macarthy. What should I read?

@thurmanlady1 @SamaHoole I only had mine out in February. I find I can’t tolerate a lot of fat in my first meal of the day, but later meals are easily tolerated.

@gbeemer58 @SamaHoole Mine was removed a few years ago. I found that an occasional fat will go right through me (if you know what I mean), but nothing in the last few months since I started going low carb/higher fat again.

"Eating too much fat will give you gallstones." Eating too little fat will give you gallstones. The gallbladder exists for one reason: to release bile when you eat fat. No fat in, no bile out. The bile sits there, concentrates, and crystallises into the stones the low-fat diet was supposed to prevent. A 1998 Italian study put obese subjects on two weight-loss diets, identical in calories, differing only in fat content. Higher-fat group: zero gallstones. Lower-fat group: 54.5 percent developed gallstones in twelve weeks. The mechanism is not hidden. It is in the textbook. Harvard Health will tell you, in the same paragraph, that low-fat diets cause gallbladder stasis and that the recommended treatment for gallstones is a low-fat diet. The contradiction is presented as nutritional wisdom rather than a problem. The hinge needs to move. The gallbladder needs to empty. Fat is the lever. People who go high-fat low-carb sometimes pass small stones in the first few weeks and panic. The gallbladder is finally emptying after years of being told to sit still by people who did not understand what it was for. Eat the fat.