What's sad to me is that it is clear many people who claim to be Christians have never actually read and thought about the teachings in the Gospels. Yes, we are all flawed human beings. I am deeply flawed. But if you don't try care about each and every person as they are, where they are, and express that in your actions, I am not sure you know God at all. Saving (and judging) the world is God's job. Treating each other with kindness, respect, and love is ours.

Yes! Let's normalize not having kids.

Research shows you can induce fibromyalgia in mice by injecting them with IGg from humans with fibromyalgia. Sucks for the poor mice being used in research, but demonstrates the realness, for want of a better word, of chronic pain conditions. https://www.jci.org/articles/view/144201 Because there is a different pain mechanism at work than in acute pain it doesn’t respond well to medication like opioids. Opioids can actually increase the amount of pain you experience. Source current pain science and lived experience of going from ridiculous amounts of morphine to just paracetamol for my pain and the level of pain being 99% the same.

America is not the only country that does this, not by a long shot.

That's because biological women are rarely part of any medical studies. The vast majority of medical testing is done on males. The reason for that is pregnancy. The risk of being pregnant is a high risk for additional damage. Do they get left out. Sometimes even in studies that concern majorly biological women. The pain threshold and reaction to medication is hugely different between biological males and biological females. They have different bone density and different metabolism. That's why often the doses of medications are too small for women. The studies are made with men, the dosage was tested on men, but a biological male of the same weight and height than a woman has a smaller percentage of fat in the body (to just name one of the many factors that impact the function of medicine) and thus for need less medication to treat their issues. So then the women get the dosage that would work for a boy, but is useless for them. But when a man comes, they get what they need.

Everyone should read 1984. Sometimes it feels as if someone is using it as a blueprint

Mine is fabulous at remembering embarrassing incidents, particularly as I’m trying to get to sleep?

Having lost 150 lbs and watching my job improve, my friendships sharpen and being treated with kindness by strangers was MIND. BLOWING.

Some people are so ignorant.I went from being perfectly in the middle of my weight range to being 30 kilos over it due to treatment and a slot of steroids,without those I would be dead.I have family members who see someone overweight and say mean remarks,then when I say well I'm over weight ..it's well thats because of the treatment...excuse me how do you know the person you just belittled isn't big because of treatment or an eating addiction or trauma.Why are people so ugly to each other (

My mom is quite overweight and I’m around average, but growing up with an overweight mom made me see that overweight people aren’t just skin and fat.

Not just weight. You're more likely to be promoted at work if you're 'good looking'.

Have been fat, thin, fat again and now thin again, the difference in treatment is staggering……

Also people who don't know the difference between 'different' and 'differently'.

Richard that has got to be the most hateful comments I've seen on BP. Have you been here long? Bc if you have, you'd know that comment would NOT land.

I don't care. I'm me and if I weigh more than I'm supposed to, so what? I'm healthy, my bloodwork is very good, and I feel very good.

I don't. And the poster never asked me or anyone I know. Please quit using "literally" incorrectly. Thanks.

The biggest benefit of gaining a bunch of weight is that I don't get sexually harassed anymore.

I'm a fat b@stard and likely to stay that way. Doctors rarely even offer tests unless I ask because I'm "hugely overweight" and that's definitely my problem. No, the large pizzas are my problem. 😂

Am I the only one who just tried to blow a piece of dirt off their phone screen, before realizing is was inside the photo? 😅

Could be worse. Being a short and/or balding man gets you treated differently, and there's little to nothing you can do about that

Well, if that’s an American adult up there, he needs to put weight on FAST ,

So I am ashamed to say that I am guilty of this. Not overtly, I am genuinely polite & nice to people & know that it's within that counts, but I often have an automatic negative reaction to someone of size. I find myself ascribing qualities & attributes to a person that are unfair & biased & wrong. Mea culpa. I am working on it.

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People shouldn't be mistreated based on their appearances. But, let's be honest, people being overweight is NOT healthy and people need to realize this. The "body positivity" movement chooses to ignore this and glorifies obesity, telling people that losing weight is "fatphobic." Treat people with respect, but don't try to bend the truth to conform to your ideology.

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Believe me, there is a lot of bias against thin people, too.

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Most of the extremely overweight are junkies and their drug of choice is food. Why treat them any different than any other junkie?

Unfortunately can confirm. Don't care about myself. Love my kids so much, I don't have words for it

Also, how you're treated by your parents. My sister had unconditional love and was never psychologically, emotionally, or sexually abused. Never gaslighted, always believed (even when she lied), and always always supported. I was sexually abused, constantly told I wasn't good enough and would never amount to anything, told I was miserable, and told I was too sensitive, among so many other things. The fact that I haven't offed myself is because I have extraordinary friends and a brother who has always had my back. And I have pets. How you're raised 100% impacts your level of success.

100%

Looking at you Apple! and anything other than my first Nokia cell phone.

Sadly true.

People out there thinking they are tougher than the sun.

To be fair though, being cold stresses your body and makes it more vulnerable; less able to fight off bugs. So, there is a connection.

I really don't know what it would take for deniers to believe climate change is real.

100% true. I have first hand knowledge that you can lie on them

The foundation stone for all conspiracy theorists, anti-vaxxers and flat earthers

Coincidentally today, June 25, is the anniversary of the 1908 founding of Ajinomoto Co., Inc., based on the discovery and manufacturing of MSG (which, like fortune cookies, is Japanese not Chinese in origin)

But without the little people they would have no power. They care but not in a way that is good for you.

What, they genuinely didn't believe you? Do these people not even have TVs? Or is David Attenborough too highbrow for them?

I happened to drive by a psychic's house/business (monument sign in the yard, another sign on the fascia board) while they went to check their mailbox. It had nothing in it. They should've known. : ))

I DID think 50 was old. And if you look at pics of back in the day, people were old at 50/60. Pretending modern medicine/safety/regulations has had no effect on the life expectancy is delusional. SOME people DID live till 80, but not nearly as many as today. And the ones who were dying at 60 were OLD