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I was thinking of that show as well ... how many relatively normal eaters got cut from being aired when there wasn't good material for the grand reveal? Those types of shows have a clear goal ("Secret Eaters" was the name after all), and they're hardly going to show anything that disproves their...

I (almost) can't believe he's actually going there - "the elderly cost too much" :jawdrop: And dementia is a cognitive symptom usually caused by a neurological disease. It's not a psychological problem, and it can't be fixed with a dose of the fuck-off variety of CBT. It's also worrisome that...

Various hormones can play a huge role as well. There was a study of the Biggest Loser contestants 6 years after competing, and their leptin levels were doing whacky stuff afterward. Their metabolisms stayed slow in the long term, basically remaining in the starvation mode triggered by heavy...

Looks like pretty much the same thing, with some fancier language :p But basically the same presumption - "you can't possibly weight as much as you do if you eat as little as you say do." So they're making a lot of assumptions instead of doing the real work and tracking what is actually being...

Is there a link to the evidence for the claim that they're under-reporting? Researchers have been known to make a helluva lot of assumptions to come up with some spectacular conclusions :-P All I can find is...

I think their actual objection to patients being allowed to speak is that they equate our disease with a form of insanity. Surely the lunatics shouldn't be allowed to have a say! The irony is that they would claim to object to such paternalism and stigmatizing of mental health patients - though...

That information came from Wikipedia, not support groups. Their source for the statements about the dangers of masking a B12 deficiency are a fact sheet from the NIH:

B12 deficiencies can have a lot of impact aside from altering the size of red blood cells and/or causing pernicious anemia, from what I understand. It looks like the effect of a deficiency on the nervous system happens via a separate mechanism, primarily due to the reduction of myelin formation...

I think they put a decent effort into creating a game. But the content would suggest they put no effort into understanding the symptoms which ME/CFS actually entails. They are only showing the behavioral aspect - people with CFS don't do much.

Not really. It makes her lack of activities look like a choice, and that's what a lot of the reviews say.

Free is about what it's worth. To quote myself: The authors think it also applies to depression, which is a good indication of their beliefs about what's causing all that fatigue in ME/CFS:

So why are we having this discussion here at all? Surely statements which are derogatory based on personal characteristics (race, gender, religion, etc) are a form of personal attack, even if a specific person is never named.

There is no "market" after a war. There's a ton of dead guys. I don't believe testosterone levels impact upon a women's capacity to become a professor, or join any other profession.

And you have specifically said they are less biologically or mentally suited to be professors. That job does not depend on muscle strength or having a penis. Actually it is holding them back when people say that they are less suited to the jobs they want to do. And plenty of them certainly do...

Evolution isn't "biological conditioning." As far as I can tell, there is no such thing as biological conditioning, which is why I was interested in hearing your explanation of it. No, you said that women were attracted to powerful men because those men supposedly have better genes...

Is it? Do explain. Uh, no. Power and wealth are still based primarily upon (financial) inheritance, not supposedly superior genes. And until very recently, that was pretty much 100% based upon the family someone was born to. The only connection between genes and power is some interesting...

Not too much inclusion, obviously :rolleyes: Presumably the lay member will be issued a nice rubber stamp along with their seat at the grown-up table.

True. But sometimes the true answer isn't the right answer :p It might be a symptom which some ME patients have, but it definitely needs to be looked into by a doctor regardless.

It's a different type of muscle - much more ATP than normal (skeletal) muscle. It would be interesting to fully examine differences in skeletal, cardiac, and/or smooth muscle ... differences and similarities might be informative regarding the pathological processes of ME.

The amount of blood being pumped by the heart is lower than normal. I think "cardiac output" is the more common term.