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 should know better than to read angsty fanfic in public.
People constantly taking Marks pellegrinos tweets out of context, so here’s a few things to clear that up.
So now people are aware that it’s a load of crap what people are saying. Please do research before accusing and spreading rumours, as it is unfair.
// This isn’t exactly related to my blog but I feel it’s important enough to share here, especially since this fandom’s gross hatred of Lucifer *and* Mark Pellegrino is what keeps driving me off this hell-site in the first place.
I get it if y’all don’t like Lucifer, but leave Mark the fuck alone. If this offends you then I’m sure you can find the unfollow button.
-Admin
God, I didn’t know people didn’t like Mark as well. This honestly breaks my heart because I found Lucifer such an intriguing character, with his ability to be adorable and snarky at times, but also able to be scary and remind everyone he is the villian here. And yes, I get some people don’t like him. He’s a flawed character, but people have their own opinions.
Mark isn’t Lucifer. He’s his own goddamn person, and y’all seem to mix up the two. Mark is an extremely nice guy who would never, EVER say or present discrimination or bigotry without proof of reason. Just chill the fuck out. I’ve had the pleasure of seeing nothing but love for Mark, but if you hate him without a providable reason why, then unfollow me right now.
Hatefulness toward Mark is what drove me off Twitter. One person was actually claiming one of his campaigns in support of Attitudes in Reverse stigmatized mental health because it urged people *not* to commit suicide.
People are so quick to throw hate at him because they don’t understand what he stands for, nor do they want to try. They hate and feel self-righteous about it, launch smear campaigns against him, malign his character, and then tell him he’s bullying them when he defends himself.
Fortunately I haven’t come across Mark hate on Tumblr (knocks on all the wood in her apartment), and for that I’m grateful.
Mark Pellegrino is an absolutely wonderful person. He’s kind, funny, wicked smart, and genuinely loves his fans.
If you hate him, best stay away from my blog, because there’s nothing but love for this amazing man here.
What is this shit??????
People have been assuming Mark P. isn’t as supportive of lgbtq+ people as he says he is because of the fact that he believes white people experience racism from poc and that there are no existing economic barriers for anyone in the United States (he believes that queer people don’t have a disadvantage to straight and cis people when finding a job etc.).
He’s a libertarian. He believes BLM is bullshit. He thinks Oprah does not have a disadvantage as a black woman compared to him, a white man. And he’s made countless jokes about his character raping Sam. When people voiced complaints, many of them victims, he called them “r*tarded.” He perpetuates the same minimalization against minorities he claims to hate.
A frequent mistake that straight people make is to believe the only right queer people need is the right for gay marriage, which is not true at all. Bigotry does not end at the law: law is enforced by humans and therefore susceptible to human error—hence BLM. And Hell, conservatives are working to take a lot of protections down. Mark is unsupportive in more ways than he is supportive and doing less than the bare minimum doesn’t cut it. His ableism, his racism, his sexism, and other forms of bigotry still exist whether he thinks so or not, and that affects us.
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