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ianToday  05:17 pm JST

It's almost certain that you will lose weight that way.

So your answer indicates you think that a body (of any species) treats everything consumed the same way (ie. chocolate is treated the exact same way as broccoli)... in other words, you're not thinking, or you're a doctor.

HawkToday  05:20 pm JST

Big,

What foods should or shouldn't people be eating?

Real foods, ie. if it has a nutrition label there is little to no nutrition in it.

ianToday  04:42 pm JST

That's basically it.

If you consume more calories than you use then the rest is stored as fat

If you want to get less fat you have to consume less calories, do more exercise or both.

You dont even have to understand or change what you eat, just eat less. Or move more. Or both.

And to follow up on this. By your logic if I consume 2000 calories a day of standard Japanese fare (fish, rice, soup, veggies, etc.) and I want to lose weight I could be successful by changing my diet to eat only 1000 calories of Snickers bars every day instead.

And before you jump in and say "well obviously Snickers bars and junk food are different", you need to explain how one calorie is different to another.

Mr KiplingToday  10:06 am JST

Fat people always looking for excuses for their excessive chubbyness. Its the sugar in drinks, its processed foods, its my metabolism.... NO, its you eating more than you need. Take responsibility.

Not quite. When people are not educated about what nutrition actually is, and actively misdirected by doctors, pharma, food industry, and marketing; it's no wonder people continue making the same choices. Additionally, you can't fight against your hormones and once your hormones become messed up because of a lifetime of ultra-processed "food" consumption it's hard to break the cycle. Your comment strikes me as if you are the kind of person who would give advice like "just eat less and move more".

Calories in, calories out is BS that allows big food and big pharma (and doctors) to blame the individual for their situation, and continue to sell ultra processed garbage as though it's equivalent to non-processed food. Easy way to think about this: if calories in, calories out is reality that would mean 100 "calories" of lettuce and 100 "calories" of chocolate are equivalent. Calories are calculated by blowing up a sample of food and measuring the heat differential. That's not how your body works, your food doesn't explode upon ingestion.

Bad HaircutToday  07:27 am JST

Whatever people might say, it's a welcome addition to Umeda that the district sorely needed and I think they did a good job of adding greenery to the area. There's more that the photo doesn't capture.

Went there last weekend for a look and was pretty impressed with the first stage. There's also a shallow pond with water jets for kids to play in (visible at the bottom of the big grassy area in the photo) that my son went nuts over, so I think it'll be a popular spot for families during the warmer months.

Agreed. They've taken what was an eyesore and are converting it into a very nice area that connects everything together.

ClippetyClopToday  05:35 pm JST

Truth Social looks good value. Go all in as Trump asked you to.

Your bias is showing. Your assumption is that I am a Trump supporter because I am critical of Taylor Swift's endorsement of Harris. I'm critical of narcissistic celebrities who feel compelled to talk about topics they know nothing about.

Fantastic. I always take my most important tips from uneducated karaoke stars with zero life experience. Now, if she could just tell me where to invest...

These people are a waste of space

Won't make a shred of difference. The problem is younger people (who, in the past, would typically have jumped at the chance of a part-time after school job) specifically Gen Z, are way to lazy and entitled, and their parents indulge them.

Who cares, let them use cash. I only use card for most things because I want to collect frequent flyer miles. I'd hate to see Japan go down the road of other countries where the staff give you dirty looks for paying by cash. In Australia I experienced shops that wouldn't take cash - not sure if this is for security or if Gen Z shop staff can't count.

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So exciting! What a nail-biter! Who will win? Oh, it doesn't matter, it'll just be business as usual no matter who wins.

It doesn't matter who they pick, no one has any actual policies.

YubaruToday  07:52 am JST

Sounds like an oxymoron to me!

First thing I thought when I saw the headline!

This guy is old enough that he should have a proper job and be a respectable member of society, not someone running around harassing others.

Never going to happen. Japanese companies don't measure employee performance on results. Performance is measured on visibility in the office. Someone who works 4 hours a day and produces more results will be valued less than the other employees who are "present" in the office 12 hours a day. It's all about appearance and harmony, not substance and performance.

For the last few weeks the general population of Japan has been living in fear while the "news" media get clicks and eyeballs. First, potential Nankai earthquake and then a slow-moving typhoon that's had the country on edge for over a week. Supermarkets sell out of bottled water and rice as people start hoarding (strangely toilet paper is okay for these disasters - apparently COVID made people more reliant on TP than rice). Disasters can happen, but this media-driven panic that leads to the everyday person losing almost a month of their lives is craziness.

Is it just me, or do the Japanese weather authorities take way too long to update the actual status of these things, ie. less of a threat than it was? Almost feels like in business, no employee wants to make a call on something for the tiny chance they could be wrong and then face the wrath of sempai.

How can any Japanese politician be described as a "star"? Ridiculous.

Dear Summer, good riddance. Gearing up for those two or three days of pleasant fall weather before it gets freezing and dry.

Like toilet paper in a pandemic...

StrangerlandAug. 24  11:13 pm JST

Reproducibility is required for a consensus of experts to agree that the scientific process has been valid, and the given hypothesis can be taken as current science.

Where is your example where reproducibility is required for consensus? Save the epidemiological studies, because these are association, not scientific evidence.

virusrexAug. 24  12:01 pm JST

Still missing the argument, reproducibility is what allows reaching consensus. Microbes causing infection, the heart function is to pump blood, examples of consensus that was reached because experts studying the topic all reached the same conclusion based on information readily reproduced time after time.

No, you are missing the point again. Consensus is reached by a group of people "perhaps" based on their scientific knowledge, but most likely based on their particular biases. What industry ties do these consensus-building scientists have? Who has funded their research in the past? Again, it doesn't matter what way you try to spin it, consensus is agreement and opinion, not science. If five world-renowned scientists with ties to tobacco companies reach consensus on cigarettes not causing cancer because of their "scientific knowledge" would you trust them? Probably not, you would assume there is some kind of bias there. But apparently on the nutrition front the wool has been pulled over your eyes. You seem to be the type of person who believes others are conspiracy theorists if they don't automatically trust the same sources you do.

StrangerlandToday  06:47 am JST

It exactly is science - it's the final part of the scientific process:

1 Hypothesize

2 Test

3 Conclude

4 Publish

5 Peer review and reproducibility (aka consensus)

The last thing in question is whether the people and the organization coming to a consensus have credibility and expertise in the given subject.

For example, many people will claim a quorum of podcasters represents a consensus, but often, that consensus is not based on scientific principles, and in such a case is not science, which is maybe what you were referring to.

This is why it's important to determine if the consensus was come to by people actually qualified to come to a consensus worth listening to.

Incorrect. Consensus is agreement amongst a group. Reproducibility is science not consensus.

virusrexAug. 23  10:51 am JST

The AHA is not an outlier but instead it represents the scientific consensus about seed oils, without evidence on the same degree of quality and quantity as what is available to support the safe use of seed oils there is no point in pretending they are not.

COIs become important to explain when people or institutions try to refute a well stablished consensus using insufficient or even false data, but when their conclusions and recommendations run along what other institutions say and it is based on reports without any identifiable flaw then it becomes irrelevant.

As I've explained before, "consensus" is not science. Doesn't matter how much you beat the drum, it still doesn't make it true. Additionally, science that can't be questioned is religion. You seem to be in a cult of consensus.

And for the olive oil lovers out there, remember that most of the olive oil you buy will be cut with canola oil.

There is no problem with seed oils if you enjoy consuming products which don't occur in nature. There is no problem with seed oils if you like cooking with substances that become unstable when heated. There is no problem with seed oils if you like consuming products that were originally intended to lubricate engines. There is also no problem with seed oils if you enjoy consuming products that have been manufactured, "washed" with petroleum by-products, bleached, and deodorized. I'm sure none of these things has a negative effect on the human body. Drink up!

藤原Aug. 23  05:33 pm JST

Rip off for food that is one of the most unhealthy and un natural foods around!

Just a small correction: it's not food, the human body doesn't recognize it as food.

Feel sorry for the guy arrested, but looking forward to all the politicians in Japan demanding "justice" from China. One hostage justice country to another.

"We have 4 seasons" say the Japanese. 1 week of spring, 1 week of autumn, and a mix of humid and disgusting, and dry and freezing for the rest.