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by trallnag 211 days ago
Awesome insight. It's not the disability I have, it's that I have never tried healing by fasting. Of course. Because my body was always busy trying to eat food instead of fixing and regrowing all the malformed tissue. Because that's how it works. When a person without legs starts to fast, the legs will suddenly develop.
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amenhotep 210 days ago
It would be sensible for you to examine and interrogate why reading a general and fairly anodyne opinion about what might be a solution to a problem some people have led you to interpret it as a prescriptive and judgemental suggestion about the specific problem you specifically have.
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trallnag 210 days ago
In my mind it is a slippery slope that leads to a sickly Steve Jobs eating kilograms of raw carrots.

Obviously a healthy lifestyle is good. And this includes not eating over your requirements. But sometimes there is actually something wrong. And in these cases, first trying out to just eat healthy can worsen the situation by delaying proper treatment. And proper treatment does equal a bunch of pharmaceutical drugs.

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mock-possum 210 days ago
I disagree, I think it’s fairly easy to read this passage in particular

> The simplest solution to a lot of problems is consuming less with the assumption that, most of us (maybe not you), have a lot of spare energy sitting around.

as energy-woo / thanks-I’m-cured material.

You can weasel your way around criticism by calling it “a general and fairly anodyne opinion about what might be a solution to a problem some people have,” but consider -

It does make sense that someone who’s struggled with a chronic condition would be tired and embittered by the endless snake oil evangelizing they’ve had to endure, on top of already struggling with their health.

(Not that fasting doesn’t work for some people, as you say! it’s more the grandiose claim that it’s “The simplest solution to a lot of problems” coupled with some vague anecdote about blood work and knowing better than doctors that waves a red flag)

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cyrusradfar 210 days ago
Appreciate the thoughtful retort. Have a good one.
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