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Knit to This: Science Vs
Dear Ann,
I love a good debunking, don’t you? I owe a hat tip to my personal physical fitness guru, beast, and niece, Ms. Kristin Stone, for this one, from Gimlet: Science Vs, which “takes on fads, trends, and the opinionated mob to find out what’s fact, what’s not, and what’s somewhere in between.”
The episode I listened to poses the question: does exercise help a person lose weight, yes or no? Since my 20s, I have been soaking almost daily in the delicious endorphins generated by sweaty cardio exercise, so I sort of knew the answer: no. (And for me, no and so what? I like to move. Lifting heavy things?—not so much.)
Are there other, perhaps more important, benefits to regular exercise? You’ll have to listen to find out. (But do listen. It’s a fun podcast, with cheesy sound effects and such, and the answer is kind of amazing.)
Love,
Kay
In the MDK Shop
Okay, now I HAVE to listen to this! Because your (their) answer just confirmed I’m not crazy. (About this, at least…LOL.). Thanks for the recommendation!
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Thanks for this recommendation — I listened to the episode while walking my dog this morning. While I knew the exercise-weight connection, the podcast busted my long held opinion on the depression-exercise connection.
There’s an update you should read for that episode!
This sounds interesting but unfortunately I loathe podcasts. I could read the same information in a fraction of the time, and generally the production values are awful, and the hosts waffle on and on. I wish people would offer a transcript as i know many people do enjoy listening over reading.
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I have to agree about the podcasts (and many videos) although I enjoy listening to books or BBC radio dramas and stories online. I dislike when news stories online are presented in video only. I could read them much faster.
Yes! A thousand times! I HATE news that’s presented only in video format. So many of my daily newsletters do this (NPR, I’m especially looking at you), and it just irritates me.
Replying to myself…another annie…there is a transcript available at the YouTube site for this podcast! Yay!
A pitch from a Very Opinionated Woman: Please get your kids vaccinated. Vaccines do NOT cause autism. The study setting forth that proposition has been debunked. By real life scientists who know what they’re doing.
What really stinks is:
Diptheria (HORRIBLE DEATH -my aunt died from it in infancy- my poor grandma cried about it in her 90s)
Pertussis (Whooping Cough)
Tetanus (HORRIBLE death!!)
Polio- (Ask your friends and relatives who had it and suffer from the aftereffects even now. Or ask the Roosevelts!)
Typhoid
Measles (See, e. g. Little House on the Prairie- a true story, BTW)
Mumps- greatest source of male infertility
Rubella- seriously?
and so many more.
Please- reality is a good thing. And science is about testing reality.
You should try it!
Nor do they cause asthma, allergies or auto-immune diseases.