Research has shown that pleasure affects nutrient absorption. In a 1970s study of Swedish and Thai women, it was found that when the Thai women were eating their own (preferred) cuisine, they absorbed about 50% more iron from the meal than they did from eating the unfamiliar Swedish food. And the same was true in the reverse for the Swedish women. When both groups were split internally and one group given a paste made from the exact same meal and the other was given the meal itself, those eating the paste absorbed 70% less iron than those eating the food in its normal state.
PLEASURE IS A NECESSARY PART OF HUMAN HEALTH, BOTH PSYCHOLOGICALLY AND PHYSICALLY
this is why you should be eating your chips with salsa and guac instead of beating yourself up for not eating a salad with tomato and avocado (unless you are a salad bitch like me then enjoy both of them!)
for those of you wondering if the studies cited above are legit and if so where we can read about them, here’s a link to one of the (more than a dozen!) papers written on the topic of nutrient absorption and how you eat your food:
My mom spent like four months embroidering this on and off. She asked me to post it for her here! It’s her first time making fanart, and also kind of her first time embroidering anything? I’ll read any comments I get out to her.
This is so beautiful! I love the little beams of light! So delicate.
its all ‘be gay do crime’ until a black person starts making allusions to drugs or sex or god forbid VIOLENCE and then it turns out nobody can handle anything more hardcore than downloading illegal torrents of hamilton
This post is about racism. This post is about racism and antiblackness. This post is not about how cool YOU are for doing crimes or about how much you hate 'antis’ or how bad tesla sucks. This post is about how ostensibly progressive white people will clutch pearls and moralize about not listening to rap or engaging with black art or culture because it seemingly condones drugs, or violence, or is overly sexual, while having no issue with those topics in other, non-black contexts. There are conversations to be had about the topics surrounding this but in the meantime the original post is One Sentence and I’m not convinced most of the commenters in the past few days even read it.
(I hope you don’t mind me adding my two cents)
as a black Tumblr user and black person in leftist and queer spaces, talking about black art and antiblackness as a whole is EXTREMELY fucking exhausting on so many levels.
either you have people completely speaking over you and your experiences as if they know better, people guilt tripping you for being white and feeling guilty for being white (cry me a river) or people refusing to engage in what you say or make because not only do they NOT understand, but also actively stay away from it because they truthfully don’t care.
and another thing when it comes to black art and its themes is seeing many non black people try to squeeze all the meaning and symbolizism out if they can make a meme out of it. and if they do see black themes especially themes of systemic oppression they’ll just lump this in with “POC issues” despite the fact other POC are not exempt from being anti black themselves and honestly, a majority of oppression and racism inherently loops back to antiblackness.
w/e! sorry I cannot talk about my experiences in a wholesome chungus white boy meme way so you crackers can digest it easier or respect me easier. liberals and even some most progressives need to learn to engage with black folks and our issues in a respectful manner no matter what.
