Lizzo Loses Weight and the Fat Fans She Cultivated as an Identity Group Drop Her Like a Bad Habit
Plus, Health Nonsense

Via John Sexton: When you sell yourself as the avatar of an identity cult, you'd better retain that identity if you want to remain its avatar.

Have you heard? Lizzo just put out a new album and, well, it seems no one bought it. The album, titled "Bitch," was meant to be a comeback for Lizzo but it looks like no one wants her back.

[CNN:] After reaching eye-watering success with hits like "Truth Hurts" and "About Damn Time," the four-time Grammy winner's latest effort has dropped with a thud, reportedly streaming under a million times on Spotify within the first 24 hours of its release, selling fewer than 3,000 copies in its first week according to Rolling Stone and failing to crack the Billboard 200 in the first two weeks.

Once ubiquitous in the culture -- as much for her full-on embrace of self-love and body positivity as for her infectious anthems -- Lizzo is now relegated to "what happened to her?" status.

What happened to her was Ozempic, which is considered Unholy by Fat Acceptance Movement Cultists.

She tried to explain her weight loss to her cultists:

I started losing weight in the fall of 2023. I was severely depressed...

I'd decided that winter to sit and record a video saying I wanted to intentionally lose weight. Why? I guess I felt like I had lost everything, and I wanted to change. After talking to a few therapists I discovered that my weight had been a protective shield, a joyful comfort zone, and even sometimes a super hero suit to protect me through life...

I was sick and tired of my identity being overshadowed by my fatness. People could not see my talent as a musician because they were too busy accusing me of making "being fat" my whole personality...

It kinda was, though.

Here she tries to spin: "fit" is "the new fat" and the body positivity movement has to evolve to accept less fat bodies as Also Positive.

They're not buying it.

I want us to allow the body positive movement to expand and grow far away from the commercial slop its become. Because movements move.

"What's complicated about Lizzo is Lizzo did make her body size part of her brand," said Tigress Osborn, executive director of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA). There's also the fact that Lizzo is a Black woman, the activist said...

I mean, whatever. But yeah, if you sell yourself as Your Identity then you are trapped in that identity. Or at least you have to sell a new identity to new fans.

I didn't like her when she was fat and I don't like her now that she's slightly less fat. Either way, she's a low-talent skank.

Speaking of Ozempic: RFKJr. was glad to announce that for the first time in fifty years, obesity rates have dropped in America, but I'm guessing that has little to do with changing nutritional guidelines to something more sane.

The United States' obesity rate has dropped for the first time in 50 years under President Donald Trump's administration, Health and Human Services Secretary (HHS) Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced this week.

"Since President Trump came into office, obesity rates in this country have dropped by 2.5 percent," Kennedy announced during an event in Charlotte. "That's the first drop in 50 years."

Kennedy said that drop will have "significant impacts on health care costs in this country," noting that obesity drives the vast majority of chronic disease.

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"When my uncle was president, three percent of children were obese. Now it's 20 percent... 77 percent of our kids cannot qualify for military service because of chronic disease, mainly obesity. This has national security implications. It is absolutely destroying our country economically. It's the biggest cause," he said.

Kennedy also said that obesity rates shot up in the U.S. because of ultra-processed foods and misinformation about proper nutrition -- not sudden laziness on the part of the American people.

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The majority of calories consumed by Americans, he continued, come from ultra-processed foods.

"It's poisonous. It destroys your metabolic system. It makes you obese, and you know, people, diabetes, for example, is driven by ultra-processed food. When I was a kid, a typical pediatrician would see one case of type two diabetes over a 40 or 50 year career. Today 38 percent of American teens are diabetic or pre diabetic," he said, deeming it a "terrible crisis."

A study confirms that fasting actually boosts focus and brainpower, rather than reducing them, as people fear it will.

I mean sure, when you get pangs of hunger you're distracted. No denying that. But what people think is that the pangs of hunger are always present. They're not. They come for about fifteen or twenty minutes every couple of hours.

The rest of the time energy is high and the mind is clearer than normal.

As effective as fasting can be for weight loss, it's often thought that depriving the body of sustenance might have a negative impact on brainpower.

But is an impact on cognitive performance really an inevitable part of the fasting experience?

According to a huge, recently published review, it's not always the case.

Based on an analysis of 63 scientific articles representing 71 independent studies, and covering a total of 3,484 participants, the review found that there was no meaningful difference in cognitive performance between people who were fasting and people who were having regular meals.

It's a comprehensive counter to the idea that moderate, short-term restrictions on eating will deplete mental reserves in healthy people, an idea found everywhere from snack adverts ("you're not you when you're hungry") to the mantra that breakfast is the most important meal of the day.

On average, the data from the studies (each represented by a blue dot) showed similar test scores between people fasting and not fasting -- a straight line along 0 would be identical scores. Positive values indicate higher performance by satiated participants, relative to fasted participants, and negative values imply higher performance of fasted participants. (Bamberg & Moreau, Psychol. Bull., 2026)

The researchers behind the analysis -- psychologist Christoph Bamberg from Paris Lodron University in Austria, and cognitive neuroscientist David Moreau from the University of Auckland in New Zealand -- don't want people who could benefit from fasting to be put off by worrying that it'll lead to foggy thinking.

"For most healthy adults, the findings offer reassurance," Moreau explained in a commentary for The Conversation.

"You can explore intermittent fasting or other fasting protocols without worrying that your mental sharpness will vanish."

There's a famous scene in Sleeper where a future scientist notes that the hero came from a time when doctors told the populace that red meat, eggs, alcohol, cigarette smoking and utter were unhealthy -- "all of which we now know to be untrue."

I don't think that cigarettes or booze will be deemed healthy, but just about everything they told you would kill you for 40 years is now admitted to be healthy.

New Research Suggests Moderate Egg Consumption Is Linked to a Longer Life, Doctor Breaks It Down A 2025 study tracking adults over 70 found that eating eggs one to six times per week was linked to a 29% lower risk of cardiovascular death and a 17% lower risk of dying from any cause.

A 2025 study tracking adults over 70 found that eating eggs one to six times per week was linked to a 29% lower risk of cardiovascular death and a 17% lower risk of dying from any cause.

Few foods have been as unfairly villainized as the egg. For decades, dietary guidelines warned against them, citing concerns about cholesterol and heart disease. But the science has been quietly shifting, and a new 2025 study out of Melbourne's School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine may be the most compelling evidence yet that moderate egg consumption is not just safe -- it may actually support a longer life.

What the Research Found

Researchers tracked adults aged 70 and older and monitored their egg consumption over time. Those who ate eggs one to six times per week saw meaningful reductions in mortality risk compared to those who ate them rarely or not at all.

The numbers are striking. Moderate egg eaters had a 29% lower risk of dying from cardiovascular disease and a 17% lower risk of dying from any cause. Importantly, those benefits plateaued at higher intake levels. Eating eggs seven or more times per week did not appear to provide additional protection, suggesting that moderation is the sweet spot.

I know that some commenters warn against low-calorie sweeteners. A study finds that one sugar alcohol, sorbitol, causes fatty liver disease just like fructose does.

Researchers have uncovered evidence that a common "sugar-free" sweetener may mimic some of fructose's harmful effects in the body.

That "sugar-free" snack in your kitchen may not be as harmless as it looks.

Scientists are raising new concerns about sorbitol, a common sweetener used in products marketed as low-calorie or diabetic friendly. New research suggests the sugar alcohol can trigger processes linked to fatty liver disease, especially when gut bacteria fail to break it down properly.

The study, published in Science Signaling, found that sorbitol can ultimately behave much like fructose inside the body.

Fructose, which is heavily used in soft drinks and processed foods, has already been strongly linked to metabolic dysfunction--associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), a condition formerly known as fatty liver disease. MASLD now affects an estimated 30% of adults worldwide and is increasingly being diagnosed in younger people.

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The team found that after glucose is consumed, intestinal cells can convert some of it into sorbitol. Under healthy conditions, gut bacteria normally destroy much of that sorbitol before it causes problems. But when those microbes are missing or overwhelmed, sorbitol travels to the liver, where it is transformed into fructose-related compounds that drive fat buildup.

In effect, the body may be quietly producing its own fructose pathway even without consuming fructose directly.

Huh. I avoid sorbitol anyway because it's one of the sugar alcohols that causes GI problems. Your body might not be able to digest it, but gut bacteria can -- and they go crazy when they are fed raw carbohydrates.

I don't know why this is is new news, but low frequency subsonic sounds may cause fear and anxiety.

People exposed to infrasound may not consciously hear it, but they can show higher cortisol levels and increased irritability, which may help explain reports of "haunted" locations.

Infrasound refers to sound at very low frequencies, below 20 Hertz (Hz), a range that people usually cannot hear. It can be produced by natural events such as storms, as well as human made sources such as traffic. Some animals use infrasound for communication, while others move away from it. In a new study of whether people can sense infrasound, scientists found that although humans do not consciously detect it, their bodies still react, with exposure linked to greater irritability and higher cortisol levels.

"Infrasound is pervasive in everyday environments, appearing near ventilation systems, traffic, and industrial machinery," said Prof. Rodney Schmaltz of MacEwan University, senior author of the article in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. "Many people are exposed to it without knowing it. Our findings suggest that even a brief exposure may shift mood and raise cortisol, which highlights the importance of understanding how infrasound affects people in real-world settings.

"Consider visiting a supposedly haunted building. Your mood shifts, you feel agitated, but you can't see or hear anything unusual. In an old building, there is a good chance that infrasound is present, particularly in basements where aging pipes and ventilation systems produce low-frequency vibrations. If you were told the building was haunted, you might attribute that agitation to something supernatural. In reality, you may simply have been exposed to infrasound."

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Participants who had been exposed to infrasound showed higher salivary cortisol levels. They also reported feeling more irritable, less interested, and more likely to perceive the music as sad. Even so, they could not reliably tell whether infrasound had been playing.

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"Increased cortisol levels help the body respond to immediate stressors by inducing a state of vigilance," said Prof Trevor Hamilton of MacEwan University, corresponding author. "This is an evolutionarily-adapted response that helps us in many situations. However, prolonged cortisol release is not a good thing. It can lead to a variety of physiological conditions and alter mental health."

Maybe cities are causing people to be mentally ill by flooding them with subsonic noise.

Bad news: Jack Straw's sperm is retarded.

Putting a husky shepherd -- I mean he's 50 pounds overweight, not a husky mix -- on a diet and exercise regime.

This big chonky boy needs to lose 100 pounds.

Chonky cat needs to shed and shred.

How is your health? Did you get shape for the summer or are you stupid, like me, and decided to start getting back in shape in the middle of June?

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:22 PM

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