Mr24601

Facebook could monetize snap so much better.

PSA: Every legitimate long term study of non surgical weight loss shows that it doesn't happen for the vast, vast majority of people.

1) ["In controlled settings, participants who remain in weight loss programs usually lose approximately 10% of their weight. However, one third to two thirds of the weight is regained within 1 year, and almost all is regained within 5 years. "](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1580453)

2) Giant meta study of long term weight loss: ["Five years after completing structured weight-loss programs, the average individual maintained a weight loss of >3% of initial body weight."](http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/74/5/579.full)

3) Less Scientific: [Weight Watcher's Failure - "about two out of a thousand Weight Watchers participants who reached goal weight stayed there for more than five years."](https://fatfu.wordpress.com/2008/01/24/weight-watchers/)

4) [The reason why it's impossible seems to be that although calories in < calories out works, the body of a fat person makes it extremely difficult psychologically to eat less.](http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/magazine/tara-parker-pope-...) This is borne out by the above data.

5) [The only thing that does seem to work in the long term is gastric surgery.](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1421028/)

Moreover, you won't find any reputable study on the web where the average person lost 10%+ of their body weight and kept it off for five years. Not even one.

The study people sometimes bring up is the national weight control registry. But it is a heavily self selected group of people who have already lost significant weight before joining - therefore weeding out most of the failure rate. And even then, only 20% of their audience lost over 10% of their initial body weight and kept it off for one year.

Nowhere. $50k a year family probably only pays $5k a year all in including ss.

No - too lazy.

Isn't it fairly well accepted that 90% of PhD thesis will never be referenced or for the most part looked at again? Seems like an unworthy thing to get up on a high horse over.

Cruises can be waaay cheaper than that. Six adults from my family recently went on a 9 day cruise that was really nice to the Bahamas, I think the whole thing was under $4000.

Its generally incorrect to moralize (ie no excuse) anything, especially an addiction.

Fascinating and excellent story. I was originally "eye rolling" at the diatribe against death, but I changed my mind when I realized how few people really have different and thought provoking opinions on what we think about the status quo. The rationality of the argument got past my original response, in time.

It's not exactly a hidden meaning... if you know what Gangnam is, then the meaning is ridiculously blatant.

Also, it says that, "He writes his own songs and choreographs his own videos, which is unheard of in K-Pop.". This is however pretty much the norm for YG, the record studio he belongs to.

Big Bang's leader, G-Dragon, writes much of the music and lyrics for the group, along with T.O.P.

Examples: 1) 38,354,253 views, "Fantastic Baby" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAbokV76tkU

2) 20,106,612 views, "Bad Boy" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qnV55LUFVM

3) 27, 084, 596 views, "Blue" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GRP1rkE4O0

Also, they don't write their own songs, but YG band 2NE1 has a video with over 50,000,000 views, but it took a few years to get there: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7_lSP8Vc3o