Help me lose weight

[Eolin]

So if you are majoring in "philosophy of science" why the .? Why say "I am a philosopher. of science." Why?

I'm not majoring in "Philosophy of Science". I got my two bachelor degrees a year ago, as of May. I said I'm a Philosopher of Science because its a cool name, and more or less accurate. Its accurate in that I've had many courses in the philosophy of science, and its what I'll be doing in the Fall. Its inaccurate if it led you to believe I was claiming to have a PhD, which definetly isn't the case. Yet, anyway.

Besides, earlier it let me say in my Vengman-esque way "Back off man, I'm a Philosopher. Of Science." Which I've wanted to find a reason to say for a while.

 

[tarchon]

Not only does this make no sense, it's a sentence fragment. There's no such thing as a "philosopher of science" if that is what you are intending. You could be a philosopher, or you could be a scientist. The only area I can see them merging is in the area of bio-ethics. This discussion has nothing to do with that.

What are you, really?

Philosophy of science is a perfectly legitimate branch of philosophy, e.g., Karl Popper. It has real live journals, faculties, and everything. (It's generally more epistemology than axiology.)

 

[Eolin]

If I had to guess, the missing seven pounds would be water weight loss, due to the severe amount of electrolytes in Eolin's "Master Cleanser." Same idea with drinking seawater.

You know, I don't really know what this means. Does drinking 3 to 4 liters of water mixed with good stuff let your body release older water?

Also, I've felt as if my intensines have shrunk. I don't have a way to emperically observe that, but it sure is how I feel. and its in line with what the Master Cleanser literature claims.

 

[Eolin]

Philosophy of science is a perfectly legitimate branch of philosophy, e.g., Karl Popper. It has real live journals, faculties, and everything. (It's generally more epistemology than axiology.)

Also, thanks to everyone who popped out to the wordwook to defend the existence of the philosophy of science. I've been out most of the day, so I havn't really been able to. My writing sample was a philosphy of science paper. Its describes why it is that we shouldn't just write off all ad-hoc hypotheses, as some have been quite useful to scientific discovery. And it shows what the differences are between the useful ones and the ones that are bunk. With a Baysean explanation for why that is.

Edit: Now I have to leave again. I've got to go help a friend move. Expect me to pop in occasionally during the day.

 

[Shemeska]

Well, I keep hearing (although it may be an urban legend) that there is some insane amount of undigested meat in our colons most of the time, that never really reduces because as some gets finished, we put more in. If you went through a week without putting more in....

It is an urban legend.

 

[Shemeska]

Also, I've felt as if my intensines have shrunk. I don't have a way to emperically observe that, but it sure is how I feel. and its in line with what the Master Cleanser literature claims.

They actually have in a way, but that's not the Master Cleanser doing that.

It's simply a reaction of your intestines and stomach to you eating less volume of food. If you reduce your volume of food and keep it that way for a period of time, your GI tract is going to contract slightly, back to its nominal volume without being stretched as much by a larger amount of food. A byproduct of this is that you feel slightly less hungry. You eat less and over time you don't feel as hungry constantly as you did initially when you decreased the total amount of food you ate. This doesn't have to do with caloric intake, but just the raw volume of solid food and how it impacts the size of the stomach and intestines as they expand to accept its passage.

 

[Torm]

It is an urban legend.

Okee dokee.

 

[der_kluge]

Speaking of urban legends - more on the "8 glasses of water per day" myth:

http://www.snopes.com/toxins/water.htm

 

[fusangite]

Add me to the group that believes that more exercise is needed.

1 to 2 hours a week just aint gonna get it. Saying "I don't have time," aint gonna get it either. You have to make the time. Less gaming, less TV, something. Heck, get a treadmill and mix the exercise with other things (like gaming or TV). Seriously, the other stuff just won't work if you don't exercise more. 1 hour a day and you'll lose weight, period.

Running is about the best thing there is. Just drink a lot of water, don't eat like a pig, go run an hour a day and watch the pounds fall off.

You seem not to have read or perhaps just not comprehended my post on this issue. Tell me: if someone exercises 5 minutes a day, isn't it better than exercising 0 minutes a day? How about this: is it better for someone to diet and not exercise to go from 300lbs to 250lbs or is it better for them not to diet at all?

Telling people that because they're not prepared to suffer through an entire hour of exercise every day that they might as well not do anything about their health is the kind of crap that keeps people fat, unfit and depressed.

 

[Gentlegamer]

On the other hand, I'm a doctor of philosophy and I'm neither a doctor nor a philosopher. Not really a master either, but I can claim to be a bachelor.

I'll off in the fall to begin my studies in pursuit of becoming a Juris Doctor . . .