The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:
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Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.
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Updates to let us know how you are doing. This provides valuable feedback on past advice / encouragement and will hopefully make people feel a little more motivated to follow through. If you want to be reminded to post your update, see the post titled 'update reminders', below.
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Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.
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Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).
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I once looked into animal studies on exercise and I remember there were papers showing a similar result. Mouses that exercised did not live longer, but they were healthier: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/2046-2395-2-14
It’s not impossible IMO that exercise is a consequence of a healthy organism, whose energy is so abundant that it wants to get rid of the excess through physical expenditure. Anyone who has experienced childhood or owned a young dog should be familiar with the phenomenon. Exercise intervention studies would have been compromised by the fact that the already-healthier people would have been more keen to sign up, or if it were randomized more keen to accept, and more keen to remain in the study. When I was young, randomly running required about 5% of the willpower it does for me now — because I was a well-trained athlete as a child? No, just an organism with a lot of health energy to spare.
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