As much as science knows anything, it knows that having too much body fat is bad for your health. Even the article you just linked states weight loss as its goal.
BMI is a crappy measure of body fat, fair; bodybuilders and athletes often have very high BMIs while having very little fat, but it's not "arbitrary" either. Doesn't matter much, since we have tools to measure body fat percentage directly. No need to use BMI at all.
Also note that article says to eat less "processed" food, but doesn't explain what that actually means. Is bread processed? How about a salad? How much dressing do I have to add to lettuce before it counts as "processed"? No answers here.
There's something to be said for the caloric availability of any given food, but it's pretty silly to say that you shouldn't consider them at all. People who are trying to lose weight need some measure of how much they're eating so they can be sure they're eating less. Until we have a better one, calories aren't going anywhere.
As for exercise, it is definitely important, but it simply isn't realistic to out-train a bad diet. It's not at all reasonable to say that exercise is more important for weight loss, and anyone who's actually lost a ton of weight will tell you as much.
I wish police would simply enforce noise ordinances
Easier said than done, unfortunately. They need sound meters to do anything reliably, and then there's the issue of catching them. Even slow, inefficient bikes tend to be much faster and more maneuverable than patrol cars, so motorcyclists are quite a bit more likely to run. Especially the ones that are already violating noise ordinances.
Every time a right wing pundit talks about the left wing hive mind it's a clear tell that they have no understanding of their political rivals at all..
Is it? Only pure water will actually freeze at 0c. Rain, puddles, lakes, etc aren't all that pure... And we're talking about ambient air temps here. The air can be below freezing and it can still rain. And you can get snow/hail above freezing...
Knowing the freezing point is just one factor. Knowing it's generally around 30F is pretty much always close enough (not that remembering 32 is actually very difficult)
Edit: also water only freezes at 0c if it's at sea level... I really don't think 0°=freezing is the huge advantage that celcius stans think it is.
In point of fact Americans have gotten impressive results out of far more complicated metrics than metric. It's not a matter of understanding, it's a matter of pride. And of not having to buy all new tools.
Which is the closest thing to a legitimate criticism of celcius that exists. The entire top half of the scale (everything over ~50°, that is) is pretty much useless as far as judging the weather is concerned.
I'm pretty sure that wasn't actually Fahrenheit's intention, more a happy accident. Also if your body temp is 100°F then you're running a mild/moderate fever.
As is typically responded to this 'response': there are a large number of people-many European-who would unironically say that 50°F (10°C) is, in fact, the ideal temperature.
They're wrong, of course, but they exist.
But you're also assuming that the exact middle of the range is where the ideal sweet spot should be. That's wrong. People generally can better handle larger temperature deviations that are colder than their ideal than hotter deviations.
Yeah. No.
As much as science knows anything, it knows that having too much body fat is bad for your health. Even the article you just linked states weight loss as its goal.
BMI is a crappy measure of body fat, fair; bodybuilders and athletes often have very high BMIs while having very little fat, but it's not "arbitrary" either. Doesn't matter much, since we have tools to measure body fat percentage directly. No need to use BMI at all.
Also note that article says to eat less "processed" food, but doesn't explain what that actually means. Is bread processed? How about a salad? How much dressing do I have to add to lettuce before it counts as "processed"? No answers here.
There's something to be said for the caloric availability of any given food, but it's pretty silly to say that you shouldn't consider them at all. People who are trying to lose weight need some measure of how much they're eating so they can be sure they're eating less. Until we have a better one, calories aren't going anywhere.
As for exercise, it is definitely important, but it simply isn't realistic to out-train a bad diet. It's not at all reasonable to say that exercise is more important for weight loss, and anyone who's actually lost a ton of weight will tell you as much.