r/facepalm 4d ago

How can humanity disappoint so much 🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​

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u/Fucktastickfantastic 4d ago

I got it from my mum.

Can you say cabbage soup diet?!

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u/Strawberry_Coven 4d ago

Omggg. My mom and grandma spent a lot of time alternating me between the cabbage soup diet and the tea and toast diet. Then me aunt went into weight watchers and I remember being 11 and bringing the points counter booklet to school with me. “Cabbage soup diet” was like a sleeper phrase.

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u/TurangaLeela78 4d ago

I’m a medical coder and the doctors often refer to patients’ hyponatremia/low sodium as being due to their tea and toast diet. I always thought it referred to the way some of these older people who just aren’t thriving and aren’t hungry ate. I didn’t realize it was an actual DIET at some point. 😳

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u/HaloGuy381 4d ago

I would not have thought in 2024 that low sodium would be a routinely seen medical problem.

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u/TurangaLeela78 4d ago

It’s usually caused by an illness and not due to not eating enough salt, but it does happen.

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u/McSavvy 3d ago

Nope.

If you don’t balance the ions they go away.

The people who studiously avoid all salts is insane)

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u/TurangaLeela78 3d ago

Nope to what?

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u/McSavvy 3d ago

Wait you’re correct I’m exhausted and going to bed.

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u/TurangaLeela78 3d ago

Bahahaha fair enough. Sleep well!

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u/McSavvy 3d ago

Awesome name and that response made my night.

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u/TurangaLeela78 4d ago

There’s also “beer potomania,” which is hyponatremia that happens to alcoholics whose diet is mainly booze.

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u/jenn44244 4d ago

I have borderline low sodium...probably my autoimmune diseases causing it.

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u/McSavvy 3d ago

Oh god. Hold my beer. With salt.

Clinical lab scientist, some people go wayyy to far avoiding salt. Which also leads to magnesium, phosphorus, and ALL other electrolytes related issues.

Potassium is the worst. Your muscles can’t work without it.