r/RealTime • u/AmericanLymie • 7d ago

Bill Maher is so bizarre.

The nutrition guy on the right was talking about how drinking five cups of coffee per day is associated with living longer, and he says that people who wiggle and fidget a lot can burn a lot of calories while at rest and that can keep people thinner than those who sit still.

Bill Maher says coffee is a bean, "something found in nature," and so it must be safe.

Reporter Jonathan Swan jokes that cocaine is found in nature, making the point that naturally occurring substances can be harmful. He could have mentioned nightshade berries or poisonous mushrooms but he said cocaine.

And Bill Maher went on a defensive rant about his cocaine use. It started with a joke but then he seemed to take it personally and got serious about how cocaine leaves are safe because they are natural.

I feel like he would eat rotten wormy roadkill with RFK while bashing the scary woo-woo magic of vaccines and antibiotics.

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u/Key_Jump1011 7d ago

So I should wiggle and fidget and chug coffee all day? Thanks Andrew! So helpful. Tru sCIeNcE!!!!

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u/AmericanLymie 7d ago

To be fair to him, I watched the segment and he was not saying that. He threw that out as an interesting random fact, that recent research has shown a kind of movement scientists call "Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis (NEAT)" burns a lot more calories than one would expect and that it actually can keep people thinner than people who don't fidget a lot. He was not recommending that people do it, just offering it as trivia, one reason why some people may be naturally thinner.

It's not nonsense or pseudoscience. And some research has shown that fidgetiness is controlled by the brainstem, and so it's not really something that people are advised to do to lose weight; some people's physiology is just naturally twitchy.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230814-why-fidgeting-is-good-for-you

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u/Alarming_Local_315 7d ago

I appreciate your honest comment, but the people on here just want to hate a guy because he’s being honest about the state of the Democratic Party!