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New Studies Eat Into Diet Math
Wall Street Journal ^
| April 3, 2010
| Carl Bialik
Posted on 04/03/2010 8:22:18 AM PDT by reaganaut1
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Cool. I want a chocolate chip cookie.
To: reaganaut1
New York City officials estimated that a local law requiring chain restaurants to post calorie information about their menu items, which took effect in 2008, would reduce the number of obese city residents by at least 150,000 over five years.”
Typical government methodology....and the result here in the real world will also be typical....
To: reaganaut1
Passing a law “posting” the calorie contents of fast food is only going to reduce the number of people reading the contents.
To: reaganaut1
The article starts with a false assumption. Grams of carbohydrates cause more weight gain than number of calories.
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posted on
04/03/2010 8:31:56 AM PDT
by
Uri’el-2012
(Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your law is my delight.)
To: reaganaut1
At a 170 lbs, I can’t eat over 2,500 calories a day without gaining weight- and I cycle 150-350 miles a week.
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posted on
04/03/2010 8:32:06 AM PDT
by
WackySam
(To argue with a man who has renounced his reason is like giving medicine to the dead.)
To: reaganaut1
Ok, so the bottom line is still: eat less, move more and everyone is different, when it comes to losing weight.
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posted on
04/03/2010 8:33:29 AM PDT
by
svcw
(Religion is like giving someone who is dying of thirst mouthwash.)
To: reaganaut1
Obamacare will make me lose weight, my wallet gets lighter every day...
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posted on
04/03/2010 8:34:45 AM PDT
by
rolling_stone
(no more bailouts, the taxpayers are out of money!)
To: reaganaut1
And the health care bill was built with the old math too, they think they are going to be cutting obesity and saving money as well.
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posted on
04/03/2010 8:35:52 AM PDT
by
dila813
To: WackySam
how many hours a day do you ride?
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posted on
04/03/2010 8:37:51 AM PDT
by
erman
(A day without democrats is like a day without toilets backing up)
To: WackySam
That's because your body knows it needs energy to sustain your biking.
When it sees a source, e.g. carbs, it stores them.
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posted on
04/03/2010 8:39:11 AM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: reaganaut1
New York City officials estimated that a local law requiring chain restaurants to post calorie information about their menu items, which took effect in 2008, would reduce the number of obese city residents by at least 150,000 over five years. That law was a model for a national measure included in the recently passed health-care bill. But the estimate of obesity reduction was built on the old calorie math. And on the ridiculous idea that the obese will be dissuaded from eating what they want to eat just because the calorie information for menu items is available to read.
"Oh dear. I see the triple chocolate mocha cake ala mode is 2,378 calories. I shan't have so many calories as that, my good man. I shan't."
Yeah, right.
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posted on
04/03/2010 8:39:32 AM PDT
by
savedbygrace
(You are only leading if people follow. Otherwise, you just wandered off.)
To: erman
how many hours a day do you ride?
10 to 20.
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posted on
04/03/2010 8:41:01 AM PDT
by
WackySam
(To argue with a man who has renounced his reason is like giving medicine to the dead.)
To: WackySam
You still have time to freep?
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posted on
04/03/2010 8:44:17 AM PDT
by
txhurl
(The Ron Paul Crowd makes perfect senselessness.)
To: erman
how many hours a day do you ride?
Edit- 10 to 20 hours a week, spread over 3 to 5 days.
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posted on
04/03/2010 8:44:34 AM PDT
by
WackySam
(To argue with a man who has renounced his reason is like giving medicine to the dead.)
To: reaganaut1
But new researchbased on studies of volunteers whose calorie consumption is observed in laboratory settings, rather than often-unreliable food diariessuggests that the body's self-regulatory mechanisms tamp down the effects of changes in diet or behavior.
The self-regulatory aspects of metabolism have been known for many decades. The ability to adjust intake spontaneously to compensate for over or under-eating relative to one's caloric needs is something that appears to erode with age. Many years ago groups of young and old males were either overfed or underfed to provoke weight gain or loss and then studied afterwards. The younger males spontaneously ate less or more over the succeeding months to regain their pre-study weight. The older men (these were well past middle-aged) stayed either over or underweight.
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posted on
04/03/2010 8:45:24 AM PDT
by
aruanan
To: bitterohiogunclinger
Passing a law posting the calorie content.. will have to be in 119 languages or so, to make it politcally correct,... plus it will have to list any hint of certain products..i.e. pork!!!!!!
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posted on
04/03/2010 8:46:52 AM PDT
by
JoanneSD
To: reaganaut1
The Government solution to weight problems: You must be weighed every month by a designated Gov’t physician. If it is determined you should weigh 170lbs, then you will be taxed for every pound over 170. conversely you will also be taxed for every lb under 170. This would serve the common good of all Americans and further reduce the cost of Obamacare. sic..
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posted on
04/03/2010 9:39:01 AM PDT
by
PoloSec
(Note to Princess B H Obama: May PISS be Upon Mohammads Head...You Pervert)
To: ConservativeDude
What it will do is reduce the number of successful small businesses that can’t afford complicated and expensive calorie studies.
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posted on
04/03/2010 9:45:30 AM PDT
by
50sDad
(The Left cannot understand life is not in a test tube. Raise taxes, & jobs go away.)
To: WackySam
I have to roll up the windows when driving by a fast food place - just the smell makes me gain weight! I had to give up TV because the advertisements were making me fat, just by watching!
OK, maybe it isn’t quite that bad, but 40 years ago I lost 45 lbs, and I had to get down to 800 cal/day (while jogging daily) to do so.
Eat less/move more still works, but it works easier for some than others.
To: WackySam
I’ve always thought it would be impossible to ride more than 100 miles a week without losing weight.
I’m very impressed.
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