Article: The Way We Eat Now

interesting stuff.

http://www.harvard-magazine.com/on-line/050465.html

Wow - that really puts things into perspective! Sad for our
society, too.

Michelle

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interesting stuff.

http://www.harvard-magazine.com/on-line/050465.html

On 5/21/2004 4:33 PM, The Queen of Cans and Jars wrote:
interesting stuff.

http://www.harvard-magazine.com/on-line/050465.html

Nice article! Thanks for posting this link!

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jmk in NC

On Mon, 24 May 2004 11:12:06 -0400, jmk wrote:

On 5/21/2004 4:33 PM, The Queen of Cans and Jars wrote:
interesting stuff.

http://www.harvard-magazine.com/on-line/050465.html

Nice article! Thanks for posting this link!


It is a good article, except for this:

"People tend to eat the same amount of bulk, no matter what the calories,"
says research fellow in cell biology Jennifer Sacheck of Harvard Medical
School. "They'll fill their plate with the same amount of food. So if the
foods are energy-dense, they take in more calories, but things that have a
lot of water, air, and fiber in them, like fruits and fresh vegetables,
fill you up more without the caloric load." Because fat, at nine calories
per gram, is the densest form of food energy we consume, it's much easier
to overeat on fat. Doing so tends to add body weight more readily, Sacheck
says, "because fat is more efficiently stored." (Storing 100 calories of
protein, for example, takes nearly twice as much energy as storing 100
calories of fat.)

I think this is bunk. Try it yourself -- eat 500 calories of pasta.
Gauge your appetite an hour later. The next day, at the same time after
having eatin the same thing as the previous day, eat 500 calories of fat.
Gauge your appetite an hour later. Try the same with protein. Report
back.

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Bob in CT
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