Jamie Oliver's TED Prize wish: Teach every child about food

Re:Jamie Oliver's TED Prize wish: Teach every child about food by larsr on Friday February 12, 2010 @08:16PM (#1122303)

That does not appear to be true. For instance, here is Walter Willett, chair of the department of nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health:

From many kinds of studies conducted over years, we are quite confident now that a calorie from fat will cause a similar amount of weight gain as a calorie from carbohydrate. There are some interesting questions about whether eating carbohydrate calories versus fat calories will make you eat more calories, but based on what you put into your mouth, it's pretty clear that the source of the calories is really not important.

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1822118,00.ht...

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Re:Jamie Oliver's TED Prize wish: Teach every child about food by chipsy on Friday February 12, 2010 @10:40PM (#1122488)

That article is talking "carbs vs. fat." Lustig is talking "sugar vs. everything else," and the key to the sugar-obesity link isn't in calorie quantities, but in how it affects future appetite and preferences. After drinking a soda, you will eat _more_ on average than someone on an empty stomach, even though you've just downed ~45 grams of sugar. It's the same reason why you can enjoy terrible bar food once you're drunk.

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Re:Jamie Oliver's TED Prize wish: Teach every child about food by wvenable on Friday February 12, 2010 @10:08PM (#1122451)

Wouldn't the calories label on the food include both calories from both fat and carbs? So this is all moot to the discussion at hand.

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