Re:Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie
by bmelton on Friday March 04, 2011 @05:47PM
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Your argument is sound, but overlooks that most people don't consume their entire daily caloric intake in a single meal. If I have a Big Mac, Fries and a medium soda, I'm almost certainly overfeeding myself for that meal.
Re:Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie
by yummyfajitas on Friday March 04, 2011 @06:17PM
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Here is a 3 meal/day McDiet with a beverage at every meal.
Breakfast: Egg McMuffin (300 cals), Hash Browns (150 cals) and Coffee (0 cals).
Lunch: McChicken (360 cals), Fries (380 cals) and Coca Cola (210).
Dinner: Big Mac (540), Premium Southwest Salad with Chicken (320 cals), and Coca Cola (210).
2470 cals/day.
To become obese, you need to add this:
Afternoon Tea: Sweet Tea (150 cals) and McRib Sandwich (500 cals).
Desert: Hot Fudge Sundae (330 cals).
Now you are up to 3450 cals/day.
There is nothing about being poor which compels you to spend money on the McRib Sandwich, sweet tea and the Hot Fudge Sundae.
Re:Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie
by randallsquared on Saturday March 05, 2011 @02:04PM
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Of course you can stop eating, but a poor person is more likely to get the 50 nuggets for $10, instead. Twice, for a total of 4750 calories, minus the ones they don't get to in each meal before they get cold. ;)
You might be right if the only meals available had 1750 calories. In that case, your only choices are 1 meal (underfed) or 2 meals (overfed). But that simply isn't the case.
It is easy to become fat in the US, rich or poor. The poor are more likely to take advantage of this, it is true. But it doesn't save them money.