That article has so many holes in it, I don't know where to start, short of going back in time and writing it for them and then setting it on fire.
This really says it all, "An 8-ounce bag of Reese's Pieces is just a cup of candy. But with 1,160 calories and 35 grams of saturated fat, it's like eating a 16-ounce T-bone steak plus a buttered baked potato." These two things have the same amount of calories and saturated fat, but one of them is obviously real food and the other, well, you guess.
Further, CSPI's history is more than a little sketchy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSPI
Mark Sisson has a lot of good material if you're interested in saturated fats and other food info. This article is even from 2009: http://www.marksdailyapple.com/saturated-fat-healthy/
Re:Why Do We Eat Popcorn at the Movies?
by randallsquared on Saturday October 05, 2013 @05:36PM
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Er, we do ask for more oil on potato chips. The marketing name is "kettle cooked", but "oilier chips" is basically what they're selling.
Kettle cooked tastes totally different, crisper, less grainy, thicker, and less oily.
And you can get low fat kettle cooked which tastes identical to me.
Re:Why Do We Eat Popcorn at the Movies?
by nazgulnarsil on Saturday October 05, 2013 @10:46PM
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>the kind of fat that clogs arteries and promotes heart disease.
Medical advice straight out of the 1970's.
A "small" at Regal has 670 calories and 34 grams of saturated fat. That’s about as many calories as a Pizza Hut Personal Pan Pepperoni Pizza—except the popcorn has three times the saturated fat. Even shared with another person, that size provides nearly an entire day’s worth of the kind of fat that clogs arteries and promotes heart disease. And every tablespoon of "buttery" oil topping adds another 130 calories. Asking for topping is like asking for oil on French fries or potato chips, according to CSPI.
http://www.cspinet.org/new/200911182.html