I always get suspicious when the headline says something along "scientist says you should". Because typical scientistic statements are more conditional: "If you do A, B might happen", or even "B becomes more likely".
Checking the actual quote:
"I think it would be nice if your meal came with a side salad and six French fries, [...]"
Yeah I think it was more of a hyperbolic comment to the reporter rather than an official recommendation. He thinks we should eat more greens and less fried stuff, which is in line with pretty much every nutritional guideline out there
At least for empirical research, I would go even further and say that most individual studies don't hold much weight and that the authors of such studies shouldn't receive too much credence until their findings have been replicated multiple times by independent researchers.
I’ve been calorie counting for a while now, and one of the things I’ve found is that if you get one average burger and medium fries, the fries are often more calories. A medium fry at the place I ate yesterday is 560 kcal. Personally, I’d rather get a second sandwich.
I'm lucky to have a smallish appetite, which I think of as a superpower - I can't even eat an entire Whopper, or typical adult-size burger. I don't how anybody can put away a second one.
Interesting. To me feeling overfed is not a good feeling. The few times I've said, "Tonight I'm gonna have a real FEAST!" I've always felt terrible later. All-you-can-eat places are a waste of money for me.
The feeling itself usually isn't uh, great. The fullness hurts. But there a lot going on. Consuming feels great because of an overabundance of brain chemicals (the act of eating and tasting). Waste feels horrific because of upbringing. So you get use to the discomfort because of the rest. But it still doesn't help because it's not great. It's also complicated and probably per person. There's probably more but I just woke up from a nightmare. Not about food though lol.
Belgian “frietkoten” have a magical capability.
No matter how hard you to minimise your order. You always, and I do mean always, end up with too many. Even if you take that last extra scoop into account.
How many fries you eat matters more than things like the fries’ surface area or the type of oil used in making them, Lindsay Moyer, a senior nutritionist at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, said.
Consider, for instance, that a large serving of McDonald’s fries is 510 calories, nearly the same as a Big Mac (540 calories), she said. The Agriculture Department lists a serving of fries as three ounces, which amounts to 12 to 15 individual potato sticks, or about 140 calories.
Split your order, get the smallest portion possible or substitute with a side salad or some kind of green vegetable, Ms. Moyer said, or get a baked white or sweet potato instead.
“There aren’t a lot of people who are sending back three-quarters of an order of French fries,” Dr. Rimm said. “I think it would be nice if your meal came with a side salad and six French fries.”
Here's the original article with context. The folks were absolutely serious about what they were saying up until the Internet blew up on them
I've just checked here in France. One BicMac contains 530 kcal while a caesar salad contains 402 kcal. A Royal Cheese also contains 525 kcal.
Maybe it's different in your country but here there is a pattern where salad have less calories than burgers.
He wasn't - he was deliberately saying something attention-grabbing so people would realize how unhealthy the typical restaurant fries are made. He knows a serving of six fries is unrealistic.
Of course, people are too closed-minded and insecure to be that honest with themselves about the facts they don't want to hear — preferring instead to attack and ridicule others so they can overcompensate for their well-buried guilt over wanting to eat something they deep down know is very bad for them.
SIX! I shove more than that into my mouth in one go, fucking six.... Oooo look at Mr 6 chips over there, he's sooooo good at portioning his food, god I want to fuck him...... Said nobody.
I always get suspicious when the headline says something along "scientist says you should". Because typical scientistic statements are more conditional: "If you do A, B might happen", or even "B becomes more likely".
Checking the actual quote:
Yeah, really good reporting...
Remember, the point of reporting today is not to inform, but to gain clicks.
Yeah I think it was more of a hyperbolic comment to the reporter rather than an official recommendation. He thinks we should eat more greens and less fried stuff, which is in line with pretty much every nutritional guideline out there
At least for empirical research, I would go even further and say that most individual studies don't hold much weight and that the authors of such studies shouldn't receive too much credence until their findings have been replicated multiple times by independent researchers.
If i ordered one fries i get this:
Which mean i can eat up to 6 of these per serving. Make sense.
You ordered the "Party Size," obviously.
The what up?
The funk.
Dafunq they doing over there?
Dafunq they doin' there?
Said Mr. Belaire
As he retired to his Muffin Mc'Mansion
Going defunct.
Do you wanna funk?
nah, they faking the funk
Yeah, if we could stop ridiculing sience by parroting (and probably misrepresenting) stuff like this, that would be great...
When I see those headlines I don't wonder anymore why some people dont take science as a whole seriously.
i always try to follow this but the restaurants keep screwing me over
i ask for six fries and they give me hundreds of the damn things
Assuming the downvotes are from people missing the joke?
The joke is that by asking for 6 fries, they're inadvertently making 6 orders of fries
Edit: for context, votes were 1:2 at the time
Mine comes from the posting of a censored meme. I'll downvote everyone of them I see. I'm so god damned fed up with the corpo-sanitised internet.
...what did i censor in my text?
I responded to the wrong comment, my bad. Was talking about the post itself. Sorry for this mishap friend.
I’ve been calorie counting for a while now, and one of the things I’ve found is that if you get one average burger and medium fries, the fries are often more calories. A medium fry at the place I ate yesterday is 560 kcal. Personally, I’d rather get a second sandwich.
I'm lucky to have a smallish appetite, which I think of as a superpower - I can't even eat an entire Whopper, or typical adult-size burger. I don't how anybody can put away a second one.
By eating more than the stomach really wants over and over until it expands. Then you can eat more and more and it expands!
Then it sucks trying to eat less because the body is so user to the more the less feels like shit!
Loved having to eat until I felt sick as a kid. Totally didn't fuck anything up. disgruntled sounds
Fasting gradually resets that stomach expansion
Interesting. To me feeling overfed is not a good feeling. The few times I've said, "Tonight I'm gonna have a real FEAST!" I've always felt terrible later. All-you-can-eat places are a waste of money for me.
The feeling itself usually isn't uh, great. The fullness hurts. But there a lot going on. Consuming feels great because of an overabundance of brain chemicals (the act of eating and tasting). Waste feels horrific because of upbringing. So you get use to the discomfort because of the rest. But it still doesn't help because it's not great. It's also complicated and probably per person. There's probably more but I just woke up from a nightmare. Not about food though lol.
Don’t visit Belgium.
In Belgium, they would adapt by serving you six fries that have been fried in pork fat twenty times over.
And then doused in mayo. Droooool.
Belgian “frietkoten” have a magical capability. No matter how hard you to minimise your order. You always, and I do mean always, end up with too many. Even if you take that last extra scoop into account.
Ok, but they don't say how many servings I should eat, so... 100 servings it is.
100 servings of fries
Heckuva way to die
Like grease on a pie
No peperon-..i
......uggghh please give me a napkin
I eat 7 and often more, I like the risk and adventure
That's kilograms, right?
Fixed it
Is this true
It was an hyperbole that flew over the journalists' heads: https://www.sciencealert.com/you-should-only-be-eating-six-fries-per-serving-advises-harvard-nutritionist
What's the hyperbole? The guy sounded pretty serious
Smaller, not literally 6 small fries.
Targeting number of fries instead of weight would also be unscientific, 6 needle thickness and 6 quarter edges fries are not equivalent.
Here's the original article with context. The folks were absolutely serious about what they were saying up until the Internet blew up on them
McDonald's salads have more calories than their burgers though.
I've just checked here in France. One BicMac contains 530 kcal while a caesar salad contains 402 kcal. A Royal Cheese also contains 525 kcal. Maybe it's different in your country but here there is a pattern where salad have less calories than burgers.
Royale with cheese!
He wasn't - he was deliberately saying something attention-grabbing so people would realize how unhealthy the typical restaurant fries are made. He knows a serving of six fries is unrealistic.
Of course, people are too closed-minded and insecure to be that honest with themselves about the facts they don't want to hear — preferring instead to attack and ridicule others so they can overcompensate for their well-buried guilt over wanting to eat something they deep down know is very bad for them.
Wait so the restaurant fries are 6 a (healthy) serving or not?
Am I gonna have to read the article??? :(
Yeah, life's so unfair like that.
You right
I think the last restaurant I visited had read this article...
Don't you try and science me out of my well deserved heart attack you ensconced bastard. I get to pick how I die, not you.
I can still eat as many chips as I want though, right?
This researcher clearly eats fries too often.
What size for the cuts?
Who says you only need to eat one serving though?
I identify as a family of four.
43 servings per meal is standard.
SIX! I shove more than that into my mouth in one go, fucking six.... Oooo look at Mr 6 chips over there, he's sooooo good at portioning his food, god I want to fuck him...... Said nobody.
"Perpetual_teenager" has entered the chat.
Fries contain vitamin A and your body needs carbs and fat. Also, fed is best. Shut up, professor.