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Sociology > Depression |
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"Aplin17" |
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18 Nov 2004 01:00:05 PM |
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Food labels and accuracy |
My chemistry teacher says that when a food package says "100 calories", it
could be anything up to 149 calories because 100 only has 1 significant figure.
This means if you're on a 2,000 calorie-a-day diet, you could be eating as much
as 3,000 calories without knowning. For me that's disgusting. So if you're
counting calories, be sure to take the worst case possibility into
consideration (i.e. 149 if it says 100, 24 if it says 20, etc ...)
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| User: "Contrarian" |
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| Title: hmm hmm |
18 Nov 2004 02:51:34 PM |
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did like 2.5% to 10% yesterday of what I wanted to do.
much better than 0.10% or even 1%
got some phone numbers today, etc.
now I feel very sleepy and I don't understand why
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| User: "% %@HOME" |
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| Title: Re: Food labels and accuracy |
18 Nov 2004 01:16:40 PM |
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"Aplin17" <aplin17@cs.com> wrote in message
news:20041118140005.06404.00000820@mb-m18.news.cs.com...
My chemistry teacher says that when a food package says "100 calories", it
could be anything up to 149 calories because 100 only has 1 significant
figure.
This means if you're on a 2,000 calorie-a-day diet, you could be eating as
much
as 3,000 calories without knowning. For me that's disgusting. So if you're
counting calories, be sure to take the worst case possibility into
consideration (i.e. 149 if it says 100, 24 if it says 20, etc ...)
but what if its right and i toss half away thinking i'm getting the right
amount and i'm not and i starve and die then where will your chem teacher be
, ay , ay , how bout that
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| User: "wombn" |
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| Title: Re: Food labels and accuracy |
18 Nov 2004 02:39:42 PM |
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On 18 Nov 2004 19:00:05 GMT, (Aplin17) wrote:
My chemistry teacher says that when a food package says "100 calories", it
could be anything up to 149 calories because 100 only has 1 significant figure.
This means if you're on a 2,000 calorie-a-day diet, you could be eating as much
as 3,000 calories without knowning. For me that's disgusting. So if you're
counting calories, be sure to take the worst case possibility into
consideration (i.e. 149 if it says 100, 24 if it says 20, etc ...)
and cross your fingers if you're insulin-dependent.
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