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January 31, 2004

This Makes Me Crazy

OK. Everybody has their own religion about weight loss and dietary health. But it really drives me crazy that news agencies feel the need to add to the confusion by publishing conflicting reports like this one on CNN: Have Your Carbs and Lose Weight, Too? and this other one on CNN a few months ago: Vindication for the Atkins Diet?. If you wonder why people are overweight and uneducated about their health, it's because all these conflicting stories make it too complex to figure out what you should be eating and how.

On a side note, here's a strange comment in the first story:

Gary Foster, clinical director of the University of Pennsylvania's Weight and Eating Disorders Program, said he suspects participants who lost weight ate less than what was reported.

Usually, researchers suspect that the amount of food being consumed is under-reported, not over-reported, because most people have very limited understanding of serving size. This comment makes even less sense when you note that, as mentioned earlier in the article:

All meals were prepared for participants, who were instructed to eat as much as they wanted. They also were told to return any uneaten food, which the researchers said enabled them to calculate calorie intake.

What does he think these participants were doing, hiding food in their sleeves?

Posted by ayse on 01/31/04 at 12:29 PM

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January 31, 2004

This Makes Me Crazy