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Post by NJtoTX on Dec 4, 2018 16:15:11 GMT
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Post by sunshine on Dec 4, 2018 21:47:22 GMT
Just like a serving of pasta should be 1/2 cup.
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Post by NJtoTX on Dec 4, 2018 21:54:43 GMT
Just like a serving of pasta should be 1/2 cup. That actually is not that low. Pasta expands in cooking and takes on a lot of water. |
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Post by MCDemuth on Dec 4, 2018 22:13:35 GMT
I've always hated how "servings" are measured...
NO ONE is ever going to ONLY eat SIX French Fries... (That is a few fries short of a "Happy Meal". LOL!)
And similar ridiculous measurements have been noted for other foods as well...
Why the fuck are these unrealistic amounts listed as "servings", when even a "baby" would consume a larger volume of food?
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Post by NJtoTX on Dec 4, 2018 22:22:41 GMT
I've always hated how "servings" are measured... NO ONE is ever going to ONLY eat SIX French Fries... (That is a few fries short of a "Happy Meal". LOL!) And similar ridiculous measurements have been noted for other foods as well... Why the fuck are these unrealistic amounts listed as "servings", when even a "baby" would consume a larger volume of food? My favorite is coconut oil spray, where the small can has 570 servings of a 1/3 second spray. For one, it's almost impossible to spray 1/3 second without really trying hard to limit it. And who sprays only once? You either spray for about 2 seconds (6 servings) or use 5 or 6 short bursts. And, since a serving is so small, they can list 0 g fat (anything less than 0.5) and 0 g of saturated fat! So the entire can is fat free! |
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Dec 4, 2018 23:07:18 GMT
sounds about right!  |
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Post by Jayman on Dec 6, 2018 1:28:11 GMT
6 french fries? I drop more on the floor than that
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Post by sunshine on Dec 9, 2018 18:55:20 GMT
I meant a serving of pasts -cooked- is supposed to be half a cup.
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Post by James on Dec 10, 2018 0:19:17 GMT
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Dec 26, 2018 23:03:16 GMT
Sounds rather arbitrary. What, exactly, is this based on?
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Post by James on Dec 28, 2018 3:38:14 GMT
Stop it, TC! Yo making me hungry! 😓 |
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Post by Vodkie on Dec 28, 2018 5:48:45 GMT
eating only 6 french fries is like only eating one slice of bacon.
nope
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Post by kls on Dec 28, 2018 15:10:22 GMT
Sounds rather arbitrary. What, exactly, is this based on? Exactly. How they are cooked and the size has to figure into it. |
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Post by Jayman on Dec 28, 2018 20:07:07 GMT
eating only 6 french fries is like only eating one slice of bacon. nope Or basically getting a cake and just eating the crumbs. I'd rather not eat at all then eat 6 french fries |
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Post by NJtoTX on Dec 29, 2018 21:25:00 GMT
Dr. Eric Rimm knows the “slippery slope” of temptation that comes with a plate of French fries. The professor, who teaches in the departments of epidemiology and nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, insisted, “Who doesn’t like fries?! I very rarely order them but frequently get them when I forget that they come with a sandwich at a restaurant.”
But Rimm is a fry-lover who knows his very specific limits; in a piece published in The New York Times Thursday, titled “You Don’t Want Fries with That,” Rimm was an expert voice arguing that the ideal serving of French fries is six. With a side salad.
The Twitter backlash was predictable, and vicious. Some suggested wedgies. Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi said, “I don’t have time for this kind of negativity in my life right now.” And Rimm, even in the middle of a business trip to London, noticed. “Am I really a monster?” he wrote in an e-mail to Vanity Fair. “A lot of tweeters in the U.K. and the U.S. act like I just caused a third world war!”
But no amount of Internet infamy will inspire Rimm to back down from his position, or his heroic skills at self-restraint when presented with a plate of what he called “starch bombs” in the Times. When they sneak in as a side, he’s faced with a conundrum: “What to do? Send them back? Certainly not, because once they are in front of you, and you smell and taste just one, you fall down the slippery slope. Fifteen minutes after the meal, I am reminded (again) by the feeling in my stomach why I shouldn’t eat a whole order and why I should have stopped at six.”
All Rimm wants, he said, is the option of something smaller, regardless of whether you can limit yourself to six. “I was just suggesting restaurants could give much smaller options of fries for those of us who might need a taste but don’t need a whole basket in front of us with a meal,” he said. “For goodness sake, a large order of McDonald’s French fries has 510 kcal. That’s almost four 12-ounce Cokes. How’s your stomach feel now?”
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