Why is Belgium so Skinny?
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We really need more information on what these "cluster diets" are before we can draw conclusions. How are they determined? Why grams and not calories? Just changing the fat percentage would lead to a huge difference in overall calories.0
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Also Russia obviously has more than one demographic profile too.0
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So Belgians drink more water and eat more carbs by proportion than Americans.
Not necessarily.
http://chartsbin.com/view/1160
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MOAR Correlations!0
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The rise in obesity on the US is negatively correlated with sugar consumption over the last decade. Hmmmm0
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doktorglass wrote: »
Hfcs is also sugar...0 -
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doktorglass wrote: »
Hfcs is also sugar...
Yes, I know. But when they say "measured sugar consumption" I kind of assumed sucrose. Otherwise they would have to know all products bought that contained all sugars (fructose, glucose, sucrose, lactose and so on.). Which sounds like a monumental task considering that HFCS is in everything.0 -
I haven't found good data on activity level @rainbowbow . I hadn't known about chartsbin. That might be a new hangout for a data fiend like me.0
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I haven't found good data on activity level @rainbowbow . I hadn't known about chartsbin. That might be a new hangout for a data fiend like me.
Wouldn't a data fiend actually care about data integrity? As someone who actually works with data analytics as their job, actual integrity of the data is super important. Odd that a so called fiend would dig into crappy data like the WHO uses0 -
Which, as has been pointed out to you twice, is close to worthless. Without knowing how many Calories are input, it's just numbers.0
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I'll trust the WHO analysis over you, @Acg67 . I may be an amateur data fiend, but I did stick with the same data set and I knew the data was in grams.
There is no analysis, it's an aggregation of food availability data from various countries. So how strong of a proxy is that for actual per capita consumption? Does it vary by region/state/etc? That would matter in a country like the US with a huge geography.
For WHO recommendations that base it off of observational studies that used FFQ, how are those in terms of accuracy?
You can use the same data sets, but if the underlying data is crap, it doesn't matter. Even an amateur would understand that0 -
3000 grams of potatoes is 2580 Calories.
3000 grams of zucchini is 540 Calories.
3000 grams of broccoli is 1040 Calories.
See how grams of food just doesn't mean much? Those are just vegetables. We aren't even comparing vegetables to fat, which would change that dramatically.0 -
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3000 grams of potatoes is 2580 Calories.
3000 grams of zucchini is 540 Calories.
3000 grams of broccoli is 1040 Calories.
See how grams of food just doesn't mean much? Those are just vegetables. We aren't even comparing vegetables to fat, which would change that dramatically.
Semantics and logic, pls go
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Just a handful of the categories used to determine how many grams consumed:
"Berries and other small fruits, fresh"
"Citrus fruits, fresh"
"Tree nuts (excl. groundnut)"
"Roots and tubers processeded"
"Fruiting vegetables (other than cucurbits) and mushrooms"
"Other and mixed vegetables"
"Sauces & Vinegars"
"Fruit & vegetable juices"
"Out of classifying"
Not apples to apples. Not by a long shot. Again, for the fourth(?) time - this data is pretty close to utterly worthless.0 -
@usmcmp however, if I compare apples to apples, comparisons can still be made.
The whole point is that you came in wondering how one country can do better than another based on grams ingested. The original numbers you gave included a dramatic difference in water consumption as well, which skewed the numbers. Your data had nothing to do with calories, just grams and macro breakdown (which I showed you both countries are nearly identical). Once you get down to actual relevant data (like calories in and calories out) is where you can make actual comparisons.0 -
Based on the high carb intake on your original pie chart, I'd bet they eat a ton of veggies (which are carbs, but low calories). They may eat a lot of grams, but that doesn't mean a lot of calories.
Also, and maybe this is total fiction from the movies, but don't they tend to be tall?? That would mean they can eat more in general.
And of course there are numerous comments about how they tend to be very active.0 -
Just a handful of the categories used to determine how many grams consumed:
"Berries and other small fruits, fresh"
"Citrus fruits, fresh"
"Tree nuts (excl. groundnut)"
"Roots and tubers processeded"
"Fruiting vegetables (other than cucurbits) and mushrooms"
"Other and mixed vegetables"
"Sauces & Vinegars"
"Fruit & vegetable juices"
"Out of classifying"
Not apples to apples. Not by a long shot. Again, for the fourth(?) time - this data is pretty close to utterly worthless.
I think I'm going to start telling my trainer how many grams of food I am eating, not how many calories or what my macros are. "Oh don't worry I only had 900 grams of food yesterday, the fact that it was an entire pizza doesn't matter."0 -
Could be an average for all the food types in grams.0
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I've removed water and "out of classifying". Now Belgium is pretty on par with the US. They still have less of an overweight problem than the US, as does most of Europe.0 -
Just a handful of the categories used to determine how many grams consumed:
"Berries and other small fruits, fresh"
"Citrus fruits, fresh"
"Tree nuts (excl. groundnut)"
"Roots and tubers processeded"
"Fruiting vegetables (other than cucurbits) and mushrooms"
"Other and mixed vegetables"
"Sauces & Vinegars"
"Fruit & vegetable juices"
"Out of classifying"
Not apples to apples. Not by a long shot. Again, for the fourth(?) time - this data is pretty close to utterly worthless.
You forgot a category:
Gravy0 -
Well, here's my 1000 gram menu, coming in at 1743 kcal. Better cut out some high fat foods to make it to 3000 grams!
100 g dark chocolate 546 kcal
100 g gruyere cheese 413 kcal
100 g green lettuce 15 kcal
100 g brocolli 34 kcal
100 g tomatoes 18 kcal
100 g boiled eggs 155c
100 g French bread 289 kcal (but I think they eat some type of rye, whole wheat)
100 g ham, lean 145 kcal
100 ml orange juice 45 kcal
100 ml wine 83 kcal
1000 g/ml =1743 kcal0
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