Calories-In/Calories-Out? Hmm....

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  • tigersword
    tigersword Posts: 8,059 Member
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    People were not eating 4000+ calories pre WWII. That's a pretty rediculous claim. Average intake was roughly half that. Women ate 1500 or so calories, men ate around 2500 calories (well, I guess combined that would be 4000.)

    And the rest of the post just spiraled into absurdity from there.
  • tripful
    tripful Posts: 40
    Hi Tiger,
    Thanks for the addition. Here's just a a couple example of 5 million hits I received when I put in "4,000 calorie wwii ration" into Google
    (If you search for "4000" or "4,000" in each link, you'll see that 4,000+ was perfectly normal in army rations)
    http://www.qmfound.com/army_rations_historical_background.htm - 4,000 to 4,500 calories recommended
    http://www.lonesentry.com/articles/ttt08/japanese-rations.html - Up to 5,180 calories allowed

    I'm not sure what you think of the validity of the many references beyond what I included, but I'd be interested to hear your comments on that.

    On the rest of my post, it's just what I've noticed from personal experience. I know N=1 doesn't speak for much though, so I respect your opinion in that regard. What things have you found to be helpful in your diet?

    Thanks for your insights,
    Trip
  • tigersword
    tigersword Posts: 8,059 Member
    Are you talking Army rations, P.O.W. rations (which by the Geneva Convention are supposed to be the same as Army rations,) Disarmed Enemy Soldier rations (where the Geneva Convention didn't apply,) or civilian rations?

    If you're talking specifically active duty Army rations, then that has really absolutely no bearing on average people. Army soldiers require a ton of calories, as they are extremely physically active.

    The "Eisenhower Death Camps" didn't actually exist, honestly. The book that the Eisenhower Death Camps claims were based on has been thoroughly debunked as false. In fact, if you look through the actual documentation that the author had used to claim that a million Germans disappeared with no trace, and do the math, you'll find that the numbers all match exactly, not a single prisoner was missing.
  • tripful
    tripful Posts: 40
    Gotcha. I'll have to take a look into the physical activity aspect for sure.

    On the death camps materials, I only mentioned it in random, rather than for any specific reason. I'm not quite sure what to gather on all of that quite yet.

    Anyways thanks for your insights and even-keeled eye.

    ~ Trip

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