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This is inaccurate. Americans average ~2700 calories per day intake. The 3800 is aggregate food supply. About 1100 of that is lost to spoilage and waste. www.usda.gov/factbook/chapter2.pdf One of the major reasons the obesity rate jumped is that the government changed the measurement in 1998, causing millions of Americans…
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The China Study (the book) is garbage science.
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"The dietitians underreported their energy intake obtained from the food records by an average of 223 +/- 116 kcal/day, which was not different from their energy expenditure. Participants in the control group, as hypothesized, significantly underreported their energy intake (429 +/- 142 kcal/day, P < .05)."…
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Everyone here needs to learn what the word toxin means. Snake Venom: Toxin Botulinum: Toxin Trans Fats: Not Toxin Sugar: Not Toxin quirktizzy: it's your lucky day.
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I wouldn't eat soy. http://joe.endocrinology-journals.org/content/170/3/591
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You'll hear about a lot of studies linking diet soda with problems like diabetes. They almost always are a case of correlation and not causation. Diabetics are more likely to drink diet soda because they have to be careful with sugar intake. This example and others are perpetuated by lazy journalists on slow news days.…
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beef jerky. meat of any kind, really.