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What Does 200 Calories Look Like?

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Re: What Does 200 Calories Look Like?

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Post by jws »

This would be much more useful with a recognizable, standard sized object in each picture. Maybe not as pretty, but a heap of flour is a heap of flour.

(For bonus usability, they could stop shifting the popups off to the right so I need to make my browser window wider to close the popup.)

Re: What Does 200 Calories Look Like?

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choxi wrote: post #18
rubyrescue wrote: post #14

One of the things I've enjoyed the most in the past 4 months has been diving into reddit.com/r/fitness. If you spend a few hours reading the FAQ on that site, plus examine.com's nutrition articles, and reddit.com/r/leangains FAQs, you will come out with a much better understanding of your diet. There are also calculators listed in the FAQs that will help you determine what you need to eat to maintain your bodyweight,…

what's a "macro"?

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Re: What Does 200 Calories Look Like?

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Post by boothead »

choxi wrote: post #18
rubyrescue wrote: post #14

One of the things I've enjoyed the most in the past 4 months has been diving into reddit.com/r/fitness. If you spend a few hours reading the FAQ on that site, plus examine.com's nutrition articles, and reddit.com/r/leangains FAQs, you will come out with a much better understanding of your diet. There are also calculators listed in the FAQs that will help you determine what you need to eat to maintain your bodyweight,…

what's a "macro"?

I'm guessing macro-nutrients from the context: protein, carbs, fat.

Re: What Does 200 Calories Look Like?

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Post by rubyrescue »

choxi wrote: post #18
rubyrescue wrote: post #14

One of the things I've enjoyed the most in the past 4 months has been diving into reddit.com/r/fitness. If you spend a few hours reading the FAQ on that site, plus examine.com's nutrition articles, and reddit.com/r/leangains FAQs, you will come out with a much better understanding of your diet. There are also calculators listed in the FAQs that will help you determine what you need to eat to maintain your bodyweight,…

what's a "macro"?

basically, protein/fat/carbs. see this -http://www.kentmccannfitness.com/2013/02/12/what-are-macronu...

Re: What Does 200 Calories Look Like?

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Post by gryphonic »

choxi wrote: post #18
rubyrescue wrote: post #14

One of the things I've enjoyed the most in the past 4 months has been diving into reddit.com/r/fitness. If you spend a few hours reading the FAQ on that site, plus examine.com's nutrition articles, and reddit.com/r/leangains FAQs, you will come out with a much better understanding of your diet. There are also calculators listed in the FAQs that will help you determine what you need to eat to maintain your bodyweight,…

what's a "macro"?

Macronutirent. Basically it means one of either fat, protein or carbohydrate. Many diets will have you set a calorie goal, and then suggest a guideline what percentage of your calorie intake should come from each macronutrient group.

Re: What Does 200 Calories Look Like?

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Post by elsewhen »

jws wrote: post #21

This would be much more useful with a recognizable, standard sized object in each picture. Maybe not as pretty, but a heap of flour is a heap of flour. (For bonus usability, they could stop shifting the popups off to the right so I need to make my browser window wider to close the popup.)

From the bottom of the article:

"All pictures were taken with the same camera (Nikon D70 digital camera) and with the same setup; in other words, the portion sizes displayed are all relative to each other.

The plate is 10.25" (26cm) in diameter and the bowl is 6.25" (16cm) "

Re: What Does 200 Calories Look Like?

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Post by voidlogic »

I'm guessing this list as the same pitfall as food labels and is showing quantities based on the amount of energy (calories) in the raw material rather than using the amount of energy the human digestive system can actually exploit. For example while you might get nearly 200 calories of from 200 of white bread, you would only actually get 150 calories from 200 calories of many meats. I think that if nutrition labels changed to estimated "exploitable calories" that a lot of the magic diet nonsense would evaporate.
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