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Nutritional sensationalism
Aug. 14th, 2008 10:40 amAgain, MSN tries to provide healthy advice. But some of it is of more questionable content.
For example, this tidbit:
It may seem like the perfect way to save calories and slash your sugar intake, but studies show that diet drinkers actually weigh more than regular soda drinkers.
Their conclusion? Diet drinks make you fat! My conclusion? MSN bumped their head on a branch or something.
Some of the info is good: eat your potatoes and bananas and dried fruit!
But then you get advice about how vitamin water (50 calories per serving plus lots of vitamins and electrolytes) will make you gain 20 pounds a year. However, they recommend a couple dried figs per day (100 calories for two, plus lots of vitamins and fiber).
Gah!
For example, this tidbit:
It may seem like the perfect way to save calories and slash your sugar intake, but studies show that diet drinkers actually weigh more than regular soda drinkers.
Their conclusion? Diet drinks make you fat! My conclusion? MSN bumped their head on a branch or something.
Some of the info is good: eat your potatoes and bananas and dried fruit!
But then you get advice about how vitamin water (50 calories per serving plus lots of vitamins and electrolytes) will make you gain 20 pounds a year. However, they recommend a couple dried figs per day (100 calories for two, plus lots of vitamins and fiber).
Gah!
