Nutritional sensationalism

[javasaurus]

Again, 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!

Comments

[dawntreader]

it's totally true! haven't you ever noticed that a lot of joggers are overweight? that means jogging also makes you fat. skinny joggers are merely people who just took up the regimen. but give 'em time. they'll start packing on the pounds, too.

*g*

[thewhitedragon.livejournal.com]

You neglected to tell him that we often say that driving a convertible makes men bald and old since that's pretty much the entire demographic of convertible drivers.

[cozit.livejournal.com]

dried fruit?

Oddly enough, that's a *really* good way to gain weight... and many of the vitamins in the fruit don't necessarily survive the drying process and age.

[rsteachout.livejournal.com]

I like found it particularly amusing that they blithely direct people to "limit the portion" of dried fruits to avoid overindulging, yet totally ignore that the same can be said of all the "bad" foods they warn about.

Gee -- think portion control might resolve almost all of the problem with overeating?