'You can eat an extra cheeseburger a day' - say diet experts

Daily Mail ^ | 11/15/09 | Daily Mail Reporter

[Nachum]

Official guidance on how much we can eat each day has been underestimated for the last two decades, scientists have revealed.

The daily intake of calories - currently 2,000 for woman and 2,500 for men - could be increased by up to 16 per cent, the equivalent of cheeseburger or two packets of crisps.

An average adult could happily squeeze in an extra 400 calories a day and not pile on the pounds, Britain's leading nutritionists have admitted.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1227743/Its-official--eat-stay-healthy.html#ixzz0WuC35zPn

[Nachum]

Of course... Cheese burgers, chocolate cream pies, and french fries. The best thing in the world for you.

[BigCinBigD]

I’ve been telling myself this for years.

[Cindy]

Giggling...1 little cheeseburger about every 2 weeks — well, in all honesty it’s a double cheeseburger.

[Whiteman]

All this diet stuff is crap. I’ve a either a burger or a philly cheesesteak several times a week and my blood work is always good.

It’s just like the 2nd hand smoke lies...nothing wrong with it. Thus I freely blow smoke at the non-smokers. :)

[Paradox]

That sounds about right, from my own experience dieting. The problem is, most people already eat more calories than they need, so most people are over fat.

[kittycatonline.com]

'You can eat an extra cheeseburger a day' - say diet experts

Excellent! I knocked down a Carl's Jr. bacon guacamole Six Dollar Burger combo just an hour ago. I'm sure getting that Diet Dr. Pepper as the drink did it's part to neturalize that excess fat. Good to hear at least one doctor agrees...

[JRios1968]

[Mad Dawgg]

LOL

[LizzyD]

Huh? Have they not noticed all the stupendously overweight people walking around? Which ones haven’t been getting enough cheeseburgers?

[GnuHere]

Oh, OK, if I HAVE to!!

[flaglady47]

“Huh? Have they not noticed all the stupendously overweight people walking around? Which ones haven’t been getting enough cheeseburgers?”

That’s because we are all sitting on our duffs here at our computers every day on Free Republic, lol!

[Thunder90]

The reasons that so many people are fat are the fact that they consume 4,000 calories a day and don’t exercise.

[GOPmember]

[sunny48]

That sounds sooo gooood, maybe I’ll pop in there for lunch:)

[shibumi]

Note to scientists, doctors, dietitians et al.

I’ll eat whatever I damn well please, once I get it to hold still long enough.

[varon]

Have they not noticed all the stupendously overweight people walking around?

Yes, mostly in hospitals and doctor's offices.

[Graybeard58]

Thus I freely blow smoke at the non-smokers. :)

Don't do it to me. I quit 15 months ago and when I'm around it, it gives me an urge to have one. So far, I've over come the urge and it's getting easier.

I haven't figured out yet how something can stink and smell good at the same time.

[Graybeard58]

Gotta be said.... Somebody send this article to Ann Coulter!

[McGruff]

Too bad most burgers taste disgusting nowadays. Gotta make your own with good meat.

[JohnnyP]

Any good recipe’s for making your own ground beef?

I asked the guys behind the meat counter at Stater Brothers to grind a chuck roast and a rib eye together, but they wouldn’t do it. They did them separately and told me to mix them at home.

[Caipirabob]

'You can eat an extra cheeseburger a day' - say diet experts

Trust nothing in print during the days of the Obama-media.

Stick to common sense and accepted facts...and stock lots of ammo...

[Ditter]

I'll bet as time goes on cigarette smoke will stop smelling good to you and just stink. Cigarette smoke, if I breathe it while I am eating, will have the effect of shutting down my taste buds. I remember waiting for a tasty steak when a table (in the smoking sections) lit up. When my steak came it might as well been a piece of cardboard for all the flavor it had. I have never heard anyone else comment on this strange phenomena, maybe I am the only one.

[Moonman62]

The daily intake of calories - currently 2,000 for woman and 2,500 for men

I like how a man 6' 5" and 250 lbs gets the same allocation as a man who is 5' 5" and 150 lbs.

[reformedliberal]

A home meat grinder is around $100. There are frequent sales on the kitchen gadget sites.

I have an old Oster grinder. I use the coarse grind plate. I weigh out equal amounts of beef chuck and venison. Whenever I buy a whole top sirloin, I cut off the extra fat (usually about a pound) and freeze it separately. I add 10% by weight of the venison only to the meat mixture. I usually only defrost the meat enough to cut it into chunks that fit into the grinder. I wear Nytril gloves and alternate the 2 types of meat with the fat as I grind. I toss the mixture lightly to mix it and freeze in 1-pound portions. I use quart freezer bags for the individual portions, mark them as to date and contents and then place all the packages into a large freezer bag. That helps avoid the lone package shifting to the bottom of the freezer and being left for months.

I am careful to wash hands, cutting board, grinder parts, etc quickly and, if necessary, often during the grinding if I think I may have contaminated anything.

You don't need to use venison, of course and if you can't, I would stick to all chuck and no added fat or a mixture of chuck and sirloin, again, with no added fat. If you use round, then fat should be added, IMO, as it is quite lean and if burger is too dry, it will not stick together to form a decent hamburger.

I usually try to purchase reduced price/quick sale beef, freeze it until I need it. Combining it with the venison gives us hamburger for about $1/pound and we prefer it to commercially ground beef.

[BuffaloJack]

This makes a lot of sense.
If you eat at a level where your body thinks it’s starving it becomes more efficient at storing calories.
If you eat at a slightly higher then your body metabolized the small extra and stops storing fat.

[SamAdams76]

Typical junk science. If you need to worry over whether or not you can fit an extra cheeseburger in your diet, than chances are you are overweight. People who are thin couldn’t care less whether or not they can eat an extra cheeseburger. If they want an extra cheeseburger they will eat it.

[RichInOC]

[mysterio]

I generally limit my cheeseburger intake to one a week or so. Of course, I used to be quite heavy.

My best advice is to keep a public food diary and weigh yourself often. I weigh daily, and make my food choices depending on the morning number. If I know a big splurge day is coming up such as Thanksgiving, I train ahead and give myself a couple pounds in buffer. When I quit smoking, I prepared by losing about 20 extra pounds first. But the food diary / daily weigh ins were effective enough that I didn't gain the weight back.

I have, however, found maintenance to be more challenging than the initial diet(s).

[dfwgator]