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A study found that the 2008 New York City law requiring fast-food companies to post nutrition information on menus led to one in six customers ordering foods with fewer calories. This is being spun as a success, but there's evidence that the numbers are just bumming people out as they order their 1,600 calorie burgers. More »
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We recently learned of a new photo project by Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio documenting individuals' daily meals across many countries.  While the former post gave averages, the photographs in Menzel and D'Aluisio's new book, What I Eat, offer data points.  What one person reported eating in one day.  They are suggestive of the range of caloric intakes, intersecting with genetics and physical activity, that make each individual body unique. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5809559&view=rss&microfeed=true On Friday the FDA released its proposed rules for calorie counts on menus at restaurants with 20 or more locations; booze and the delicious crap sold at movie theaters will be exempt from the requirement. More »
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A trendy new doctor-prescribed diet makes use of pregnant women's pee. The daily injections of the hormone hCG (which is what makes that blue line appear on home pregnancy tests) combined with a 500-calorie-a-day diet is said to make women—who are paying upwards of $1000 for monthly consultations—lose weight rapidly. It's probably obvious to anyone with a modicum of reading comprehension and a minimal understanding of nutrition that, hCG aside, consuming only 500 calories would constitute as a crash diet and is bound to make anyone lose weight rapidly. To put it in a really rudimentary perspective, 500 calories is only five of those 100 calorie snack packs—I can easily do that in a sitting. The hCG (which is derived from pregnant women's urine) supposedly makes it so that women on this diet don't feel hungry while they are starving themselves. Additionally, hCG supposedly metabolizes fat that has been stored where it's least want it: upper arms, bellies and thighs. So it's magical? More »
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New changes to Weight Watchers' points-counting system make fruits and veggies point-free. Now members can eat those foods without having to include them in their daily diet tallies. Oh, but what if you don't like fruits and vegetables? More »
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Researchers have found that the average calorie count per Joy of Cooking recipe has jumped an average of 63 since the 1936 debut of the cookbook's first edition, mostly due to portion size. [UPI] More »
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There's a piece in the Times today that I found kind of depressing: apparently calorie-counting, the hallmark of 80s weight loss, is back with a vengeance. Inspired by some states' initiatives to force restaurants to post calorie count of all their food, the pernicious practice has reentered the cultural consciousness. Just as we're recovering from the long national Atkins nightmare, we get this? I know Americans need to slim down but does this kind of thing even work for people fighting obesity? And could there be anything less healthy for the many people already obsessed with their weight? My gut (stuffed with 430 calories' worth of oatmeal) says no. More »
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Okay, remember the reports earlier this week that coffee and caffeine can terminate a pregnancy and protect ovaries from cancer? Well, news reports today suggest that all that java is making women fat. A report issued by British consumer watchdog group Which? says that "a Starbucks large white chocolate mocha with whipped cream and made with whole milk was found to contain 628 calories - nearly a third of the recommended daily amount for women." (Emphasis ours.) More »
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