Restaurant foods - loaded with calories!

EanZer · **Joined:** Sun Jul 18, 2010 10:52 am **Posts:** 1

Many people now really hate calories. Some of them burn it and do not eat foods with calories.I am also one of them and I see to it that what I eat is less in calories.

mokey41 · **Posted:** Mon Jul 19, 2010 10:59 pm

How do you eat foods with no calories? I'd really like to try that diet!

paul · **Joined:** Sun Oct 05, 2008 4:43 pm **Posts:** 547

Wouldn't we all?

lajoggeuse · **Posted:** Tue Jul 20, 2010 2:09 pm

It's apparently not enough, though, just to eat in a healthy restaurant, according to an old article I found today on Science Daily:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 143638.htm

Here's an interesting quote from the article:

Quote:

Consumers then chose beverages, side dishes, and desserts containing up to 131% more calories when the main course was positioned as "healthy" compared to when it was not--even though, in the study, the "healthy" main course already contained 50% more calories than the "unhealthy" one.

The upshot is that it's easy to fool yourself into thinking you can have high-caloric food if you are also eating at the same time something that you think is low-calore food.

Or as the article says:

Quote:

As they explain: "More generally, we need to think about food not just qualitatively (as in "good food -- bad food") but also quantitatively (as in "how many calories are in this meal?")."

jack peterson · **Joined:** Sat Oct 30, 2010 8:47 am **Posts:** 1

nice post