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Originally Posted by Willravel
Ah, but you've made a rookie mistake: basing everything on calories. Compare my menu to the McDonalds menu on calories and I've had my ass handed to me, but it's not that simple at all. My diet featured variety, vitamins and minerals, fiber, healthy fats, and not even the whisper of a preservative or artificial additive. What does this mean? This means a more balanced diet will mean a better metabolism and better general health.
For anyone in school, test my theory. On test day, have a McDonalds Sausage and egg abortion sandwich with hash fried so deep that you can taste gasoline. And shoot, for kicks, wash it down with a diet cola. Next test rolls around have a small bowl of shredded wheat in soy milk and some heart healthy eggs with mushrooms, peppers, and a glass of water (which washes down a multivitimin). Roughly the same caloric count (plus or minus). In addition to getting more than twice the volume of food, you're going to have more energy. BUT HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE?! It's the quality of the calorie, of course.
Not only that, but the fact that you've had a substantially higher mass of food also means you feel more full and aren't hungry for a while longer. This is why people who count calories don't starve.
Until you compensate for quality of calorie and the mass of the food, you're missing a lot of the equation and you're presenting an incorrect answer.
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I call shenanigans. A calorie is a calorie. It's a measure of the chemical energy in a substance. This is no difference between a calorie in a hamburger and a calorie in an apple. The real difference is how your body metabolizes the food you eat, and then it's really just a matter of whether it's in solid or liquid form. Also, organic foods and healthy foods cost more to produce, that cost is then passed on to the consumer.
This whole ordeal reminds me why I'm happy I'm not living in LA anymore. It smacks of irresponsible government and ignorant lawmakers who are simply trying to find a non-solution to a real problem simply so they look good. We are fat because we eat too much and don't exercise enough; keeping fast food out of South Central isn't going to fix that problem, it just means that the residents are going to have to go farther out of their way to eat their Big Macs.
@ Cynth: I'm disappointed. While Carl's Jr. may be awesome -- Double Western Bacon Cheeseburger being their greatest creation -- everyone knows that In-N-Out is where it's at.
