e premte, 15 qershor 2007

Ridiculous Things You Find On The Internet (Part One in a Series)

A friend* told me that drinking a glass of wine was basically like drinking a glass of fat. Which was unwelcome news, as you'd imagine. So I thought that, utilising the amazing powers of the internet, I'd try to find something# that would say otherwise.

Which is how I found this.

Now, as someone who once scored 11% in a high school maths test, I had to check this a couple of times, but I'm pretty sure that the calculations of the fifth and six paragraphs are unnecessarily complicated - are they not?

Surely ten times the body weight plus double the body weight is simply twelve times the body weight!?!

Let's try it in numerals for the adult female equation:

120 x 10 = 1,200
+ 120
= 1,320

AND/OR

120 x 11 =
1,320


Yes. Well.

I suppose this is the kind of expert advice you should expect when calorie counting in cyberspace, really.

* Said friend is a "fitness professional" so this horrible claim was a little harder to dismiss than usual.
# Please note that the "something" need not have been particularly reputable, just plausible enough to fool myself.

2 komente:

From the lion's mouth tha...

Drinking a glass of wine is nothing *like* drinking a glass of fat - and just because your friend is a "fitness professional" doesn't mean they understand the chemistry of food!

Here's the lowdown: your body can not convert alcohol sugars to fat. Can not. Full stop. What it *does* do is burn the alcohol sugars preferentially - so if you eat anything at the same time as you're drinking, you will store it as fat unless you burn off enough energy to use up the wine AND the food.

BUT a glass of wine contains around 125 calories, and a glass of fat would contains about 1350 calories, so they're not really similar like that either.

Basically, your friend is talking out of their a*se, and if you're really worried, just don't eat high calorie foods while you're drinking.

Anonim tha...

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