{"id":261365,"date":"2010-02-01T17:28:12","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T22:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f20\/new-study-finds-calorie-counts-wildly-off-38857\/"},"modified":"2010-02-01T17:28:12","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T22:28:12","slug":"new-study-finds-calorie-counts-wildly-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/261365","title":{"rendered":"New study finds calorie counts wildly off"},"content":{"rendered":"
New study finds calorie counts wildly off<\/b> <\/p>\n

I stopped believing long ago any claims made by the food industry fat cats…so I wasn’t surprised in the least by a new study that finds calorie information on menus and food labels to be flat-out false. <\/p>\n

In most cases, you’re eating more than you’ve been told, whether you’re dining out or heating up a frozen dinner. <\/p>\n

Sometimes a lot more. <\/p>\n

Makes sense to me — they shovel out more meals if calorie- counting customers think they’re shoveling in less, right? <\/p>\n

Tufts University researchers found that big chain restaurants underestimated their already-bloated calorie counts by an average of 18 percent — and as much as 200 percent. Frozen meals — the tasteless, nutrition-free heat-and-serve "dinners" you can buy in the supermarket — were off by an average of 8 percent, according to the study in the Journal of the American Dietician Association. <\/p>\n

Of course, all this is perfectly legal. In its never-ending quest to protect big business and keep American consumers completely in the dark, the FDA actually allows for discrepancies of up to 20 percent for packaged foods. <\/p>\n

Outrageous? You bet! <\/p>\n

But that’s not even the REAL crime here — that’s just a distraction. Try reading the ingredients instead of the calorie count. If you’re eating meal-in-a-can or frozen dinners every night, or indulging in food from chain restaurants, you’ve got much bigger problems than counting calories. <\/p>\n

These so-called foods are packed with the worst carbs, soy, preservatives, meat byproducts that shouldn’t even be called meat, and more. Just last week I told you about the pink slime invading American hamburger. Click here to read that — if you can stomach it. <\/font><\/a><\/p>\n

I don’t care how many calories you’re eating — if you’re swallowing that junk, you’re heading for an early grave, plain and simple…especially if you’re eating those nasty and completely ineffective frozen diet meals. <\/p>\n

Want to know the best way to read a food label? Read it, and put it back on the shelf. Better yet, skip every aisle in the supermarket and buy the fresh foods on the perimeter — the ones that usually don’t have any label beyond weight and price. <\/p>\n

Focus on grass-fed beef, free-range chicken, pork and fish. Add a variety of fresh vegetables (French fries don’t count). Avoid vegetable oils, fake butter and anything with sugar or artificial sweeteners. <\/p>\n

You’ll lose weight, keep it off, stay healthy — and never need to count a calorie again. <\/p>\n

And keep reading for a disgusting new reason to avoid soda!<\/p>\n

\nSoda fountains spew fecal filth<\/b><\/p>\n

I’ve been fond of using an unprintable word to describe soda. Let’s just say it has the same number of letters as "poop" and means the same thing. <\/p>\n

Well, it turns out that may be more than just a colorful description, because a nauseating new study finds that fast food soda fountains are crawling with fecal bacteria. <\/p>\n

You read that right — in one end, out the other…and right back in again. <\/p>\n

A study on 30 soda machines in Virginia’s Roanoke Valley revealed coliform bacteria — an indicator of fecal contamination — in nearly half of the samples. And 70 percent of the beverages tested had some form of bacteria present — including E. coli and species of Klebsiella, Staphylococcus, Stenotrophomonas, Candida, and Serratia. <\/p>\n

I’m not going to quiz you on the names — trust me, they’re all sickening germs and you don’t want them anywhere near your mouth. <\/p>\n

I’m not done yet — it gets worse. Researchers tested 11 kinds of antibiotics on these bacteria, and found most of them were resistant to at least one, according to the study published in the International Journal of Food Microbiology. <\/p>\n

The researchers suggest eliminating self-service soda fountains — as if low-wage fast-food workers are any cleaner than Joe Public. In fact, one of the researchers says workers may be contaminating the machines — get this — when they take them apart for "cleaning." <\/p>\n

So what else do they suggest? More cleanings! If these things are being contaminated during rinsing to begin with, won’t more cleanings make them even worse? Trust me, the kid at Taco Heaven who didn’t wash his hands yesterday isn’t going to change his filthy habits tomorrow. <\/p>\n

Here’s an obvious solution: Stop drinking soda. Period. There are plenty of reasons to skip this garbage, and this is just the newest — and by far most disgusting — one. The sugar alone is enough to rot your brain and body…and the fake sugars in the diet drinks are even worse. <\/p>\n

And that’s only the beginning. <\/p>\n

Coke and other sodas contain phosphoric acid. You used to be able to watch it eat paint right off a car. You can’t do that anymore — not because the soda has gotten better, but because auto paint has gotten stronger. <\/p>\n

But if it can do that to an old car, imagine what it does to your stomach, guts and bones. <\/p>\n

You want to keep putting that junk inside you, be my guest. Just don’t say I didn’t warn you. <\/p>\n

Bottoms up,<\/p>\n

William Campbell Douglass II, M.D.<\/font><\/font><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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