Ask a public-health/nutrition student

[Aractus]

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

We're often told that one of the causes of weight gain is the way people indulge in heavy, rich desserts. If I have the bacon-wrapped éclairs for my entrée, will having a leaf of wilted lettuce (no dressing) for dessert obviate this problem?

Boru

[Longhorn]

Is a bmi of 17.1 bad bad or meh bad?
Follow up question. What do I do to gain weight without eating junk food and sweets?

[vorlon13]

On the topic of nutrition and disinformation, I've noted a local GNC competitor has been running ads on TV here.  He's a little bit of eye candy, so maybe  I pay a little more attention to his ads than most of the other dreck we get.

Anyhow, I noticed the small print on a bottle of supplements (only $65 for a whole 2 months supply!!!)  he was waving around (in his meaty paw)  was marginally legible, so I paused and looked a little closer;

homeopathic formula

So, he's easy to look at, and a bit of a crook too.  $65 for 2 months worth of inert ingredients and filler with the occasional molecule of an actual biologically active chemical floating around seems a bit high priced to me.  Turns out the chemical is supposed to be prescription only, so what's in his bottle can't have more than the error of measurement amount or the FDA would be all over his (heavenly) ass.

While irked, I gotta give him credit, he is certainly giving a heads up as to the real nature of his product, but it's discouraging to realize the public is too stoooopid to note the deception.

[SteelCurtain]

I ate 3 metric fucktons of turkey, stuffing, greens, green beans, mashed potatoes, and a chocolate creme pie in the last 3 days.

I also ate 6 Krispy Kreme glazed donuts for breakfast yesterday.

How screwed am I?

[vorlon13]

How screwed do you wanna be ??

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

How screwed do you wanna be ??

I may be psychic - I KNEW that was on the way.

Boru

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

No pressure, Aractus, but I REALLY need an answer to my éclair question from a nutritionist.

Boru

[SteelCurtain]

How screwed do you wanna be ??

Yep. I walked right into that one. Gotta be careful, Mike. Gotta be careful.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Question #2: I recently bought a packet of processed food (doesn't much matter what). While reading the ingredients list, I saw that it contained '...not less than 0.02% of rehydroxylated glutonium or abstract of debentured soybean genitalia, whichever comes first.' So, my question is: What wine would you pair with this?

Boru