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> Eat that for lunch and dinner plus a McMuffin, coffee, and apple pie for breakfast and you’re at 2,030 calories. That's significantly less than the average d
by koolba 2y ago
> Eat that for lunch and dinner plus a McMuffin, coffee, and apple pie for breakfast and you’re at 2,030 calories.
That's significantly less than the average diet in the USA. According to Wikipedia it averages about 3781[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_food_energy_intake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_food_ener...
Spurlock was 6'2" so even the higher end of calories wouldn't be out of line for a "normal American diet", at least for total caloric intake.
Now if he was also drinking half a bottle of scotch a day, that's another 1000 calories (plus all the liver damage...).
[1]: Divide those numbers by 4.184 for the joules to calorie converion.
- crdrost 2y agoAlso note that during the experiment one of Spurlock’s medical professionals comments on his diet as averaging 5000 kcal/day given his food logs. At another point a different professional states that these results seem impossible without heavy drinking of alcohol, implying that he wasn't disclosing the alcohol in his food logs to them either.
- throwaway22032 2y ago3781!?!?!? Holy shit. My bulking diet is about that, I'm trying to gain weight whilst lifting 3-4x a week. Mental. edit: Looking at the article this isn't accounting for food wastage etc so the real figure is likely a fair bit lower.