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Calorimetry, a word I never heard before today, is the science of measuring heat changes. GE Life Sciences explains calorimetry in this video, which is actually an ad for some hi-tech laboratory equipment. -Thanks, Stephen Clegg!
Kansas State University professor Mark Haub ate a Twinkies every three hours for ten weeks and lost 27 pounds! His cholesterol numbers improved as well. Haub put himself through this horrible regimen to prove a point: weight loss is all about caloric intake, not the type of food you eat. James Plafke at Geekosystem explains:
When I first started working out, I couldn’t gain weight no matter what I tried. I asked a large amount of people at the few gyms I attended at the time, and the advice received has always stuck out: Eat everything. The first (extremely in-shape) person I asked told me to buy a box of bakery cupcakes from the local grocery store and eat that after lunch a few times a week. The next (very ripped and cut) person I asked told me he ate a tub of chocolate pudding a few times a week after dinner. The message was clear: So long as you’re correctly working out, the type of food you eat doesn’t matter as much as you may think.
Of course, there’s a lot more to the story. Link
Luckily Homer is only a cartoon character. I hate to think of the havoc 24,929 calories daily would wreak on a human being. Click the link to check out the daily food intake of other television favourites.
We all know Homer Simpson is a big fan of food, but it’s really not until you lay his daily food intake out onto a single table that you really get an idea of how much of a glutton he is. Check out table spreads of an average day’s worth of nourishment for Homer Simpson, the Seinfeld cast and Garfield the cat.
Link – Via John Gushue
How well can you judge how fattening a food may be by looking at it? In this Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss, you’ll be presented with a pair of dishes. All you have to do is decide which one contains more calories. It’s not as easy as you might think; I scored only 59%. Link
It appears that this started out as a ordinary instructional cooking video, and then someone overdubbed it with basic nutritional information. She is careful to caution that her recipe is “not your conventional macaroni salad.”
(image credit: Flickr user mkandlez)
