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That’s kilograms, right?
I eat 7 and often more, I like the risk and adventure
This researcher clearly eats fries too often.
Don’t visit Belgium.
In Belgium, they would adapt by serving you six fries that have been fried in pork fat twenty times over.
And then doused in mayo. Droooool.
Belgian “frietkoten” have a magical capability. No matter how hard you to minimise your order. You always, and I do mean always, end up with too many. Even if you take that last extra scoop into account.
Don’t you try and science me out of my well deserved heart attack you ensconced bastard. I get to pick how I die, not you.
I always get suspicious when the headline says something along “scientist says you should”. Because typical scientistic statements are more conditional: “If you do A, B might happen”, or even “B becomes more likely”.
Checking the actual quote:“I think it would be nice if your meal came with a side salad and six French fries, […]”
Yeah, really good reporting…
Remember, the point of reporting today is not to inform, but to gain clicks.
Yeah I think it was more of a hyperbolic comment to the reporter rather than an official recommendation. He thinks we should eat more greens and less fried stuff, which is in line with pretty much every nutritional guideline out there
At least for empirical research, I would go even further and say that most individual studies don’t hold much weight and that the authors of such studies shouldn’t receive too much credence until their findings have been replicated multiple times by independent researchers.
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If i ordered one fries i get this:
Which mean i can eat up to 6 of these per serving. Make sense.
You ordered the “Party Size,” obviously.
Yeah, if we could stop ridiculing sience by parroting (and probably misrepresenting) stuff like this, that would be great…
When I see those headlines I don’t wonder anymore why some people dont take science as a whole seriously.
i always try to follow this but the restaurants keep screwing me over
i ask for six fries and they give me hundreds of the damn things
Assuming the downvotes are from people missing the joke?
The joke is that by asking for 6 fries, they’re inadvertently making 6 orders of fries
Mine comes from the posting of a censored meme. I’ll downvote everyone of them I see. I’m so god damned fed up with the corpo-sanitised internet.
…what did i censor in my text?
Who says you only need to eat one serving though?
I identify as a family of four.
What size for the cuts?
The what up?
The funk.
Dafunq they doing over there?
Dafunq they doin’ there?
Said Mr. Belaire
As he retired to his Muffin Mc’Mansion
Going defunct.
I can still eat as many chips as I want though, right?
Ok, but they don’t say how many servings I should eat, so… 100 servings it is.
100 servings of fries
Heckuva way to die
Like grease on a pie
No peperon-…i
…uggghh please give me a napkin
Is this true
It was an hyperbole that flew over the journalists’ heads: https://www.sciencealert.com/you-should-only-be-eating-six-fries-per-serving-advises-harvard-nutritionist
What’s the hyperbole? The guy sounded pretty serious
He wasn’t - he was deliberately saying something attention-grabbing so people would realize how unhealthy the typical restaurant fries are made. He knows a serving of six fries is unrealistic.
Of course, people are too closed-minded and insecure to be that honest with themselves about the facts they don’t want to hear — preferring instead to attack and ridicule others so they can overcompensate for their well-buried guilt over wanting to eat something they deep down know is very bad for them.
Wait so the restaurant fries are 6 a (healthy) serving or not?
Am I gonna have to read the article??? :(
Yeah, life’s so unfair like that.
Amid the French fry furore, Rimm has since clarified that he was merely suggesting restaurants offer smaller plates of fries.
Smaller, not literally 6 small fries.
Targeting number of fries instead of weight would also be unscientific, 6 needle thickness and 6 quarter edges fries are not equivalent.
Exercise portion control
How many fries you eat matters more than things like the fries’ surface area or the type of oil used in making them, Lindsay Moyer, a senior nutritionist at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, said.
Consider, for instance, that a large serving of McDonald’s fries is 510 calories, nearly the same as a Big Mac (540 calories), she said. The Agriculture Department lists a serving of fries as three ounces, which amounts to 12 to 15 individual potato sticks, or about 140 calories. Split your order, get the smallest portion possible or substitute with a side salad or some kind of green vegetable, Ms. Moyer said, or get a baked white or sweet potato instead. “There aren’t a lot of people who are sending back three-quarters of an order of French fries,” Dr. Rimm said. “I think it would be nice if your meal came with a side salad and six French fries.”
Here’s the original article with context. The folks were absolutely serious about what they were saying up until the Internet blew up on them
McDonald’s salads have more calories than their burgers though.
I’ve just checked here in France. One BicMac contains 530 kcal while a caesar salad contains 402 kcal. A Royal Cheese also contains 525 kcal. Maybe it’s different in your country but here there is a pattern where salad have less calories than burgers.
Royale with cheese!
