• binarytobis@lemmy.world
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    I’ve been calorie counting for a while now, and one of the things I’ve found is that if you get one average burger and medium fries, the fries are often more calories. A medium fry at the place I ate yesterday is 560 kcal. Personally, I’d rather get a second sandwich.

    • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      I’m lucky to have a smallish appetite, which I think of as a superpower - I can’t even eat an entire Whopper, or typical adult-size burger. I don’t how anybody can put away a second one.

      • RebekahWSD@lemmy.world
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        By eating more than the stomach really wants over and over until it expands. Then you can eat more and more and it expands!

        Then it sucks trying to eat less because the body is so user to the more the less feels like shit!

        Loved having to eat until I felt sick as a kid. Totally didn’t fuck anything up. disgruntled sounds

  • bobtimus_prime@feddit.org
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    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…

    • Vespair@lemmy.zip
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      20 hours ago

      Remember, the point of reporting today is not to inform, but to gain clicks.

    • NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca
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      21 hours ago

      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

    • rustydrd@sh.itjust.works
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      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.

  • psx_crab@lemmy.zip
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    1 day ago

    If i ordered one fries i get this:

    Which mean i can eat up to 6 of these per serving. Make sense.

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      In Belgium, they would adapt by serving you six fries that have been fried in pork fat twenty times over.

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        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.

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    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.

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    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

    • Elgenzay@lemmy.ml
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      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

      Edit: for context, votes were 1:2 at the time

      • laz@pawb.social
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        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.

          • laz@pawb.social
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            I responded to the wrong comment, my bad. Was talking about the post itself. Sorry for this mishap friend.

  • Etterra@discuss.online
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    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.

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      100 servings of fries

      Heckuva way to die

      Like grease on a pie

      No peperon-…i

      …uggghh please give me a napkin