Serving sizes stated on packagings have little to do with how much people really eat.

Jep, apparently we have a classic case of “lost in translation”. Could’t agree with the statement above more than I do, though.

Band, you never fail to provide really great comments!

You are right about the starvation mode: there is a “starvation response,” but, as you said, it has nothing to do with the popular idea that the body will actually conserve fat mass. In reality it uses it all up to virtually the last gram.

The popcorn experiment you are referring to, is it the one with moviegoers and stale popcorn in large bags? If yes, I think I didn’t express clearly enough what I meant: the serving sizes stated on packagings have little to do with how much people really eat.

30. Serving sizes have very little to do with how much you’ll really eat.
Deeply disagree. There are tons of psycological studies that say that size maters a lot. Let me just mention the famous pop-corn experiment.

31. Most people underestimate the number of calories they consume.
You think people are bad at that game. No, they are even worse.
http://www.plosone.org/article/fetchObject.action?uri=info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0076632&representation=PDF
The “calories in” reported by participants and the “calories out,” don’t add up and it would be impossible to survive on most of the reported energy intakes. This misreporting of energy was greatest in obese men and women who underreported their intake by an average 25 percent and 41 percent (i.e., 716 and 856 Calories per-day respectively).

38. There is no starvation mode.
Well, sory, but there’s a well documented starvation mode. Of course we are no taking about the scapegoat starvation mode people that “can’t lose weight” mention in the same sentence with big bones, genetics and GMO/HFCS/milk/bread turning directly into fat. Well, starvation mode is all about starvation. During the Minessota starvation experiment (http://jn.nutrition.org/content/135/6/1347.full.pdf) they found out that metabolism slowed down between 20 and 25%(pondered by weight and muscle loss) when people bacialy starved for a couple of months. I guess that caould be applied to anorexics…

Oh the wisdom spread on breakfast television!

Thank you, J! 🙂

That entire misconception about how many calories burns probably started because some “fitness expert” thought fat-free mass = muscle mass.

If every pound of muscle burned 50 kcal, then Ronnie Coleman probably would have to eat 24/7 🙂

All we can do is tell them the truth!

Nice enjoyable list to read!