Steve Turano: I am Steve Turano, Welcome to this episode of body performance. Have you heard of this new book of? Eat this not that. If you have, it's not surprising. It's put out by the food and nutritional editor of men's health magazine. So it's got a big budget to market it. Now before you start sending me nasty E-mails, it's a correct concept, if you eat less, get rid of some of the foods, you will lose weight. I didn't say that for years, but I saw on TV and some of the analogies were so ridiculous.
I said to myself, is there anybody on the planet that doesn't know that's too many calories or that's too much food to eat. Here what how like this baked triple cheese burger, French fries and a shake and keep you like this see this, this is 1800 calories. Okay and they did say; okay better eat this McDonald's hamburger with fries and coke. That's only 1000 calories. Okay yeah I guess that would be healthier to help that McDonald's hamburger than the 1800, you know triple cheese burger, but you know you could just eat less of it triple cheese burger and you will be okay too.
So again it's the just the same like eat this horrible food or just eat this bad food. That's it like the analogy. Then you can convert these 1,800 calories into Twinkies or doughnuts or popsicles like looking at that meal being 1,800 calories isn't that enough. You needed an analogy to convert it into. So we really understand how bad it works. Oh triple cheeseburger, but they don't, that wasn't too bad, oh my gosh, it's twenty Twinkies, oh that's horrible. But that again if you did that at McDonald's meal, you could say that it's ten Twinkies. So again a lot of this is marketing hype. Is there anybody that doesn't know that those meals would be bad for you and that if you just eat less, you would be doing better? They also talked about coffees. They talked about the places that sold coffee.
Okay you said you got this 500 calorie coffee. It would be better to have this 200 calorie coffee. Okay well thanks for that insight. We got it, but then you would be ridiculous. You say, you see this cup of coffee, its start like cherries in it. They don't need a cup of coffee anymore. That's a quarter of cherries with coffee poured over the top. And yeah its 1200 calories. Though it's got a quarter cherries in it. The one thing you didn't tell America was hey coffee has no calories. Just put two tablespoons of sugar or teaspoons of sugar which has got 30 calories , little skimmed milk , you are good to go.. I also looked at the back jacket of his book and he makes some broad claims there. Oh an Egg McMuffin is better than they don't say 200 calories. Is that a true?
It certainly depends upon what type of paper you eat. An Egg McMuffin has 300 calories and 12 grams of fat. So a third of those calories are coming from fat. A plain lettuce bagel has 210 calories and one gram of fat. Okay one third of the calories and a 11 less grams of fat. And I started claim bagel has 320 calories, 24 calories, but only one gram of fat. At much I have those two bagels than Egg McMuffin so again this concept is nothing new. This job is not showing us anything fantastic.
As a matter of fact, some of the analogies are so ridiculous, you want me to book and go, and who doesn't know this stuff. So just don't be taken or mislead by this types of books okay. These people haven't discovered anything new. Love your body.
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