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Article: Studies show calorie counting doesn't add up
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- May 16, 1991
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The government's recommendations for how many calories we should
be consuming every day are too low, say two new studies.
That means we can eat a lot more and not gain weight. The
problem is we probably already are eating more - we just don't
realize it or won't admit it when a government pollster asks us.
"The official recommendations underestimate what everybody
should be eating by 500 to 700 calories a day," says Sharon Roberts,
a nutrition researcher at Tufts University. She found that the
healthy young males she studied needed more than 3,000 calories a day
to maintain their weight. For more than a decade, the government's
recommended dietary allowances have said adult males should ...