yes it is.
stuff yourself silly.
worlds ending and your gonna die anyway if you listen to all the intelligent ones on the radio/tv.
so sod it.
Show me where the people who wrote this report say "eat a cheeseburger a day"
The cheeseburger was an example of what the extra calories would be, IF you read the artical..
" New research has shown people can consume an extra 400 calories a day, equivalent to a cheeseburger ".
The cheeseburger issue is irrelevant here, the question seems to have been put on the shelf...a question with a ? attatched to it.
Is the advice a good thing when there are so many overweight people out there?
A little snippet for those that seem to think calories does not equal weight gain....I would never have guessed that.
So it seems as I am not that educated I decided to see what the " experts " take on this is, and lo and behold calories DO make you gain weight.
more calories do equal weight gain, no one said it didn't, more calories don't equal fat though.
I try to eat around 3000 - 3200 calories a day because i want to build muscle, i'm not fat and i eat excess what the recommended requirement is.
It is good advice even with the amount of over weight people there are around, because taken in the right context it will be good for you, this information will be beneficial to anyone who isn't fat.
However there comes a point that people need to take responsibility for there own actions, if your fat and see this report and think 'great i'll eat some more cake' then thats there problem... we are all born with a brain, use it.
Just stated on the news that. "if you don't exercise - don't eat the extra calories".
Think it was a slight piss take if honest.
Sensible dietary information is out there. Loads if it. And NOT in the daily papers - at the doc's, on the BBC website, on NHS websites and many other places.
I'm 'fat' - actually according to the doc's chart I'm obese. So I'm not a stick insect mocking fat people. I know how hard it can be to get down to a given weight and stay there.
But the fact remains YOU are responsible for YOUR health/weight etc. Picking and choosing snippets of info to excuse or justify bad eating habits is stupid. And people do it to excuse both over and UNDER eating. If people eat too much and don't exercise enough and get fat they can't blame 'lack of information'.
Anyone who is ovberweight and uses this extract from the report to justify eating more will simply put more weight on. Without the rest of the report or, frankly, basic common sense the idea that eating more is OK (ie won't add weight) is moronic.
The term YOU here refers to every individual not anyone specific on here.
Well am sure a lot of people do care.
The whole point of this for me is....what the feck do these idiots know, when they are all of a sudden saying something different to what they have been saying for 20 years. :shock:
Some people obviously do not care, but for those that do care, they are now seeing an irresponsible artical almost saying they can eat more.
With obesity being a huge problem apparently,the NEW advice seems to be very irresponsible.
Surely this is only a problem for people who do count their calories on a daily basis? If you are not counting calories, and you are maintaining your weight, then there is no way you would want to change your diet by adding more calories. If you are losing weight (intentionally losing it) then again, you would not go and automatically increase your calorie intake.
However, I do think there is some use in this information, if only our newspapers had actually thought about how they were going to put the message across. For people who are desperately trying to lose weight, and are doing it by following dangerously low calorie diets (I think this is where the total calorie intake is 800 or less, but dont quote me on that) then it may be useful information to persuade them to raise their calorie intake and still be able to lose weight.
I lost 3 1/2stone earlier this year and have easily maintained the loss since July this year but I have never counted a single calorie. I eat healthly, excercise and just made sure I put enough fuel into the system to keep it running smoothly. I wont increase my food intake just because some expert says I can, and I am fairly sure that the majority of people who are maintaing will not change their daily intake as a result of this.
However, I do think the message about total calories needed is definately useful, but it is how this message is managed is where the problems are caused.
If the calories are in the form of..cake,ice-cream,chocolate or alcohol, then more calories are always a good idea.
you could all try adding a little common sense to the debate.
think about what a calorie is. it's a unit of measurement, nothing more. The calorie debate since the invention of weight watchers and various other pseudo-scientific groups is one big red herring. It's not how many calories one consumes, it's in what form and how the body processes it that counts. If you want to go back to basic biology, think about how food gets from ya stomach to a fat cell, then you'll realise all the diet advice on NHS and BBC et al is all based on predjudice and ignorance, not science.
as for exercise, that's a smokescreen for all the smug i go for a run every day and i'm skinny brigade.
and am sure Mcdonalds will be clapping their hands with glee. 
