Re: OB: 3 hour GTT instructions
From: Charlie Chambers (cchamber@gorge.net)
Wed May 18 18:25:46 2005
Gotta agree with Anna. No way the average intake is 1800 cal per day
for women. I'd like to see how they came up with these figures.
On May 18, 2005, at 4:17 PM, Anna Meenan, MD wrote:
> I find this statistic absolutely impossible to believe. If the average
> calorie intake for women is truly 1800 per day, then we must be totally
> a nation of slugs, because there is no way the rate of obesity could be
> increasing as fast as it is if women were truly only eating 1800
> cal/day. I am a thin person, about 5-10 lb. underweight, and I eat
> about 2000 cal/day to maintain that. There is no way American women
> average 1800 cal/day.
>
> Anna Meenan, MD
>
> At Wed, 18 May 2005, Dr. Ainsworth wrote:
>>
>> Food intake analysis shows an increase in calories
>> since 1990 is due to increased consumption of grain products, certain
>> soft drinks and alcoholic beverages. Average calorie intake of women
>> is
>> slightly below 1,800 calories, considerably less than the recommended
>> 2,200 calories per day for women in this age group. Average intake
>> for
>> men is about 2,700 calories, also somewhat less than the 2,900
>> calories
>> recommended. (Healthy Weight Journal 1999:13:2;18 / Is total fat
>> consumption really decreasing? Nutrition Insights 5, USDA Center for
>> Nutrition Policy and Promotion, April 1998)
>>
>> If fat is going down by 83 gm, that translates into a proportional
>> increase in CHO.
>>
>> Ronald E. Ainsworth
>>
>> At Wed, 18 May 2005, R. Daniel Braun wrote:
>>>
>>> Give me some data showing that is true.
>>>
>>> On 5/17/05, Joanne Bulley, MD <islesannie@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I learned to do it WITH the load ... but in the US today ... most
>>>> Americans eat way more than the carbs needed to be a "load" ...
>>>> part of
>>>> the US's problem with obesity!
>>>>
>>>> Joanne
>>>>
>>>> At Tue, 17 May 2005, R. Daniel Braun wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> That is my point, you couldn't unless you retested them with the
>>>>> load. r
>>>>> O'Sullivan in Boston, in the '70's, did all that on nearly a
>>>>> thousand
>>>>> patients who were all tested with the load. That is where the
>>>>> normal
>>>> value
>>>>> come from and is the "Gpld Standard". In order to know someone
>>>>> would ha e
>>>> o
>>>>> test close to that many patients with and without he load to see
>>>>> if ther
>>>>> was a difference.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Joanne Bulley, MD
>>>> Keene, NH, USA
>>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> --
>>> R. Daniel Braun
>>> Kinky for Governor
>>>
>
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