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on "Healthy" Food?
Recent studies have shown that diners tend
to eat more at restaurants perceived as serving healthy food than those
who eat at other restaurants. Apparently, individuals underestimate the
calorie content of "healthy" food
and eat more of it.
The exact number of books one in every four adults said they had read in the
last 12 months!
AP-Ipsos poll, Aug. 21, 2007
The studies asked subjects to eat at certain establishments and then estimate the calorie content of the foods they had consumed. On average, in one study patrons of Subway underestimated their meals by 151 calories as compared to those eating at McDonald's. This difference could lead to a possible weight gain of nearly five pounds a year if such meals were eaten on a regular basis.
Dr. Pierre Chandon of the research institution INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France, and Dr. Brian Wansink of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, suggest that thinking objectively about calorie content will help diners avoid getting swayed by the perception of one food being healthier than another ("People Eat More in ‘Healthy' Restaurants," Journal of Consumer Research, October 2007).
Of course, if we are aware of this tendency, we can be realistic about the calorie content. It is much better for our health to get calories filled with vitamins and minerals than empty calories from fat and sugar, for example.
Japan
Speeds Up
The Japanese broadband Internet infrastructure allows
super high speeds. An aggressive fiber-optic cable installation program
implemented by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT), along with
a national electrical infrastructure using higher quality copper wire,
installed following the destruction of the Second World War, has provided
the physical basis for higher speed and better quality Internet connections
in Japan, surpassing the United States and competing with South Korea
and Europe.
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