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Study Finds Elementary Students Like New Healthier Lunches

I could wrap my head around 4000 calories a day, but 8000 just sounds nuts. According to this site if I do nothing but exercise (no breaks) over the course of eight hours (a nine to five job) I'll burn 3763 calories. Add to that 2000 for caloric maintenance and you've got 5763 calories.
If I ate 4,000 calories a day I would probably be around 400 pounds.
8000 calories sounds a wee bit fudged to me.

Maybe he has a tape worm and doesn't know it.
 
If I ate 4,000 calories a day I would probably be around 400 pounds.


Maybe he has a tape worm and doesn't know it.

A tape worm inside him? I'm thinking more like three people.
 
Healthier lunches???

I have to eat 8000 calories a day to maintain my weight....

Due to my metabolism your "healthy lunches" would starve me to death...

What do these fools want to do? kill half of their students in an attempt to control the weight of the overeaters - or those that don't understand they have a thyroid problem?

I think if there were children with that sort of problem, they would make efforts to accommodate them. The prevalence of hyperthyroidism is very small so I doubt that they intend to starve students.

Do people actually believe people are fat because they eat too much?

Well, that's how I got fat and I suspect that it's a leading cause.
 
Healthier lunches???

I have to eat 8000 calories a day to maintain my weight....

I don't believe at all that you have to eat 8000 calories to maintain weight. That is not even close to believable. Unless you are a pro athlete who trains all day perhaps.
Due to my metabolism your "healthy lunches" would starve me to death...

I dont think you are a child in school so that point is not really relevant. And if there was a kid who required a special diet of 8000 calories per day (which there is not) the school and parents would work out a special diet just like they do for anyone else who has diet restrictions or needs.

What do these fools want to do? kill half of their students in an attempt to control the weight of the overeaters - or those that don't understand they have a thyroid problem?

Do people actually believe people are fat because they eat too much?

Yes, the vast majority of people who are overweight are overweight because of diet and exercise.
 
I don't believe at all that you have to eat 8000 calories to maintain weight. That is not even close to believable. Unless you are a pro athlete who trains all day perhaps.


I dont think you are a child in school so that point is not really relevant. And if there was a kid who required a special diet of 8000 calories per day (which there is not) the school and parents would work out a special diet just like they do for anyone else who has diet restrictions or needs.



Yes, the vast majority of people who are overweight are overweight because of diet and exercise.

Exactly.

Amazing how much discussion can come from one made up statement. 8,000 calories a day, sure. Maybe he's the result of an experiment involving gene splicing with hummingbirds or something.
 
Exactly.

Amazing how much discussion can come from one made up statement. 8,000 calories a day, sure. Maybe he's the result of an experiment involving gene splicing with hummingbirds or something.

Methinks Mr.Nick is fuzzy on what a "calorie" is.
 
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