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Friday, February 06, 2004The study, conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and reported in the current edition of its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, found that in 1971 women ate 1,542 calories on average, compared with today's 1,877, while men went from 2,450 calories a day to 2,618. Those numbers dwarf the government's recommendations of 1,600 calories a day for women and 2,200 for men. Cookies, pasta, soda and other carbohydrates appear to be mostly to blame. Among women, carbohydrates jumped from about 45 percent of the daily caloric intake to almost 52 percent. For men, they grew from 42 percent to 49 percent. 'This just confirms that Americans need to be more focused on a total calorie decrease,' said Jacqueline Wright, an epidemiologist at the disease control centers and the author of the study. And this is surprising? posted by Sydney on 2/06/2004 08:28:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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