Calorie Detective: The Real Math Behind Food Labels - Op-Docs

With the help of a science lab, the filmmaker Casey Neistat finds that calorie listings on food labels can be highly inaccurate.

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[heykatetomes]

Dear drcmaysv2,

You can't out-exercise a bad diet.

The end.

[SizedChewyStick]

Not quite the end. Some people are actually trying to lose weight which is why there is need for calorie counting. Just working out won't do it. It's more about what you eat than anything. 80% diet, 20% exercise.

[timmydough]

Wrong.

The bodies natural metabolic rate, what you eat, and exercise all factor in.

The rate varies from person to person.

It is not 80% diet, 20% exercise.

My metabolic rate is so high, I can eat tons of high calorie foods, hardly workout, and not gain weight.

Don't pass off misinformation with falsely assumed numbers.

A healthy diet should always be enforced, regardless of whether you workout or not though.

Types of fat and other factors are far more important than "calorie" intake.

[Andriy Kandaur]

Good day! I'm Elizabeth.I did -10 lbs in one month.Open hq-diet.com

[Jemma James]

The world as I knew it has been torn apart

[utdgrant]

548 / 228 = 2.4, so it's nearly two and a half times the declared calories, not "nearly double".

[LACali4NiaNATIVE]

if anything its 80% exercise and 20% diet , exercise burns fat and diet just doesnt allow you to gain back the weight if you look at pro athletes like micheal phelps and flyod mayweather they eat much more then non-athletes and exercise alot more than non-athletes and they are fit

[Scott Nora]

One thing I don't understand: why did he take the McDonald's calories for granted? They weren't proven, right?