{"id":6742,"date":"2013-02-25T23:05:34","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T04:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=6742"},"modified":"2015-02-19T19:14:07","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T00:14:07","slug":"new-york-times-op-doc-calorie-detective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/new-york-times-op-doc-calorie-detective\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times Op-Doc: &#8220;Calorie Detective&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of imprecise calorie counts&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>As filmmaker Casey Neistat discovered, the listed calorie counts on hand-made restaurant\/ready-to-eat food items can be especially variable. He selected 5 food items that he might eat in an average day: a muffin, a pre-made tofu sandwich, a Starbucks Frappuccino, a Subway sandwich and a Chipotle burrito. Then he had them tested at the at the New York Obesity Nutrition Research Center and compared the actual calories to the numbers offered by each manufacturer.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s just say that the difference was significant. Take a look&#8230;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"nyt_video_player\" title=\"New York Times Video - Embed Player\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/bcvideo\/1.0\/iframe\/embed.html?videoId=100000002061153&amp;playerType=embed\" height=\"373\" width=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>As an aside, I hope this isn&#8217;t really a representative sample of Mr. Neistat&#8217;s daily diet!<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s got a solid point, though: there ought to be some oversight to make sure that the calorie info given to consumers is as accurate as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of imprecise calorie counts&#8230; As filmmaker Casey Neistat discovered, the listed calorie counts on hand-made restaurant\/ready-to-eat food items can be especially variable. He selected 5 food items [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,23],"tags":[298,1200],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6742"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6742"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9946,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6742\/revisions\/9946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}