What America Eats page

**hannahc** · 08-02-2010, 05:44 AM

The Average American makes me sad (and I am one. American that is, not average

).

http://www.good.is/post/what-america...zed/?gt1=48001

29 pounds of french fries per year per person? Really?

**Katie82** · 08-02-2010, 06:44 AM

600 lbs, non-cheese, non-milk dairy average?!?! I guess the yogurt advertising is working! Come to think of it I always see tons of shoppers hovering around the yogurt case staring blankly at all the fruit-like sugar filled options as they throw insane amounts of Dannon and Activia in their carts. SAD indeed.

**hannahc** · 08-02-2010, 07:09 AM

Yogurt, that's probably it. I was having a hard time with that too, since they do split milk out separately. Hahahaha, Activia...the SNL versions of the Jamie Lee Curtis commercials crack me up.

**avocado** · 08-02-2010, 07:26 AM

600 pounds noncheese nonbeverage dairy? Yogurt is all I can think of (and ice cream I guess) - but that's an average of 26 ounces a day. Over 3 cups a day, everyday. Really?

**Rivvin** · 08-02-2010, 07:37 AM

2700 calories a day is not enough for their little fat person picture there for someone who exercises / trains!

Just saying!

Move along, citizens.

**Mica** · 08-02-2010, 07:40 AM

Good God.

Wheat flour + dairy products + corn/corn syrup = practically 50% of the diet on the circle thingy

And look at all that artificial sweetener!!

**Funkadelic Flash** · 08-02-2010, 07:55 AM

Did anyone else try out that calorie recommendation link at the bottom? I decided to plug in my stats just for fun and it recommended I eat over 450 grams of carbs a day to maintain my current weight...are you f*cking kidding me?! I laughed my ass off!

**Daemonized** · 08-02-2010, 08:10 AM

I think the also over estimate the veggie intake of the average person as well.

**Darrin** · 08-02-2010, 08:15 AM

I remember seeing a food pyramid many years ago representing how we REALLY eat and remember seeing dairy on the bottom. Still surprises me, though. It really does a number on the theory of milk as essential to prevent osteoporosis and other bone diseases. Even more surprised to see that we are only eating ~1/2 lb of grains and cereals every day. I'd be curious to see how they gathered this data.