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Chocolate 'may help keep people slim'

the best new diet for me!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-17511011

(it's not proven yet etc but this is a good enough excuse for me to eat more chocolate!!)

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Reply 1

Drunk Punx

Complete ****ing *******s, quite frankly.

I admire their wishful thinking though.

(edited 12 years ago)

Reply 2

455409

This is likely going to be the same as all the antioxidant crap. No, eating a handful of blueberries because theyre a "superfood" is not going to make you live forever or be able to fly or lose 10stone or let you do no exercise.

Load of BS as with the poster above.

Nice try though cadburys.

Reply 3

ieatcheeseyo

Energy expenditure > Energy intake = weight loss

Does it mention anything about their BMI, diet and/or lifestyle?

But seriously after training I sit down and watch simpsons, at the advert I realise theres a huge empty cadbury's wrapper (the £1 chocolate and nut) on my belly :colondollar:

But my weight stay the same, Unless "intentionally" losing/ gaining.

Reply 4

NB_ide

"People who eat chocolate regularly tend to be thinner."

My first interpretation would be that people who are naturally slim feel that they can eat chocolate more often and so do so. Whereas because we all "know" that chocolate = junk = get fat, overweight people avoid it in a vain attempt to control their weight.

Reply 5

Elwyn

Original post by ieatcheeseyo

theres a huge empty cadbury's wrapper on my belly

Don't you mean on your six-pack :wink:

Reply 6

Claudine

But wouldn't it be amazing if it were true!? Imagine if chocolate had the same amount of calories as lettuce... :biggrin:

That would be an amazing world! hehe

Reply 7

ieatcheeseyo

Original post by Elwyn

Don't you mean on your six-pack :wink:

"same ting" :cool:

But yeah, 10 minutes into an episode I've finsihed a whole packet

Energy (KJ) 2060
Energy (KCal) 490
Protein 8.3g
Carbohydrate 55.8g
(of which Sugar) 55.2g
Total Fat 25.9g
(of which Saturated Fat) 14.4g
Fibre 1.4g
Sodium* 0.1g
* Equiv as Salt 0.25g :/

Reply 8

HellOnHighHeels

To ASDA!
Where's my debit card.....

Reply 9

RastaMannn

I reckon if you eat a filling chocolate, i.e. dark chocolate, really slowly, you feel fuller quicker, so you eat less...

Reply 10

HARRY PUTAH

Original post by Claudine

the best new diet for me!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-17511011

(it's not proven yet etc but this is a good enough excuse for me to eat more chocolate!!)

"its not proven that I am an idiot but I am willing to find out!"

This is why I do not give women any advice anymore. Took me a couple of years but I nailed it few months ago.

Reply 11

Claudine

Original post by RastaMannn

I reckon if you eat a filling chocolate, i.e. dark chocolate, really slowly, you feel fuller quicker, so you eat less...

I like your theory! :tongue:

Reply 12

ManPowa

Original post by Claudine

the best new diet for me!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-17511011

(it's not proven yet etc but this is a good enough excuse for me to eat more chocolate!!)

The only thing people will be slimming is their wallets. :biggrin:

Reply 13

chronic_fatigue

Original post by RastaMannn

I reckon if you eat a filling chocolate, i.e. dark chocolate, really slowly, you feel fuller quicker, so you eat less...

Who the hell eats chocolate slowly? OP hope you are joking about eating more chocolate.

Reply 14

Claudine

Original post by chronic_fatigue

Who the hell eats chocolate slowly? OP hope you are joking about eating more chocolate.

Yeah course, I couldn't eat more than I do already anyway :wink:

Reply 15

455409

Also, weight alone is not the be all and end all of good health.

Reply 16

effy27

Read it and ran to the kitchen to fetch the "Nutella"!

Reply 17

kiss_me_now9

I wrote a piece about this for my stats work this week. Correlation does not equal causation and the word 'maybe' in your sentence makes the entire thing *******s.

Reply 18

Claudine

Original post by effy27

Read it and ran to the kitchen to fetch the "Nutella"!

Best attitude on here so far! :tongue:

Reply 19

darkxangel

Original post by Claudine

the best new diet for me!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-17511011

(it's not proven yet etc but this is a good enough excuse for me to eat more chocolate!!)

it says it's got nothing to do with quantity but with how many times they eat it, so for all we know slimmer people might be eating 10 grams of chocolate three times a week whereas the fat people eat 900 grams of it in two weeks. they just worrded it carefully. :rolleyes: