Blame the potato chip. It’s the biggest demon behind that pound-a-year weight creep that plagues many of us, a major diet study found. Bigger than soda, candy and ice cream.
And the reason is partly that old advertising cliche: You can’t eat just one.
“They’re very tasty and they have a very good texture. People generally don’t take one or two chips. They have a whole bag,” said obesity expert Dr. F. Xavier Pi-Sunyer of the St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York.
What we eat and how much of it we consume has far more impact than exercise and most other habits do on long-term weight gain, according to the study by Harvard University scientists.
The new study finds food choices are key. The message: Eat more fruits, vegetables, whole grains and nuts. Cut back on potatoes, red meat, sweets and soda.
For each four-year period, these factors had these effects on weight:
— An alcoholic drink a day, 0.41-pound increase.
— Watching an hour of TV a day, 0.31-pound increase.
— Recently quitting smoking, 5-pound increase.
People who slept more or less than six to eight hours a night gained more weight.
OMG NOOOOOOOOOOO WAYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
never would of guessed
you mightt not be that fat. but the inside of your arteries will not look pretty……… (heartattack cv)
I am so happy with this news, now I won’t need to give up eating my daily kishke. And I guess that the daily potato kugel at supper is okay too!
It’s great that I don’t eat any potato chips – but somehow I’m still 75 pounds overweight and keep gaining around 15 pounds a year. Maybe it’s the NYC water!
Now please don’t stand in my way at the kiddish when I am grabbing a few pieces of delicious shmaltz herring to die for.
waste of space on a good website! sorry!
I LOVE POTATO CHIPS THEY ARE SO YUMMY I EAT LIKE FIVE BAGS A DAY….AND IM NOT EVEN THAT FAT
for the spam!
How is this news? Cigarettes give you cancer! news at 11. DUH!!!
How dare you blame the Potato Chip! He’s my friend!
JUNK FOOD MAKES YOU FAT!!!
WHO EVER KNEW???!!
it’s not about staying healthy anymore, it’s about picking out a sickness that you like.
Everything can hurt you, everything can kill you, everything at some point (yes, even water) had been declared dangerous and/or deadly.
Let us make decisions for ourselves and live in peace.
Trust me, no one will start dieing in the streets.
makes you think all your weight problems are over if you ditch the chips.
potatoes make you fat. because they turn into pure glucose in your body. the OIL is not the problem in the potato chip it actually HELPs SLOW DOWN the conversion in to glucose sugar. UNDER cooked potatoa are also slower to become sugar. a well cooked potato and refined white flower will give you a glucose RUSH and a then a low. olive or canola oil, will slow down the “rush” learn more out about the GI “GLUCOSE INDEX” new amazing facts about what your body really thinks is sugar. i lost 20 lb inh 3 months, following this rule.… Read more »
yes! potato chips are so bad for you. not filling and super addictive. after about a month of not eating them anymore you will no longer crave em! (and lose some weight)
the same is with sugar