On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 04:46:23 +0000 (UTC), Steve Pope wrote:

> Sqwertz > wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 8 Mar 2010 04:08:50 +0000 (UTC), Steve Pope wrote:
>
>>> A Banquet chicken pot pie is 380 calories... so it's about 1/5 of
>>> one day's nutrition for the average person. Not a meal by itself
>>> for most people.
>
>>Not all nutrition comes in form of calories. If you just count
>>calories (and fat), the average American will max out pretty
>>quickly.
>
>>But if you want 100% of the rest of the "good for you" stuff, then
>>it's nearly impossible to get 100% of those and not max out on the
>>kcals + fat first.
>
> This is true, but OTOH if you have 200 calories of complete
> protein in the 2000 random calories you consume, you are at your
> daily reference value for protein, and you are not going
> to experience outright starvation. You may exhibit vitamin
> deficiencies, symptoms of excessive fat or insufficient fiber
> but these will develop pretty slowly.

I'm eating three next time.

-sw