The more I research nutrition, the more I discover that it is really a very young and inexact science. We all know that fat has 9 calories per gram and carbs and protein each have 4 calories per gram, right? (Okay, well some of us knew that - haha) Turns out... there are two problems with calculating your percentages - the food industry is allowed to round DOWN on things like fat. Nice, huh? They can round down to the nearest half gram. Also, to further complicate things, carbohydrates really has closer to 3.6 calories per gram and protein is closer to 4.2 - again, rounding is skewing the numbers.

Sure, it only means a few calories when you look at an apple. When you view a 2,000+ calorie day however, these numbers can cause hundreds of calories to go missing from the equation. Okay, that doesn't mean we are eating more calories than we think, because the total calories are pretty darn accurate. What is means is that the percentages calculated are on a smaller total amount. In the end though - the percentages hold up pretty true even though there are missing calories.

Long story short - I have again modified the formulas in my spreadsheet so now I feel as confident as possible that the numbers I will be posting are the most accurate available.

About now you are thinking, "Geez, I thought this nutrition kick would be over by now and he would be back to posting pictures, reviewing movies, and telling funny stories..." Have no fear - those will return right now - but the nutrition thing is determining whether I die of complications from atherosclerosis or stay around a few more decades. I have a lot of writing to do, so I guess I will keep the nutrition stuff around. (I'll try to keep it out of the way of your reading. :)



See, I am already back to reviewing film. I watched Barton Fink by the Coen brothers. It was one of their earlier films that I never saw. The comedy was definitely up to par for them and John Turturro was excellent as always. If ever there was a perfect "everyman oddball" character, Turturro is it. It was funny to see John Goodman playing almost the same character (with a twisted difference) as he did in O Brother, Where Art Thou? Overall, it was decent, but they have done better work. OBWAT is a case in point.

RATING 7 out of 10

- posted by Chris @ 12:58 PM