{"id":3074,"date":"2011-06-13T17:36:47","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T23:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fathead-movie.com\/?p=3074"},"modified":"2011-06-13T17:36:47","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T23:36:47","slug":"freaky-eaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fathead-movie.com\/index.php\/2011\/06\/13\/freaky-eaters\/","title":{"rendered":"Freaky Eaters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been tied up with other business today, so I don\u2019t have time for a full-length post.  However, a reader pointed me to these \u201cFreaky Eaters\u201d videos, which I find interesting.  (Sorry, you\u2019ll have to watch a brief commercial before each one.)<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s start with a \u201cfreaky eater\u201d who only consumes meat \u2013 and no, I\u2019m not talking about Gary Taubes:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"dit-video-embed\" width=\"384\" height=\"216\" src=\"http:\/\/static.discoverymedia.com\/videos\/components\/tlc\/b05144729211fa3c446218f57df5267aa2e27511\/snag-it-player.html?auto=no\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I couldn\u2019t help but notice the meat addict doesn\u2019t seem to have a weight problem, despite eating what amounts to around five pounds of meat per day.  He seems to prefer fatty meats, so his calorie intake could easily exceed 6,000 per day.  I wonder what the calories in vs. calories out fanatics would say about this guy?  <\/p>\n<p>I feel sorry for his wife, seeing her own father die of heart disease and now fearing her husband will do the same, but I doubt her father lived almost exclusively on meat.  That\u2019s probably just the part of his diet the doctors chose to blame.<\/p>\n<p>Now let\u2019s look at what being addicted to corn starch can do to a person:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"dit-video-embed\" width=\"384\" height=\"216\" src=\"http:\/\/static.discoverymedia.com\/videos\/components\/tlc\/e7de031a659c6c3ca8d98d3f3eb526da6e85fdb6\/snag-it-player.html?auto=no\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Two pounds of corn starch vs. five pound of meat.  Quite a difference.  (And before anyone points in out, yes, I realize these two people could have completely different body types.)  Judging by the family photos on the wall, the corn-starch addict has gained rather a lot of weight since her addiction began.  I sure hope she gets over it someday.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, here&#8217;s someone who can&#8217;t stop eating cheesy potatoes:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"dit-video-embed\" width=\"384\" height=\"216\" src=\"http:\/\/static.discoverymedia.com\/videos\/components\/tlc\/cd644dcf5ab905233e4ae371a2dff07db1c847d1\/snag-it-player.html?auto=no\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The narrator just <em>had to<\/em> mention that the potato addict is consuming 176 grams of fat per day.  I probably consume that much fat on many days myself.  But it would take me a month to consume as much starch as this women eats in a day.<\/p>\n<p>My diet is mixed, but if I ever decide to go freaky, I&#8217;m definitely modeling my diet after meat addict&#8217;s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been tied up with other business today, so I don\u2019t have time for a full-length post. However, a reader pointed me to these \u201cFreaky Eaters\u201d videos, which I find&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fathead-movie.com\/index.php\/2011\/06\/13\/freaky-eaters\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fathead-movie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fathead-movie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fathead-movie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fathead-movie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fathead-movie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3074"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.fathead-movie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3087,"href":"https:\/\/www.fathead-movie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074\/revisions\/3087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fathead-movie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fathead-movie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fathead-movie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}