A plate of apple slices, a few hunks of cheese, two glasses of wine. It’s not just a wine-and-cheese plate, but three foods in very different quantities that all contain the same amount of calories: 200.
A glass of rum, one and a third beers, approximately one quarter of a Big Mac, two heads of broccoli and some change—all have 200 calories.
This is the visual ploy of a video from ASAP Science: What does 200 calories look like? It’s a compelling approach to thinking about diet and nutrition, because with so much talk of counting calories and listing calories on menus, and generally being obsessed, as a culture, with the number, there’s little understanding of the value.
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