Re: New food pyramid coming

"Bob (this one)" <Bob@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in part:

>Jeff wrote:
>> "Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD" <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
>>
>>> Jeff wrote:
>>
>> (...)
>>
>>>> The guidelines, which were the basis for revising the pyramid,
>>>> include eating 2 cups of fruit and 2 1/2 cups of vegetables a
>>>> day; eating 3 ounces of whole-grain foods a day and drinking 3
>>>> cups of fat-free or lowfat milk a day.
>>>
>>> It is unwise to mix units when quantifying food.
>
>This, of course is nonsense as any recipe will attest.
>
>Bob

I can't believe I'm posting in this thread, but here goes:

While I think the 2-pound/2-Omer/32-avoirdupois-ounce diet is
lunacy as a whole, the idea of weighing everything is a good one.

I say this as a frustrated dieter and tracker of my own diet and
weight. If I try to use any of the popular software packages that
purport to assist dieters and tracking, I find that I must juggle
things like cups, fluid ounces, ounces, grams, tablespoons,
"medium-size," "large," etc. If I want to track nutrients, it
becomes even worse, given the simplistic idiocy of the US
nutritional information labels.

I have a kitchen scale. (Imagine that!) It was inexpensive. I
could measure everything I eat in grams. (I could use ounces, but
then the scale forces me to convert fractions and the original
whole food item is almost always labeled in grams, anyway.)

Why, oh why, can't diet software (and recipes) even in the
ounce-pound-cup-tablespoon-teaspoon-bogged USA work with grams?!

<end of rant>
--
Jim Chinnis Warrenton, Virginia, USA
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