• peanuts4life@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Those numbers seem way high. I wonder if the individuals studied were soldiers. I would have a hard time eating 3500 calories in a day and I’m 6’2"

    • Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, it is very high. Other sources place intake a shade above 2500cal/day for their selected demographic. I really wonder where they’re getting their data from.

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      1 year ago

      that’s about 2 large sized big mac combos w refills from mcdonalds, it’s only difficult if you’re live somewhere without fast food or have your own dietary restrictions or your a observing jewish soviet russian living in siberia in the 1970’s