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Potato chips piling on kilograms, study finds

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The results are in the New England Journal of Medicine.**** The 1950 edition ??

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Afraid i'll put on a few extra kilos just looking at this picture, looks so "tasty !" pls remove it :)

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I stopped eating potato chips long ago. The amount of fat in one small bag is ridiculous.

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still amazes me that they need all of these studies that come to the same conclusion of "Balance and Exercise"

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They're addictive - that's why I try not to buy them anymore. Once opened, I eat them all in one go. Once a month is ok though!

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I love chips. and wont stop eating them even if I get fatter, they are just tooooooo damn tasty. Stop me and perish! w00t

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I sometimes try to fool myself into thinking I'm being more health-conscious by buying grain-based chips or baked chips. Might be marginally better for me than Lay's, but in the long run, it's just as bad.

It feels a lot easier to cut down on the chips in Japan, though. The bags are smaller (unless you really search for big bags in Don Quijote or the likes), and it costs more per kilo than most other countries, so my wallet guilt-trips me from buying too much of it. Besides, there are a lot of alternative snacks, like crispy squid and other Japanese-made things, that are both cheaper and healthier.

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Great news! And there is me all this time worrying that it is the Starbucks chocolate scones I inhale on a regular basis that are contributing to my waistline. Now I know the truth, I can scoff with impunity!

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On a more serious note - I am really interested in how they actually calculated these figures. How did they actually manage to break down the weight gain by food group and assign a "weight" to it? And do you have to have a serving every day over 20 years to get these results? Really interesting stuff.

I joke about my scones but in fact I am slimmer and lighter now at 38 than I was at 18. I have no idea why. Stress seems to help! I was 53 kgs when I came to Japan 9 years ago and now 3 pregnancies later I am 47, so maybe Japanese diet and lifestyle has something to do with it? I monitor my weight regularly and if I notice a litte gain I just make a few adjustments and Im soon back where I started. Am I just lucky? I dont honestly understand why this is so hard, or how someone can wind up obese. I don`t mea to be disrespectful to anyone who has problems controlling their weight, but I am genuinely interested to know if I am just lucky, or if it really is the food/lifestyle choices I make?

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I cut myself of those nori-shio chips about 2 weeks ago. I miss them!

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The results are in the New England Journal of Medicine.**** The 1950 edition ??

Haha - totally! I remember my bio professor telling us (way back in the old days) that one of these potato chips equals one slice of bacon in terms of calories and fat. Scary stuff.

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"nori-shio chips"

This is one Japanese twist on a Western food that I liked.

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"Cut back on potatoes"

What about baked potatoes? ( with just a little butter )

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What about baked potatoes? ( with just a little butter )

Dame. Zettai!!

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lucabrasi - Why zat?

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@Serrano

Baked potatoes are a gateway drug. Within weeks you'll be on to French fries, and then potato chips. One bite of a baked potato and your doomed, I tell ya!! ;)

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Moderation my friends, and you can stay trim like me!

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Moderation my friends, and you can stay trim like me!

...And this is why you have great legs!!

Hey, once you pop, you just can't stop!! Potato chips can be like cigarettes, very hard to control and bad to kick the habit. They are just seriously at times, difficult to put down, but yes, moderation is the key.

What about baked potatoes? ( with just a little butter )

Baked potatoes with chives and butter....mmmmm......

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Way back in the 80s the F-Plan recommended meals based on a medium- to large-sized baked potato for healthy weight loss. Potatoes are filling, satisfying, and a good source of vitamin C and fibre (don't forget to eat the skin). The key is to cut the amount of fat; fried potatoes, or baked with a huge dollop of butter or sour cream, may be tasty but they're also overloaded with calories.

The humble spud is a culinary giant. And a bag of crisps (not chips, that's what they sell at the chippy with fried fish and mushy peas, why do people always get it wrong?) is a waste of a perfectly good potato.

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And a bag of crisps (not chips, that's what they sell at the chippy with fried fish and mushy peas, why do people always get it wrong?) is a waste of a perfectly good potato.

Well the English do like to think that they invented the language and hence they think they can dictate how it is used. Crisps is only used in England; the rest of the world call them "Potato Chips". Get used to it. It's a bit like football, which can mean anything from Gaelic, Rugby, American etc. Try telling an English person that and they'll hit you. Which is funny because they invented the word "soccer".

Back on topic, but isn't this obvious? I mean why is this news? Shouldn't people know that a deep fried carbohydrate will cause them to get fat if eaten a lot?

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>the English do like to think that they invented the language

Er.. we did? Like, that's why it's called 'English' an all? Stands to reason, innit.

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Back on topic please.

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The humble spud is a culinary giant. And a bag of crisps (not chips, that's what they sell at the chippy with fried fish and mushy peas, why do people always get it wrong?) is a waste of a perfectly good potato.

Maybe in your neck of the woods, buddy. But usually, they are called "chips" and the fried fish that you get at the shop/shack with fries, well, they're called "chips" too. Our "giant Idaho russets" or spuds when baked, beats anything out there, including the potato chip any day of the week! And mushy peas....I'm afraid to even ask what the heck that is or what it could be.

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For each four-year period, food choices contributed nearly 2 kilograms. Exercise, for those who did it, cut less than 1 kilogram

... and aging and metabolic changes over the 20 year period had no effect at all? Just shows what sort of nonsense they'll publish these days. This study is ridiculous if it fails to take into account that with the same diet and exercise regime a 20-year-old will be slimmer than a 40-year-old (on average).

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Er.. we did? Like, that's why it's called 'English' an all? Stands to reason, innit.

And yet the potato chip comes from America. It isn't a "crisp".

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I cut out potatoes in any form, pasta, ramen and Japanese "bread" and lost 3 kilos in a month.

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@BBV I did the same and dropped 10 in 2 months.

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