Interesting Links for 11-09-2012

[andrewducker]

• How three different conventions dealt with accusations of sexism.
  (tags: geeks sexism conventions )
• The 18 coolest remakes of the World Map you’ll find on the web
  (tags: maps )
• Older overweight children consume fewer calories than their healthy weight peers
  (tags: weight diet )
• Why wood pulp is world's new wonder material.
  (tags: wood

Comments

[momentsmusicaux]

> a two-hour long interactive comedy show, that involved actors impersonating characters from a famous TV comedy.

No prizes for guessing then.

[gwendally]

Calories of what?

That article didn't say whether the overweight kids were consuming 2000 calories of junk food while the average weight kids were eating 2000 calories with a balanced macronutrient ratio.

[brixtonbrood]

But it did include an important phrase at the bottom, in the small print: "Self-reported". That doesn't mean it's definitely incorrect, but it does mean that there's a plausible alternative explanation for the data, and one which would explain the difference between younger and older kids as well.

[gwendally]

LOL, I missed that entirely. Duh. People have known for a million years that obese people routinely underreport their calorie intake and overreport their activity level. I theorize that it's part of why they got obese, simply being bad at judging that stuff.

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=self-reported+calorie+intake&btnG=&as_sdt=1%2C22&as_sdtp=

That is precisely why it's useful to have a food scale or smaller plates. Portion size is notoriously related to how much you consume if you are an unrestrained eater.

Oh, when I looked at the article itself it says something completely different than the mass-market blurb. It's about when obese kids start lying to themselves.

http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2012/09/04/peds.2012-0605

[ice_hesitant]

Do you dislike the article's inactivity hypothesis?