Posted by Dr. Science on 05/27/2013 in
Question |
How come I gain two pounds after an eight ounce chicken dinner, and I gain five pounds after eating an eight ounce steak?
———- from Min Bin Chang of Ashland, OR
If you’d been paying attention in grade school when they attempted to teach you the “new math”, you’d know that eight ounces of chicken does not equal eight ounces of beef. In the new math, a pound of feathers is much lighter than a pound of lead, because it incorporates that elusive quantity, human emotion. How people feel about things is now as important as so-called objective reality. Yes, the new math was the beginning of this touchy-feely nightmare that is now so deeply ingrained in our social fabric that we’ll never wash it out. Sure, you can make a stain remover out of simple household chemicals, but you can’t easily give a whole generation of wimps a spine.
